Variations in E Major
March 11th, 2008 by Simone
Yes, Easter is upon us and with it our family tradition of dyeing eggs to decorate the house. We generally use blown out eggs.
My mother hangs them in the Forsythia trees in her garden. Eggs are quite hardy. On a recent visit last year’s eggs were still swaying in the breeze. I like to incorporate them into a wreath and hang the wreath on our front door.
This year, I wanted to try something new, so here we go:
Marbleized Eggs
Initially, I wanted to use the float-egg-on-glue-covered-with-paint method to marbleize the eggs. If someone is successful with that project, please let me know. Instead I used two different techniques:
Method 1: Nail Polish and Water
The pink and white egg was created with nail polish and water.
Fill a bowl with a couple of inches of water and add a few drops of nail polish on the water. The polish will swim on the surface and create a thin film.
String the blown out egg on a wire and carefully skim the egg over the surface. The polish film will cling to the egg and create this marbleized pattern.
Method 2: Egg Dye, Oil, and Water
This was easy. The yellow and purple egg acquired its shading with this method. First we dyed our usual batch of eggs with commercial Easter egg dye. This particular egg became a nice shade of yellow. When we were done, I added a tablespoon of vegetable oil to the purple dye and rolled the yellow egg around in that concoction. The oil prevented the dye from clinging to the egg creating a marbled pattern.
Papermache Eggs
For these eggs we used white glue and tissue paper for the yellow chick egg and newspaper for the wanna-be avantgarde egg.
Tear up your paper into specific shapes like my daughter did to create the chick, or just little pieces like I did with the newspaper.
Use your brush to apply a little glue to the egg. Position your paper on the egg and then brush glue on top of the paper. Continue until the egg is covered to your liking.
Once your egg is done, you can rest it on some pins pushed into the egg carton to dry.
How do you like to decorate your eggs?
March 11th, 2008 at 7:04 am
yeah, definitely. these eggs are so cute.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Those are awesome. I’m going to have to do that!!
March 11th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
These are great! I never thought of nail polish to decorate eggs before. I have lots of unused polish, so now none of it will be safe! LOL
March 11th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
These eggs are awesome! I usually do the cheap egg dye from the store. I’d love to try some of these methods. Thanks for sharing!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Love the legs on the chick egg. When do the nail polish eggs, do you protect the bowl with anything?
March 12th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I Love the paper mache eggs!We like to put sticker letters on our eggs,spelling names or just “Happy Easter”,then dying them.When they have dried we’ll pull off the stickers.Thanks for sharing your eggs!
March 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
These are precious! Come by my blog ~ I just posted pic’s of the old fashion sugar eggs we made in a class and how to make them. They are so much fun to make!www.lavenderbetweenthecracks.blogspot.com
April 11th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Wonderful. I’ve marbleized eggs with oil paint on water but my friend and I were just winging it. Lots of agony along the way and oils take forever to dry.
Your wire holder is brillant! Who knew.
April 13th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
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