Make a Miniature Easter Egg Tree
How To Make A Miniature Easter Egg Tree
Tools: craft knife, scissors
Supplies: - 1" dia. container or clay pot - 1/8" dia. dowel, 3"
long - 1" dia. styrofoam ball - shredded greenery - foam or moss
- oven-bake clay - Easter egg colors - 1/8" diameter ribbon
(optional) - scrap styrofoam - white tacky glue - moss or ground
coffee for ground cover
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Directions:
1. Glue scrap styrofoam inside container. 2. Glue ground cover
over styrofoam. 3. Apply glue onto end of stick and insert into
center of pot. 4. Cover 1" styrofoam ball with glue and apply
shredded greenery. 5. Apply glue onto other end of stick and
insert into ball. 6. Make small egg shapes in Easter colors from
oven-bake clay. Bake according to package directions. 7. Glue
eggs to greenery ball in random pattern. 8. Make tiny bows from
ribbon and attach as desired onto ball, or to pot rim. You can
also glue ribbon around stick like a candy cane, topping with a
bow at the underside of the ball.
NOTE: Another option for creating the eggs is to use small white
Navy beans. Paint them with a variety of Easter colors. Then
apply glue and press them, longside, against the greenery ball.