These pipe cleaner Easter eggs are SO CUTE and easy to make! Transform a plastic Easter egg into a soft and fuzzy homemade Easter decoration.
Decorate your egg with chenille pipe cleaners in pretty spring colours, and then fill it with chocolate eggs or other goodies! This easy Easter craft is fun to make and it looks so sweet sitting on display.
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How to Make Pipe Cleaner Eggs
Materials:
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Instructions:
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Glue a pipe cleaner to the plastic egg
- Add a dot of hot glue to the back of the plastic Easter egg, just above the seam.We highly recommend using a low temperature glue gun for this craft.
- Place the end of a pipe cleaner into the glue. Place the pipe cleaner so that it goes just over the seam of the egg.Hold the pipe cleaner in place until it stays by itself.
- Add another dot of hot glue about 1 inch away from the previous dot.
- Push the pipe cleaner into the glue. Hold it in place again.Continue wrapping and gluing the pipe cleaner around the egg. After the first couple dots of glue the pipe cleaner should stay in place more easily.Repeat until you get about 1 inch away from where you started.
Step 3: Cut the pipe cleaner and fold down the edge
- Cut the pipe cleaner so that it overlaps the start by about 1/4 inch.
- Fold the loose end of the pipe cleaner down so that the sharp end is underneath.
- Glue the folded end of the pipe cleaner down next to the starting point. Again, hold in place until it stays on its own.(This folding over step is optional, but it covers all the sharp ends of the pipe cleaners, so you can grab the egg without worrying about getting scratched.)
Step 3: Attach more pipe cleaners to one half of the egg
- At the same starting place, glue a second colour of pipe cleaner directly above the last.Place the pipe cleaners snugly together. This will give you the fuzziest look, and will hide the plastic egg underneath.
- Repeat the wrapping and gluing process, again folding under the end before gluing it down.
- Continue, making a pattern of different colours of pipe cleaner (we did blue, pink, green, yellow, purple) until you reach the top of the egg.As you get towards the top you can re-use the extra pipe cleaner that you cut from the first line of that colour.
- Cover the top of the plastic egg with hot glue. Push the pipe cleaner down into place beside the previous colour.Wind the pipe cleaner towards the top center and cut it when you get close to the middle, leaving enough extra to fill in the empty space.Bend the pipe cleaner so that it spirals nicely into the top center of the egg.
Step 4: Add pipe cleaners to the other half of the egg
- Once you've finished the top of the egg, go back down to the middle.Continue the colour pattern, adding the next pipe cleaner as close as you can to the seam without gluing the egg shut.
- Work your way down the egg, following the same pattern and process as you did for the top half.The bottom of the egg is larger than the top, but you can still fill the whole section with glue and spiral the pipe cleaner around and into place.
- Your pipe cleaner Easter egg is complete!
Helpful Tips:
- Folding each end of the pipe cleaner under is optional, but it hides away the sharp parts of the pipe cleaners, making the wrapped Easter egg easy to pick up and play with.
- Have fun designing different patterns and colour combinations for your egg! You can also add a second layer of designs on top of the base layer.
- If you’re worried about touching the hot glue at the top and bottom of the egg, you can use pliers or tweezers to bend the pipe cleaner and push it down into place.
Do I have to use hot glue to make a pipe cleaner Easter egg?
We used a dual temperature glue gun on the low temperature setting. It allows the pipe cleaners to stick to the egg right away, and the lower temperature is a lot cooler than a regular glue gun.
Tacky glue would probably also work, but you’d have to be a lot more careful, holding the pipe cleaners in place for a long time. The pipe cleaners could easily slide or spring out of place.
If you really can’t use hot glue this option would work, but we don’t think it’s worth the hassle. Try making yarn Easter eggs if you’d like to use tacky glue!
What colours of pipe cleaners are best for this Easter craft?
Since these wrapped pipe cleaner eggs are Easter decorations we really liked the look of pastel pipe cleaners. We used light shades of green, yellow, blue, pink, purple, and orange.
But you can use any colours or shades that you want! Bright neon Easter eggs would also look cool, and so would eggs with white backgrounds and colourful lines or designs on top.
How many pipe cleaners are needed to make a pipe cleaner Easter egg?
For a single coloured Easter egg you’ll need at least 7 pipe cleaners of one colour. For a 5 colour pattern, you’ll need 2 pipe cleaners of each colour (10 total). The number of each colour needed will vary for different patterns.
We used plastic eggs that are 2-3/4 inches tall. Larger eggs will need more pipe cleaners to cover them.
Can I fill these pipe cleaner Easter eggs?
All of the pipe cleaner wrapped Easter eggs with horizontal stripes are designed so that you can use the eggs for their intended purpose — filling them for an Easter basket or Easter egg hunt! Unfortunately the patterns that are diagonal or zig zag seal the egg closed, so you can’t fill those.
Here’s a few fun items you can fill your pipe cleaner eggs with:
- Chocolate eggs (the classic!)
- Other wrapped candies, like jolly ranchers
- Little toys, like a bouncy ball
- Stickers or temporary tattoos
- Hair elastics or bows
- A larger egg will also fit nail polish, lip balm, or a little toy car
These pipe cleaner Easter eggs are an egg-cellent spring craft for both kids and adults. Set these pipe cleaner wrapped eggs in an Easter basket or a wooden bowl to display them, or use them as part of an Easter centerpiece!
Here’s even more Easter craft ideas:
Our book Low-Mess Crafts for Kids is loaded with 72 fun and simple craft ideas for kids! The projects are fun, easy and most importantly low-mess, so the clean up is simple!
Where to buy:
You can purchase Low-Mess Crafts for Kids from Amazon, or wherever books are sold:
Amazon |  Barnes and Noble | Books-A-Million | Indiebound |  Amazon Canada
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