I showed how to make several versions of a "heart attack" for Valentine's Day last year (1, 2, 3, 4) and I tried to think how I could do a similar idea for Easter...EGGED! A real egging is damaging and costly, but this one is much cuter and less threatening, non? And, per usual, I had to do it on a grand scale, cuz that's what we do round here. I found this great robin's egg tutorial, which helped guided me towards the right texture for the robin's egg. I'm going to leave a few of these for some unsuspecting friends in the hood. Muhahaha.
Materials: robin's egg blue (I used two shades of Martha Stewart's paint collection like the tutorial. Here are the Amazon links: pond and surf, chestnut brown), GIANT plastic Easter Egg (got mine at Michael's), paint brush, plastic primer spray, stone finish spray, goodies to put inside, toothbrush, paper to make a sign, green paper grass
Step 1: Spray the plastic egg with the plastic primer spray (not shown, forgot to take a picture, agh!) and wait for it to dry. Repeat if you'd like. I wasn't super concerned about layering. Step 2: Spray the stone spray on and let it dry. Repeat to fill in. Give it a full day to dry. Step 3: Begin painting the egg the robin's egg color. I kind of mixed the two blues and then for variation added patches of colors here in there. Step 4: Dip the toothbrush in brown paint and flick it onto the egg with your finger like a slingshot. I would suggest doing it close to the egg so it doesn't appear like a Pollack painting where it's running down the egg.
Step 5: Add in your green grass. I used grass instead of moss because no one wants to accidentally eat moss. No one.
Step 6: Add in your robin's egg candy. Mine were by Whoppers (sick, but appropriate)
Step 7: Cover with grass.
Step 8: I made a sign saying, "you've been egged" out of black paper and a gold pen to tape to the door.
DONZO.
Much cleaner than a normal egging, right?photography and crafting by moi
model: Michelle Brummer Everett (thank you SO much!)
