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Basic Egg Decorating Tips
You can decorate hard-cooked eggs or emptied eggshells. Hard-cooked eggs are slightly sturdier than empty shells. They're easier to work and less prone to breaking. If your hard-cooked egg does crack or the design isn't good enough to keep, you can always eat the egg!

Emptied eggshells are lightweight. You can hang them on a mobile, an Easter egg tree or a Christmas tree. Emptied eggshells have nothing inside to spoil, so you can keep them on display for years. And you can use the insides for baking.

If you want to keep a decorated egg for a long time, strengthen the shell before you decorate it by following these steps:

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1. Use layers of newspaper covered with layers of paper towels or similar paper. 		spacer
Use layers of newspaper covered with layers of paper towels or similar paper.

2. Use white glue, homemade flour-and-water paste or wallpaper paste to apply the paper to the egg, just like when you're making papier-mâché. 		Use white glue, homemade flour-and-water paste or wallpaper paste to apply the paper to the egg, just like when you're making papier-mâché.

3. Create your decorated egg masterpiece. Then protect the design with an outer coating. Evenly coat the egg with thinned white glue, clear or pearlized nail polish, or spray shellac, varnish or craft finish. 		Create your decorated egg masterpiece. Then protect the design with an outer coating. Evenly coat the egg with thinned white glue, clear or pearlized nail polish, or spray shellac, varnish or craft finish.




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