How to Make an Irretrievable Easter Egg

Step 5 Now Fill the Other Half

After the concrete in the first half egg has dried, mix up the remaining concrete. Fill the other half egg with the wet concrete. Now comes the hard part - fitting the two pieces together. Hold the "wet" half egg in one hand and slowly press the "dry" half egg down into it. You'll need to twist the eggs back and forth to push the wet concrete into the space inside the steel loop. There's probably going to be concrete oozing out. Hopefully you didn't make the concrete too wet.

After a few minutes of shoving and twisting, the halves should be pretty close together. Resist the urge to open the halves and scrape out the concrete as much as possible. Opening them will likely cause a new mess.

I, of course, opened mine. If you do the same, you'll likely be holding two messy half eggs wondering if this is really worth the 60 seconds or so of humor it's likely to produce. Reassure yourself that it will and continue on.

As concrete oozes out you'll be tempted to wash off the outsides of the egg. Don't run the egg under a stream of water. It will only create more mess. Instead, keep switching the egg back and forth, from hand to hand, and rinse off the hand not holding the egg. You'll effectively be wiping off the egg with your hands and washing them with water.

Once I had the halves very close together, I decided to tap the "wet" half on the ground to close it that final 1/8". This resulted in cracking that half. Undaunted, I set the egg down, got some tape, and taped up th entire egg. Splitting the egg won't ruin things, but it does take away the option of leaving the plastic on the finished egg. With a split egg, I'll have to remove the plastic egg and paint the concrete.