Spring Time Ideas
- Sharifa Oppenheimer
- Apr 3
- 2 min read
Bring a Branch of Spring Inside:
Choose a good branch with spreading branches.
Cut it about 4 feet long
Put a teacup hook in the ceiling (perhaps above the nature table)
Tie three colorful ribbons onto three separate branches, to make a mobile
Leave one end of each ribbon longish, to make a bow, if you like
Gather them together at the top and balance them so the branch hangs horizontal
Tie them onto the teacup hook
Now you have a perfect place for green beeswax leaves to sprout, for a woven nest with a beeswax bird and for colorfully dyed “blown eggs.”
(Thank you to LifeWays student, Naama Kimmerling, for sharing these photos of her seasonal branch!)
Here’s a great tutorial for beautifully dyed eggs using colors from nature!
Either before or after your eggs are dyed, trying blowing some eggs to hang them from your spring branch.
How To Blow Eggs:
Use one dozen brown or heirloom eggs
With a large safety pin poke a medium sized hole in the bottom of the egg
Poke a small hole in the top of the egg
Put the small hole to your mouth and make a seal with your lips
Blow!! If it is too hard, make the bottom hole a little bigger
Blow the contents into a bowl
Rinse the egg off outside and inside, very carefully
Blow all the eggs, and hang them from a spring branch
Blown Egg Custard
(You will probably want to double the recipe, given how many eggs you have blown and how much everyone in the family will love this!)
2 eggs (from your blown eggs )
Beat them
Add:
2 cups milk
¼ c sugar or honey or a few drops of stevia to taste
a pinch of salt
a dash vanilla
a sprinkle ground nutmeg
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Whisk everything but the nutmeg together, until completey combined
Pour into 6 custard cups (you can also bake in a casserole baking dish) and sprinkle nutmeg on top
Place custard cups in baking dish and fill with water to halfway up the cups
Bake in preheated oven until set, about 1 hour
Serves 6
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