Don’t throw your money away by letting your Easter eggs go to waste! Being frugal means conserving what you have and reusing what you can. Here are some great ways to use up both the Easter eggs and the shells.
Every year around Easter time, my kids get so excited at the idea of decorating Easter eggs. If it were up to them they would decorate at least three or four dozen eggs before they got tired. Normally I try to restrict them to about 12 to 18 eggs. After all, there are just so many hard boiled eggs I can eat. Not this year, though. That is because I’ve discovered some other ways to use up the Easter eggs.
The best way to use up those Easter eggs is to use them in some yummy recipes. I like using my leftover hard boiled eggs in potato salad, but there are so many different ideas out there. Browsing the Food blog here at Families.com brought up these tasty looking recipes.
Pick a few pretty blown out decorated eggs (think browns and blues) and nest them in some spanish moss for a cute country decoration.
Carefully crack your blown out eggs in half and use the halves to make tulips. Insert a pipe cleaner in the base of the egg half and you are done.
Use the broken peeled-off shells for a kids craft. Just have them use the different colored pieces to make a mosaic. Get a piece of card stock, poster board or card board. You can let them glue the pieces any way they like, or have them draw an outline first that they can then fill in with the pieces. It is easier if they spread the glue down first and then stick the egg shells onto it.
Use the egg shells in your garden for your roses. Or just add them to your compost pile.
What are your favorite ways to use leftover Easter eggs?
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