I am always on the lookout for easy but fun activities for both adults and kids because I just love crafting. It relaxes me and helps me reconnect with my 5 year old self. Since Easter is just around the corner, I am going to share one of my favorite Easter crafts: yarn eggs! They are a bit messy to make but that is half the fun!
Material
- Small balloons or water balloons
- Colorful yarn
- Mod Podge or Elmer's glue
- Water
- Optional: tiny chocolate Easter eggs
Tools
- Old newspapers
- A bowl
- Plastic tubes (or drying racks, cookies sheets, small bowls or glasses)
- A pin or scissors and a tweezer
Instructions
- Blow as many balloons as you like. Do not blow them too much, make sure they are blown just enough to be shaped like an egg. If you want to gift your yarn eggs with little chocolate ones inside, insert the treats in the balloons before blowing them. Tie the end of each balloon so it doesn't deflate.
- Make sure that you have protected your workstation with old newspapers!
- In a bowl, mix the Modge Podge (or white liquid glue) with a bit of water. Not too much water, though, or the yarn will not stick. Just enough to water the glue down a tiny little bit. The glue still has to be a bit thick.
- Now dip your yarn in the glue mixture. You can either use a very long string if you want one color for your egg, or, if you want colorful eggs, use shorter threads. Just dip them one at a time or else they will form one big messy knot.
- Once the yarn has soaked the glue mixture, pull it out and remove the excess.
- Then, simply wrap the yarn around your egg. Let yourself go, there is no rule here! If there are little chocolate eggs in your balloons, just make sure that there are no big holes in the yarn pattern as you wrap it around the balloon. This will prevent the chocolates from falling out of the yarn eggs.
- Once you are satisfied with the result, put the egg aside to dry and move on to another egg. I used small plastic tubes to dry my eggs but you can use whatever you have at your disposal: cookie sheets, small bowls, drying rack...
- Let your eggs dry overnight.
- Once the yarn has dried completely, take a pair of scissors or a pin to pop the balloons.
- The balloons will deflate and all you will have left is an egg shaped ball of yarn! How cool is that?
- Retrieve the deflated balloon with a tweezer.
- If you have treats inside the balloons, use the scissors to carefully cut the deflated balloon into pieces and, with a tweezer, delicately remove the little bits of balloon and extract the chocolate eggs.
These eggs are super easy and fun to make! If you have kids, it'd be a great family activity to organize for Easter or, you could hand them out as gifts and watch the joy in people's faces as they "crack" their eggs!