Egghead Planters

• To make an egghead planter, crack open a raw egg (try to just remove the top, leaving as much shell as possible), dump out the contents, rinse the shell and let it dry. Glue a small circle of chenille stem to the bottom for a stand. Use markers, stickers or acrylic paint to make a "face" on the eggshell, then fill it with potting soil and sprinkle the soil with grass seed. Water and put in a sunny window; in a few days the seed will sprout and grow into the egghead's "hair."
  
  

Eggshell Mosaic

• This is a good keepsake craft to do after the egg hunt. Place peeled, dyed eggshells in plastic bags (a different bag for each color) and crush them into small pieces with a rolling pin or the side of a drinking glass. Draw a picture on card stock or poster board. Paint one section of the picture with white glue and apply one color of eggshell pieces to that section; repeat until all the parts of the picture are colored in. When the picture dries, cover the whole thing with a thin layer of glue to seal the mosaic.
  
  

Eggshell Tulips

• Crack an egg in half; rinse the halves. Roll one end of a green chenille stem into a spiral and glue the spiral to the bottom of a shell; this is the "stem." When the glue is dry, paint the shell inside and out to look like a tulip. If you like, you can gently break pieces off the edges of the shell to give it a more floral shape.
  
  

Confetti Eggs

• Crack an egg in half as evenly as you can; rinse and dry the halves. Put one tablespoon of confetti in one half of the eggshell and fit the egg back together. Run a thin line of hot glue around the split to fasten the shells back together and then glue a thin strip of ribbon around the middle of the egg to cover the join. These favors are fun to open outside on a windy day.
  
  

Pysanky Eggs

• Pysanky eggs (also known as Ukrainian Easter eggs) are the beautiful Eastern European eggs that are dyed in intricate patterns using a wax-resist method similar to the process used to make batik fabric. Hollow out an raw egg by making a small hole in each end and then blowing through one hole; the white and yolk flow through the other hole and the egg is rinsed and dried. Then paint wax on each part of the egg you don't want colored and dip it in a light dye (usually yellow). When that's dry, repeat the process with more wax and gradually darker dyes, then melt away the wax over a candle flame to reveal a rich tapestry of color.