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Small plant wonders
Egglings, this Easter is the absolute trend and great for giving away or self-retaining. We have 5 simple DIY ideas to imitate for you.
This is what you need for the Egglings with cress and chives:
- 4 chicken eggs, brown
- chives
- cress
- white egg cup
- Wiggle eyes (10 mm, with eyelashes 10 pieces, 1, 49 €, Art. No .: 7040.07.01, www.idee-shop.com)
- Wiggle eyes (round, 10 mm, 10 pieces, 0, 99 €, Art. No .: 7040.07.10, www.idee-shop.com)
- Double adhesive tape, narrow (eg from tesa)
- scissors
And that's how easy it is:
1. Tap the eggs above with a spoon and break open a small opening. Empty eggs, rinse and leave to dry.
2. Add a bit of potting soil into the eggs, then add the chive and cress seeds to the soil, pour with a bit of water. Put eggs in the egg cup.
3. Using double-sided tape, stick your eyes to the eggs.
You need this for the planted eggs:
- blown out chicken eggs
- Acrylic paint or water color
- Lacquer in gold
- Bellis in the pot
- Muscarizwiebeln
- succulents
- goose eggs
- quail eggs
- moss
- Bowl
- brush
And that's how easy it is:
1. Blow out chicken eggs, rinse them and flip them up.
2. Dye with acrylic paint or water color and sprinkle with golden paint.
3. Carefully remove the flowers from the soil and plant them in half eggs, cover with a little moss.
4. Arrange the planted eggs together with goose and quail eggs on moss in a bowl.
Prop: sugar bowl: lamesa.de; 14, 90 €, rest: own prop
You need this for this Egglings idea:
- Empty eggshells
- dish soap
- egg cup
- Pot Daffodils and Iris
- Wrapping paper with butterfly motif
- double-sided adhesive tape
- scissors
And that's how easy it is:
1. Wash out the eggs with water and a little washing-up liquid and leave to dry.
2. Place the eggshells in an eggcup.
3. Remove small pot daffodils and iris from soil and place in eggshells.
4. Put some earth on the flower bulbs and press on.
5. Water plants with water.
6. Cut small butterflies out of wrapping paper, fold the wings upwards and stick them on the eggs and flowers with double-sided adhesive tape.
Props: Easter Bunny: Wagner & Apel; 16, 20 €; about: www.wagner-apel.de, rest: all own props
You need this for the painted eggs with Scilla onion flowers:
- 5 white blown-out cleaned eggs
- skewer
- The pintle
- Acrylic color in violet, light green and light blue
- 5 Scilla
- moss
- brushwood branches
- brush
- possibly polystyrene
And that's how easy it is:
1. Carefully remove half the shell of the eggs.
2. Carefully place the egg halves on a skewer or wire and use as a holder.
3. Apply the desired color with a brush. Let dry.
4. Divide the scilla and place one onion each with flower in an egg. Fix onions with something with moss.
5. Form small nests from twigs and set the eggs on top.
Tip: Paint painted eggs to dry eg in polystyrene.
This is what you need for the seeded eggs:
- about 10 ivy banks
- Flower binding wire
- easternest
- 1 checkerboard flower (contains mostly 3 flowers / onions)
- Eggshells of half a egg each
- moss
And that's how easy it is:
1. Put together 3-5 ivy banks. Form into a wreath and bind with a little wire. To lay the nest.
2. Add the onions of the checkerboard flower one at a time into each egg.
3. Put some moss on the edge for the hold.
4. Put the egg in the little nest.
Prop: Nest and egg, idea each about 1.99 euros, On the shelf: bird, La Cigale, about 13.50 euros, basket: La Cigale, about 2 euros, sign: 7 rooms about 12 euros
