Wash eggs before you start with this activity!
What you need:
· Large Needle
Take your egg in one hand, and a large needle in the other, poke a small hole in one end of the egg and a slightly larger at the other end. You will have to do this fairly gentle, as not to crack the egg. Prick the yolk with a skewer through one of your holes to help the contents flow out easier. While holding the egg over a bowl, blow through the smaller hole, the inside will run out from the large hole.
Please don’t get discouraged, it gets easier with practice!
Once contents of the eggs are removed from the shells, rinse them carefully. I like to soak my shells with water and a few drops of bleach for a couple of hours. Try not to use hot water; it might cook some of the egg white inside. Set out to dry, shells have to be completely dried before decorating and painting.
Decorating the Eggs
The children used waxed crayons and permanent markers to draw on the eggs. We chose to use liquid watercolor paint to color our eggs. Instead of dipping the eggs, they preferred to use paint brushes to paint on their shells. Liquid Watercolor paints soak into the shell well, but it took several coats to get the appearance, that they desired. They laid their eggs out to dry for a few minutes before the second or additional coats were applied.
The children laced pony beads into stretchy string and added Spring flowers
to their egg mobile.