How to Make Hanging Plastic Eggs

While Easter eggs do not have anything to do with Easter as a religious holiday, they do play a role in Easter. Eggs are decorated in various fashions, parents hide them, and children hunt them as part of a national holiday.

While the traditional Easter egg hunt started with the dying of chicken eggs, hollow plastic eggs had been introduced into this tradition. The plastic Easter eggs can be taken apart, filled with various goodies, hidden and found with the dyed eggs.

There is another use that many people have added to the decorative venue of Easter, the introduction of the hanging Easter eggs. The hanging Easter eggs are quite colorful.

There can be a symbolism of religion placed upon the Easter egg and in the hanging of Easter egg if one wishes to think in this manner. The egg represents birth. On Easter, the resurrection of Christ is observed. Since eggs can represent life, and Christ arose on Easter from a horrible death, the symbolism of life from the egg represents the resurrection of life on Easter Sunday. As for the hanging of Easter eggs, the egg's hang from the tree could represent the crucifixion of Christ on the cross.

While many Christians and religious leaders will argue these two points for the symbolisms, why not turn a hostile debate on the subject of Easter eggs into a positive outcome? After all, aren't everyone's religious views debatable? Not every form of religion has the same views on any part of religious values.

Materials Needed for Hanging Easter Eggs

1 to 3 bags of plastic Easter eggs. You can purchase more plastic eggs if you need them for this craft project.
Clear fishing line. Size .01. The clear fishing line will be used to attach the eggs to areas that you want to decorate.
Needle. The sewing needle may need to be used to push the fishing line through the hole in the egg.

Directions for the Hanging Easter Eggs

Open the plastic Easter eggs for easier access.

Cut a piece of fishing line in various lengths.