Glittered Easter Eggs

3 ingredients
11 steps

Ingredients

  • egg, at room temperature (use a variety of sizes, ostrich eggs, duck eggs, jumbo chicken eggs to small chicken eggs, quail egg)
  • glue
  • powdered glitter, these come in an array of colors, which can be mixed to create different shades. For added shimmer, or silver glitter

Directions

  1. 1
    The easiest way is to decorate the eggs raw and only bring them out for a day in a decorative vase -- OR you can boil them and leave them out for a couple of days -- OR blow them out and have them last for a very long time.
  2. 2
    TO BLOW OUT EGGS: Working over a bowl, pierce one end of a raw egg with a pin.
  3. 3
    Pierce other end, and use pin to enlarge hole slightly and break yolk.
  4. 4
    With your mouth or an egg blower, blow into smaller hole, forcing contents of egg through larger hole into bowl.
  5. 5
    Rinse inside of eggs and dry thoroughly.
  6. 6
    Use the eggs to make a nice omelet or scrambled eggs after you are done decorating.
  7. 7
    Brush craft glue onto egg.
  8. 8
    Gently set in bowl of glitter.
  9. 9
    Spoon glitter over egg, covering entire surface.
  10. 10
    Remove from bowl; set on wax paper to dry for at least 1 hour.
  11. 11
    Pile eggs up in a simple metallic basket or for an elegant statement, you can display glittered eggs in a glass hurricane or clear bowl.

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