Miniature chocolate Easter eggs are easy to make from polymer clay and even in very small dollhouse scales can be decorated with lots of classic details. There's no need to make them only for models or miniatures. Find a size you like to work with, and make these tiny eggs for Easter dinner place card holders, decorations, or even jewellery.
Although I used polymer clay to make them, you can use air dry clay or other modelling materials for these tiny eggs. If you make the Italian foil wrapped eggs, you can use scraps of paper or foil for the 'egg' inside the wrapping. This is also a really good way to use up leftover scraps of polymer clay colors. You can blend the scraps to a deep rich brown, or shape them into egg shapes and color them with paint, or use the shape covered with foil.
To make the miniature 'chocolate' polymer clay eggs shown here you will need:
- Polymer Clay - You can mix a range of different 'chocolate' shades using the basic mixing instructions for brown polymer clay For basic chocolate eggs, I used the "chocolate brown" mix. In ready mixed clays, Premo!5053 Burnt Umber or something similar is a good color. For the detail designs on floral eggs, very strong elastic clays that stretch out easily to fine strands work best. Fimo, Cernit and Pardo clays work well. Softer or less 'strong' clays may be harder to shape into very fine detail.
- Paint - To add classic details to 'chocolate' eggs, you can use fine metallic paints or powders. I use Jacquard Pearl Ex Pigment mixed with acrylic gloss or Viva Decor Precious Metal Colors You can also use regular tube acrylic paints 'piped' with a glue syringe or precision point glue tips as 'icing' or 'chocolate' details on your 'chocolate' eggs. If you are steady enough, a tiny plastic bag with a corner cut out can be used as an 'icing bag' for your acrylic paint as well.
- Glass Headed Pin - or embossing tool. A pin works well to mark lines in your miniature eggs.
- Fine Paintbrush - if you are going to paint the eggs use the finest spotter type paint brush you have.
- Coarse Sandpaper - for texturing the clay to make 'rough' chocolate.
- Foil, Cellophane and Ribbon - to wrap the eggs. I used very fine silk ribbon on the floral egg, and a gold plastic curling ribbon that shreds easily to fine shreds on the wrapped eggs. The 'foil' for the Italian Easter Egg is the remains of a very fine plastic foil used on one of my favorite chocolates.
- Smooth Rolling Surface - a piece of glass or ceramic tile works well.
