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Paper Egg Ornament

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by Noreen Doll.

Use your paper scraps to make this paper egg ornament for a fun Easter decoration. It can be made in any size.

Tape or glue the egg shapes together and add a ribbon for hanging.

You can make several eggs quickly and easily, and they can be folded flat and put in an envelope for mailing. It would make a fun little gift to send a grandchild.

You can write a message on each egg piece before you assemble the paper egg ornament.

What You Need

Paper in coordinating colors, or all one color

Ribbon, 7 or 8 inches long to match the paper

Double Sided Tape or Glue

Pencil

Scissors

Egg Pattern

What You Do

1. Choose your paper. I made one egg all one paper color, and another egg in several coordinating colors.

2. You need 6 eggs all the same size to make a paper egg ornament. Use an egg pattern to draw the eggs, and cut them out.

3. Score down the center of the eggs from top to bottom to make it easier to fold them. I adjusted each egg as I folded it to make the edges match.

4. Apply glue or double sided tape to 1/2 of one egg and attach it to one half of another egg.

5. Put glue or tape on the second half of the second egg and attach half of a third egg to it.

6. Attach half of the fourth egg to the second half of the third egg.

7. Continue attaching the egg halves in this way until you have one egg left. Attach one half of the 6th egg to the fifth egg.

8. Before you attach the second half of the sixth egg to the open half of the first egg, put the two ends of the ribbon hanger in the top center of the egg and tape them down – leaving a loop sticking out.

This is a good time to add a bit of glue or tape to any of the top edges that aren’t completely attached to each other.

9. Then tape or glue the sixth egg to the first one to complete the circle.

10. If all the edges are not perfectly aligned, you can use the scissors to carefully trim the edges even.

11. Hang paper egg ornaments all around your house!

Tips

You can write a message on any of the egg shapes before you put them together.

Glitter can be added to the eggs after they are finished. Spray a coat of clear acrylic over the glitter after it has dried.

Noreen Doll

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  1. Oh, this is so cute and it’s three dimensional! Very clear tutorial. Very nice. I think the glitter might be nice, too. Best wishes, Linda

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  6. I LOVE your egg ornament!!!!! I would love for you to link up at my party going on now at Jillify It! I hope to see you there!!

    Be sure to enter to win a Hobby Lobby gift card while you’re there!

    Jill
    http://www.jillifyit.com

  9. These are cute for an Easter tree! Thanks for sharing at Things I’ve Done Thursday.

  10. I love simple paper crafts, and this one is no exception – great idea! I’m aiming to create my Easter mantel using all sorts of paper goodness, so this will go on my list of projects to do! Thanks for sharing!

  12. What a fun craft, I love this idea, I will have to look through my spring paper and add a few to my Easter decor. I really enjoy paper crafts, this one turned out really nice! 🙂

  17. I’m going to have to try this one!!
    Thanks so much for joining me for Pearls and Lace Thursday!!
    Blessings, Doni

  22. What a cute and clever idea for Easter. Thank you for sharing this at Sunday Blog Love, I’d so love to have you come back again this weekend. Wishing you a wonderful Sunday!

  24. What an AWESOME idea! I love it! This is my kind of cinchy project. I think those would look so cute in my Easter basket 🙂

    Thanks for joining our party.

    blessings,
    karianne

  27. love the variation on the classic paper craft! Egg shape :o) Thanks for linking up to Tasteful Tuesdays! you are a faithful linker! love it! Really appreciate you stopping by my blog! I’m trying to keep in better touch with my linkers/readers… If you already follow me, please let me know I will find your blog on Bloglovin (I’m transferring my follows there)if you don’t follow in any way, would you consider following via GFC or other method?
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  30. Love your hanging eggs. So simple and quick. I made a bunch of hearts this way for Valentines but it didn’t occur to me to use egg shapes, DUh! How silly of me. Sure glad you thought of it tho. I’ll have to make these for next year. Yours are very pretty. Happy Easter and Spring

  31. What a really lovely, festive way to use up scraps of paper. The house would look great decorated with these over the Easter holidays. Thanks for sharing.

  38. HI,
    Nice to meet you. Obviously by all the comments your idea is a hit.
    I am following you at Sun Scholars,
    Blessings,
    Janis Cox author of Tadeo Turtle

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