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When my husband told me that he made blown and painted eggs every Easter as a child, I was amazed. Getting all that yolk out and painting those delicate egg shells seemed impossible. In my house, we always just dyed the eggs using grocery store dye on boiled eggs. I thought that was the only option.
But then I came home and discovered he had prepped six eggs for us to paint. He even came up with a way to hang them so they can dry and serve as a beautiful Easter decoration. I’ll let him tell you how.
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Blowing the eggs is really the hard part, but there are a few tricks. First, using a spoon (as a hammer) and a needle, poke holes in both ends of the egg. Leave the eggs in the open carton when doing this, it helps a lot to keep them in place, and don’t worry about egg spilling out, at this point the holes are really small, and not much does.
Next, get a wooden skewer stick- one of the long ones for shish-kabobs, or the like. Very carefully twist and push the tip into the egg at one end and then out the other. Don’t rush this part, it can break the shell. Once it is through, push the skewer back and forth a few times to break up the yolk. I also mix the yolk around a bit by with the skewer before I have gone through both holes.
This next part was new to me- as a kid we always just put our mouths on the eggs and blew the contents into a bowl- I guess my mom was a little less cautious about bacteria. But I was a bit nervous about eating raw egg. So I read up on it, and saw the suggestion of using a straw. Our daughter has some silicone straws, and I think that these worked really well- they make a better seal than a plastic one, although I am sure plastic would work pretty well. Hold the tip over one of the holes, and blow the contents into a bowl. This is a bit harder than blowing up a balloon, and is one reason to try to mix the egg pretty well inside the shell- the yolk is not as runny as the white, and it’s difficult to push it through.
Once you have all the egg insides in a bowl, set it aside- there may be a few tiny bits of eggshell in there, but that didn’t stop me and the kid from having a great omelette. Fill another larger bowl with warm water and dish soap. Put all the emptied out eggs in the water, holding them under (and if necessary moving them around carefully) to get as much water and soap inside as you can. Let them soak for a bit, and then repeat the straw blowing process to get all the water out. I turned on the oven for 5 minutes and put them in for a few hours to dry, but that isn’t really necessary if you have a sunny window.
I’m not going to lie, I’m pretty bad at painting the eggs, but it’s fun, and it doesn’t really matter if they are Faberge-like. We used Crayola washable paint, acrylic works too. My daughter’s are the best ones, but maybe thats because she used the most paint- even if we were all pretty messy.
The hanging device: half a toothpick will work too, but I used little bits of paper clips. Cut them with pliers, and then add a slight bend. Double knot a thread at the bend, and insert the piece of metal with the thread attached into the egg. And now you have a home made painted egg on a string!
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I painted vines and flowers on mine.
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A broken paperclip can easily slide into the egg as an anchor.
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These could be mistaken for planets.
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Most Eggs-Ellent Things to Fill Easter Eggs with that Aren’t Candy
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