Obviously we don’t want to be wasting food at the moment so here’s how to blow an egg ready for decorating!
You will need:
Method:
1. Sit an egg in your egg box to steady it. Holding the egg still, carefully tap and push a hole in the top centre of the egg with your safety pin. Once you have made the hole, carefully push one end of the pin in as far as it will go to widen it.
2. Take the toothpick and insert it into the hole; stir it around to help break up the yolk and make it easier to remove the insides at step 4.
3. Flip the egg over and make a second hole on the opposite side with your pin. Try to make the hole on the bottom a little bigger but be careful not to crack the shell. Break up the yolk again with your toothpick.
4. Hold the egg over a measuring jug with the bigger hole facing down. Use a straw to flush out the contents of the egg by placing the tip of the straw over the hole and blowing hard. First the egg white will come out, followed by the yolk – it can take a minute to get going, so be patient. You will know that it’s all out when it becomes lighter and you are just blowing out bubbles of egg white, followed by air.
5. Clean the shell by holding it carefully under running hot water from the kitchen tap. Wipe carefully with kitchen paper and leave to dry. Now you’re ready to decorate with paint, pens, stickers, felt, glitter or whatever else takes your fancy.
1.Teenage Mutant Ninja Egg
Super Simple eggs for any TMNT fan out there. Either add green food colouring to the water for boiling or paint the eggs green and add coloured paper or felt strips and googly eyes!
2. Snorkelling Egg
This idea is super simple. Paint on the costume/trunks. Add a milk bottle top as the goggles and a straw for the snorkel!
3. Chick Egg
Cover the eggs with different coloured tissue paper, if you have feathers use for “hair” or shredded paper can also be used. Felt or coloured paper for the beak and eyes can be stuck or drawn on.
4. Paste Eggs
5. Rugby Team Eggs
One for the sports lovers out there! Cut out your shirt shapes and add the design of your favourite teams. Draw faces on the players and position on either astroturf or grass inside a box. The box can then be decorated with posts and flags and maybe even a crowd! This can also be adjusted to football or hockey!
6. Rubber Band Eggs
Rubber bands are the perfect accessory for last-minute egg decorating! Wrap your eggs in rubber bands and then either dye or paint around the bands. Once the eggs are dry take them off and you have great patterns!
7. Easter Bunny Egg
A great one for an Easter theme, use pink tissue paper to cover the body, cotton wool for the legs and tail and a biro for the eyes and nose! Minimal parent involvement needed!
8. Emoji Eggs
How can you pick your favourite emoji? Well with this one you don’t have to! For emoji eggs, all you need is yellow & white paint (or use food colouring) and felt pens!
9. Bird & Animal Eggs
Create a family of your favourite birds including toucans, an owl, a penguin and a peacock. Or if farmyard animals are more your thing you can create pigs, cows and sheep with basic craft supplies and sharpies!
10. Fruit Eggs
These are fairly easy to create with paint, sharpies and craft box accessories, great one to do as a family!
We took a lot of inspiration for our top ten ideas from this site but for the creative amongst you, they have loads more ideas here www.brit.co/40-easter-eggs/
We would love to see your creations so make sure you join the North Leeds Mumbler Chat Group and share your photos on there! If we get enough photos submitted we will have a Mumbler competition so your efforts don’t go to waste!
Check out our Easter at Home page for ideas of Easter themed activities you can do at home.
We hope you have a great Easter Holiday.
* Photos from Pinterest. Photos not sourced are Mumblers own.