Dentelle, Glitter..Check Elegant Egg Baskets' Ideas

Salma Yassin

A week before celebrating Easter in Egypt, here are some elegant ideas to decorate egg baskets.

Apart from using natural, artificial colors and other traditional painting techniques, there are varieties of materials that can be used in wrapping eggs and giving them a fancy look.

Dentelle Fabric

It’s quite amazing that the normal brown egg shape could be completely transformed to a piece of art only by wrapping it with dentelle.

It could be a whole wrapping or partial one or just a mix between the two things.

[caption id="attachment_46785" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Easter's Eggs wrapped in dentelle[/caption]

Glitter

All what you need here is an edible glue and your favorite edible glitter colors. Apply the glue on the eggs' surfaces in form of small dots, flowers, lines and mini hearts on , then scatter the glitter over them.

You will end up having a great and shining egg basket with different shapes.

[caption id="attachment_46790" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Easter eggs decorated with golden glitter[/caption]

Colored Cloth

If you have any redundant colored cloth, it would be a perfect choice to cut it into small pieces and wrap eggs to get wonderful egg basket with very little effort.

[caption id="attachment_46799" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A white egg wrapped in colored cloth[/caption]

ٍSpecial Messages

Have you ever thought about delivering special messages to relatives, parents, kids or partner through Easter eggs?, Easter is an absolutely perfect occasion for that purpose; as having those eggs' plain colors and smooth surfaces could easily enable you to express your feelings in couple of words.

You can use an edible colored markers or just make a fine white paste by mixing sugar with water, then use a toothpick to write on brown eggs' surface.