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What would a Texas Easter be without armadillos crossing the road? As the weather warms, you might be lucky enough to see one on Easter Sunday. With their segmented armor and dinosaur-like tails, making one out of an Easter egg would be a creative toast to armadillos' indigenous land.
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Materials Found At Your H-E-B
How To Make It
1. Boil the eggs and let cool.
2. Carefully cut and skin avocado so most of skin is in one big piece. Clean avocado traces out of skin and fit around the egg. Reserve two 1 cm strips for the tail and another piece for the head.
3. Glue avocado skin securely around egg possibly using two or three cut pieces. White should not be showing (a little on the ends is okay).
4. For the head, cut small 45 degree angle off the open end of a bugle. Fit additional piece of avocado skin around the cut bugle and glue it on bugle.
5. Glue open side of the avocado-bugle head slightly higher than the small far end of the egg. Glue on with the longer and angled side on top. Hold until dry and stable.
6. For the tail, cut two 1 cm thick strips of avocado skin, each about as long as your pinky finger. One end of both strips should be pointed. Glue pieces together, black sides out. Glue non-pointed side to fat end of egg.
7. To create the legs/feet, take four paperclips and pull up the open wire end on each. Stick wire clips into avocado skin at bottom of Eggadillo one in each corner. Flat part of clips should lay flat on the table.
Tips
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Add a drop of glue for each eye or use googly eyes.
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You can also cut the very tip of two more Bugles and glue them perpendicular to where the body meets the head (ears).
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Consider scoring the top of the Eggadillo's bodies (avocado skin) width-wise in uniform 1 mm-apart lines with a knife, creating the segmented armor look.
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