Why stick to the basic egg shape? The sky’s the limit when it comes to what you can add to an egg. We’ve created eggs with hats…

Annette C-B’s beautiful rainbow hat

The side view of Annette’s beautiful rainbow hat egg

eggs with feet…

James’s fluffy chicken egg

and many with fins (most fishy eggs are by my son, Robert, whose first word was ‘ish’ (hey, F is a hard letter to say…)).

Robbie’s goldfish

Extra bits can make a few other things challenging… How do you varnish them? Do you varnish before or after the extra bit goes on? How on earth do you store an egg with a crown?