Making these honeycomb Easter eggs is such a fun way to spend an afternoon! I don’t need damp days as an excuse to have a crafting day, but Spring starts and stops so many times in Utah that we are bound to get at least a few more chilly afternoons before things warm up for good. No matter your weather, these honeycomb Easter eggs are sure to brighten up your home.
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Longer Days and Hope for Spring
Making these honeycomb Easter eggs feels therapeutic after what has felt like the longest Winter ever. Spring in Utah is laughably capricious and I haven’t seen the end of snow days, but now I am absolutely REVELING in longer, warmer days. Between these honeycomb Easter eggs, the balmy weather I have been enjoying, and receiving the first dose of the COVID vaccine, I am feeling hopeful. And it’s about time! Something I love about Easter is the focus on growth and light after a time of darkness and fear, and this year it is really hitting home.
Sitting down to make these honeycomb Easter eggs is a great opportunity to practice some mindfulness. Here’s to the renewed hope that comes from both Spring and science.
DIY Honeycomb Easter Eggs
Mixing paper colors while building these eggs makes me feel excited to dye Easter eggs soon, but these paper honeycomb eggs have the added benefit of never going bad. I love a project that you can do once and then toss into storage to take out year after year. No rotten egg smell here!
This is a great project to do with your Cricut or other cutting machine, but if you don’t have one you can still make these honeycomb Easter eggs. Just get your scissors ready!
Supplies:
Cardstock Paper, our honeycomb egg template, super glue, hot glue, glue gun, Cricut machine (or else scissors and an increased time commitment), ribbon for hanging
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Instructions:
- Download the honeycomb egg template from our shop
- With your Cricut machine, cut out the paper pieces. We used 54 pieces per ornament, which we were able to cut from 3 pieces of 12×12 cardstock.
- Sort your egg pieces into a pile for every egg, with 50-60 cutouts in each pile. This is when you will put together colors and patterns. We did a few variations of simply alternating colors, but the sky’s the limit here (a kid-curated, random-looking egg would be beautiful, too)!
- With your super glue, draw a line from the curved outside edge of a cutout to the straight inside edge about halfway up the egg.
- Place the next cutout on top, taking care to line it up on top of the first one.
- Similar to the way you glued the first cutouts together, draw two lines from the outside edge to the inside, one toward the bottom of the egg and one toward the top.
- Place the next cutout on top.
- Repeat steps 4-7, alternating between one and two lines of glue, until you have glued together your entire stack.
- Seal the spine of your egg by putting a line of hot glue along the straight inside edge and spreading it with the warm metal tip of your glue gun. Repeat this until the spine is held together.
- Using your hot glue, attach both ends of a ribbon to the spine so that it can be hung up.
- Bend the beginning and end of your paper cutout stack so that they meet and secure with glue. Sometimes a few pieces of paper will separate at this step. That’s okay! Just dab a little more glue between them and hold them together to secure them again.
- Tadaa! You have finished a honeycomb Easter egg! Make as many as you please and fill your home with Easter joy.
