Robin's-Egg Place Card

Ingredients

• Crafts stick or pencil
• Acrylic paint: light blue, brown, and white
• Small, stiff, flat paintbrush
• Wooden skewers
• Small natural-color feathers, 5 to 7 for each place card
• Transfer letters (in a size that will spell the desired name on the egg)
• Small bird's nest, from a crafts supply store
• + 4 more ingredients
• • Newspaper
  • Long, narrow block of Styrofoam
  • place card, clean and dry
  • Blown or hard-boiled eggs, one for each

1. Paint the egg blue: Place it on a skewer, angling so the top of the skewer supports the egg. Use the paintbrush to cover the entire surface of the egg with blue paint. Insert the skewer into the block of Styrofoam (see tip, below) and allow the paint to dry completely-this usually takes about ...

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