Remember finding old-time sugar eggs like these in your childhood Easter baskets? Children love to peek inside the egg's little windows to spy the wee chickie or bunny snuggled within. Our set includes six hand-decorated eggs nestled in an authentic egg carton. Although the sugar eggs are completely edible, they're so pretty to look at you may prefer to keep them intact!
Marshmallow Chicks And Bunnies Kit
Making their own sweet-to-eat marshmallow bunnies and chicks proved to be a big hit with young product testers. This exclusive kit comes with sugar and special marshmallow mixture, plus bunny and chick cookie cutters, colored sugars, little sugar eyes and super-easy instructions for making up to 15 classic marshmallow animals. No baking needed!
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Decorating Easter
Eggs
. The egg is perhaps the oldest and most universal symbol of rebirth and new life, and Egyptians and Persians used to dye eggs in spring colors and give them to friends long before Christ ever entered the picture. Some cultures even have myths that indicate the universe sprung out of one giant egg! Bottom line is, no easter basket is complete without an easter egg, and no doubt the traditional dyeing of Easter eggs and a subsequent Easter Egg Hunt provides some serious Easter fun for children. If you are looking for Easter Eggs for an easter Egg Hunt, you may want to consider supplementing the ones you make with some Hand- Painted Wooden or Ceramic Easter Eggs, as these will not get crushed and make great family heirlooms to pass from generation to generation. But the decorating of Easter eggs is also a great family tradition, and this will give you some ideas on how to make your Easter Egg Decorating activity a great success.
Easter Egg Decorating Tips
Decorating Easter eggs is a fun activity that families can enjoy together, and I've even attending a few Easter Egg Decorating parties where it was just me and my 20-something friends decorating eggs so we could participate in our annual neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Keep in mind that a hard-boiled egg is easier to decorate because it is harder to crush, but won't keep as long as the egg will if you blow out the egg's contents by poking both ends with a sewing needle, hold the egg over a bowl, and blow through one end until the egg's contents come out. (Be sure to rinse egg through with water and allow to dry before decorating!) This, however, gives you a more delicate eggshell to decorate, and is a bit more time consuming than just boiling eggs. So there are pros and cons to both approaches. To color eggs, you can use food coloring dyes or natural dyes made from everyday kitchen items. Orange or lemon peels, carrot tops, ground cumin (light yellow), turmeric (dk yellow), Fresh beets or cranberries, red onions, frozen raspberries (red), Yellow onion skins (orange), spinach or liquid chlorophyll (green), cranberry juice (pink), canned/frozen blueberries or red cabbage leaves (blue), violet blossoms (violet-blue), coffee (brown). Just cover eggs with water, add a tsp of vinegar, and dye you want to use, bring water to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Then let eggs sit in the dye-water, keeping in mind that more color will take the longer you let them sit, even as much as overnight. To make patterns on your eggs, use adhesive stickers in the shapes you want, dye your egg, then peel off the stickers when eggs are totally dry. To make marbled egg designs, just add a little vegetable oil (anywhere from 1-3 tsp.) to your dye. For more instructions on how to make and dye many different types of Easter egg designs like Dinosaur eggs, Spotted Eggs, Striped Eggs, Waxed Eggs, Sponge-Painted Eggs, Etched Egg Designs and more, you can visit these links, or purchase one of the easy to use kits listed below.
Easter Egg Kits
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Create a one-of-a-kind painted glass egg to adorn your springtime table . Special translucent paints add radiant color to the egg, while letting light shine through to enhance it's beauty. The solid glass egg makes a wonderful paperweight that's sure to be treasured by dad, grandma or a favorite teacher. Kit comes with one glass egg, non-toxic paints in eight colors, paintbrush and instructions. |
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Imagine - yummy Easter eggs with little scenes inside, made in your own kitchen! It's surprisingly easy to create these hollow, completely edible eggs. Step-by-step instructions show how to melt white candy wafers and pour into molds. Create a unique scene in each egg's lower half, using the kit's tiny edible figures; attach the top half of the egg, decorate with softened, colored candy in easy-to-use squeeze tubes (3 colors included), and top with pre-made icing flowers. The kit makes two eggs. |
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For centuries the Ukrainian people have perfected the art of "pysanky," a wax-resist and dye process on eggs. Now your family can learn to create these one-of-a-kind treasures with our kit that contains eight packets of vivid, water-soluble dyes, two "kistky" tools for drawing the linework in wax, a beeswax patty, full instructions with design diagrams, and color photos of finished eggs, all attractively boxed. |
Add sparkle to your Easter tradition - color your Easter eggs with tiny "gems"! Our kit makes it easy to create beautiful "bejeweled" eggs that will shine in baskets and centerpieces for years to come. Everything's included: 6 papier-mâché eggs, 4 packets of glass microbeads in exquisite jewel-tone colors, tacky glue, adhesive dots and strips, paintbrushes, a color strip with 8 paint colors, and instructions with great ideas for decorating. For ages 7 and up. |
