Hanging surprise eggs for my Easter tree
Years ago I remember seeing in a magazine some glass jars that had been painted on the inside and I loved how they looked. So I thought I would have a go at painting the inside of my clear plastic eggs. They looked great except for the ugly looking join. That was fixed by covering the join in gingham ribbon. I then filled them with chocolate Easter eggs and a little chick and hung them on my Easter tree! Now only if I could find time to finish my hand-made birds.....
Hand painted surprise eggs
What you will need:
12 transparent plastic eggs
Pink embroidery thread
Blue embroidery thread
12 White beads
Double sided tape
6 pink mini fluffy chicks
6 blue mini fluffy chicks
12 Foil wrapped chocolate eggs
Pink gingham ribbon 5mm wide
Blue gingham ribbon 5mm wide
Pink paint
Blue paint
Instructions
- Paint inside of top half of egg, leave to dry
- Paint inside of bottom half of egg, leave to dry
- Cut embroidery thread to size and thread ends through top of egg, thread a white bead through both ends of thread and knot
- Cut ribbon to size, and cover back in double side tape
- Peel off double sided tape backing and carefully secure ribbon round open edge of top half of egg
- Place one chocolate egg inside bottom half of egg
- Add small fluffy chick to bottom half of egg
- Snap together
Have a sweet day!