This Easter craft it a little more involved! We like using our blown eggs (especially the different sizes that come from a poultry variety!) to create an Easter tree like the one in Tasha Tudor's A Time to Keep.
Ingredients:
- washed eggs (of assorted sizes if you're lucky!)
- small screw drivers, largish nails, or meat thermometers per person (for shell-drilling)
- plate per person
- bowl for collecting eggs (use these in popovers, quiche, or scramble)
- bowl for collecting hollow shells
- a branch for your "tree"
Directions:
- While holding the egg on the plate, carefully tap the top of your egg until a hole forms. The bigger the opening, the easier to remove the insides. Turn the egg over and repeat, so it is punctured on both ends. Using your tool, mix up the insides so they will more easily blow out.
- Now for the gross part. Lean over the "egg collecting" bowl. Wipe the top of the egg with a clean cloth, seal your lips over the hole, and blow hard! The innards will burst into the bowl, leaving you with an empty shell. Repeat these steps with each egg.
- Leave overnight to airdry, or continue to step 4 to speed dry them.
- Preheat oven to 200. Rinse empty shells, blowing them once more to get the water out.
- Place empty shells on cookie sheet and bake 20 min, or until dry.
- Paint them!
- Set up your "tree" by stabilizing the branch in a vase or jar using rocks or marbles. Alternatively, hang them sporadically from your ceiling.
- To hang the eggs, we clip a string ~8 inches long and tie one end to a small twig. Lace the other end through the egg, then tie it onto a branch. Voila! House of Joyful Noise also has some helpful suggestions for this step. Enjoy!
No comments:
Post a Comment