Easter Egg Ornaments

Happy almost Easter! Here’s hoping you and yours have a wonderful celebration. And if you’re in the mood for some DIY decorating (that costs nothing!), here’s how you can use raw eggs to make extravagant, beautiful ornaments:

• Using a needle, very carefully poke a hole at each end of a raw egg, making one hole a little larger than the other.
• Hold the egg over a bowl, with the larger hole pointed down, and gently blow into the smaller hole, so the yolk and whites flow out.
• Rinse the egg thoroughly with clear water, and lay it on paper towels to dry overnight.
• The next day, decorate the eggs with paint, stickers, glitter, or whatever other decorative trimmings your heart desires.
• For each ornament, thread the needle with a 12-inch length of embroidery floss or fishing line, and pull it through both holes in the egg. Tie a knot at the end that’s outside the smaller of the two holes. At the other end, tie a loop for hanging.
• Spray the finished product with acrylic fixative, let dry, and hang wherever you need some Easter cheer!

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Reuse Your Easter Eggshells

Eggshells have more uses than you can shake the Easter Bunny at. So when you and your kiddies are done with your Easter eggs this weekend, don’t throw the shells away. This list of what you can do with them is only the tip of the cottontail:

• Soak them in water overnight, and then water your plants with the calcium rich “tea.” 
• Start seeds in eggshells. At transplant time, crack the shells and set the whole thing into the soil. 
• Give them to the birds as a source of essential grit. Crumble the shells, and either mix them with the seed in your feeder or serve them as a side dish. 
• Scatter crushed shells around plants to deter slugs, cutworms, and other crawling pests. 

Have a Happy Easter, and thanks for reading!