Upcycle Plastic Easter Eggs Into Tealights Taylor Made

Once your kids are past the egg hunt stage, you may find yourself stuck with a few dozen plastic Easter eggs. You can hand them down to another family who can use them or get creative like Taylor and turn the garish little things into stylish tealights.

Taylor painted her leftover eggs and then attached them to a wooden base. She chose to use them indoors in her fireplace, but they'd also look nice on your porch or patio.

See more and get instructions: Taylor Made

(Image: Taylor Made. Via: Craft Gossip)

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Comments (10)

This is pretty neat, though I'm not sure that hot wax wouldn't melt the plastic eggs...but putting the entire row in the fireplace is genius.

Like PI, I would also be concerned about the heat from the tealights melting or accidentally igniting the plastic, and then--smelly!

Tea lights come in a metal liner which probably is enough to protect the plastic from melting. Hot wax isn't quite enough for that.

Also might look nice as a centerpiece on a rectangular table, especially if surrounded by something sparkly, like those "melted marbles" they sell to put in glass vases or whatever...

It's very pretty, but I'd be afraid since toy easter eggs aren't rated for heat. I'd be afraid they would melt or catch fire.

I WOULD PUT A SAFETY CARD ON THIS, TOTAL FIRE AND TOXIC FUMES HAZARD. I'm really surprised this was allowed to be posted.

You could do this or just use old gas cans, oily rags and sawdust...either way is pretty much guaranteed to start a fire.

I would remover this article.

"remove", sorry!

It looks pretty, but I hope at this stage no one is stupid enough to buy those insanely wasteful plastic toys when real eggs work just as well (not to mention the plastic eggs come with plastic grass. What can we use THAT for?) I still love reuse ideas though, keep it up!

I'm with you Emmi, why don't people use real eggs anymore?

@OJANET , completely agree! This is not a good idea with the paint on top of plastic, you're just waiting for a fire to start.

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