Woodland animal Easter eggs
WHAT YOU NEED
Eggs – real or plastic
Acrylic craft paint – we used peach, light blue and light brown
Coloured cardstock – we used white, black, pink, green and various blues Fiskars punches – border punches, Petal by Petal punch, That’s Amore punch, from Spotlight, spotlight.com.au Scissors
Glue or hot glue gun
METHOD
1 If using real eggs, hard-boil or remove the contents – do this by piercing holes in the top and bottom, and gently blowing out the yolks and whites. Leave shells to dry.
2 Paint your eggs in different colours and leave to dry. We applied two coats of craft paint to each egg for a smooth, even look.
3 While your eggs are drying, punch out shapes in the coloured cardstock for the eyes, cheeks, noses, ears and wings. For the owl crest, we punched out 3 layers of blue card and glued them together (see picture, above).
4 Glue the eyes, cheeks and noses on your eggs. Then add the pointy ears for the fox and the wings and crest for the owl.
5 Create the bases by cutting the green cardstock into 16cm x 8cm pieces. Punch out the top edges for the grass, then curve each piece and glue the ends together.
6 When the glue has dried on your eggs, place them onto the grass bases.