How to Use a Dremel to Decorate Egg Shells

This plain egg can become something extraordinary when you decorate it with your Dremel.

Make your Dremel part of your next Easter celebration: decorate eggs with it for something out of the ordinary. Use this rotary tool to make patterns of holes of various sizes in an egg, and your friends and neighbors will ask in amazement, "How did you do that?" You don't need to tell them the hardest part is not breaking the egg on your very first hole, or that using a power tool means electricity does most of the work for you.

Things You'll Need

• Raw eggs, chicken or larger
• Dremel with point taper bit
• Small bowl
• Pencil with eraser
• Tweezers

Instructions

Dremel Egg Instructions

1. Use the Dremel to make a small hole in the top and bottom of the egg, going slowly with the first hole so as not to crack thinner eggs.

2. Place the small bowl below the egg and use your mouth to blow on one hole. Continue until all the yolk and white inside the egg are out into the bowl; discard the contents of the bowl.

3. Sketch your planned design onto the egg lightly with the pencil. Create a design that includes dots in various patterns or sizes.

4. Following your design, drill holes through the egg shell with the Dremel.

5. Lightly erase stray pencil marks from the completed design.

6. Use tweezers to pull out egg membrane that remains around the holes.

Tips & Warnings

• Drill deeper for larger holes and shallower for smaller holes.

• Make very large holes by inserting the bit all the way and then spiraling outward from the original hole.

• It is easier to remove flakes of membrane if you wait for the egg to dry out first.

• Working with raw eggs can pose health risks. Washing any part of your body that touched the egg can help alleviate risks.

References

• Dremel egg decorating
• Goose egg done with Dremel