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How to Make a Beaded Easter Egg

How to Make a Beaded Easter EggEasy Step by Step instructions on How to Make a Beaded Easter Egg – beautiful for your Easter Table or just to have around in egg cups like I do.

Minty suggested it: ‘Mummy, why don’t we simply do more things together?’ 
Lucy Lean and Minty in Griffith ParkSo here’s to putting more time and effort into doing more fun filled mother-daughter activities. We are calling them our Thousand Things – you know the song I could have danced all night, in My Fair Lady when Audrey Hepburn sings:
“I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before,”
Well that’s exactly what we are going to do here – starting today with the first of a Thousand Things… it might be a crafting project, something to bake together, learning something new, watching an old movie and then posting a recipe to go with it or even a new place to visit. Here Minty is frosting the first ever cake she made from scratch – and rather than be a mother-daughter activity I stayed out of the kitchen and let her work her magic. She no longer needs my help when it comes to baking and is going to start posting her recipes.

Minty frosts her cake

We hope to inspire you to join in and so we will post How Tos and recipes where relevant… and please share with us what you make and do.

How to make a beaded egg – just in time for Easter.

How to Make a Beaded Easter Eggbeaded eggYou will need:

an egg
pin and/or a syringe/flavor injector
big eye beading needle
sewing thread
Fabri-tac glue
glass seed beads – I like size 11/0 but 10/0 works well

How to Make a Beaded Easter Egg1. Using a pin and the syringe make two holes at the top and bottom of the egg. Make the hole at wide end of the egg slightly larger and insert the pin and break up the yolk inside. Insert the syringe full of air into the top hole and gentle push the air into the egg to push the egg white and yolk out. This has to be done with a mixture of force and gentle persuasion – you want to get the insides out without cracking the egg.  When all the egg is out insert a syringe full of warm soapy water to wash out the inside. Rinse well by syringing in with warm water, followed by air to get the water out. Place eggs on a wire rack. Heat the oven to 250 F and place the blown eggs, bottoms down, in the oven to dry out all the water for about 10 minutes.

How to Make a Beaded Easter Egg2. Attach a length of sewing thread to the bottom of the egg with some glue and thread the other end of the thread through the needle.  (I used the wire for a champagne bottle as a holder for the egg and Minty used a ceramic egg holder.)
How to Make a Beaded Easter Egg

3. Begin to pick up some glass beads and using the glue, stick them to the egg in a small spiral.
How to Make a Beaded Easter Egg3. Work around and around adding more beads and gluing.
How to Make a Beaded Easter Egg

beadegg (1 of 1)-74. When the thread runs short take a new piece of thread and stick it along the side of the beads and pick up from the end of the old thread.
How to Make a Beaded Easter Egg5. Work until the entire egg is covered with beads, cut the thread leaving about 1/4 inch which you stick down by pushing it between the beads with a pin. 

How to Make a Beaded Easter Egg

With a little practice you will be beading eggs with stripes, hundreds and thousands and even pictures – last year I did an egg with butterflies. The first ever egg I beaded was at boarding school in an after school activities lesson. I was about Minty’s age and worked hard on an egg with a rainbow in a blue sky. I’m already feeling like our Thousand Things is the beginning of something extremely exciting – one down, 999 to go!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Easter, Fun D.I.Y, home decor, How to make..., Thousand Things Tagged With: A thousand things, Audrey Hepburn, beaded egg, easter egg, how to blow an egg, How to make a beaded egg, Minty, Mother-Daughter, My Fair Lady

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Comments

  1. mari says

    April 13, 2014 at 2:50 am

    Love you mom!

    Reply
    • mari says

      April 13, 2014 at 2:50 am

      your amazebeans !!!!!!!!

      Reply
  2. Nicky Leap says

    April 20, 2014 at 9:00 am

    What a wonderful thing! You and Minty… and the beautiful eggs!
    [PS: I remember the rainbow/blue sky egg]

    Reply
  3. Lady J says

    April 25, 2020 at 6:04 am

    Thank you for such a thorough tutorial! Working on my first egg! You and your daughter are awesome <3 <3 Keep crafting together

    Reply

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