Easy to Make Easter Decoration

"Spectacular decoration easily made from stuff around the house. Quick, inexpensive and so easy a child could do it." Often have I read that and often have I been disappointed as I read the article. I promise that this time it is true. Of course in my house there is a lot of stuff. I know that whenever I throw something away I will need it within the month so I have accumulated a lot of things. You never know when they will come in handy. This is the case of putting something I have had for ages to good use.

My out of pocket expenses were for 2 bags of plastic eggs and an extra long needle designed to sew eyes onto rag dolls. The needles I bought are size 5 and are about 5 inches long and were the most expensive thing I purchased. They are easily found at your favorite fabric store. The needle needs to be long enough to reach completely through the eggs from the hole in one end to the hole in the other.

The unusual things that I had on hand were egg sleeves from the Easter Egg Dye kits that I have saved over the years. Some plastic eggs that had already been enclosed in egg sleeves and some that had not. I also have a spool of fishing line that I have been using for years. You could almost think that it was an unending spool. The usual things were a pan, a colander on a plate, a slotted spoon, water and a stove. I'm stretching here for things, but you really do have them around the house.

First I put sleeves on the eggs that didn't have them. This is done by putting the sleeve over the egg - it is too big. Then Immersing the egg with the sleeve in boiling water. I used a slotted spoon to turn it until the sleeve adhered to the egg and removed it to the colander to drain and cool.

After all the eggs had sleeves on it was time to thread them together. (I also used some eggs without sleeves.) Each egg has two holes in the bottom and in the top. Without cutting the fishing line from the spool, I threaded the needle and "sewed" through from the top of the egg to the bottom. Then I added another egg again going from top to bottom. I put from 9 to 12 eggs on each string. After I had as many eggs strung as I wanted I sewed across the bottom egg and back up through the other side of the eggs. I then tightened the fishing line so the eggs abutted each other. I then tied the thread from the needle to the thread from the spool and cut the thread from the spool. I gathered seven of these strings of eggs together with a twist tie and hung it from a hook over the arch in my kitchen.

The strings of eggs could be hung separately or together. They could be hung inside or out. They are far enough away, that you can't see how dumb the sleeves are, and some were pretty stupid. As you can see this is an easy peasy project. It used up all those sleeves that I had been accumulating for years. It makes my kitchen look festive.

Today I have a decoration for Easter that has more flash than my Bobbin Lace ornaments on the tree my husband made by painting a branch white www.associatedcontent.com/slideshow/49094/easter_tree_with_lace_ornaments.html which is a pretty awesome decoration in itself. This only took an afternoon to make and the lace ornaments were made over years. It really was all those things at the beginning of this article except for the child. I wouldn't encourage a child to do it because of the boiling water, but a teen could handle this easily. Try it, people will think you are clever.