Is this a Giant Strawberry?? Nooo, it's a blown Easter Egg, cleverly disguised as a strawberry! lol!
These little Blown Easter Eggs are so easy to make, and a lot of fun no matter what age you are, but will be tricky for the younger set to do without a fair bit of help. Blowing out the eggs is really an adult job (insert jokes here for your own amusement! lol!). The key is to use a really long nail (from the hardware store) or a turkey skewer thing... looks like a long nail, but is maybe used for holding the turkey legs together?? Lol! Canny remember what that thing is for, I only use it for blowing eggs! hahaha! (I'm making myself laugh, now! 'Course, you know what they say about me, I'm an easy laugh... man, I hope that's what they're saying, but you can never trust 'they'... hahahahaha!)
So you can start with a dozen eggs, if you like, get a bowl, and whatever you've decided to use to make a hole in the top and the bottom of the egg. It will need to be long enough to go right through the egg to comletely pierce the yolk, since that will never go through the hole intact.... silly! The easiest way to make the whole in the egg at the top, is to wiggle the nail at the top a bit -- don't try to force it, will most likely result in a big mess, and who wants that? Nope, just take your time, it'll be easier than you might think. Make sure the bottom hole is bigger than the top hole, but not too much bigger... maybe an 1/8", but don't despair if it's closer to 1/4"... the bottom of the egg won't be seen as much, and you could always cover it with a gem, or something, right? : )
Now, this is the fun part... Gently cover the top hole with your mouth. Gently blow the egg out the bottom. Will seem slow at first, then whoosh, out it comes. Directly in the bowl, if you're lucky. haha! Of course it'll go in the bowl, provided you remembered to put one there! lol!
Hold the blown egg over a steady stream of water in the sink, and rinse the egg out. Might want to use the bottom of the egg with the bigger hole for this rinsing stage. Let some water go in the egg, cover both ends of the egg and shake it about, rinse it through, again. The goal is for your egg to have NO smell, not even after sitting around for a number of days, weeks, months, years... you get the idea!
Set each egg back in the egg carton, tilted to the side of each segment, so the egg can drain and dry completely.
Once your eggs are completely empty and dry, you're ready to paint. They will be virtually indestructible, so don't worry about them crushing in your hands when you're painting or decorating them... you should be fine, but a little care goes a long way, as with everything : )
I have decorated the blown eggs in sooo many different ways over the years. Before my lovely children were born, I must have had a massive amount of free time (oh, and that was pre-internet, so maybe that's why I had so much free time! hahaha!), but I would go out and find all these gorgeous embroidery threads with a glittery streak in them, and carefully tuck the end of the embroidery thread in the bottom hole of the egg, then wind the embroidery thread around and around the egg, no spaces, until the whole egg was covered in the thread. They were gorgeous. I would make up baskets of these lovely Embroidery Easter Eggs for all the people I really liked (if I like you, you will know it by the amount of stuff I make for you! lol! Baking, crafts, babies... no, wait, that last one is not the same thing... hahahaha!)
Painting the Blown Easter Eggs is by far the easiest, and a lot of fun for the kids -- a great gift for parents, if you're still allowed to acknowledge Easter in your school, and you're still allowed to teach Art in your class (this part is for the teachers! lol!)... but you can decorate them with glitter, just rub the egg with glue, carefully sprinkle with glitter... that tiny, tiny glitter is pricey, but, man, is it gorgeous, and the kids will go crazy, they'll look so lovely. A great gift for Mom. Oh, hey, you could make these for Mother's Day -- there, pretty sure they can't stop Mother's Day! haha!
You can paint anything on your eggs... the strawberry was particularly easy, since it's all red, green for the leaves, little black dots for the seeds, and voila, a giant strawberry! I have standard painting for eggs, ones that I do on every single Easter Egg I've ever painted (um, well, errr, that's a lot of Easter Eggs, over the years!) I'll link you to y other Easter Egg page, in case you'd like to try Rolling Your Eggs at Easter... signifies the rolling of the stone from Jesus' Tomb (this is my favorite Scottish Easter Tradition!)... plus, is a lot of fun!
Okay, have fun with your Easter Egg Decorating! Be creative, you'll love it!
Oh, and if you want to hang your Easter Eggs, say from a tree, the window, your Flower Tree (should that catch on! lol!), just use some yarn or embroidery thread, make a small knot at the bottom (small enough to go through the bottom hole in your egg, but big enough not to come straight through the top hole in your egg...!)... use an embroidery needle for this step... then either make a loop and go back through the top hole and tie off at the end, or make a loop and tie it at the top (much easier!). There you go, Easter Eggs that will last for years!
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