Sugar Eggs
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This week's Craft of the Week features an old fashioned Easter favorite, the Sugar Egg.   The magical scenes created in each egg will represent the artist.  These are very special creations and can be given as gifts.

These are a lot of fun to make so you might want to start early because you'll want to make many Sugar Eggs!

What you need:

• Large egg
• Egg white from one large egg ( save the yolk for cooking)
• 1 3/4 cup of powdered sugar
• Small plastic figure from craft store, or a photo
• Milk lid
• Glitter
• Glue
• Wax paper
• Bowl
• Spoon

What you do:

1. Use a large needle to open the side of the egg.  Break off tiny pieces of the eggshell with your fingers until there is an oval opening in the egg. Separate the egg white from the yolk.  Put the egg white in a small bowl. Carefully rinse the eggshell with water. Let dry completely.
2. To make the sugar frosting, add the powdered sugar to the egg white and mix well.  use a mixer and add food coloring if you want a colorful egg.
3. Lay the wax paper on your work surface.  Carefully holding the egg in your hand, spread the frosting all over the outside using the back of a spoon.  Set the frosted egg in the milk lid, the lid will be the base. Spoon a little frosting inside the egg too.
4. Using your finger, dab frosting around the egg opening.   You may wish to use a different color here.  After you are done decorating your egg with the sugar frosting let the egg set for 2 days.  Make sure to leave the egg in a place where it is sure not to be disturbed.
5. Dip the bottom of the small plastic figure ( or the photo) in glue and set it inside the egg.  Spread a little glue inside the egg.  Shake in glitter.  It will stick to the glue, and you can shake the extra glitter out of the egg.
6. Use a butter knife to trim the extra frosting from the milk lid.  Glue a ribbon around the milk lid base.
   
   Note: One egg white makes 1/2 cup of sugar frosting which is enough to make 6 sugar eggs.

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