Use Your Favorite Craft to Create Unique and Memorable Easter Egg Designs

It's that time of year again. Time for spring flowers, April showers, and our beloved Easter bunny to arrive with baskets full of goodies. And what goes hippity-hop in the Easter basket of traditions better than the incredible, edible Easter egg?

Crafters, it's time to show your stuff and turn the Easter egg coloring world into a unique, vibrant, and artsy masterpiece of talent. To sweeten the deal, you can pull it off on a shoe-string budget by utilizing items and supplies you already own.

For homemade Easter eggs, do away with the expensive kits and look to your kitchen and crafts for inspiration. First step- color. Toss away notions of standard dyes and coloring kits. Grab some hot water, vinegar, a few glass containers, and get ready to raid the kitchen for your palette of paints.

You could simply reach for food coloring, but consider other alternatives from your cupboard instead.

Use 1/4 cup of boiling water, 1 tsp. vinegar, and the following ingredients to make to create one of kind, inexpensive shades:

Orange- Carrots or orange peels

Blue- Juice from canned blueberries or Blue Kool-aid unsweetened mix

Green- Dandelion leaves or spinach greens

Yellow- Lemon peels or yellow onion skins

Red- Beets, rhubarb stalks, cranberries, or red onion skins

Brown- Coffee or tea bags

Purple- Grape Juice (concentrate works the best)

Have fun and experiment. Ransack your fridge and try things out. Sift through your baking cabinet as various spices produce interesting colors and effects on eggs shells too. As for egg dippers, utilize your strainer spoons, rubber gloves, or tongs for a readily available alternatives.

Want to step it up and jazz your creations even further? Look to your favorite crafts for inspiration!

Are you an avid scrap-booker? Use stickers, trims, and paper to decorate your eggs with a distinctive flair. Perhaps even create a frame on each egg, complete with small picture, to create place markers for your Easter guests.

Into candle making? Take your left-over tidbits of wax, melt them, and drip in interesting patterns over the colored or uncolored egg shells.

Do you have an artistic flair? Grate different colored crayons into boiling water and then dip your eggs to obtain a mosaic effect.

How about quilting? Grab some glue and use fabric scraps to create exceptional "quilted" eggs. Use a dark permanent marker to simulate the thread on the design.

Whatever your passion, with a little creativity, you can incorporate your crafts into eggs-traordinary designs. By using your talents and tools at hand, you'll have a special Easter egg extravaganza without breaking the bank in the process.

Eggs-traTip: When you are finished devouring your Easter egg creations, gather the shells and involve your children in a fun follow-up craft. Spread a little bit of glue on a piece of construction paper. Then strip the membranes from the egg shells, crumble the shell, and use the colored pieces to make interesting pictures and designs.