If your children have a fascination with mermaids, they might just like making this mermaid egg craft! Made of shells and beach glass, this craft is a good way to use up all the keepsakes from a seaside trip in a little fantasy-inspired creation.

Oviparous sharks are known to regularly produce unfertilized eggs when kept in captivity without males. [7] Bullhead sharks [ edit ] Allow the paint to dry completely and cut away pantyhose. Throw fishnet scraps aways and stuff these adorable mermaid Easter eggs full of fun little toys and candy. Whatever your little sea bound Easter bunny likes! air-dry clay (my favourite air-dry clay is La Doll Premier; but Crayola Air Dry clay is an economical alternative for crafts with kids; make sure NOT to buy Crayola Model Magic which has very interesting sculpting properties, but wouldn’t work for this project)

No matter how much cute dollar store mermaid stuff you manage to muster, nothing will set you basket apart like some DIY Easter eggs that look like the scales of a mermaid tail. You can do this fun technique on real of fake eggs. This time, we’ve also made a video, so watch it to see the full process of making a fantasy clay egg. Materials for Making Mermaid Eggs The idea was born from a question my son and I had about dragon’s eggs. We thought that they would be encrusted with jewels from the dragon’s treasury and made them accordingly. Based on that idea, we came up with the concept for mermaid’s eggs. Now, we’re not sure whether mermaids would have eggs or not, but that’s our hypothesis, based on the fact that fish do! Another reason is, we just wanted to play with clay, jewels and seashells again.

a b Fischer, Jan, Martin Licht, Jürgen Kriwet, Jörg W. Schneider, Michael Buchwitz, and Peter Bartsch. "Egg capsule morphology provides new information about the interrelationships of chondrichthyan fishes." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12.3 (2013): 389-99.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Ebert, David A., Davis, Chante D. (2007). "Descriptions of skate egg cases (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes: Rajoidei) from the eastern North Pacific". Zootaxa 1393: 1-18. Over on HGTV I’m sharing 10 Adorable Themed Easter Baskets for Kids including this mermaid themed Easter basket. It’s not hard to find an endless supply of mermaid themed toys and goodies to stuff this basket with. Did I mention this would also make a great year round gift basket for kids? After the hard-boiled eggs have cooled spray purple or pink color mist completely covering each egg and let dry.

Mermaids are my thing! I love everything about them and sometimes want to be a mermaid. With Easter around the corner and my fascination with Mermaids I decided to combine the 2 together and create some DIY Mermaid Easter eggs. It was actually more simple than I thought it would be with just a few supplies. Egg cases are made of collagen protein strands, [4] and are often described as feeling rough and leathery. [5] Some egg cases have a fibrous material covering the outside of the egg case, thought to aid in attachment to substrate. [1] [6] Egg cases without a fibrous outer layer can be striated, bumpy, or smooth and glossy. [1] [6] With the exception of bullhead shark eggs, egg cases are typically rectangular in shape with projections, called horns, at each corner. [1] [6] Depending on the species, egg cases may have one or more tendrils. [5] Development [ edit ] a b c d Lucifora, L.O.; Garcia, V.B. (2004). "Gastropod predation on egg cases of skates (Chondrichthyes, Rajidae)". Marine Biology. 145: 917–922. doi: 10.1007/s00227-004-1377-8.

a b c d e f g h Compagno, Leonard (2002). "Sharks of the World". FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. 2: 31–50.