Hard Boiled Egg Jack
O’Lanterns and Mummy Heads.
When one of my friends saw this picture of them she burst out laughing and said, “Those look like something a crazy person makes.” I think it was the lettuce leaves, which admittedly, look a little hairy.
However, I still think
these are brilliant and continue to make them every year for our pre-trick or
treating Halloween party. They’re fun to do with children and also a good way
to get some protein into little goblins and ghouls before the onslaught of
candy. You can present them as either mummy heads or egg o’lanterns, and if you
want to make them really gruesome, you could try them with pickled eggs.
Here’s what you need:
Several hard boiled
eggs.
A steak knife,
cookie cutters, dried cranberries, or thinly sliced carrots. (Punch holes in
the carrot with a hole punch for eyes.*)
*This might be too complicated and not worth the effort.
Here’s what you do:
Peel the hard-boiled
eggs and figure out where the skin is closest to the yolk. (I just kept poking the egg with a knife until
I found a place where I quickly hit yellow--good for aggression.) Carve a face
and gently peel away the whites where you’ve carved. The yolk acts the way a
candle does in a jack-o-lantern.
If carving is too intricate, or your kids are too small to handle steak
knives, you can use cookie cutters to make shapes or make small craters with a
much less sharp knife and put dried cranberries (red eyes) or currants in them
for eyes and noses.
You can also use other vegetables for hair or hats. I used a hot pepper as a cap for this fellow:
You can also use other vegetables for hair or hats. I used a hot pepper as a cap for this fellow:
Finally, the nice thing about this is that if they start to fall apart or you made a bigger eye or mouth than you meant to, you can always turn them into zombies (very trendy!):
When you’re finished rinse the eggs with water or vinegar diluted with water
to remove any finger prints. Then, as my five-year-old would say: “Trick or
Eat!"
Next up: Musical Halloween cats out of polymer clay!
Next up: Musical Halloween cats out of polymer clay!
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