How can I make these Easter eggs scary?

March 19, 2016 3:20 PM

I'm looking for any suggestions from the crafters, artists, and haunters, on how I can make these large plastic eggs I purchased from Michaels into something scary or creepy for decorative purposed. I have a dozen, in three different sizes. Photo link attached...

There are four sets of three eggs, each with a sparkly exterior which looks easy enough to rub off. They are two pieces each, just like the tiny plastic eggs used for Easter egg hunts. The largest is about 14" tall, the smallest about 6".

I used my size 11 shoes for scale in these photos (isn't that how professionals work? ;) )

Any links to tutorials especially appreciated -- the easier, the better, but open to all ideas... from gory and outright frightening to making these into dinosaur eggs, with our without additional props.

posted by Unsomnambulist to Home & Garden (9 answers total)

Repaint so as to resemble insect eggs?
posted by Diablevert at 3:31 PM on March 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

fake blood seeping out of crack (thick red paint?)
posted by Omnomnom at 3:36 PM on March 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

Decoupage some Donald Trump campaign propaganda to one of them.

Create an eyeball egg.

Make them into spiders.

Hinge it on one side like a coffin, put a plastic skeleton inside.

Make a clear vinyl window into the egg, fill it with doll heads. Paint the eyes of the doll heads white or red for extra scariness. Could also fill it with plastic snakes.

Adapt the Head in a Jar Prank to work with an egg.

posted by Ostara at 3:53 PM on March 19, 2016 [3 favorites]

Do you mean you want the contents to be scary? Or just the outside?
posted by Omnomnom at 4:04 PM on March 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

Eggs like from the film Alien.
posted by Iteki at 4:39 PM on March 19, 2016 [3 favorites]

These skulls are pretty cool, and if painting is too much, just use a Sharpie for the black parts and have sparkly skulls.

Wrap the eggs in gauze, glue on some googly eyes, and make mummy eggs.

Stick a bunch of plastic spiders onto the eggs with a hot glue gun

If any of the eggs are orange, draw jack-o-lantern faces on them with a Sharpie.

Just a few ideas off the top of my head. This sounds fun!
posted by subliminable at 4:51 PM on March 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

Decoupage an image of soft-boiled fetal duck onto one?

Or, paint them like Century Eggs (again with the Balut)?

Can they hatch something? ...Something nice? Or, you know - creepy? (You never can tell.)

Maybe just dress as a giant chicken and carry one around?

And if none of these ideas strike you, well, I'll leave you with my usual: Doll Parts.

Think doll parts.
posted by peagood at 5:20 PM on March 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

Spider egg sacs
posted by ananci at 6:13 PM on March 19, 2016

realistic human fetuses?
posted by sexyrobot at 10:23 PM on March 19, 2016 [3 favorites]