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How To Make an Egg Shell Mosaic

By Sherri Osborn, About.com

Save the shells from your Easter eggs and use them to make a great mosaic picture!
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 40 minutes

Here's How:

  1. Save all the shells you peel off your Easter eggs!
  2. Break the colored egg shells into small enough pieces so that they are fairly flat.
  3. Draw a design on a dark piece of posterboard.
  4. Working in small sections, use a cotton swab or an old paint brush to liberally spread glue onto your design.
  5. Stick the egg shell pieces, colored side up, onto the glue.
  6. Continue with step 4 and 5 until your design is completely filled in with egg shells.
  7. Set your mosaic aside to dry completely.

Tips:

  1. You can also use lighter colored posterboard, but the dark paper really sets off the colors of the egg shells!
  2. If you like, you do not have to draw a design.

What You Need:

  • Colored Egg Shells
  • Posterboard
  • Glue
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