Make a gorgeous Dragon's Egg

Step 9 Admire your Dragon's Egg

To make a stand for it paint a bottle cap black, cut down a 35mm film tub (to about half an inch (1cm) should do it), or go to the dadcando egg stand project, and get the free downloadable template to make a really nice stand that has been specially designed for this egg.

Whilst you're at it why not have a look at the Antique Mailing Box, which you can make to keep your Dragon's Egg safe, and pretend that you got it from a far off land.

Whatever you do, have fun making this project. I think it will make the most original and exciting Easter gift for someone dear.

Comments

[verybluesky]

Just wondering if this can be done with plastic easter eggs instead of real ones. Seems they would last longer.

[BlackFang171]

I imagine you would have a much more narrow selection of paints that would adhere well to such a glossy plastic, most would peel off. In this respect a real egg would last longer

[reinovator]

the Family and I had a blast making these turned out very nice
Thanks

[shadowsong13]

I tried to download the antique mailing box project from dad can do and its says you need to register so I registered and I still can't get on because I didn't get the email, would you mind making an Instructable about the box

[keith.tseng]

you must pay for this .

he wants mony ^^ v

[wzeller]

This is very cool. It might be worth it to follow one of the other instructables on boiling the eggs in onion skins to give the eggs an interesting texture and then follow this one, using a light enough coating of spray paint to keep the texture visible. I wonder if you could melt the hot glue in a paper cup, mix food coloring into it, heat it back up and then drizzle it? Some glitter mixed into the glue itself with some red food coloring (or maybe black) could give a really interesting look and make it so that you could almost skip the spray paint, relying on the onion texture for the egg itself....

[KaptinScarlet]

Nice idea, but as someone else has said you can get coloured glue gun glue. Also I'm not sure wether glue gun glue would mix with regular food colouring, that is water based and ther plastic of the hot melt might well not take up the dye.

[Stanislaw]

Wow, this is an awesome take on the traditional blown-egg concept! It would really make a cool centerpiece for a steam punk themed display.

[KaptinScarlet]

Yeah, as I was doing it I was thinking SteamPunk. If you look the mailing package and the egg satnd kind of lend it a really nice pseudo Victorian era look. To compliment this I wrote a little bit of text to go with the package, which you'll find here. I think I should do a Steam punk project next... hmmm

[tmlpz]

this looks like a great project. i think i'll have scrambled eggs for dinner tonight! i was thinking it might be fun to fill the eggs with some sand after they're finished. just to give them a more dragonie weight.

[KaptinScarlet]

now that is a good idea, but fill the sand after you have glued in the cocktail stick, but BEFORE you hotmelt over the other end of the egg.