You’ve seen egg and cress sandwiches but how about egg and cress heads?
Thomas will hopefully be starting Nursery after Easter. He seems to have grown up very suddenly and now likes to take part in crafts with Dorothy, much to her her horror. Many a creation has been lost to his sticky little hands.
I’m wondering whether its time to revisit this activity from Dottie’s pre-school days..
Say hello to our little friends.
It only took about four days to grow their hair this long. Dottie loved decorating the shells and took great pride in checking on growth and guarding her googly eyed gang.
If you’d like to make your own you will need
Eggs
Cress seeds
Cotton wool valls
Googly eyes
Pens and a glue st
Method
- The whole activity is fairly self explanatory except for perhaps the beginning. To create your egg shell head, you need to break a fresh egg using a sharp knife. I sort of tap the egg with the knife to take off the top in a straight-ish line
- Empty out the egg to use for cooking and give the shell a rinse
- Decorate the shell with pens and googly eyes
- Place in an egg cup and fill the shell with two wet cotton wool balls
- Sprinkle seeds into the cotton wool.
- Leave somewhere light where your creations won’t meet their end via the cat, dog, curtains etc etc and watch as your egg head grows a tremendous barnet
Cress is of course edible, so this could be a great introduction to growing food. In fact, ours will be adorning an egg and cress sandwich tomorrow, although I will be a bit sad to say goodbye to ‘Sheldon’.
Love Rachel ❤️
