Mollys Guide - Easter 2019

HOBBIES & ACTIVITIES
Scaman’s Eggs
Eggciting Easter fun!
HOW TO PREPARE YOUR EGGS FOR DECORATING
My children love getting the crafts out of the cupboard and decorating eggs. After a fun-filled
afternoon of painting and sticking, our golden-brown Scaman’s Eggs are transformed into bright
and colourful centre pieces and table decorations for our Easter get-togethers with friends
and family. On grey and rainy days of the school holidays, it’s the perfect way to keep children
entertained and creative.
However, decorating eggs can get messy if you don’t prepare your eggs. Just one small knock
and you’ll have egg raw egg whites and fragments of shell to mop up! To avoid unwanted cracks
and spillages, there are two ways to prepare your eggs for decorating...
1. Boil your eggs. Simply hard-boil
your eggs for at least seven minutes
to make sure your whites and yolks
are firm. Leave them to cool before
decorating.
2. ‘Blow out’. This can be a little tricky,
but it’s simple to do. Carefully use a pin to
poke the top and bottom of the egg shell,
making the hole at the base wide enough
to fit a cocktail stick. Use a cocktail stick to
poke the yolk a couple of times, we want it
to easily pass through the hole. Place the
egg over a bowl and carefully blow through
the top until the egg whites and yolk start to
push through the base. If you don’t want to
get too close to the raw eggs, you can also
use a Baby Aspirator (brand new, of course),
which will pump air into the shell. Give the
shells a good wash with warm soapy water
and leave them to dry.
Then, get cracking with your
decorations! (Not literally, of course…)
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Easter 2019