Dragon Egg Disaster! & bloody ducks

So, I am doing the final layer of the dragon eggs and the bloody things all collapsed in on themselves!

The birthday is just around the corner, so I am now off to frantactly search ebay, oztion and gumtree! Gaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

edited to add ... I was sitting here searching for egg replacements (yay, found & bought some!) when I noticed the ducks had come right up to the back door. So I trotted out there to give them some chook pellets, and then discovered that one of the bastards had taken a dump at the back door. Not. Happy.

The eggs I found are 9cm long and have a dinosaur inside. Not really what I wanted, but kids will no doubt love them.

Updatish

Okay, so I finally got around to uploading the latest photos. So this is a photo update :)

Above we have the first stage of the "Dragon Eggs" for the Egg Hunt. Water balloons covered in Papier mache - layer method.

Above we have the glue that I made to stick it all together

Above we have the eggs drying. We have yet to apply the papier mache sculpting layer (pulp papier mache method). Hopefully get around to doing that next week.

And here we have the first trial at making a KitKat Cake. I had to saw the KitKats in half as they were way too long (I bought the wrong ones). But all in all an easy exercise and a tasty endeavour. Will upload pic when I do the 'real' one for mums birthday.

The joy of papier mache - not.

Okay, so today the plan was to make at least 24 papier mache 'dragon eggs'. Just the first layer.
I set up kids with kiddy scissors and paper and a bucket while I went off to make glue. The recipe I used was
1 cup plain flour mixed into 2 cups of cold water. Whisked smooth (no lumps).
Boil a pot with 3 cups of water. When boiling, add in the flour mix and stir (I whisked) until thickened - which it did in a minute. Took off heat and put into a bowl to cool.
I go to check on kids. A total of one sheet of newspaper has been cut between them and they have decided to run off down the backyard and fob it all off.
~groan~
So, I go and blow up some water balloons. After I pop the first 3 (water balloons are not meant to be blown up), I finally get the knack and do up 28.
I take them outside and set up the 'work station', and call the eldest back to come and help. It is for his freaking party after all.
He successfully (not) does 1/4 of a balloon, decides the whole task has nads on it and disappears off to play with his brother.
Mum joins me and between us we make 27 'dragon eggs' - the last balloon popped in the sun.
They look pretty good so far, so we set them out to dry. They dry pretty well, but 2 are a bit slow as I had made them a bit thicker.
Well ... let that be a lesson to me. My youngest son decides, brilliant! I will nick a couple and peel off the paper ~grrrrr~
So, we are down to 25. I need 24, so just as well we made spares.

I will post up pictures from todays efforts ... when I cba.

Next weekend we will be doing the pulp papier mache layer (today was the strip paper layer), just to get a better shape and better structure. Then it will be painting time.

I am going to document the whole lot of it ... because even I can't believe that I am actually going to this trouble!