Egg decorating help for a Reception mum

[missorinoco]

MN advice and wisdom needed please.

DS would love to decorate and egg for Easter as they are doing at school.

I have looked up how to blow out and egg, but can see this ending in disaster when the carefully tended to egg is shattered at the last moment by 4 year old hands.

If I hard boil an egg, how long will it last before it smells? I will really lose mummy brownie points if I gas out the Easter Fair.

TIA.

Hey
A few ideas really spring to mind. You could get large hollow chocolate eggs and buy piping bags and get the kids to pipe in white chocolate (coloured with food dye for other colours) onto the eggs. Dont know if your little one would like this?
Or with hard boil the eggs like usual and do:

1. use toliet roll tubes cut down to rest the egg in and stick things like cotton wool and card to them to make them look like characters eg: painted white toilet roll tube with white cotton wool and two eye: crazy professer. Paint pink and help your little one to make pipe cleaner legs which will hold the egg up but alos help to make look like a pig.
2. Sprinkle wax crayons shavings or sharpenings over just boiled ones, the heat makes it melt in to a drip dye effect. WARNING will be hot so place in a holder and watch your child as they sprinkle on top and then you turn the gg to do the underside.

Seen as you are not eating the egg I dont think it matters when you do the hard boiling, but from what I remember dont do it longer than two weeks before and after decorating etc if you can put them in the fridge then do so but if you have done a craft such as the melted wax the fridge may tamper with the effect. Hope this helps? Private message me if you would like anymore help?

I don't think a boiled egg would smell so long as it is contained within an intact shell.

That's great. Thankyou.

Just to add to Fizzy's suggestion on the crayons, I saw in a book recently grating the crayons into hot water then rolling the egg in it. The crayon melts and gives a marbled effect.

Oooh, fantastic ideas. I thought I might try this with the dc this weekend. Any more suggestions?

You can get a really pretty effect by layering wet tissue paper pieces over the shell and letting them dry before peeling them off. check if tissue paper gives out colour when wetted as some doesn't.