Crafters- What are you making???

[Zookeeper9000]

Doing Easter crafts when we color eggs with the grandkids and all their little friends. Got mine all planned.


I have been carefully cracking my eggs closer to the top and rinsing them out and drying them upside down.

Been saving my TP and Paper towel cardboards to cut into 3/4 inch rings.

Going to put colored paper around the rings and make foam feet (chicken feet and bunny feet), draw eyes up by the broken part of the shell, beak for the chick and ears for the bunny as well as whiskers. Poke a hole in the bottom of the egg shell. Fill it with potting soil and sit it on the TP ring, then we will let the kids plant 1 morning glory seed in each one.

Not very good at explaining but sure hope it sounds right LOL I also hope the kids enjoy it as much as I hope they will.

 

[okiemommy]

That's sounds cool Zoo!!

 

[jvls1942]

just finished making a trap nest..

now I am off to make a row of 12 pull out drawer type nests. make
egg collecting easier, and they will be removable for easy cleaning and changing the nest material.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Going to put colored paper around the rings and make foam feet (chicken feet and bunny feet), draw eyes up by the broken part of the shell, beak for the chick and ears for the bunny as well as whiskers. Poke a hole in the bottom of the egg shell. Fill it with potting soil and sit it on the TP ring, then we will let the kids plant 1 morning glory seed in each one.

That is def. gonna be cute!!!

just finished making a trap nest..

now I am off to make a row of 12 pull out drawer type nests. make
egg collecting easier, and they will be removable for easy cleaning and changing the nest material.

Sounds handy & like egg production must be high at your place! Awesome!! From 10 hens I only got 2 eggs yesterday.. that's with vitamins in their water!​

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I made a pin cushion using a little basket I found in a second hand store yesterday.

 

[FarmerDenise]

cknmom, have you tried cutting out designs from napkins and gluing them onto blown out eggs? They look real cool. I wonder, if you could do that with hardboiled eggs as well? Maybe if you use eggwhite or flourpaste for the glue.
Here are some other things we have done in the past:
-get simple leaves, little plants, press them onto the raw egg, cover with a nylon (tied at the ends) to keep the leaf in place and dye.
-put rubber bands around the egg and dye.
-cut a hole in the lid of a small plastic container, so that part of the egg fits through it. Fill the container with dye, put the lid on and set the egg into the hole. Only the part of the egg touching the dye will be colored. If you use several containers with different colors, you can get some very nice patterns going.
-cut small pieces from a sponge and use it to dab on the dye.

I hope this gives you some ideas.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

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Those are some great ideas for pretty eggs!!! I wish I'd thought to make camo looking eggs when my daughter was a little girl because she could find them no matter where we hid them!!

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Great Easter egg ideas here so giving this awesome thread a little bump to get noticed

 

[cybercat]

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Now that is some pincushion.

Right now I am cutting and cutting and cutting jeans into squares. I already just the jeans pant leg material so I am cutting that or trimming it into smaller squares to use. I am working on a dog bed quilt with it and a rag jean quilt for our bed. That is I ever get done with cutting.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I'm thinking about putting a line down the middle and having both sets of pins in it. I use a really heavy set for the totes and then a lighter set for the quilts, etc.

The cutting is the worst! With Peanut's quilt, I'm cutting some of each material and then sewing squares. I cut enough I got through the first 1/4 of the quilt top without having to cut again. Then I cut somemore and made it to halfway. I had enough of most of the materials to push for square 100-I'm at 91 so I should make 100 before I have to stop and cut again.