Have a hoppin’ good time creating these Carrot Easter Eggs for your spring festivities! First you get to dye the eggs and then you make as many of these as you like! Add the cute carrot tops to the dyed eggs. Easy and fun for kids and parents alike.
Dye each egg for 10 minutes or until the desired level of orange is reached.
Boiled Eggs
Set on a paper towel and let fully dry.
While the eggs are drying, make little cuts, every 1/8th of an inch, all the way down the green felt strips. Don’t cut all the way through, leave just a bit of uncut space at the bottom of each slit.
Remove the paper backing and roll the felt strips, keeping the uncut bottom portion lined up as you go.
Spread the carrot stem at the top and part the separate slices of felt and then press it onto a firm, clean surface such as a plate or even your hand will do. This makes the top spread out a bit to look more like a stem.
Once the eggs are dry, place a small dot of glue from the glue gun on the bottom of the felt carrot top and then place it on the middle, top of the fattest part of the egg. It should dry almost immediately. Now you get to enjoy the eggs!
Notes
Tips:● If you keep these eggs refrigerated as usual and don’t leave them out for too long, it’s safe to eat them.
● You can trim and adjust your carrot stems as you see fit. The best part about this craft is that each carrot egg will turn out a little different. I had to trim some of the bottoms off my stems once I rolled them because I felt they were too long. This is all up to you.
● If you aren’t able to get the sticky felt, regular felt with a dab of glue to hold it once rolled will work as well.
● If you have younger kiddos, I would definitely do the glue gun part for them as you don’t want their little fingers getting burned.
● The water needs to remain hot for the dye to work well on the eggs. If you want to do them all at once, in a large bowl or something, that works too, it’s just harder to measure how much dye you’ll need.