Bright Eggs in Pots

I have been seeing so many cute crafts using terra cotta pots and eggs that I thought I would create one of my own.  I wanted something bright and fun for Easter. 

Here is what I came up with:

 

These were really quite simple.  Here's a brief tutorial on how I created them:)

 

All you need is ~

Plastic eggs ( I used the larger ones because they fit perfect in the pots)

Small terra cotta pots

Acrylic paints (in Easter colors)

Pretty paper (I had some fun cardstock paper that I wanted to use)

Raffia

Mod Podge

Glue gun

 

 

First thing ~

hot glue your eggs shut

 

 

Next ~

cut your paper into strips (mine were about 4 1/2" long x 1/2" wide)

 

 

Next ~

paint the mod podge on one side of the paper and start covering your egg.  I found that it was easier to go around in an X pattern

 

 

I started out with about 16 strips and added more as I needed them, that way if I needed to cover smaller spaces I would just cut thinner strips

 

 

I then covered the whole egg with mod podge and smoothed over with my fingers to get out any creases or gaps

 

 

As the eggs dried, I painted the pots

 

 

Here are the dried eggs

 

 

I decided I wanted to label them so I came up with these round labels

 

 

I tied them on with the raffia and voila ~

 

 

As I said, they were really quite easy, a bit time consuming but worth it.  The kids have fun moving the eggs around in the different colored pots:)

And they fit perfect in my wooden tray!