Activities -
Seasonal
Let's Make Easter
Eggs
Blowing Eggs
This is a nice activity
to do if you want to make some pretty decorations to hang on an Easter
branch. If you take care, you should be able to keep them over the years
building up a beautiful collection.
Soak the eggs overnight
in a vinegar and water solution. This should make it easier to paint them.
Make a small hole in each end of the egg very carefully (wooden kebab
sticks often do a good job of this). Blow slowly until all of the egg
comes out of the other end and save this for baking all those Easter
goodies. It is often helpful to pierce the yolk inside the egg, this may
make it come out more easily. Rinse the shells carefully under cool water
and let them dry.
You can decorate your
eggs in a number of ways. Paint them with water colours, use felt tips, or
glue pretty beads and lace on to them.
One particularly pretty
result can be achieved by applying one layer of paint, use a candle to
drip wax over the first dry layer of paint, and then applying a different
colour of paint once the wax is dry. Repeat this process a few times until
you have several different layers of wax and paint. Finally, use a
hairdryer to melt the wax off and watch as an interesting pattern emerges.
To hang your finished
eggs, attach a small piece of matchstick to cotton and poke it in the top
hole.
Be creative with your
egg display. Put a small branch from the garden in a vase and hang the
eggs from there, hang them from a wreath or hoop, or simply place them in
a pretty basket on your table. Store the eggs in an old egg carton
afterwards and bring them out again next year.
Hard Boiled Eggs
It is fun to boil eggs
and decorate them ready for an Easter egg hunt. Soak the eggs overnight in
vinegar and water.
You can add vegetable
dye, onion skins (for a golden yellow colour), or beetroot juice
to the water when boiling. Try making some patterns on the eggs.
For example, you can wrap string around the egg in a criss-cross pattern
beforehand, cut it off afterwards and see if a pattern emerges.
Hide the eggs in the
garden on Easter morning and enjoy a colourful but healthy breakfast after
the hunt!
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