Next year I'll get the extra large eggs

I had not intended to do much more beyond the paper/pencil wraps for Easter in the creativity department. The plan was to do the egg dye project today (as there was no school) and plop them into a new-fangled rabbit-shaped egg holder and voila! Instant centerpiece. If only Easter dinner cooked itself as easily.

Imagine my surprise when I finished boiling all of the eggs and went to plop them into the holder to cool and dry - and they fell right through. Apparently this rabbit requires eggs of the extra large variety. So now, we had eggs but no vessel with which to hold them.

Out of necessity is born a craft! This is actually Joe's idea, as he was walking out the door he casually threw out the suggestion to cut apart the egg carton, glue on some ears and make rabbits out of them to hold the eggs.

After he left (and after I had my morning tea, because NOTHING happens before morning tea), we started our little project.

You'll see below that we did not wind up gluing the ears on and simply used the shape of the carton. You can all it creative - I call it lazy and not wanting to get out felt and glue :)

Empty egg carton

Empty egg carton meets scissors (cut in between the cups, as you will need those ridgy bits attached to them for the ears).

Choose which ridgy bits (I believe this is a very technical term, no?) you wish to use for the ears and cut away the unnecessary parts, but don't cut into the cups too much because otherwise they won't hold your eggs. You'll notice that the uneven ridges are good because you get some rabbits with very attentive ears and others who have lop-ears.

Paint.

Behind the excited boy with paint you can see the wire rabbit that caused all of this excitement.

Dry

Now that the eggs have cooled, have fun with them:

After everything is dry, sit back and admire the rabbit colony on your table.