Decorating Easter egg with strips of filigree paper

Decorate your Easter eggs with paper braid strips or filigree paper! The thin coloured paper strips are normally used to make filigree works, also called quilling. With the filigree paper you can make all kinds of fun 3D figures. Also with children you can make fun and simple quilling works. In quilling, thin strips of colored paper strips of paper are rolled up with a quilling tool, then formed and glued to create decorative designs. You can make nice greeting cards, paintings, beautiful figures, flowers and decorate your boxes, your phone case, vases, etc. You can also make jewelry, key chains, etc. To make fun of filigree paper art, it is useful if you have a roller pen to roll up the strips. Also a mold with various basic figures around the rolls in it is a fine tool.

Today we didn't roll up the paper strips, so it's actually called no quilling anymore. So now we do not need rollers or molds plate. We now used colored braid strips 0.8cm wide. These are wider (and cheaper) than the real filigree paper strips. We just wrapped the strips around hard-boiled eggs! It does not look very tight, here and there you can see a fold or a piece of the egg. But hey, you can see it's needlework, right? And another time, when we have more time, we will really make a filigree paper artwork!

Lubricate the strip only the middle part (approx. 15cm) with a paper glue stick, e.g. with a Creall Kid's Glue Stick. Thus, the ends of the strip remain glue-free. Put your egg with its buttocks in the middle of the glued strip.

Does your filigree paper egg also get eyes, a mouth and a nose? With a fineliner you can easily draw that on it. Or does it get a mustache, lashes, freckles or blushes?