Make Your Own Yarn Easter Eggs

Make Your Own Yarn Easter Eggs: I have always wanted to try out making yarn Easter eggs but I was worried that they may not be that easy and I could see a Pinterest fail coming up. However, with Easter around the corner. I thought yarn balloons were worth a go and would make a nice addition to our Easter decorations. It turned out that making string easter eggs is a very simple to make and a super easy easter craft. Charlie even got involved in helping to make them. The best part is that we had all we needed to make these in the house already.

String Easter Egg Craft – Materials needed to make your own yarn eggs

• White glue or mod podge – ideally washable glue as it will get everywhere.
• Water
• Water Balloons – I think that you could probably use fully-sized balloons just keeping them small. I do like water balloons though as they are easier to shape into an egg shape. Plus we had a lot of them in the house, making ideal yarn balloons. Obviously, if you would like large eggs then you just blow up a bigger balloon.
• Embroidery thread in different colors – you need a long piece of yarn. We ended up using a whole skien of embroidery floss in making each of our eggs. And I think they could have done with a little more. I purposefully chose colorful yarn in Spring colors. But you could make these with cotton yarn or normal string if you are looking for a more natural finish.
• Something to place the balloons in while they dry. We used little ramekins.
• Paintbrush to paint on more glue mixture if necessary

Method – How to make string Easter eggs

Step One

Blow up your balloons, ours were about 3.5 inches long. While I was doing this Charlie mixed equal parts water and white glue. I did worry that it may be a little runny. It turned out that it was okay but I think I would reduce the water element slightly next time. It may take some time to find the perfect consistency and mixture of glue.

Step Two

Add your embroidery thread to the glue mixture careful to keep it as untangled as possible. This is not easy when you have little hands helping. For this reason, I did one yarn egg at a time. I gave it a gentle stir using a wooden spoon to make sure the thread is well coated. I do not think you can have too much string and would aim for several feet of yarn.

Step Three

The messy bit, you will get glue everywhere. Which Charlie thought was great fun. Wind the strands of yarn around the balloon. I found that winding from top to bottom worked better than winding around the balloon. Although make sure you are still winding in different directions. This means that you covered the end of the balloons properly. This seemed to give better structure as did keeping the thread tight as you wound.

You need two hands. I also noticed that there was a definite difference between the ones that I did and those that Charlie did. I think this was because of the tightness of the thread. Once you have finished makes sure you poke the end of the yarn under another. Or leave a loop of yarn at the end so you can hang them up on your Easter tree.

Step Four

I left ours to dry overnight and then popped the balloons with a pin. Getting out the remnants of the balloons was a little fiddly, but I am very happy how they turned out for a first attempt.

They will make a great addition to our easter décor and the boy’s Easter baskets this year. Although I suspect they will still be after the plastic eggs as they always have sweets inside! If I was to do this again then I think I would include some little folded sparkly eggs in the center of the egg. And perhaps use two skeins per egg. I think the chocolate temptation would be too big for little hands when you can actually see them. Have you made string eggs before? How did you get on?

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