DIY Easter egg for presents: Plaster on a balloon- Easy!

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This craft is a fun and easy way to make an Easter themed Piñata! Stuff it with candy and gifts, and then smash it to pieces. Use only under adult supervision.
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SAFETY and procedure:
Do not touch Plaster of Paris while it is setting up. Clean up with water. Once it has set and dried, egg will be bright white and chalky. If skin contact is a concern, egg shell may then be painted. Do not allow child to eat egg shell. Do not allow egg shell fragments to get into child's eyes. In such cases, flush with water. Do not allow child to sand egg without wearing respiratory protection. Fragmented egg parts will dissolve harmlessly in the grass. Please have fun with this game responsibly.

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12 апр 2019

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@pocket83 5 лет назад

Do not allow egg shell fragments to get into a child's eyes. Read the description for more procedural tips. Have fun!

@evilcanofdrpepper 5 лет назад

What about using a much bigger ballon like an XL balloon or a bunch of smaller presents so that you could fit the presents inside the ballon and hold it by the knot so you can plaster everything but the smallest hole preferably around 2 inches across and that could be covered by using a mini ballon and making a covering like that then putting them together with toilet paper and glue. You could pop the balloon inside before joining them or near the end by making a tiny hole that you could stick a pin through. Alternatively you could just make 2 big halves and join them in the middle but I think that would look a bit more noticeable as a seam around the whole middle of the egg rather than the point of the egg looking just a little odd and being the side you could hide. I also think some kind of paper template or structure would add a lot of stability to it.

@vaj1414 5 лет назад

@@evilcanofdrpepper use a dremel to make the hole perfectly round (and flat). And find a ballon that seems to match the curve, make a cap on it, mark the size of the circle and cut off the excess. if you paint over them the line wont be visible.

@homunkoloss6782 5 лет назад

pocket83 my idea for the egg problem: The side that has the opening will be put on the bottom, surrounded by grass, so that it creates the illusion of beeing complete. Another idea would be to cover the egg completely, then separate the top, put in the present and seal it up afterwards. I think for this to work it should be made with many coats

@vaj1414 5 лет назад

you can use gauze to reinforce parts as its much stronger than paper, but keep the top as it is because it creates a mesh like in a wire reinforced glass so the presents would get stuck...

@saintbulmers665 5 лет назад

use another balloon, blown to about the same size, and cover the top with plaster. you should be able to glue them together with the same method that you used to repair the crack, and it would allow time to put the gift inside

@jeffmansfield914 5 лет назад

Potato I was coming to say the same thing.

@bloodgain 5 лет назад

My thinking exactly! I'm also thinking of adding some kind of support on the inside that overlaps the seam, add soaked strips of paper towel (or newspaper, if you can find one of those) before adding the top, then seal the outside. I'm trying to decide if I could make that the bottom somehow.

@UberAlphaSirus 5 лет назад

Stop reading my mind!

@emeraldfox2949 4 года назад

From sinking a nail in one hit to making fake eggs, never stop being this creative

@justinhoffman5339 5 лет назад

"This is double-ply. I think I would prefer if it were single." - No one's butt ever

@qwaccc 4 года назад

hah!

@cooperreynolds5041 5 лет назад

Tip: Popping the balloon actually works better than releasing the air out slowly (from personal experience). When popping, the balloon pulls off equally on all sides at once, whereas a deflating balloon separates from the contact points with the weakest grips first, which puts more strain on the parts that are still connected to the balloon. That is what I think caused your crack.

@poiuytrewq4645 5 лет назад

"i lost my crack" wasnt expecting you to say that on video in any context

@mosmosspam 5 лет назад

After removing the balloon, could also pour the slurry into the hole and move it around that way, very good coverage that way, and common for molds and other such things.

@igneous061 5 лет назад

Woah...pocket got himself third arm finaly....now he can film and do stuff with no problems :D yeey

@rivards1 5 лет назад

But you ended up not needing it, so WHERE IS THE SMASHING????

@Telos954x 5 лет назад

I really wanted to see him punch a hole in it :(

@grandolddrummer 5 лет назад

Pocket has a camera operator! Nice!

@brendano221 5 лет назад

I did the exact same thing but filled with chocolate easter eggs. Except I made them for bigger kids (adults) so I made them really difficult to break into, provided some good entertainment. If anyone tries this don't let anyone use a knife to try to get it open. If you're really struggling use a saw of some sort, or even drill a hole to create a weak point.

@joshuagarner2349 5 лет назад

Lost it when you said, “I lost my crack”!

@jestcy4205 3 года назад

Only thing I can think to close that hole would be to stuff the egg with the presents once you have your hole. Then take foam, cut it to fit your hole and lay it across the hole and then close it all back up with the plaster. (Maybe even a paper plate could work?) You could always lightly glue whichever your using (foam or the paper plate to the lip of the egg for closure.) Then plaster it shut, etc.) Then turn the egg upside down so the hole is at the bottom. This way if it looks off, at least the holes closed up and it won’t be seen because you can decorate around it with the fake grass. Thanks for the idea! Definitely going to try this this Easter!

@wardprocter2371 5 лет назад

Great to hear from you again. Thanks for sharing this.

@chedisLoL 5 лет назад

Look up pocket83 2. He posts semi regularly there.

@wardprocter2371 5 лет назад

Thanks! I’ll check that out.

@mikepositive5727 4 года назад

This is PERFECT Jurassic Park week that I do with my students each year. Picture this: lightly coating the inside with some store-bought slime, wrapping the bottom of the a with a baby blanket, and punching your arm through the top with a rubber dinosaur puppet! I have done a similar gag in years past with the paper mache eggs, but there is no way to put your arm up inside of it this will look super convincing and the kids will love it!

@pocket83 4 года назад

Ha! The slime will definitely sell it.

@Prosecute-fauci 5 лет назад

Wow... 3 videos in 1 day! That is a lot of pocket time

@claytoncarson111 5 лет назад

To get a perfectly smooth texture just fill a balloon with a few "coats" worth of the plaster of Paris, then blow the balloon up and periodically spin it around to build the egg on the inside. Then when it hardens you can carefully pop the balloon and maybe add more coats to the inside if it is too fragile.

5 лет назад

Idea to close the egg: on a separate balloon, make a dome out of plaster that is slightly bigger than the hole in the egg. Overlap the dome over the hole, and apply a few more coats of plaster, to hide the seam.

@willbeatty9097 5 лет назад

Perhaps to complete the rest of the egg, you could create a much smaller egg segment on a separate balloon, and graft it onto the underside of the egg.

@Amethyst1919 4 года назад

Using a funnel, put desired amount of plaster inside balloon, add water the same way. Blow up balloon and tie off. shake and rotate the balloon to mix the plaster and coat the inside of the balloon. You can do just the partial, but if you do the whole thing you can later take a dremel and cut off a portion to insert the gift and then seal it back up... Makes it really smooth and egg-like...

@Striker9 4 года назад

Lol such a great idea, and I totally hate that Easter grass, past years got that edible grass and theres alot less that gets all over

@sparetire97 4 года назад

Yo what’s up man? MORE VIDS MORE VIDS

@Telos954x 5 лет назад

To do the full egg, do everything you did, but only about 3/5 the full balloon. Get another setup for another balloon going but do the other 2/5 at the tapered portion. Once both shell parts are fully dry, remove the balloons and do a thin layer of watered down white glue or maybe plastidip to give a little extra stability that's still easy to break with a little force. Place the gift inside the larger portion and align the second part, use some white glue to join them, then do another layer of the toilet paper patch across the seam.

@AgentWest 5 лет назад

That egg turned out wonderful! It would not have looked as natural if it was sanded. Neat idea about making a decorative nest for it, too. As for closing the egg up completely, why not mold a 'cap' on a different balloon and cover the seam in the same manner as you did that crack. Yes, it will be slightly thicker at the seam, but no one would notice or really care. Another suggestion would be to paper-mache the whole thing. That way it is a little stronger (for when the excited kid tries to shake it like a gift box to guess what's inside) and hopefully will produce larger pieces instead of a bunch of tiny bits when broken. Maybe even make a small beak-shaped hammer to help break it? +1 for Aperture Laboratories at the end as well :)

@xkabedaruhe2956 5 лет назад

I've used bandage cloth in the past for similar projects. Improves the sturdiness a lot but still easy to break apart...

@helenakhudyna2360 5 лет назад

You could make the top part separately, like a lid. Then put the present inside and paper-mashe it on. Regardless, the egg idea is great!

@user_i9 5 лет назад

He's done it! Hes grown a third arm!

@DanielSchaller 5 лет назад

I have a suggestion, I wonder if coating the entire balloon except for the knot, then when all coats are complete, cut the one end off with a utility knife (allowing balloon to deflate) making sure the opening is large enough to place gift inside. Then place the part back on that you cut off and patch it like you suggested and also close up hole left by the knot.

@jonalexander2859 5 лет назад

you could push the knot into the balloon then tape over it and make a solid shape and cut an access hatch then patch it closed.

@MichaelGallagherSculpting 2 года назад

I came here to see how I could plaster a balloon BUT I lost it when the Stubborn cantankerous Balloon 🎈 Failed to let out air and you saying in exacerbated undertones; “Come onnnn” Been there but never in front of your tens of thousands lol. Great Bro Micheál

@RastafarianPilgrim 5 лет назад

To make a whole egg, you could make it in 2 vertical halves and join them with mache strips. If you use single ply of very fine paper for the strips, it should remain brittle enough to crack open. Alternatively, you could mount one side as a hinge (say, with a piece of cloth or some such) and make it open AND close. Then a proper mache treatment might be useful for rigidity.

@RastafarianPilgrim 5 лет назад

I once made a paper machê skull molded off a skull replica, where used the technique of molding two halves (well, three counting the bottom of the upper jaw aka inside the mouth) and joining them post hoc

@johnhammack12 5 лет назад

I was wondering where you were... always great stuff... my ten yr old granddaughter has so much fun when we copy your projects...keepem coming... have a good day...

@Quest4it 4 года назад

Great idea! I need to try this for my grandaughter

@nathanernest 5 лет назад

The greatest youtuber is back!

@sidneyseed9183 4 года назад

You could try casting the top of a balloon and putting it on like the bandaid technique

@theothermarshal 5 лет назад

This is an amazing idea, thanks for sharing! Just pondering... it may be possible to make two at the same time with one being the body of the egg (as you show) with the other simply being a 'cap'. After completed thickness is attained I envision filling the large body of the egg with the gift & grass, then use the smaller 'cap' to cover the hole. This would require additional plaster to join the two portions and make it more or less seamless. If the thickness is substantial enough a light sanding would do wonders for the finished texture, then paint it up.

@Durrdalus 5 лет назад

For getting a better texture, some sort of diy sandblaster/airbrush hybrid could work (yay Venturi!). For full egg a shaped styrofoam egg (with a smooth epoxy coating) could work because then you can cut a "broken egg" zig-zag pattern in the middle of the egg, create the top and bottom halves, de-mold them, place the gift inside and 'glue' it back into a single piece with some more plaster. Or do it Kinder Surprise style with 2 clean vertical cut halves.

@billastell3753 2 года назад

What's going on here? A boy doing cute little hobbies most of us grew out of 50 years ago. It feeds his desperately hungry ego and confirms to himself he is so smart to have come up with this idea. Ha Ha Ha! Great job Twitstein!

@dennyskerb4992 5 лет назад

I’ll have to try that, thanks

@nathanernest 5 лет назад

Pocket got himself a camera man/woman! Upping the game!

@cocok.291 5 лет назад

That's such a sweet gift

@stupidkidlol 5 лет назад

Depending on the size of the present, you even maybe be able to stretch the balloon enough to put the gift inside before blowing it up. Don't know how you'd pop/remove it after making an entire shell (would make one heck of a potential energy bomb though). Guess the other guy's tip of making 2 halfs is probably better.

@zweg1321 5 лет назад

Great simple idea

@James-bp9zy 5 лет назад

Last year's footage you didn't have time to edit before Easter? Fun to see the old shop make a cameo appearance!

@justinhoffman5339 5 лет назад

I think using foam as the eventual base is just fine. It could be cut into a circle, with another circular cutout. Keep the cutout to plaster in place after the gift is in the egg! I would be curious to see how dipping and drip drying would play out. You could use a wide and shallow pan and sort of roll the balloon through the mixture. The mixture may need to be thickened so it doesn't run as easily.

@dtec30 5 лет назад

maybe tissue paper and paris is the way to go from the start

@Dosbomber 5 лет назад

Or maybe a high volume sprayer method, like one of those HVLP finishing sprayers for shellac and polyurethane.

@dtec30 5 лет назад

@@Dosbomber maybe but reinforcement ?

@Dosbomber 5 лет назад

Seems I posted that in the wrong thread.. I was focusing more on attaining a smooth outer surface. But yeah, tissue paper and PoP would make for a better shell integrity.

@Rouverius 5 лет назад

You could put the present inside the balloon first. Usually, the professionals do this trick with a specialized vacuum chamber.

@vect0rwolf 5 лет назад

If you make a separate lid for the egg, once the large section is done, you can plaster the lid over the hole after inserting the present.

@ChrisMoewesBystrom 5 лет назад

That would be fun to pour multiple coats on and let them ooze down... I wonder if you would add some kind of coloring... maybe ground up sidewalk chalk. Super cool!!! I wish the dry time wasn't so long or this would be an awesome cub scouts project.

@solomonshepherd4824 4 года назад

Hello pocket83, I just discovered your channel and you are doing some amazing stuff, respect! Hope we will soon hear from you, greetings from Switzerland!

@AshersDay 5 лет назад

Cool! Great idea👍🥚

@triinrainboot4779 5 лет назад

It wouldn’t be perfect, but maybe once you remove the balloon you could fill in the top with the paper mache method?

@GordonWrigley 5 лет назад

if you used foam and left it as part of the final product, then you could stick an additional layer of foam on to seal it

@dtec30 5 лет назад

isn't plaster of paris slightly exothermic ?

@joshinils 5 лет назад

you could have poked a whole bunch of holes where there is packing tape, it'll hold it together

@Everfalling 5 лет назад

make two balloons of similar shape and do what you did here with the first one and then make a "cap" on the other balloon. once the shells of both are hard, remove the balloons, insert the present, cap off the egg, and then do one final coat to seal them together.

@coryr4335 5 лет назад

I think your patching technique is the answer to the egg top: make a second smaller shell section using a similar balloon, then patch it onto the larger one.

@jkell42 5 лет назад

To make whole balloon: What if you make two balloons and try cutting top and bottom together? Or use a bowl inside as mold for top?

@outseeker 5 лет назад

looking at it from inside makes me wonder if you could put a light in the balloon to allow you to see the coat thickness and evenness easily from the outside, if you particularly cared that is :)

@koen6436 5 лет назад

Are you a fan of the portal games? I see an aperture bag at the end of the video.

@pocket83squared 5 лет назад

That's covering my binocular microscope. And yes, _Portal_ was one of the best game series' ever made.

@nootaboot7042 5 лет назад

pocket83² for your own safety, please do not destroy vital testing apparatus

@Tian248 5 лет назад

use two congruent balloons and create two halves of the egg shell. Put the present inside and use the crack repair to seal it along the seam.

@theantithesis1 5 лет назад

Get a vacuum chamber, put balloon inside and expand it to put the present inside the balloon. Coat most of the balloon with plaster, carefully deflate balloon, patch tiny hole with tissue paper and plaster. Or Blow up balloon, coat half with plaster, allow to set, remove and set aside, coat second half, allow to set, put present inside, join halves and patch with plaster and tissue. Also, add food coloring to top coat of plaster for colored egg.

@joshinils 5 лет назад

for how to close it fully: i thought of an airplane door, it also doesnt fit through the hole it is sitting in. so you could make a shell that closes an oval hole where you insert the cap and then rotate the cap and someway fix it in place

@catwithhumanears98 5 лет назад

"And roll it up like a... balloon" ~pocket83

@moechano 5 лет назад

From the Kraft Brothers, you can just use newspaper and elmers glue. Add some wraps of that to the balloon, then pop it and paint the shell with white spray paint. A lot easier than your method.

@UberAlphaSirus 5 лет назад

You can't crack it like and egg though.

@MarcusXorigami 5 лет назад

Welcome back! 😊

@freetolook3727 5 лет назад

Use newspaper as a binder. Plaster the entire egg. After it dries, use cut off tool, dremel, etc to cut circular hole large enough to remove balloon and insert toy. Then repair the cut.

@AlynneTheFlorifant 5 лет назад

any chance of new video's? I always love them!

@SavvasPapasavva 5 лет назад

Have you seen the old british pathe globe making videos? It will blow your mind!!

@Theremoore 5 лет назад

I would probobly had made a styrofoam egg shaped mold, smear several coats of plaster on it, and then use a dremel with cutoff disc and cut a hole big enough to put the gift in the egg, and then dissolve the styrofoam with acetone, clean it out and leave it for a while to let the acotone to evaporate, then put the gift in it, and then put the cutout piece back and "repair" it, and then several more coats of plaster.

@vaj1414 5 лет назад

you should shine a light into it during painting to see which parts are thinner

@JamesSleeman 5 лет назад

Put an LED in it would make a cool shaped lamp if there are few enough coats to allow light through as there seems to be.

@JohnBender1313 5 лет назад

The sudden introduction of the cameraman or woman actually startled me a bit. Lol

@dittot 5 лет назад

Might not be perfect, but my initial idea would be to add some thin wire to the bottom section in a hemispherical shape, then cover that with clear tape and plaster on top.

@slippingbugs 4 года назад

Where’d you go?):

@restlessrap 5 лет назад

Do a second balloon only a qurter down then put it over hole like a cap and seal around it again.

@karlmbeal 5 лет назад

that was the idea I had also look into how pastry chefs make bowls and spheres with chocolate a very similar method

@christianbuzio9468 5 лет назад

about putting wooden sphere inside the egg: enlarge using hands the baloon and put like a condom over the ball then inflate and cover with plaster :) i think it should work i did it for fake eggs in resin for a client of mine. I went to a baloon store and they provided me a very soft to enlarge ballon :) hope it helps :)

@Nikoxxx 5 лет назад

!RemindMe 360 days

@ElizabethGreene 5 лет назад

We missed you!

@chainmaillekid 5 лет назад

I bet you could make a rudimentary spray gun to paint it on with your air compressor. Would probably leave a very good surface, and you could do multiple eggs at once.

@leydensjar 5 лет назад

How about making a 'cap' using a second balloon blown to the same size. Make a small Plaster of Paris shell cap at the knotted end, then connect it to the main egg using your toilet tissue bandage technique.

@paulmunro3050 5 лет назад

Make the egg complete, break in two to insert present then rejoin using tissue/plaster of Paris 👍

@rhyscox-higgins9251 5 лет назад

Love the new vid on main channel. Just wondering, who did you get to be the camera person?

@RastafarianPilgrim 5 лет назад

An egg this size makes me think of dinosaur eggs. What'd be something fun for kids all ages to put in a dinosaur egg? Something dinosaur related, I imagine. Any ideas, folks? I love me a good plaster project

@peepers4763 5 лет назад

Papier-mâché was my first thought. Over a balloon no less. Why wouldn’t that work, better?

@mosmosspam 5 лет назад

stronger yes, but no like an eggshell then and harder to break cleanly esp by a kid.

@reubprue8602 4 года назад

Do two half's and plaster together.

@garyha2650 4 года назад

Try spraying that on

@saveriocorbo9302 5 лет назад

Wellcome back to youtube

@dtec30 5 лет назад

if you watch the people that make balloons with teddys stuffed inside that will give you some ideas

@benlucas1039 5 лет назад

Put the present in the balloon to enclose the egg

@servalguts 4 года назад

GOD I LOVE YOU

@andybourre1957 5 лет назад

You never want single ply TP

@SmolStufff 5 лет назад

Couldn't you just stick the present in a balloon? That way you don't have to remove the balloon at all. Maybe? I dunno.

@MarkWarbington 5 лет назад

I made a Halloween mask a few years ago using the paper mache recipe from this channel: ru-vid.com. It's basically those blue "Scott" brand paper towels with plaster of paris and white PVA glue. If you decide to go off on a paper mache tangent, that is...

@drhfhs 5 лет назад

HEY POCKOOOOO

@dtec30 5 лет назад

epoxy the crack lol

@brent3072 5 лет назад

See y’all next year

@bobdickweed 5 лет назад

Big upgrade...Camera operator...;-p

@bacon_sammich2845 4 года назад

Noticed you hadn’t uploaded in a while, hope you’re doing OK Pocket :-/

@MattBooth 4 года назад

Your older videos were better... Because you sounded like David Hayter in them more (probably a different mic back in 2014). But you still sound like Solid Snake.