Every year, a couple of weeks before the school Easter holidays, the kids get asked to decorate eggs for an Easter egg competition. My daughter had her first try this year and we loved it. Follow along with our steps to make a cute ice-cream stand with hard-boiled eggs.
- Boil your eggs. Boil water in a kettle and pour into a saucepan and keep boiling. Gently add four eggs into the water using a ladle. Leave to boil for 12 minutes with a lid on. Keep an eye on the pan so the water doesn’t boil over. Turn off the heat and take the eggs out carefully using the ladle or large spoon and leave to cool on a plate or rack.
- Poke a small hole in the base of the eggs using a sewing pin. Do this carefully so as not to crack the egg. Then, poke a cocktail stick halfway into the egg.
- Stand your eggs up ready for painting. Get a sponge or some old polystyrene from packaging and stand the eggs up using the cocktail sticks to hold them in place.
- Paint the eggs in your chosen colours. The brighter the better, in my eyes. These are the scoops of ice cream so paint all over. Leave them to dry.
- Get a cardboard box. While the paint is drying, find a small cardboard box. Tape it together for stability. Cut four holes into the top where you want your ice cream cones to stand. Test the size of the holes with a cone before the next stage. Make sure the cone is tight in the hole, not loose. Take the cone out. At this point, you can also make some holes for two lolly sticks at the back of the top of the box. These lolly sticks will hold one of the stall’s signs. Make sure they fit tightly so don’t make the holes too big.
- Wrap the box in colourful wrapping paper making sure that you use sticky tape on the bottom and sides and not the top. Poke holes through the paper, where you made your original four holes. Test that the cones fit in.
- Make some “chocolate sauce”. Going back to your now dry eggs, mix up some “chocolate sauce”. We mixed PVA glue with a mixture of red, blue and yellow paints to make the brown colour and added some glitter paint in for some sparkle. It was trial and error and eventually we were happy with the colour. My daughter then dripped it onto the top of the eggs to give the effect of having chocolate sauce on them.
- Make sprinkles. For the sprinkles, we broke dry spaghetti up into small pieces and painted them on all sides and left to dry on a piece of paper. (I think newspaper would stick and the normal paper worked well.) We also added sequins when the “chocolate sauce” was still wet and left it all to dry.
- Get the eggs sure in the cones. To get the eggs secure in the cones, I used a hot glue gun inside the cone around the bit where the egg would sit and then added the egg in and held in place. I left the cocktail stick in for added support, if the egg decided to wobble out.
- Design signs for the stall. My daughter, then, designed signs for the stall, which I backed on cardboard using my paper trimmer to give a straight line. We used double-sided sticky tape to attach one to the box. The sign at the back was stood up by using two lolly sticks taped to the back of the card and poked into the box.
Tips for carrying to school. We tried just holding it but it was too precarious so we ended up putting it inside a plastic bag. One egg then decided to free itself and dropped into the bottom of the bag (thankfully not onto the floor!) and so my daughter ended up not holding the handles of the plastic bag but rather the neck of the bag tightly to make sure no other eggs made a bid for freedom.
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