How to Make Confetti Eggs

Make confetti eggs, also known as cascarones, for your next party and you'll have all your guests cracking up.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Confettis
• Curling Ribbons
• Hobby Paintbrushes
• Sequins
• Glitter
• White Glues
• Candy Corn
• Eggs
• Mini Jelly Beans
• Small Easter Candies
• Egg Cartons
• Plastic Containers
• Sequins

1. Hollow out an egg. See Related eHows for directions.

2. Enlarge the hole on one end of the egg by carefully breaking the shell away with your fingernail. The opening should be about the size of a dime.

3. Fill the hollow eggshell with confetti.

4. Pour white glue into a small plastic container.

5. Thin the glue slightly with water to a consistency that spreads easily with a paintbrush.

6. Cut or tear colored tissue paper into 1/2-inch to 1-inch squares.

7. Brush the thinned glue over the surface of the egg.

8. Press one tissue paper square over the hole at the end of the egg so that the confetti doesn't fall out.

9. Press tissue paper squares into the glue, covering the surface of the egg.

10. Allow the glue to dry.

11. Break the eggs over your party guests' heads. Olé!

Tips & Warnings

• Make Easter cascarones by filling the eggs with mini jelly beans or small Easter candies.
• You can fill these eggs with all kinds of treats for special occasions - colored bead necklaces for Mardi Gras, fortunes for the new year, candy corn for Halloween.
• Make fancy confetti eggs by gluing glitter, bits of curling ribbon, or sequins to the outside of the eggshell.
• Save your empty egg cartons for storing confetti eggs.
• Unless you have a powerful vacuum cleaner, it is best to break cascarones outside.

on 3/15/2006 I found out that using a Philip's screwdriver works really well if you use a drilling motion at the bottom part of an egg. Just don't apply too much pressure or else it will crack the whole egg.

on 2/1/2006 Instead of covering the cascarones with tissue paper, after you have a hollow egg shell, dye it like you would an easter egg. Then just use one piece of tissue paper to cover the ending. It gives a very nice and clean appearance, this is how we do it in San Antonio for Fiesta.

on 11/22/2005 Use brown sandwich bags, decorate them with strings of tissue paper, fill them with light candy if they are used for party favors or fill them with newspaper if they are used for decoration, secure them with string and they are ready for a fiesta!.