easter egg project with mr. c.

I have been searching the blog-o-net for fun easy egg ideas. I've done onion skin dye before, I've done regular dye, blah blah. I don't have fabric worthy of Easter eggs and I do not really like scrapbook paper. So. I decided to do my own thing. I wish the light was better tonight by the glow of the track lights. Glossy Mod Podge reflects flash. I particularly wish the shots of Cuddly Cousins Egg and Froggie Egg were better.

 Froggie does not look cute. But he almost is.
You probably trust me, they're cute. 
First, since I can draw, that's what I did. Mr. C. can color, so that was his job. I should have gotten him to draw some of his own things, because he really does a nice job.

Nobody else wanted to help so I colored too.

We cut out the shapes.  He also glued. Sometimes he glued things upside down but they were cute that way.

The trick to gluing a flat paper thing onto a round egg shaped thing is to cut slices into the edge of the paper, just as if you were sewing a rounded seam. Cut into the design if you need to, it will be just fine. Hold the little roundish paper in your hand and cut all the way around, from the edge, towards the center, but not all the way to the center. Cut without overlapping your slices. If you accidentally cut off a slice, you can glue it back on, no big deal.  Hold the sliced up paper in your hand and wipe glue onto the paper with the whole side of the paintbrush which has sunk three inches deep into the bottle of Mod Podge. This is a good way to do it. Don't bother trying to paint the glue on, just slather it. Position your paper onto the egg.

Right side up is generally the side with the string, but that's negotiable.

Gradually fold the slices down in a slightly overlapping pattern, making sure to glue. Once my paper is glued down, I then spread more glue across the top. This results in a slick surface, making it easy to smooch out any bubbles with your fingers. My fingernails still have glossy Mod Podge underneath, as I type.

This method works for gluing strips of paper around the eggs. I have also glued entire sheets of origami paper around an egg this way. Cut your strip of paper. On the back you may draw two lines equidistant from the edges of the paper, or from the center of the paper.

Cut slices from the edge, up to that edge's closest line. Paint Mod Podge down the center of the strip of paper, but not on the slices. Glue the center of the paper to the center line of the egg.

Now add glue to the first few strips and begin to glue them down one by one onto the egg surface. You will probably get the hang of it quickly and at that point glue them down whichever way you want. Sometimes they end up smoothing down quickly for me, other times I have more trouble.

 

It turned out sort of lumpy. 

I feel like gluing some ric-rak to the top and bottom of the paper would be a cute touch.

Here are several of the eggs hanging on the tinsel tree.

Here is a bad kitty waiting for me to leave the kitchen so she can play with the new toys.