With the other types of Easter eggs, if you hide them anywhere that is hot or you forget about them and a few days go by, they are probably going to end up melting. However when you hide candy in the plastic Easter eggs you are not going to have to worry about this and so that is a relief.

Another reason that you should opt for plastic Easter eggs to hide candy in around the house is because you get to decide what you put in them. If your children have allergies to certain candies or they just all have different preferences, with the plastic Easter eggs you are going to be able to pick and choose from the different candy as to what you want to have inside.

The plastic eggs are also larger in size and so they are easier to find and pick up for younger children if you have any that are going to be on the hunt to find eggs, so keep this in mind as well.

Make Your Own Plastic Easter Eggs

Now you can also make your own eggs just by taking some oval containers and coloring Easter eggswhatever color you want, and then once they are dry you can take them, fill them with candy and hide these around the house. Not only you but your kids will also enjoy the occasion because they will get enough candy during the Easter.

There are lots of fun ways to make your eggs extra special too, for instance you could decoupage them, which is basically like paper mache onto your eggs. You would just create a mixture of glue and water with equal amounts of both and then take some of this, put it on the eggs and then cover each egg with paper shreds, and with a layer or two of glue. You can not only fill candy in them when they are dry but also underground them around the house.

If you want to try making your own chocolate Easter eggs for once, here is a great, easy recipe that you can make.

The Recipe For Chocolate Easter Eggs

For this chocolate Easter eggs recipe you will need ¼ lb. butter softened, 8 oz. cream cheese softened, 2 lb. confectioners’ sugar, 1 ½ cups peanut butter, 1 ½ tsp vanilla, ½ tsp salt, and 12 oz. milk chocolate candy melts.

Now to prepare this recipe, you want to start by mixing the butter and the cream cheese together. Then you add the confectioners’ sugar and mix well. You want to keep mixing until you can no longer see any powder residue.

The next step in this recipe is to add in the peanut butter, vanilla, and salt and then mix this. Then you want to put this mixture into the refrigerator for about an hour, closer to two would be even better. Then when the dough is hard enough you want to form it into egg shapes, and then refrigerate these for an hour.

You must make sure that you are refrigerating long enough each time, otherwise the oil from the peanut butter is going to make the dough too mushy and you will not be able to form it properly.

Now to finish off the chocolate Easter eggs you want to melt the chocolate that you have ready in a double broiler, dip each peanut butter egg in the chocolate, and then let them sit to dry on waxed paper. You are really going to love these eggs, and your kids are going to love them even more.

They are very easy to make and the best part is that you can save the extras and keep them for later on in the week. They are very good recipes to be prepared for kids on Easter which will surely be in demand in the home. Just remember there are lots of varieties that you can try out as well if you are not a fan of the peanut butter and chocolate, for instance you could make them with caramel.