Eggshell products. Eggshell mosaic. Eggshell crafts. Preparation of working material and making a simple picture.

What do you usually do with the eggshell after you eat the contents of the egg - throw it away? We offer you an interesting alternative - to turn the shell into a real work of art together with your child. In addition, they will help develop the imagination and fine motor skills of his fingers.

A little patience, a little more imagination - and DIY eggshell crafts for children can become a worthy decoration of your home.

Eggshell Mosaic

Tableware decoration

Eggshells can become a valuable material when decorating dishes, Easter eggs and other items. Just pick up more shells from the white and yellowish eggs and break them into pieces of different sizes. Lubricate the surface of the object with reliable glue and alternately lay on top of the "fragments", ranging from small to large.

This is interesting: If you open the surface of the vessel with varnish, it can be washed under the tap.

You will need:

• A jug, decorative vase, Easter egg or casket;
• Egg shells;
• Toothpick;
• PVA glue.

Instructions:

1. Prepare the item to decorate and the shells of various colors.
2. Break the shell into small pieces, grease the surface of the object with PVA glue, glue the "fragments" one by one.
3. In order for the pattern to look beautiful, alternate the colors and sizes of the shell pieces.

Decorating dishes with shells

You can decorate the egg in the same way. Just paint the shell in bright colors beforehand, and then split it into small pieces.

Helpful Hint: The easiest way to stick the egg mosaic is with a toothpick. Dip the tip into the glue, grab a piece of the shell, and then transfer it directly to the surface of the vessel.

The shells of whole ostrich eggs, carved in half or three quarters or in fragments of the Wall, can be decorated with engraving or painting. On the Tingitan Peninsula, these objects were found in tombs in the Tangier region; they were used as part of burial trousers or as fragments of personal adornments such as necklaces.

These items are widely used in the Phoenician and Punic tombs of the Mediterranean with a strong magical valence, which was supposed to protect, even after death, bad influences and adversity. Figurative objects reproduce the iconographic repertoire of Egyptian imitation, which inspired the Phoenician magical-religious culture. In the necropolis of the Tingitan peninsula, amulets are quite rare: among the Punic era: an example of glass paste, representing a copy of the god of the necropolis of Marshan-Tanger; An amulet in glass paste representing the head of a fauna, with high flat and pointed ears, protruding cheeks and lips from the tomb of Jebila and finally from the necropolis of Ain Dalhija, an example of an ivory head of Aries.

Eggshell candles

Decorating the table with small, colorful, Easter-themed candles is easy. Following our advice, you and your baby can make a candle inside a painted candlestick. If you remove the shell, you get a beautiful waxy egg with a real wick.

Step-by-step instructions for creating an inshell candle

Instructions:

1. In the shell of a raw egg, carefully make a couple of holes: a small one at the top and a large one at the bottom. Pour the contents, rinse and dry the shells.
2. Pass a thick natural thread through it. Secure one end of the thread (coming out of a small hole) with plasticine, wind the other end around a toothpick.
3. Place the shell on a glass, wind the thread around a toothpick, pull it.
4. Steam the wax and pour it gently into the shell. If you don't have the usual wax, you can melt the candle. Only if a child will do it - do not forget to control him.
5. Set the egg filled from the inside with wax evenly and make sure that the thread (that is, the wick) is located exactly in the middle. After the wax has set, trim off the excess thread from each end. Paint the shell with paints such as acrylic.
6. Note that it is very convenient to draw flowers using a cotton swab or a piece of cotton wool wrapped around a toothpick.

Beautiful candle in eggshell

Colored wax will make festive, bright and beautiful candles. And if you remove the shell from them, you get such a candle-egg.

Panel

From such a banal thing as broken eggshells, you can create something beautiful - a real panel!

You will need:

• Lots of eggshells;
• Watercolor paints;
• Brush;
• Special glue stick;
• An ordinary toothpick;
• A thin sheet of cardboard (white or colored).

Shell panel

Let's move on to the instructions for creating a panel:

1. Rinse the eggshells well and wipe them dry. Then carefully peel off the inner skin from them, otherwise it will not be easy to split the outer shell of the egg into small pieces.
2. If you plan to use white shells - leave their natural color, if multi-colored - pre-paint them with watercolors and let them dry.
3. For the panel, you need white or tinted cardboard. First, sketch out the outlines of the future drawing with a pencil, then start filling it with a mosaic from the prepared shell from above.
4. Starting from anywhere, use a glue stick to spread the glue on a piece of cardboard.
5. Place a coin-sized shell with the convex side facing up.
6. Press it down with your finger to break the shell. Then its individual small pieces will also stick to the cardboard.
7. Fill in the entire panel with the same shells of different shades.

Useful information: To create landscapes or floral motifs, you need to prepare in advance small crushed pieces of shells of the flowers you need.

Customer feedback Make a box in the "shell of an egg" mosaic

You have a rather small box. Hope you enjoy the result. In the first photo, we can see that different colors make it possible to create a pattern; Are these colors due to the use of shells different colors or another process? The sheet is well illustrated, simple, easy to use.

Easter egg made in Tuscany Tuscany People. Chaos and beauty: the Easter egg craft is the secret here, in the gentle contrast between the outer perfection of the case and the mysteries contained in it, the interweaving of expectation and surprise that at home and feed our imagination, desire, dreams strictly with an open mouth. Red Easter Egg: Chaos and Chocolate Beauty.

Eggshell Mosaic

A couple of millennia ago, Chinese varnish painters began to use eggshells in their works to depict all kinds of buildings or crowns of flowering trees. Oriental craftsmen were able to turn the main disadvantage of the eggshell - its fragility - into a real artistic merit. Let's find out how you can make an eggshell mosaic on flat and three-dimensional surfaces.

Beautiful shell mosaic

Crackle technique

Note that decorating the background with such a mesh of cracks is widely used both in mosaics and in other decorative crafts. Such patterns can be seen on pottery, covered with special glaze, or even on hand-painted fabrics. No matter what material they are made on, the cracks themselves are always called craquelures. The technique of creating a pattern from them, creating the effect of antiquity, is called crackle.

To create a mosaic using the crackle technique, you will need:

• Egg shells;
• The base is a sheet of plywood, chipboard or thick cardboard. In size - like a standard notebook sheet;
• Adhesive mixture - PVA glue or "Moment";
• Flour paste;
• Plain tracing paper;
• Mascara (black or some bright color);
• A sheet of writing paper;
• Scissors;
• Sandpaper (fine grained paper is best);
• Rag;
• The so-called "stick-ironer". It should be wooden, with a smooth and perfectly polished cut from the butt end.

Crackle mosaic

First, we need to create facing plates:

1. Having stocked up the shell, be sure to rinse it in a little warm water, then lower it into a container with a solution baking soda... This will degrease the surface of the shell. Dry the workpieces well. If you have accumulated a sufficient number of them, let's start creating facing plates.
2. If you take a good look at the fresh shell of the egg, you will notice a thin film lining it with inside... Upon impact, the shell will not crumble into fragments, because its pieces will be held together by this elastic film. Therefore, under fragile shells, you can glue a special lining, for example, a sheet of thin paper. Now the workpieces together with the lining will be easy to cut with simple scissors - the shells will not crumble. And for gluing semicircular shells to a flat paper sheet, we need a trowel.
3. Lay out the prepared shell with its convex side up on sheets of paper. In the process of performing this work, you can sort the blanks depending on their color: glue only snow-white shells on the first sheet, yellowish ones on the second, and brown or spotted fragments from quail eggs on the third.
4. Cover the shells with a sheet of plywood and press down a little. The workpieces will flatten.

Making shell cladding plates

1. If your raw material was glued with PVA glue, hold the plywood in the pressed position for about 60 seconds, if with Moment glue, you can immediately proceed to the next operation.
2. Take a trowel and lightly iron each piece of shell with it.
3. Your blanks will crack into hundreds of small pieces and will adhere firmly to the base. If you look closely, you will see that a network of cracks, almost indistinguishable from the side, covers the shell. These are the craquelures mentioned above.

It is advisable to cover the facing plates from above with a protective layer of tracing paper. It protects the shell from possible crumbling, and also makes it easier to transfer your working drawing to material. Please note that it is best to glue the tracing paper with a paste that is easily washed off the surface and does not leave marks.

With enough facing plates ready, you can start creating the mosaic itself.

First copy the ornament shown in the picture. Trace the outline of the image through the tracing paper. Then number each piece of the ornament as shown below. So you can't go wrong while collecting the mosaic.

Mosaic ornament and numbering of its parts

Next, overlay the image of any part on the shell, circle it with a pencil. After cutting out all the mosaic details from the shell, grease them with glue from the inside and glue them to the background. Wait for the glue to dry and remove the protective layer of paper covering the shell. To do this, you need to slightly moisten the mosaic set with a wide brush. When the paper is soft, it will be easy to remove from the shell.

Now paint the crafts with black or colored ink. This choice is not accidental, because the components that make up this dye penetrate into the thinnest cracks, carrying with them paint particles. The shellac contained in the paint, after drying, does not dissolve in water and becomes a kind of cement that holds the tiny shells together.

Helpful Hint: At first, cover only the background of the mosaic set with ink. Only after it dries, grab the eggshell ornament.

Having developed craquelures in this way, wipe the eggshell plates with a damp cloth, removing excess mascara. After that, the paint will remain only in the cracks, while the ornament will again become white or cream.

Video. Eggshell Mosaic

On voluminous objects

It is not very difficult to decorate an egg-shell with a round shape, but some subtleties should be taken into account. For example, the fact that you can't use the press. Instead, for a reliable connection constituent elements Wrap the workpiece tightly with a belt, as in the picture, and leave until the glue is completely dry.

When creating a mosaic on a volumetric object, you need to use a belt

Apply mastic to the workpiece. It may seem that this operation is impossible - after all, the mastic should drain from the convex surface of the product. But coping with this difficulty is simple: it is enough to gradually fill the background cells with mastic. First, fill in about a quarter of the ornament, wait until the composition hardens. Then rotate the workpiece so that its empty cells occupy a horizontal position, but the already filled ones are on the side.

Useful information: An ornament decorating objects of a rounded shape should not have a beginning or an end - it should encircle the product, looking great from any side.

Use our tips - and together with your baby you can create real masterpieces from such a simple thing as eggshells. And in the process of creating crafts, he will develop motor skills, imagination and creativity.

We all use eggs regularly to prepare various dishes, and we usually throw away the shells without thinking. This is not entirely correct, because eggshells can be used to create cute and beautiful projects, amazing and fragile.
To make crafts from eggshells you will need: eggshells, acrylic paints, cardboard, decorative paper, superglue, moss or colored rice, and maybe some other little things.
Eggshell Crafts - Flower Vases & Pots
Use the eggshells as tiny flower vases, but be extremely careful when breaking the egg. Try punching a few holes at the top and gently opening the shell. Glue the empty egg to a small mirror or other surface using a wax candle. Then pour in some water and place the flower.
Using only half of the shell, you can make a small pot for your favorite succulents.






It will be very good if you can break the egg into two parts neatly enough. Make as many shell pots as you need, preferably enough to fill the egg tray. Then add some soil, tiny succulents and you have your own cute little garden.
For your next project, you will need some raw eggs, small to medium silk flowers, PVC pipes and a saw, a hot glue gun, glass beads and dry moss. Make a hole at the top of the egg and open the shell a little. Cut a piece from the PVC pipe. Then glue the resulting ring to the bottom of the shell with hot glue and let it grip a little. For extra weight, place a glass bead in each shell. Then add flowers and moss.
Hanging can be an interesting way to place such lovely vases and flower pots - braid these cute macrame pots and hang them on the wall. Everything is very simple, you can tie the eggshells exactly according to their size with ordinary threads using the macrame technique. If you want, you can paint the fragile vases in different colors.

Eggshell Crafts - Coasters
Another idea is to use egg coasters to make great creative ideas look good and sustainable. First, poke a hole in the top of the egg and remove the contents. Then place small flowers there and secure in the chosen stand. These cute flower arrangements will look great in the kitchen and elsewhere in the house. You can also use them as a festive table decoration.



After you have made a vase of flowers from the shell, you can place it in a small cup. Use moss to make the composition look beautiful and the vase is upright, add some water and tiny flowers. Use to decorate your dining table.
You can grow grass in these pots. This little thing will add freshness and beauty to the interior of the room, regardless of the season. You can place several of the same pots in an egg box. It is especially convenient to germinate in this way the grass for the cat, which she likes to chew.



If you want to involve children in creativity, then perhaps this project is just what you need. This idea is similar to the previous one, but this time eyes were glued to the shell, and the pots began to look funny and cute, like little people.

You can let the children decorate these pots themselves, but they have to be very careful, as this is a shell, and it is a rather fragile material.



Eggshell Crafts - Candles
Make your own candles in a rather unusual way. Let these tea lights sit right in the eggshell. It's really simple.
You make a wider hole in the egg at the top and then pour in the melted wax. Remember to insert the wick. You can set these candles in a stand, or make a stand for small candles using the same melted wax.



Crafts made from eggshells are primarily very popular for Easter decorations, but if the holiday has already passed, and the shell is available, why not use it to good use.



Much depends on your imagination.