Christmas Tree Ornaments

I just love this idea for inexpensive and chic Christmas tree ornaments by Dollar Store Crafts! You can see detailed instructions on their website here and I have also posted instructions below! Materials: Eggs White Glue Acrylic paints Embroidery floss or ribbon Optional: Felt, various colors Glitter Stickers, vinyl decals, or foam shapes Instructions: 1. Blow the eggs. If you have never done this before get a paring knife or other pointy implement and gently tap a hole at the top and at the bottom of the egg. You’ll want the hole on top to be fairly small and the one on the bottom to be a little larger. If both holes are too small, the egg will explode under pressure when you do the next bit, which involves placing your mouth over one hole, positioning the egg over a bowl to catch the innards, and blowing until there’s nothing left inside. 2. Rinse inside and thoroughly dry the egg. If you don’t give it time to dry inside, it will drip at inopportune moments. 3. At this point, you have the option of filling in the hole at the bottom of the egg. Do not fill in the hole at the top–you’ll need it later! There are several ways to do this. The simplest is probably to cover it with a bit of white tissue paper coated in glue and let it dry. 4. Once your hole is covered up, you’re ready for the fun part. It’s time to decorate your egg (Note: If you’re impatient and doing multiple coats of paint, a hair dryer will set the paint in less than a minute and let you continue on without waiting for ages while it dries.) 5. Once you’ve decorated your eggs to your heart’s content and in any way you see fit, it’s time to turn them into hang-able ornaments. Take a short length of embroidery floss — about 1 1/2″–and fold it in half. Moisten your fingers and rub the two ends together until they twisted into one slightly pointed strand with a large loop at the other end. Insert it, pointy end first, into the hole at the top of the egg. Feed the floss, string, or ribbon into the hole until the loop is the size you want it, and then fill in the spaces around it with white/clear-drying glue and prop it up to dry. I did very small loops so that the ornaments could be hung on metal hooks, but it would probably be better to use a longer length of floss and simply hang the eggs from the loop of floss itself once they dry.