Monday, April 15, 2013

Rubber Band Eggs and Melted Crayon Eggs

My final Easter crafts post! I'm excited to finally get through them...and then I realize that come Christmas season I'll be doing this deal all over again with my handmade ornaments from this last year. -_-

But anyway, I'm combining the last two because they're both really short. The first is rubber band eggs.
These are really simple. If you've got kids, this one can be done with just about any age level. If they're old enough to do Easter eggs, they're old enough to do these. The hardest part is being careful not to apply too much force when you're putting the rubber bands on or it will crack the eggs.

All you have to do is put the rubber bands on the eggs in the pattern you desire it, then dye as normal. Thicker rubber bands give you the ability to shape them into squiggles, like this:

Smaller rubber bands allow you to put more on there and create more lines, like my mom's natural silhouette egg from before. And that's it. I forgot mine in the dye, so it was really random. I just kept leaving it in different ones and forgetting about it. Oh well. I don't even have a picture of it because I let my mom mess with it. If you'd like to see the effect of the skinny rubber bands on an egg, take a look at my other post,
Natural Silhouette Eggs.

Next is crayon melty eggs. I did mine by holding my crayon (peeled to prevent fires) over a candle flame, and then dripping it on the egg. It turned out terrible.


So instead, I recommend using my mom's method. She covered hers in white crayon dots, then dyed it her first color. After that, she added more dots in the color of the first dye (in case the wax resist left a residue that was colored, she wanted it to match) and dipped it in another dye. After drying, she scratched off the dots and it looked awesome! What you get is the layering of three different colors, and it's really something amazing.

And then lastly, I'm not entirely sure what my sister did with hers, but I know she did the crayon and then dyed it. Here it is, just for posterity, even though I can't show you how to replicate it.

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