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No plastic Easter eggs<\/a>!<\/p>\n Make that your mantra, and you’ve just banned<\/a> quite a bit of the toxicity of Easter. Besides, you don’t need plastic Easter eggs, not when there are both beautiful, vegan<\/a> alternatives to plastic eggs, and beautiful, creative, unusual ways to decorate traditional, edible Easter eggs.<\/p>\n Want something to fill with candy? This list has it.<\/p>\n Want something extra fun and unusual to do with yet another carton of hard-boiled eggs? This list has it.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_329169\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"] Vegan Easter Egg Alternatives<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Egg carton Easter eggs<\/a>. <\/strong>Bum a few cardboard egg cartons from a friend, and turn them into Easter eggs of your own.<\/p>\n 2. Embroidery floss Easter eggs. <\/strong>These eggs made from embroidery floss<\/a> or yarn are delicate, but quite beautiful.<\/p>\n 3. Felt Easter eggs. <\/strong>Using Eco-fi felt (which is made from recycled plastic soda bottles), you can sew your own Easter egg stuffies<\/a>. Decorate them with buttons and ribbons instead of dye.<\/p>\n 4. Papier mache eggs. <\/strong>These papier mache Easter eggs<\/a> are a favorite of mine; the kids<\/a> can paint them, they’ll last forever, and they hold treats!<\/p>\n 5. Pine cone Easter eggs<\/a>. <\/strong>Painted pine cones make great Easter eggs.<\/p>\n 6. Rock Easter eggs<\/a>. <\/strong>Rocks are just as fun to paint as eggs.<\/p>\n 7. Upcycled book page eggs<\/a>. <\/strong>Pages torn from broken books are transformed into three-dimensional eggs.<\/p>\n 8. Wooden eggs<\/a>. <\/strong>Wooden eggs are fairly easy to source, and you can do so much with them–paint them, color on them with Sharpies, decoupage <\/a>them, glue on buttons or photos. Your imagination is the limit.<\/p>\n Other Easter Egg Alternatives<\/strong><\/p>\n 9. Felted wool Easter eggs. <\/strong>When my kids were too young to decorate Easter eggs, these Mama-made felted wool Easter eggs<\/a> were just the thing–big, soft, and colorful!<\/p>\n 10. Felted wool sweater Easter eggs. <\/strong>Sew Easter egg stuffies from prettily patterned wool sweaters<\/a>. Here’s how to felt<\/a> wool sweaters.<\/p>\n 11. Hollow chocolate Easter eggs<\/a>. <\/strong>Use the embroidery floss technique above, but substitute melted chocolate–yum!<\/p>\n Natural Easter Egg Decorating<\/strong><\/p>\n 12. Blown-out eggs. <\/strong>Decorate them however you’d like when you’re finished; blown-out eggs<\/a> will keep beautifully indefinitely.<\/p>\n 13. Earth Paint Easter egg dye. <\/strong>Natural Earth Paint makes an Easter egg dye kit<\/a> that uses the same natural ingredients that you’d use to make your own Easter egg dyes, but in a quick and easy kit form.<\/p>\n 14. Homemade natural dyes experiment<\/a>. <\/strong>What color would the spices in your pantry turn an egg? Now’s the time to find out!<\/p>\n 15. Plant silhouettes.<\/strong> These dyed eggs show the delicate silhouettes of leaves, stems and flowers<\/a>.<\/p>\n 16. Ruby eggs. <\/strong>Why dye the eggshell, when you can dye the egg itself? These hard-boiled eggs are dyed in beet juice<\/a>, so they turn out beautiful and fun, but with no unwanted synthetic chemical coloring. If you use natural food coloring<\/a> 17. Vegetable-dyed Easter eggs<\/a>. <\/strong>There’s nothing but wholesome, food-based pigment in this dye. Secret tip: to get a beautiful crimson color even more vibrant than food coloring could yield, use yellow onion skins<\/a>.<\/p>\n Upcycled Easter Egg Decorating<\/strong><\/p>\n 18. Melted crayon Easter eggs<\/a>. <\/strong>Use up your broken crayons to decorate eggs with a marbling effect.<\/p>\n 19. Silk tie Easter eggs<\/a>. <\/strong>Use those tacky silk ties to make beautifully patterned Easter eggs.<\/p>\n 20. Tie-dyed Easter eggs. <\/strong>If you’ve got some junky old fabric scraps that you don’t want to use for anything, then use them to make these tie-dyed Easter eggs<\/a>; fabric is the key ingredient to create that tie-dyed look on the eggs, but you don’t want to use your nice swatches, obviously.<\/p>\n![\"Photo](\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/eggs.jpg\")
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