Plastic Easter Eggs

So we had the big Easter egg hunt today and of course we now have tons of plastic eggs. We always tried to reuse these anyway, but with the bigger focus on recycling these days, I figured there’d be tons of good ideas out there for what to do with them: Save for next year, wreath, side walk chalk, holding small household items, etc. BORING! Very disappointed.

The only cool idea I saw drilling a little whole in one half of the egg and putting them over your Christmas lights to make patio lights. I thought this would be a really good suggestion for all those people that STILL have their Christmas lights up… But wouldn’t that melt or start a fire? And how quickly would the attached trailer go up after that? Assuming the appropriate amount of kindling is in the yard (old mattresses, last year’s soft side pool from Wal-mart and the card board box the 52 inch plasma screen TV came in), one string of those homemade tiki lights could take out a whole row in the park.

I was thinking the eggs would make great jello shot containers. Lid already included, and you could color code for different flavors. After consuming several of the jello shots, these could then be recycled again as nipple shields. You could even decorate them, add a little Easter grass in the appropriate places and have your own little egg hunt. Would that be so wrong? Guys could use them, too… like a little helmet. And what if you glued those little googly eyes to them?

I’m very glad that the whole plastic grass thing is out. I hate that stuff. That crap stuck to everything and I was still finding it in various places until at least Christmas. I think it was made from cat hair and glitter. Our dogs also seemed to like it enough to eat it… It doesn’t digest of course, but it does add bling to the pile in the yard. That reminds me of our cat that used to eat balloons. I kept hoping that one day he’d eat one without making a hole in it and when he pooped it out it would blow up out of his butt… stupid cats… yeah that’s a whole other post…
If you have any other great ideas for recycling plastic Easter eggs, post them here… I’m sure my husband is going to get tired of waking up with an egg helmet before we run out of eggs…