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Don't throw out your plastic easter eggs - Upcycle Them!

By Misha AlslebenPublished 4 years ago 4 min read
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Well It's here . April 12th is creeping upon on us. With the world in a bit of a tailspin from the COVID-19 outbreak I'm sure many people are saddened by cancelled plans and the inability to spend the upcoming holiday with family. For families with young kids this has put parents into a new position of having to try and keep up with the holiday and make it special for our kid's as we have the years previous. For myself and a friend of mine our youngests kid's birthdays fall on the 12th as well. So this year there is extra fun happening.

If you find you are one of the 100's of parents preparing for easter and rolling your eye's at the thought of being stuck with 60 or 100 or more plastic easter egg's with nothing to do but toss them, don't fret just yet.

I have ideas coming from myself and others to help you upcycle those plastic eggs into new items that are fun , practical and cute!

Home decor to learning aid, plastic eggs aren't a complete waste.

Fall Decor Acron's

Home decor can be expensive and cheap at the same time. What I mean by that is that while home decor doesn't have to be expensive I've found alot of cute things that are 15.99 or 39,99 or more are actually just extremely cheap items that eventually one either gather dust or get thrown out.

Why not make your decor I said to myself years ago and that's exactly what I've done since.

I can't tell you how excited I was for these acrons . SO Cute!

Prize Chest

If you use a reward system in your home. Save these to hide small toys and items in. You can even surprise your little's and add cash. I like to grab things from quarter machines and add them into the egg or buy party favors packs and split them up.

Use Them To Teach

Eggs typically break into halves which is great to use them as learning tools . Mom to 2 posh lil divas put together 10 ways to use them to teach and help your kids learn.

Make Jello Eggs

Mommy's Fabulous finds has a great tutorial on how to make them just right. I forgot to take pics of ours last year.

Crafting with the littles or teen's

Here are Six Crafts to do with kids or teens with left over egg's

Egg Geodes

Next have some fun making pretend food with your kids for your kids to play with !

Glue , Cardstock and Markers is all you need for this craft!

Modge Podging Book Eggs -

Firefly Bugs that really light up !

Egg Maracas

Egg Ninjas

Make The Birds A Treat!

Gather some bird seed and left over plastic eggs and let the fun begin! This is so much fun to do with your kids but its also a relaxing solo craft.

You can find a extensive tutorial here.

Dragon Eggs

For you , your kid, it doesn't matter grab a glue fun and some acrylic paints and design scales and scrolls on plastic eggs and then paint them in dark greys blues whites black and reds. Cute and bad as* home decor items. Toss em in a nest from jo- ann fabrics and you can be your own Mother of Dragons. Or Father of course.

Here's a idea for a blingy eggs as well. I think dragons would of had blingy eggs too!

Save For Halloween and Make Treat Spiders !

Save the eggs and then at halloween time get googly eyes, pipe cleaners and some fun snacks and glow sticks then make spiders and give them to your kids or teens for fun!

Make Small Room Decor For You Or Your Kid's

Follow this link to find out how to make adorable upcycled hot air baloon decor!

Tealight Flight living Room Decor

I personally would use this only as a decor item I would not attempt to burn the candles.

Upcycling your plastic egg's isn't just fun , it saves you from throwing away money you JUST spent to make your kid's happy and have fun AND It helps reduce plastic waste headed into our landfills and oceans daily.

That's all my suggestion's for now. Thank you so much for reading and I alway's apperciate shares ! Happy after easter and I hope your family is doing well !

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About the Creator

Misha Alsleben

Wife & Mom Fueled by ;

Caffeine & Gratitude, when I’m not writing you’ll find me raising awareness about our planet’s needs , in the kitchen ,outside with the family, taking photos or in a bookstore.

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