My bunny bowling tutorial was published after Easter last year, but here’s a reminder. These would make a fun gift for a child this year. Head on over to Etsy’s The Storque for details.
Speckled Eggs
Made these blue speckled eggs inspired by this post on craftster. I hollowed out the eggs so they will last until next year, dyed them blue and used an old toothbrush to splatter brown acrylic paint on them. The only change I would have to the instructions posted is to dye your eggs before you blow them out as it is difficult to get enough water inside for them to sink to the bottom of the dye bath bowl.
I also made a quick bird’s nest with some ivy vines tied with monofilament. I think this will dry well and I can pull the leaves off and save for next year. Would make a nice little centerpiece. Enjoy your weekend!
Easter Eggs
Here are some of the eggs we made over the weekend. I mentioned these techniques in my post a few days ago. Pictured above are decoupage eggs. We just used a flower hole punch, patterned paper and school glue.
Marbleized eggs. Made by dyeing the eggs, then rolling them around in a pan with dye of another color mixed with oil.
Martha Stewart’s drying rack idea. I think that a cookie cooling rack would work just as well. You can see we used ric-rac on some of the eggs. Just wrap it around the egg and tie with pantyhose.
Humpty Dumpty GIVE-AWAY!
It’s Make it Monday and our first ever Give-Away! Enter to win this Humpty Dumpty toy by simply leaving a comment on this post. Entries must be received by midnight Eastern time on Tuesday night, when the winning comment number will be chosen at random. I will e-mail the winner to get the shipping address, so no need to leave any personal information in your comment. I will try to mail this so that it arrives before the weekend if you live within the continental United States. I’m willing to ship overseas, but obviously that will take longer.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. This Humpty Dumpty breaks in half! But you can put him back together again. He is made in two pieces and attached with velcro. I stuffed the bottom with buckwheat hulls and the top with polyfill. He has adjustable arms thanks to a couple of pipe cleaners. Instructions for making him can be found here:
Humpty Dumpty Pattern Please note that this is a large file (189KB).
Just so I’m never accused of making things look easy, I wanted to show you that designing toys is a process. Here’s Humpty with his cousin Frank. Frank lives in the Land of Misfit Toys and might prefer to be a hamburger bun. Not to worry, he’s getting a lot of love from my kids. Obviously I made the shape a little wrong the first time and had some construction issues. I never get it right on the first try. This is NOT the toy you will win in this give-away.
Hurry and enter the contest! Humpty Dumpty needs a home. If you make a Humpty Dumpty toy, please add a photo to the Make it Monday Flickr photo pool here. I would love to see your creations!
Egg Ideas
Aren’t these beautiful? Found these over on craftster. See the full post with instructions here.
Or these, from Design Mom, posted here in April 2007.
Of course Martha Stewart seems to have the most comprehensive collection of egg ideas. See links below.
- How to blow out an egg.
- How to make a really nifty drying rack.
- All kinds of egg inspiration.
I’m going to try some ideas this week and post some photos. I’ve just asked my husband to buy pantyhose (for making the eggs pictured above) on his run to the grocery store. He’s thrilled about that.