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DIY Confetti Easter Eggs are a fun, easy craft for all ages! These colorful eggshells release a shower of confetti when cracked, making for an egg hunt they’ll never forget! Great activity for kids!
DIY Confetti Easter Eggs – Memories Of Mexico
My family and I lived in Mexico during the last half of the 1990s. It was an exciting adventure. Though adjusting to a different culture and learning a new language was challenging, we all have fond memories of our years in Mexico.
When Easter rolls around, I always find myself thinking about confetti eggs, a fun and festive Mexican tradition.
As the name implies, Confetti eggs are dyed eggshells are stuffed with colorful confetti. In Mexico, kids would chase each other with them, trying to crack the shells over each other’s heads, releasing a joyous, harmless shower of confetti.
My three wild boys absolutely adored confetti eggs, and so did their friends. Birthdays and holiday parties often included a confetti egg chase, but sometimes, I would buy them just for fun.
You could purchase them in the outdoor markets for a peso apiece when we lived in Mexico, which was about ten cents at the time. On the money-to-fun factor ratio, they were a bargain.
After returning to the United States, I learned to make my own, and I’m so glad I did. Making confetti eggs for our annual Easter egg hunt has become a much-cherished family tradition.
Of course, you could make these DIY Confetti Easter Eggs all on your own as a surprise for your family or friends. But it’s also an easy craft activity with kids of just about any age.
What You Need to Make DIY Confetti Eggs
The supplies you’ll need for creating DIY Easter Confetti Eggs are easy to find. You’ll need…
- Eggs (Instructions for creating empty shells below)
- Food coloring
- White Vinegar
- Water
- Craft Glue
- Confetti or Tissue paper and cutters to make your own (See instructions below.)
- Containers for dye
- Spoon
- Pencil or pen
- Egg carton
How To Make DIY Confetti Eggs
Step One: Preparing and Emptying the Eggshells
Going from eggs to eggshells takes little time and care, but it’s not a difficult process.
Take the blunt end of a spoon and very gently tap it against the end of one of the eggs until the shell begins to show some small cracks. Use your fingers or the spoon to pry off some of the cracked shells, creating a small opening at the top, about one inch in diameter.
(This part requires a steady, gentle hand and is probably best left with grownups. All the remaining steps should be pretty for most kids to help with. )
Turn the egg upside down over a bowl or other container and gently shake so the egg slips out of the shell. The white usually comes out first and fairly easily. You may need to shake a bit harder to get the yolk out or the end of a knife, scissors, or stylus to poke and break the yolk.
Continue the process with all the remaining eggs. Preserve the egg whites and yolks for another use. (This would be a great time to cook a batch of Make Ahead Mediterranean Egg Cups!)
Rinse the empty shells inside and out with warm water and put aside.
Step Two: Dying the Eggs Shells
Making your own egg dye is simple.
Fill a heat-proof container with 1 cup of boiling water, 2 teaspoons of white vinegar, and 10 to 20 drops of food coloring. Make as many different colors as you’d like. (If the kids are helping make the DIY Confetti Eggs, this is a great opportunity to teach them about how to mix the primary colors of red, yellow, and blue to make secondary colors.)
Place the spoon handle into the opening of the egg, pushing it down into the container of dye so the egg fills with liquid and remains submerged. Leave the shell in the dye for as long it takes to get the color you want.
Remove the shell from the dye, pouring any extra liquid back in with the rest of the dye. Place the dyed shell in the egg carton with the opening toward the bottom to dry, so all the liquid drips out.
Repeat with all the eggshells.
Step Three: Making Confetti
Of course, you could buy confetti if you’d prefer, but confetti really is very easy to make at home.
Stack several sheets of tissue paper together (the more colors you use, the prettier it will be). Use scissors or a rotary cutter and cutting mat to cut the tissue into strips, about a half an inch wide.
Cut the strips crossways into small pieces of confetti. To fill a dozen egg shells, I use about 2 cups of homemade confetti.
Step Four: Filling and Closing the Eggs
Make sure the eggs are dry before you fill them, so the confetti doesn’t end up sticking to the interior of the egg after the shell is cracked.
Use your fingers or the blunt end of a pen or pencil to push the confetti into the opening of the shell. Fill the whole shell loosely with the confetti.
After all the eggs are filled, cut squares of tissue paper big enough to cover the openings of the shells. Paint a thin like of glue around opening of the shell. Place the tissue square on over the opening and gently push down into the glue.
Store the filled and covered confetti eggs in the carton until ready to use.
Making Memories – With DIY Confetti Easter Eggs
DIY Confetti Easter Eggs have become a fun Easter tradition at my house, something my children and now my grandchildren have so enjoyed.
I’m so happy to be able to share our tradition with you. I hope your family loves it just as much as we do!
