Faberge eggs are the quintessential Russian art form, symbols of beauty and wealth. If you’ve seen them in a movie, likely they were being stolen in a heist movie or being dropped and broken in a slapstick comedy. Why? They’re extremely expensive, that’s why!
Dating back to the Romanov Dynasty of old Russia, 69 of the rare eggs were made under the supervision of Peter Carl Faberge between 1885 and 1917. Only 57 still survive. Most were made for the Tsars as Easter gifts for their wives and mothers.
A Faberge egg craft is relatively simple. You start with an egg shape. Leftover plastic eggs from Easter would be a good start. We had Styrofoam eggs leftover from supplies for a school project.
If you’re starting with an egg that already has color, you only have to decorate it. Since our eggs were white, we painted them.
Once your egg is brightly colored, add decorations. Here, you can get as creative as you’d like. The real Faberge eggs are made from gold or other precious metals with jewels crusted all over them in elaborate patterns.
So, you can paint patterns on your egg, bejewel your egg with fake gemstones, add stickers, or whatever else you can think of. We had confetti made from foil wrapping paper. We doused our eggs in glue and rolled them in confetti to have the foil paper mimic the look of emeralds and rubies.
True Faberges opened to reveal gold yokes which had a tiny hen inside them which, in turn, had 2 small yet expensive gifts inside it.
We didn’t go that far with our version.
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