I found some cute little animal eggs on Pinterest, and I decided to pull out the plastic Easter eggs and give it a go. Here's a picture of the ones from babble.com:
Theirs look like real eggs. I'm not ready to color eggs yet, so plastic it is.
You will need:
Plastic eggs (I used the tiny variety, but you can use the standard size too.)
Felt in yellow, blue, pink, white (the cheap stuff, not your good wool felt)
Heavy white thread or embroidery floss (for whiskers)
Aleene's Tacky Glue (the only craft glue I use)
Black Sharpie fine-tip marker
Easy-Peasy instructions:
The feet for your creatures are heart shapes cut from felt.
The wings on the blue bird and the chick are heart shapes cut in half.
The ears for the bunny are elongated footballs with a sliver of pink felt in the middle.
The nose on the bunny is a tiny oval of felt.
The bunny's whiskers are embroidery floss, stiffened with glue. (yep, Aleene's)
The noses on the chick and blue bird are yellow felt triangles (reeeeeally tiny triangles)
Cut your shapes and glue them in place according to the picture.
Use your black marker to make tiny dots for eyes on your creatures.
Say Ta Da! You're done.
Really, these little guys are incredibly easy and quick to make. A super project for the whole family, and a pleasant change from the usual hard-boiled, dyed variety that I grew up with. (Did you actually eat those eggs you used to dye? We did! And I lived to tell it....go figure.)
Pull out your scrap basket, find some felt, and go create!! (I know you have some plastic eggs in the attic somewhere.)
Absolutely adorable!! Love these. Do they have candy inside? :)
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