how to make confetti eggs

this year as i thought about fun easter things to do with little girl, i knew she was ready for confetti eggs -- hallowed eggs filled with confetti that you crack on people's heads.

(this became my favorite easter tradition when i lived in houston, and you could buy pre-made confetti eggs at the store. since leaving houston, my sister, mrs. turner, who still lives there, will send me a dozen or two each easter. but this year she was about to have a baby, and i didn't expect her to send me a box. even though she did!)

so about a month ago, i started saving my eggs, preparing to make my own confetti eggs this year. i used a cutting knife to tap around the top of the egg, creating a small hole that i'd drain the egg out of. i washed out my egg and kept it in an empty egg carton. (i've been saving my egg shell tops to grind up to add to the soil of my tomato plants.)

earlier this week, i pulled out all the empty eggs i had collected and mr. pike, little girl, and i dyed our eggs.

as a kid, i loved dyeing easter eggs. and i always wanted to dye more eggs than we had hard boiled. but, when it came to eating our hard boiled easter eggs, i was never a big fan and neither was the rest of my family. so, we stopped dyeing eggs before i left elementary school and i haven't really considered it again until this year. now we could dye eggs without having a mound of hard boiled eggs to eat or feel guilty about throwing away.

then we let our dyed eggs dry overnight in our empty egg cartons. we ended up dyeing about 25 eggs.

i punched confetti out of construction paper from our three-hole punch. and the next day filled each egg with a couple of spoonfuls of confetti. then i cut small squares of tissue paper, (i used white, but you could get colored tissue to match your eggs or try dyeing your tissue to match.) and glued them over the opening in the egg.

now you're ready to run around, chasing friends and family! happy easter!