These DIY Hollow Yarn Easter Eggs are a fun spring craft you can add to your Easter baskets or use as decor, and they can be reused year after year.
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Floral Dress 1 || Floral Dress 2 || Foam Eggs (similar) || Basket (from Michaels a few years ago) || Crinkle-Cut Paper
I have been wanting to make these DIY Hollow Yarn Easter Eggs for years, and I finally got around to it this year!
These DIY Hollow Yarn Easter Eggs are a fun spring craft you can add to your Easter baskets or use as decor, and they can be reused year after year.
I plan to store these carefully and use them year after year for decor (Roger has already removed all the candy), and I may even refill them with different candy or even tiny toys in future years.
If I need to make more in the future, the only thing I would do differently is not add candy when first filling the balloons, and only add the crinkle-cut paper.
The crinkled paper would be harder to stuff into the hollow ball, so I’d add more at the beginning.
And you can’t add too much candy to the uninflated balloon, but once the yarn egg is hollow, it’s easy to add lots of candy.
I only cut a small slit into the Hollow Yarn Easter Eggs, and once closed, I could shake the eggs, and the candy stayed inside.
Then, to remove the candy, you just open it again and shake it out.
You can customize your eggs by using different-colored yarn, making them bigger or smaller, filling them with crinkle-cut paper in different colors, and filling them with your favorite sealed Easter candy!
ps. The balloons I used are made from 100% natural latex (not plastic), biodegradable and compostable in 6 weeks, and printed with food-grade ink. Oh, and the bags that they came in are compostable too, as they are made from 100% corn starch.
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Materials:
Crinkle-Cut Paper, off-white
Sealed Candy (I used these, these, these, & these)
Small Bowl
Instructions:
1. First, use the balloon opener to open a balloon and push crinkle-cut paper into it. Repeat on all your balloons.
Note: In the video and pictures above, I also added candy, but I wouldn’t recommend it, as it’s hard to add more than 3 pieces to the balloon. If I need to make more in the future, the only thing I would do differently is not add candy when first filling the balloons, and only add the crinkle-cut paper. The crinkled paper would be harder to stuff into the hollow ball, so I’d add more at the beginning in this step. And then once the egg is hollow, add lots of candy.
2. Next, inflate the balloon to your desired egg size and tie off the end. Repeat on all your balloons.
3. Place the balloon on a small bowl (to hold it in place so when you let go, it won’t roll away), and brush Mod Podge all over the balloon. Don’t forget to flip it over and brush Mod Podge underneath.
4. Wrap the yarn around the balloon until the holes are small enough that candy won’t fall through. See pictures for examples.
Note: Be sure to wrap the yarn tightly around the balloon. If you look closely, you will see that the blue egg looks a little more sloppy than the others. This was my first one, and even though I have wrapped yarn around a balloon for other crafts, for some reason, I wasn’t thinking, and I made it too loose so it looks a bit different from the rest of the eggs.
5. Cut off the end of the yarn and tuck it under the tightly wrapped yarn on the balloon.
6. Apply a top coat of Mod Podge on top of the yarn. Don’t forget to flip it over and brush Mod Podge underneath as well.
7. Place the egg balloon on a baking sheet lined with plastic wrap.
8. Repeat steps 3-7 on all of your balloons. Make sure the balloons/yarn eggs are not touching each other, or they might become permanently glued together.
9. Let the Mod Podge dry thoroughly. Be sure to rotate the balloons so the base dries too.
Note: I let mine dry overnight. In the evening, after I finished making them, I placed them outside where the sun and wind would help dry them. Every 30 minutes or so, I would rotate them to help them dry faster. They were drying pretty well until I took them in for the night, and then the drying process slowed down drastically, especially after I went to sleep and stopped rotating them. I placed them back in the sun the next morning, and by the time they were thoroughly dried, some of the balloons had started to shrink from the sun’s exposure (which wasn’t a problem as the glue had dried; I just thought you might want to know in case it happens to you).
10. Once the Mod Podge has dried thoroughly, use sharp scissors to poke a hole in the balloon to cause it to deflate.
Note: My balloon didn’t pop as it was slightly stuck to the yarn, but instead slowly let out air and in the process released from the yarn.
11. Cut a small line/slit in the base of the yarn egg, opening it up with your fingers a bit if needed, and remove the balloon.
13. Add sealed candy and/or tiny toys to the hollow yarn egg and then close the hole.
14. Enjoy your new reusable DIY Hollow Yarn Easter Eggs as decor or in Easter baskets!
Note: The candy can be removed by opening the hole again and shaking the candy out.
Store carefully to reuse year after year.
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