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[Luvachicken]

Queenie has layed 10 eggs that I can't eat because of the antibiotics the girls were on.

The eggs are very sweet and tiny and I thought rather than just throw them away I could make them into Christmas decorations.

I've never blown an egg before, I know you kind of stab them with a pin and blow but that is all.

What kind of needle do I need or is something else better ?

How do I get any thread or ribbon through to hang them ?

And what's the best way to decorate them ?

 

Thanks

Edited April 5, 2013 by Guest

[Olly]

Gosh, I haven't done this for years but as I recall from my childhood, we used to use a darning needle to pierce each end, and then you literally just blow! It might be easier if they are stale, as the white won't be so glutinous.

 

I can't remember how we attached the thread to hang it by.

 

I think any sort of paint would do - watercolour, poster paint, whatever you have to hand. We used to do this as children at Easter, and then hang them from twigs to make a table decoration.

[Goosey Lucy]

It helps if you use something like a skewer to break up the egg yolk or it can split the exit hole when it come out.

 

Make the bottom (exit) hole larger than the top one, I used to hang mine with ribbon, I would thread a double length of thread through first, pass some thin ribbon through the loop, tie a knot in the ribbon then pull thread and ribbon loop through the egg then remove the thread from the loop.

 

This makes perfect sense to me but if it doesn't to you, shout and I'll try and explain it again

[Luvachicken]

Makes perfect sense to me

It's a bit like how I used to thread a cabbage for the girlies before I got them a veggie holder.

 

Hubby said he and his gran used to shake the eggs hard to help break up the contents.

 

I have just ordered some really sparkly glitter pens and can't wait to decorate the eggs with them.

I should get some pretty ribbon too.

[Plum]

I received a decorated egg in a swap last year it's a big egg but covered in decopatch violets paper, the ribbons are pinned on.

 

Now I come to look at it it's a foam one Thought they must have had a mighty chicken.

 

I make a hole both ends of the egg with a pin and shake and blow, don't suck

[Luvachicken]

I received a decorated egg in a swap last year it's a big egg but covered in decopatch violets paper, the ribbons are pinned on.

 

Now I come to look at it it's a foam one Thought they must have had a mighty chicken.

 

I make a hole both ends of the egg with a pin and shake and blow, don't suck

 

Oh Plum, you always make me laugh

[Sue_F]

Give it a good shake before blowing to break up the yolk. Make sure you cover the holes though!!!!

[Luvachicken]

We went to a garden centre before Easter and they had a little gadget for blowing eggs.

It was basically a little screw driver and a set of tiny bellows with some kind of very thin metal tube.

 

It was hard work breaking through the shell but once in, you popped the metal tube connected to the bellows inside and pumped. Amazingly all the egg was forced out of the tiny hole. I just filled them with hot water, gave it a good shake and then pumped agian. It worked a treat.

 

Now I just need to figure out the best way to decorate them