Easter Crafts: How to Make a Bumpy Easter Egg

Easter often means Easter egg hunts and Easter egg hunts often mean decorating Easter eggs. As Easter gets closer and closer, parents are left to search for creative ideas for the egg decorating and other Easter crafts to keep the kids entertained and let them help out at the same time. It's usually easy to come up with ideas for decorating the Easter eggs, but doing the same thing year after year gets a little old. If you're looking for some new Easter egg decorating ideas, try making a bumpy Easter egg.

Materials
-hot glue gun and glue
-egg dye or food coloring
-newspaper
-hallow or plastic eggs

Instruction
1. This is a very clean Easter craft, but just to be safe it's always a good idea to put some newspaper over your work area.

2. The first step to making your bumpy Easter egg involves the hot glue gun. Because this glue is very hot and can burn if it comes in contact with the skin, children should not be allowed to do this part of the egg decorating. Get your Easter egg, place your finger on top of it to hold it up vertically, and use your other hand to apply glue dots all over the Easter egg. The spacing is up to you, you can even cover the entire Easter egg in individual dots if you want.

3. Hot glue dries very quickly, but hold you egg up a little bit after you've applied all the glue dots just to make sure that they don't get ruined when you lay your egg down. This is where it is good to have some newspaper on your work area, if you lay the egg down and the glue isn't completely dry, it will rub off.

4. When the hot glue is dry, take a good look at your Easter egg and make sure you are satisfied with the placement of the glue dots. If you find that you want to remove on, you can do so very easily by just grabbing it and pulling it off. If you remove any of the glue dots, make sure you are very gentle, you wouldn't want your Easter egg to break.

5. Once you're satisfied with your "bumps" on the Easter egg, it is time for the dye. Dip the Easter egg in the dye making sure that the entire surface is exposed to the dye.

6. Take your bumpy Easter egg out of the dye and let it dry. If you are planning to make other Easter eggs using this techniques, get going now.