Yarn Easter Eggs

Egg shaped yarn balls/form.



After I made these, I learned that when my aunt made these years past, she would completely cover the balloons with string.

Step 1 Supplies

-sugar
-water
-a pot
-spoon
-yarns and strings
-balloons
-newspaper

Comments

[zraye]

I made these when I was a kid (with crafting glue) and we left an opening in them (egg shaped) to use them for easter baskets! It's a really fun and different easter basket idea! I'm excited to try it with the simple syrup rather than the glue since the glue was expensive and Really messy.

[Jamie Rules]

could you just do it with watered down glue instead if the sugar water? I live in Houston so I wouldn't be able to keep ants away, and it's rather humid here so I would think it would get sticky.

[vsmith2]

just use some watered down elmer's glue.

[ducttaped]

you could use krazy glue
that stuff is pretty watery and is very sticky

[kameljockie]

I would think that crazy glue would glue the yarn to the balloon.  Don't know until you try though.

[zoekkk]

how do you blow up the water balloons? i have a ton and cant blow them up without popping my cheeks help?

[Shany120]

Those things are AWESOME!!! to bad its only march. :(

[rick66048]

Any big box craft store or walmart type store sells liquid fabric stiffener. liquid starch will also work..  It is what i use on crocheted doily's and table cloths..

[craig3]

may sound weird but is there a type of food you could do this with? because of the sugar glue, if there was some kind of spaghetti like string food, it mught make a nice addition to a dessert with sugar coated egg shell, filled with ice cream or something

[barblorraine]

I can't find egg shaped balloons.  can anyone help me?  thanks in advance. Barb Lorraine

[BadVanGoh]

those look like standard water balloons

[rogers236]

Yup, the balloons I used were just regular water balloons. Available at your local dollar store.

[ybunnygurl]

I used to make all kinds of different things with the yarn and balloon type craft. But we used watered down Elemers white glue. you make a mix of 25% water, and 75% glue, then dip the string in the glue and wrap it on the balloons, hang to dry, takes over night and a little more to dry and its done.

[l8nite]

 My sister used to make these but she used liquid fabric starch

[arthessa]

Does anybody know what else I could use as glue? I don't want ants coming into my house (took me forever to get rid of them, hehehe).

[lalaclassic]

I do the same thing except I use slightly diluted Kid's School Glue and instead of soaking the yarn first, I wrap the balloons first and then dunk it in the mixture of glue/water, or paint it on thick, takes a while to dry, but doesn't seem as messy as this version.

[hishealer]

I tried this and the yarn didn't get stiff enough. Mom took one look and told me I used too much water in the sugar solution. I left the balloons in and strings on and decided to call them Christmas tree balls... And will know better next time!

[hishealer]

then again, I didn't measure any of it...

[bassclarinet23]

AMAZING!

[Glow Gal]

That's really cool! Too bad I read this AFTER Easter! Oh well, there's always next year...btw, how lond does it take for the sugar-water mixture to dry?

[rogers236]

it depends on what you wrap with. the string dried in an hour or three. :) but the yarn dried overnight.

[Glow Gal]

Thanks! Haha, I just realized that I spelled "long" wrong...(lol. that rhymes)

[Rob K]

I have done this, but it was mostly warping the balloon with string then using watered down elmers glue.

[uguy]

One word: ANTS!

[rogers236]

fortunately thats not a problem here in maine yet, we still have tons of snow.

[bumpus]

for christmas, we put something like this on the top, b/c store bought angels are creepy, but the balloon we used was a lot bigger :D

[Sunbanks]

I want to make one of these sometime! I would right now but my dad is asleep and with my luck I would probably end up catching the house on fire....

[aliceownsj00]

that is so cute! Next year I shall so decorate lol. This year I moved in with the in-laws so I didn't do a damn thing except eat Such a cute idea!

[GorillazMiko]

That looks so cool! Does it work with the tiny sewing string as well? +1 rating.

[kowala159]

It would but it would take forever to rap the string around.

[Kiteman]

Nice.

[LinuxH4x0r]

Cool! I like it

[reedz]

That looks awesome