Fishsticks and Tiddlywinks: Easter Egg Traditions

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When my oldest was just a peanut and we began dying Easter eggs he didn't like hard boiled eggs. So I would dye raw eggs and use the eggs in cooking or baking.

Then I remembered a really fun tradition I saw a lot of when we lived in South Texas. Cascarones! Cascarones are egg shells filled with confetti and broken over people's heads for good luck on Easter morning.

So I began cutting a hole in the bottoms of the eggs (each time I needed an egg for baking) and then the kids fill the shells with bird seed using a funnel. Cover the hole with tissue paper and glue when the egg is done. You can buy Cascarones at stores like Walmart but I figured, hey, I have the eggs, why not?

As you can tell from the glorious picture below we used to use the traditional confetti but trust me it makes a gawd awful mess, and with bird seed the birdies are happy too.

As the kids got older I was forced to come up with a second activity (never a dull moment), because each kiddo always has their "favorite" egg that they can't bear to turn into a Cascarone.
So we began turning our favorites into a diorama egg to display every year. Here is how:

Step one:
Agonizingly decide which egg is the favorite

Step two:
Spray the dyed egg with a sealant to protect the color, because your fingerprints will lift the color right off the egg. I use Aleene's sealer (bought it at Michael's), but I'm sure any will do. Oh, and I don't cook with this egg. Because of the sealant this egg just goes down the drain.

Step three:
Cut a hole in the front of the egg. I have found that a pair of sharp embroidery scissors work best.

Step four:
Agonizingly choose how to decorate the inside. We have glitter, glitter glue, little glass animals, flocked Easter bunnies, you name it. Sister choose these cuties:

Step five:
Hot glue ~~your fingers to egg sustaining multiple burns~~ chicks into egg. Carefully.

Step six:
Glue ribbon around egg opening.

Step seven:
I always glue a flat bottomed "guy" with a string to the top of the egg as the hanger. They usually come in a package (I think they are for mini trees) at Michael's or Hobby Lobby.

My mom uses ribbon tied with a knot inside the egg. That is just more than my blistered fingers can handle.