Things You'll Need:
- Eggshells
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Step 1
Improve your compost. Include the eggshells in your compost heap. They are all-natural with no oils or grease and will add valuable minerals to the resulting fertile soil.
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Step 2
Deter slugs and snails. Crush the eggshells and spread them around the base of your delicate plants.
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Step 3
Fertilize. Mix ground eggshells with your garden soil for added calcium, potassium, phosphorus and sulfur that help make plants strong and healthy.
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Step 4
Feed the birds with calcium. Wash the eggshells and let them dry. Crush them into fine pieces and mix some with the seeds you feed the chickens and wild birds. Eggshells have calcium that is good for birds. Also, the shell pieces act as grit, much like the sand and pebbles that they swallow and keep in their gizzards to help grind their food.
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Step 5
Make a mosaic. Crush or snap cleaned and dried eggshells into small pieces. Dip or soak them in food coloring, then arrange them into decorative designs to be glued onto picture frames, trinket boxes, centerpiece bowls and other craft items.
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Step 6
Make chalk. Grind half a dozen cleaned and dried eggshells into a fine powder. Mix with a teaspoon of hot water and a teaspoon of flour. Roll the paste mixture into a stick shape and wrap in paper towel. Let it dry completely over a few days, then unwrap and you'll have homemade chalk that you can use on the sidewalk or driveway.
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Step 7
Make textured paint. Crush or grind cleaned and dried eggshells and mix a small amount with paint to add texture and 3D effect to a piece of artwork.











Comments
dove357 said
on 3/23/2009 You have great ideas. The garden ones I use already. The chalk is a new one to me. The kids will love helping with it.
sandhillkar said
on 3/23/2009 I learned a lot from your article! Very interesting!
jseven said
on 3/23/2009 Really good article! 5*
mkh1958 said
on 3/23/2009 How to Recycle Eggshells - great ideas and good topic. 5* and recommendation.
jdds08 said
on 3/23/2009 I use egg shells with gardening, I'll have to try the rest out too. Thnaks for the ideas.