I was recently called to the Young Women's program in our Church (LDS Church - Mormons) and have such have had lots of fun creating little handouts to go with the lessons. It's great making handouts for someone who actually appreciates them (unlike the 5 year olds I used to teach, who really only enjoyed FOOD handouts).
I found lots of inspiration for handouts and ideas from Pinterest (a fairly recent obsession) and also found an AMAZING blog called Holy Handouts - which I'm following on my blog. Amazing woman who makes amazing handouts, she's a graphic designer (correct me if I'm wrong) with an obvious LOAD of talent!
Alas, I thought should start using my own hands and do something myself instead of stealing everyone else's finished products! I decided instead of stuffing the YW (Young Women) with chocolate I would give them something crafty & cute! In the photo below is my finished and after-finished product.
I blew out an egg and then attempted to dye the egg, which I then discovered its not that easy dying a normal orangey coloured egg, you need to use WHITE eggs. So, I improvised and covered the dyed egg in glitter! Which I thought worked out pretty well in the end, looks very girly, pink & pretty. I then wanted to put the eggs in cardboard boxes so I could write on them, but could not find any anywhere, so resulted in buying small chinese takeaway boxes (.40c from Bargain City) which didn't look too bad in the end. I sprinkled a little bit of angel hair to soften the bottom, and added a few chocolate easter eggs (you need to have SOME chocolate). Next step was the little surprise that made the glitter egg and the more better. A teeny tiny rolled up note that said "Happy Easter to an Eggstra Special Chick!" once the note was finally pushed inside the tiny hole of the egg (where the yolk was blown out) I covered the rest of the hole with more glitter. As seen in the picture when the egg was cracked you find the little secret note! I popped a little note on the takeaway boxes that said "Crack Me".
Things I would do differently: 1. DON'T TRY DYING A NORMAL COLOURED EGG! Firstly, it didn't work properly (except for BLUE dye, and that didn't look that nice) and secondly some dye got inside the blown egg and made the inside of the egg and the note soggy - so when you cracked the egg it more crumbled as the inside was soggy and the note was blue and was a bit fragile and started to fall apart.
Apart from that I think it worked out well... I was pretty impressed with myself, but my darling husband wasn't very impressed with the mess. Pin It
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