Eggs-tra Fun!

One thing I look forward to each Easter is fussing with eggs!  Here's what I painted this year:



Toy Story eggs



My goal is to paint at least three eggs each year with something that the kids are into at the time. And when they are older and have their own homes and families, we will give them each their eggs.  So, I started last year with Thomas:




Thomas & Friends eggs

 

And I discovered THE BEST way to blow out eggs.  Simply poke a small pin hole in the top and bottom of the egg, and then use an ear bulb syringe/snot sucker thingy, they give you at the hospital for having a baby, to squirt all of the guts out.  Amazing.  My poor mother used her lungs to blow the contents out for many, many years.

Painting eggs is something we always did when my sister and I were little.  We always had an Easter egg tree to display our craft on.  I tried last year:

It looked more like the Charlie Brown tree, and since then the branches have gotten destroyed.  I didn't get one cut this year.  :-(

Here's a pic of some of the eggs from over the years that my mom still displays:

There's a couple old old ones at the top there, but most of these eggs are from throughout the 1990's...it's strange, there seems to be a lack of eggs from the early 2000's.  Oh yeah, that's when I was a college student and college sucked all of the creativity out of me.  :-P  I've also lost a few that I did when Nick and I were first married...they were cool with embroidery floss wrapped around them and candy foil Mod Podged to them.  Haven't seen them since we lived in an appartment.  :-(

These are some of my favorites...I should do more.  They are at my mom and dad's house:


Quilled eggs



The boys and I have been doing all sorts of things with eggs this year.  Of course there's painting:

Paper mache eggs...very cool:

Scuba eggs...on a beach of lentils:

His face when I told him he'd have to hold the egg there for five minutes straight:

Gospel message eggs:

And of course, Jell-O eggs!

I just love decorating eggs.  Can you tell?  There's so many different things to do with them, and they are nice and small so you can complete what you're doing fairly quickly. 

I hope this has inspired you to have some egg fun!