Geode Easter Eggs

Shiny glittery crystal filled Easter eggs!

Borax-I found a box cheap in the laundry aisle.

Food Coloring-usually by the spices and baking supplies

Water

White School Glue

Glass jars, cups, ect.-nothing you'll use for food or drink later!

Stirring Sticks

Plastic Easter Eggs

Paint (Optional)

Resin (very optional!)

I used plastic egg halves, although you can certainly use real eggs if you prefer. If you do, rinse them thoroughly and pull out the white membrane! For mine, I spray painted the outsides gold with cheap Dollar Store paint, but that isn't necessary.

Coat the inside with a thin layer of cheap white school glue. Sprinkle on a think layer of borax, and let dry.

Make borax solution. I used random small glass jars that were going to be recycled. 4 tablespoons borax, one cup water, heat for 30 second intervals and stir after each time, until borax is dissolved. Add a few drops of food coloring.

When the egg is dry and the solution has cooled down a bit, place your egg half inside. Let it sit at least overnight. I matched the plastic egg color to the dye solution. Real egg shells will absorb the dye.

Check it. If there aren't enough crystals, you can always reheat the solution, add a little more borax, and let it sit again. I did that more than once. Some eggs just grew crystals more than others.

Here some are sitting outside to dry. For these, I also daubed a little gold paint on the edge. That's a painted compact disc in the process of becoming a planet by them-I should do an instructable on those later!

Look how pretty! The egg tray is a *very* cheap plastic one from Dollar General, again, that I spray painted black. Added a little sparkly shredded cellophane, and they were ready to go at local sci-fi con as dragon eggs.

Although they do need teeny baby dragons in them...maybe next time.

You can also mix up a little clear resin to brush on top for an extra layer of protection, but that's going above and beyond.I did that because I was selling them, and wanted them extra sturdy.

There's other recipes online that call for using alum or epsom salts instead of borax. Certainly worth experimenting. I chose one using borax because I already had some on hand.

Enjoy! Make some shinies!