Are you thinking about sprucing up a couple of dozen eggs this Easter season? Many people gravitate toward conventional hard-boiling techniques that impart color to the shell while also priming said nuggets of protein for their imminent starring role as next week’s egg salad. On the other hand, if you’ve been hankering to create eye candy (er, “egg candy”) that is worthy of being displayed on the shelf of a museum -- or at the very least, in your grandma’s curio cabinet -- then you’ll want to remove the inner contents of your eggs using the process depicted in the video below.
Once you’ve decided on your canvas and mode of attack, fanciful Easter-worthy decorations can be just a hop, skip and jump away with the following tutorials:
1) Ukrainian Easter eggs, otherwise known as pysanky, are absolutely striking and ornately decorated little treasures (as you can clearly see in the photo above). They can be created most effectively with a kistka tool, which strategically dispenses wax onto the egg shell so dye won’t be able to penetrate. While time consuming, this egg decorating technique yields some of the most outstanding artistic creations that are worth saving for years to come, particularly if you are sure to drain the contents of the egg through a pinhole first.
2) Retro Mama goes patchwork crazy with this clear and well organized step-by-step tutorial on how to make fiber-filled fabric eggs using various scraps of leftover fabric that you might have lying around the house. For an extra eco-friendly touch, you might consider using buckwheat hulls, rice or outdated beans to fill the interior of your fabric eggs, instead.
3) This photographic tutorial demonstrates how to make Japanese washi eggs using origami paper and oodles of patience. One can only hope to achieve the caliber of spectacular egg yumminess reflected in the above photo, courtesy of Bridget Wilkin Art.
4) Rosina from Rosy-Posy offers up this super green tutorial on how to make your own miniature egg cup grass planters, complete with twisted copper wire stands – these would make an ideal centerpiece for any fashion-forward, eco-friendly Easter table.
5) Chinese Marbled Tea Eggs look good enough to eat, probably because they ARE. The stunning effect is achieved with a soy and tea mixture that slowly seeps into the artfully cracked shells the longer they’re submerged. Jaden from Steamy Kitchen offers a nice-and-simple way to make these babies in your own kitchen, no ridiculously technical equipment necessary!
6) Decorating Easter eggs with dried flowers? Now why didn’t I think of that?!? Thankfully, Gingerbread Snowflakes says that it’s as easy as gluing them on with a couple of coats of Mod Podge craft glue.
7) Kate Andersock’s duct tape eggs will likely appeal to the manly-man or crafty woman who just so happens to think that the silver sticky stuff can pretty much solve all of life’s challenges. This project is proof positive that it can!
8) These Golden Chocolate Easter Eggs, created by Chef Francisco Migoya from New York’s Culinary Institute of America, have plenty of razzamatazz to spare and will give your Easter goody basket the Midas touch.
9) Martha Stewart’s silk tie Easter egg project imparts the pattern of whatever print you wrap around the egg onto its shell – way cool!
10) Latvian Easter eggs, which have a naturally marbled appearance, are created by pressing botanicals like flower petals, pine needles, blades of grass and leaves around uncooked eggs and then wrapping each in onion skins. Conversely, you can also place the eggs directly into natural dye baths created with coffee grounds, spinach, beet juice, etc. and then etch a design into the shell once the egg is fully hard-boiled.
11) Melissa Howard’s Crystal Easter Egg tutorial emulates the look of Mother Nature’s geological rock formations, otherwise known as “geodes”.
12) If you’re handy with a boring tool, then considering paying homage to the egg stylings of Franc Grom, who drills as many as 3000+ microscopic holes of varying sizes into egg shell surfaces. The result of his diligent efforts, reflecting Slovenian designs, are supreme works of art that radiate with an unparalleled luminescence that would likely knock Martha Stewart right off her chair. Hey, would someone mind helping her up?
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