Homemade Confetti Eggs: Carrot Cascarones for Easter
Make these homemade confetti eggs, or cascarones, in the shape and color of Easter carrots for friends, family, and maybe the bunny! This is an easy eco-friendly craft for the spring holidays.
Equipment
- 1 Pot
- Scissors
- Sharp Nail
Ingredients
- 1 Dozen Emptied Eggshells
- 2 Handfuls Yellow Onion Skins
- 2 Quarts Water
- 1-2 Tbsp. White Vinegar
- 2-3 Cups Confetti
- 2 Sheets Green Tissue Paper
Instructions
Dye Confetti Eggs Orange
- Place 2 handfuls of yellow onion skins into 2 quarts of water and bring to a low boil in a pot. Low boil for 30 minutes.
- Strain out the onions skins and compost them. Place the resulting orange dye into a bowl. Add 1-2 Tbsp. of white vinegar and stir it in.
- Place each blown egg into the bowl of dye and press into the liquid to fill the inside of the egg so it will sink to the bottom. Do this for each egg. Soak for a few minutes to an hour, depending on desired depth of color.
- Strain out the water and leave each egg to drain and dry.
Filling the Homemade Confetti Eggs
- Find the roundest, fattest end of the egg - this will be your "carrot" top. Using a sharp nail or your fingernail, pry the hole open enough that you can fill the egg with the confetti. Be careful to not crack the egg while you do this!
- Hand-feed the confetti into the egg or use a small funnel through which the confetti will slide easily. Half fill or entirely fill the egg with confetti, leaving some headroom at the top of the egg. Overly dense confetti eggs can hurt if you're breaking them onto someone else.
Finishing the Carrot Shaped Confetti Egg
- Cut two squares of green tissue paper about 4" x4". Offset one of the squares and layer it on top of the other one.
- Pinch the middle of the squares and fold up the sides.
- Using scissors, randomly cut slits in the tops of the tissue paper. This will feather them like the top of an actual carrot.
- Twist the base of the tissue paper leaf and insert it gently into the carrot confetti egg. Be sure it's snugly fit inside the shell. There's no real need to secure them, but you could tape or glue down one side of the tissue paper, if you'd like.
- Set them upright in a container or into Easter baskets.
- Most important step: Have fun using them!!
Notes
Visit our article to learn how to blow out eggshells for Easter crafts (link in the post).
This is not an overly complicated craft, so don't overthink the steps.
Be sure to observe the last step most of all!
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