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How to make Easter eggs from the broken eggshells of eggs you used for cooking

3/6/2013 10:09:19 AM
By: papersculpture
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This is an alternative to blowing eggs out of the shells to make decorative Easter eggs

Difficulty level: Beginners

Instructions:

Materials:
Eggs
Paper glue
White glue
Q-tip
Paper to cover the eggs
Band- Aide
Optional: bottle cap to dry the coated egg on

Choose the eggshells that you have broken in half for cooking with the neatest breaks.
Rinse the insides and let them dry.

Cut small pieces of the Band-Aide
Put the matching edges of the breaks back together
Gently put pieces of Band-Aide to hold them in place.

Cut some strips of paper

Put paper glue on the bottom side of the strips and gently place the glued side over the eggs.

Continue gently placing glued strips in all directions. *Do not press hard to smooth them.

Result
You can add a few small pieces of paper if you missed a few spots

Coat the paper with a generous amount of white glue.
Use the stick part of the Q-tip to gently smooth the edges down.

Put small pieces of paper on top of the wet glue

Coat them generously with white glue and gently smooth out the edges of the paper

Repeat step 9 and 10 one more time
Place the egg on a bottle cap to dry

Your Easter egg is finished!

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