A treat
inside!
Aunt Annie's Crafts
Peek-a-boo Easter Egg
What you will make:
See how easy and fun it is to decorate the inside of an Easter egg. Lots of odds and ends can be used to make these eggs. With a little help from an adult or teen to do the snipping, children can make unique creations as an extra special Easter treat.
Related crafts: For coloring your eggs see the Basic Egg Dyeing and the Marbled Eggs projects. For tiny Easter images to put inside your peek-a-boo egg, see the Easter Egg Holders project.
Here's what you need:
- Raw eggs
- Strong needle or push pin
- Manicure or other small scissors
- Yarn or rick-rack
- Tiny plastic animals or cutouts
- Toothpicks
- White glue
- Fun tack or floral clay
- Optional: Cotton balls, Easter grass and other odds and ends
This project is rated AVERAGE to do.
How To Make Peek-a-boo Easter Eggs
Read all of the steps before starting.
- Step 1: Prepare Eggs
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With a strong needle or a push pin, poke a hole into the end of a raw egg. Use small scissors to snip a hole into the egg that is about as large as a nickel. Empty the contents of the egg, rinse it and allow to dry.
Tip: If you like, color the eggs. See the Basic Egg Dyeing and Marbled Eggs projects for ideas.
- Step 2: Finish Hole
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To strengthen the hole and tidy it up a bit, glue a round or two of yarn or rick-rack around the edge of the hole.
- Step 3: Make a Scene
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Now the rest is up to the imagination! Make the inside of the egg into a scene using tiny plastic animals or tiny cutouts stuck into some fun tack or floral clay in the bottom of the egg. Use bits of cotton and Easter grass glued inside the egg to enhance your scene.
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Tip: You may find it easier to stick cutouts into the clay it they are first glued to cardstock and/or broken toothpick ends.
- Step 4: Finish
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The outside of the egg can be left plain or be decorated with stickers or markers. To display the egg make a holder by gluing a 6" by ¼" strip of paper into a ring or make one of Aunt Annie's Easter Egg Holders.
Before you start -
- Make a place to work.
- Read all of the directions.
- Gather everything you need to do the project.
- Think about the project. Imagine how it will look and what you will do with it.
Are you ready?
Okay, get started!!!
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Tip: Strengthen the hole with a round or two of yarn
glued to the edge of the hole. The flower background and the bunnies are
cutouts from the
Easter Egg Holders project.
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Tip: For a nice look, add rick-rack around the hole and
more around the egg's middle. The cutouts inside this egg were made with
tiny rubberstamps.
Thanks to...
Thanks to Judy Zeke, a junior high art teacher and mother of two children, for sharing this craft idea in Aunt Annie's Craft Exchange back in 1996.
Judy commented, Children will enjoy sharing these eggs with friends, peeking inside to see what surprises are in store.