Cascarones | Traditions
This is our first time as a family making cascarones for Easter. Cascarones are confetti-filled egg shells. (Cascara means egg shell in spanish) Usually during Lent, you can start collecting shells to fill and decorate. Two years ago, I brought a big bag home from Mexico and we all had a great time cracking them. So this year, since we are home and I’m looking for different activities for us to do, I decided to make our own! The past weekend we started filling and decorating our shells.
One option to decorate the eggs is to dye the eggs before cracking them, like you would do for Easter with hard boiled eggs. But I didn’t have any of the materials to dye eggs, so I just decided to decorate the shells after we filled them.
Here’s what we did:
Collect egg shells, and clean them out. (You have to crack the top carefully and let the eggs ease out of the little hole)
Let the shells dry, it usually takes a day for it to fully dry after cleaning them out.
Gather your materials - confetti, tissue paper, glue/modge podge, paints, markers, anything else you have in your home to decorate.
Fill with confetti, which was just cut up construction paper.
Glue a piece of tissue paper over the open hole. You can use modge podge if you have it, but I just mixed some glue and a little water and painted it on.
Decorate! We tried a few different things, We painted some of the eggs with extra paint I found. We also used tissue paper to cover some eggs using the water/glue mixture. If you don’t have glue you can use washi tape too. This was the fun part, and I let the kids choose how they wanted to decorate their eggs and had a nice afternoon of creating.
Let the eggs dry.
Break them over each others heads for celebration!
* I did notice that the eggs that were painted were a little easier to crack over your head than the ones with glue and tissue paper.
We still have a few days before the weekend, so I’ll probably save more shells over and decorate more on Friday. This year we’re going to crack them on Saturday for Elias’ birthday. His birthday is the day before Easter this year, and since we’re not able to host a birthday party for him, this is one thing he can look forward to. So start collecting your eggs shells! I’d love to see if you make these too, so comment below, or send me a picture via instagram or facebook!
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