Shaving Cream Easter Eggs!
by
Jewellmartin
3 Materials
$4
2 Hours
Easy
My littlest granddaughters have been begging to color Easter eggs with shaving cream ever since they saw it on a YouTube video. I saw a tutorial on Hometalk and decided to give it my twist.
Instead of boiling the eggs to dye, I chose to blow the whites and yolks out and use the empty egg shells. (Quiche for tomorrow!)
I bought the cheapest shaving cream I could find, not gel, a new pack of food coloring (only been twenty years since the last box),
I took an old biscuit pan and squirted in the Barbasol.
I spread it out in the pan, smoothing it for an even level.
The 8-year-old imp visiting today was the official color dropper. Her favorite color is red, so I had her start with blue. Then green, then yellow.
She finished with red in very strategic places.
Isn’t this gorgeous in itself? She used a chopstick and made horizontal swipes through the shaving gel, and then vertical swipes, and a few extra swirls thrown in.
And then the ooey-gooey began. Each girl was given two empty eggshells to roll in the colors. The younger girls dug down deep. Their globs of shaving cream stood as tall as an inch beyond the shell. But what colors the eggs is the saturation of color into the shells. I had them place the egg shells on a paper plate for “fixing” the colors.
The oldest girl gently placed and rolled her eggs in the colors, and there was only a little shaving cream that had to dry. Her egg shells are the two bottom eggs in the above photo.
When the upper six eggs were pretty well dry, I rinsed each very quickly under cold water to get the shaving cream off. Then I set them on the paper plate to dry another half hour before the girls could wait no longer.
The egg shells can be given a spray of polyurethane to make them last longer, like in an Easter arrangement. What’s even more fun is to tape one end of the shell. Then use a small funnel to pour in some glitter or confetti in the other end. Then, after church, Easter lunch and egg hunting, we get the “cascarones” and chase someone so we can crack the egg shells, glitter and all, over someone’s head!
Cascarones on deck! The girls can’t wait for Easter. They are big enough to toss the eggs themselves this year!
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2 comments
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These are way too cool!!
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And too much fun! I need to find more things to color this way. ☺️
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