What can you do with eggshells?

Question

Empty eggshells.... You thoughts and or ideas

Answer 1

dry them out and crack them into your dirt or ant piles...they stop the bugs from eating your plants....

Answer 2

If they are still whole (with the contents blown out) you can add tiny pieces of colored confetti paper in them and do magic tricks. With each hole covered up with a finger, you show the egg (most will think it's still filled with yolk), then immediately slap both hands together and crush the shell making sure that all the pieces are pulverized. Then throw the material up into the air. - It will look like the egg disappeared and instead turned into a rain of confetti.

You can also make X-mas tree ornaments.

Or you can grind them up into a powder, mix with shortening and then find a discreet spot in a tree or bush so the birds can eat it (they need calcium, too.) This works best in the Fall and early winter.

Answer 3

If you wash them--just water--so they don't have egg in them any longer, you can crumble them up and put them around your plant stems--they will help keep slugs from getting on to the stems and lower leaves of your veggies in your garden. Other than that, use them in your compost heap, they are organic material and will at some point break down into trace amounts of calcium.

Answer 4

I am assuming you mean empty, boiled shells? If so, you can crush tem and use them in your potted plants or garden for natural fertilizer. You can also toss them out in your yard and there are several types of birds who will eat them and use it as 'grit', something all birds need to digest their food. Use the cooled water off of boiled eggs to water your plants, too! It's got lots of nutrients in it from the eggs that are good for your house plants.

Answer 5

Draw a face on them, and put a little potting soil down in it, plant grass seed, or a vine or whatever you want...and let their "hair" grow. :)

Grind them up and mix them with potting soil for extra nutrients for your plants (works best with remains from peeled boiled eggs...use the water too!)

Break it into smaller pieces, place food coloring in baggies, add some shells, mix good, lay on towel to dry. Make different colors, and let a child make a mosiac-like picture!

Answer 6

there are several things you can use them for...crafts like mosaics for older kids, make ornaments out of them also they are great for your garden, they make a great fertilizer/compost and if you save the egg carton too you can use them to plant seeds in the spring for seedlings, you just plant the whole egg shell with the seedling in it in the ground. search the web for craft sites and i'll bet there will be lots of egg crafts available. have fun

Answer 7

You can crush them up to whatever size you wish. Choose whatever colors you would like to use and put them in Easter Egg Dye and put them in a vase with fake flowers in it. It would be sweet for decoration. You can also glue them on a canvas and use it for texture. You can put them in someone oatmeal as a prank. man I can go on for hours.....

Answer 8

Can put them directly in your garbge disposal and grind them up. This helps keep the blades sharp in garbage disposal and in tip top shape!

Answer 9

I have heard you can use it in your garden to keep certain bugs away. Also, you can mix it up to make sidewalk chalk, but I am not sure of the specific recipe.

Answer 10

Well you can compost them. Ifg yuo have the whole thing with maybe just a hole you can decorate them. If there is just a hole in it fill it with water and throw it at someoine.

Answer 11

A lot of people will use them in their plants. Not sure why, but apparently it is good for the plants..... Same like cofee.....They say that it it good to pore cofee in plants.