Guide your guests to their places at your Easter dinner table with these sweet springtime keepsakes. Add a few foil-covered chocolate eggs to the nest for an after-dinner or guest-room treat.
• If you are making a set of place cards, work in assembly-line style, doing one step on all the eggs before going on to the next step. Make some extra spatter-painted eggs in case one breaks when you are rubbing the letters into place. If your handwriting is neat, you might like to write each name with a brown marker instead of using transfer letters.
• To create a rack to hold the eggs while they're being painted or drying: Cut wooden skewers into 7-inch lengths. Insert them into a block of Styrofoam, spacing them 2 to 3 inches apart so you can support a blown egg on each without the eggs touching and arranging them in a single line so you can access each egg from all sides. To use the rack, remove the skewers, insert each into an egg, angling the egg a bit so the top of the skewer supports the shell and doesn't go through the top hole, paint the egg, and then reinsert the skewer into the foam.
