The Art of Scrap, Friday, Period 4
"Hey there, guys," Dean greeted, offering his students a nod toward the desk, which contained the requisite coffee as well as an assortment of chocolate eggs. Because... hey, they were cheap, and why not? "As you may or may not know, this weekend is Easter weekend. And I'm not going to stand here and assume that any of you celebrate Christian holidays or anything like that, but, and you can call this inspiration or something, it seemed to me like today was the sort of day where maybe I could pull out some eggs and have you guys decorate them all the same. It's not just an Easter thing, after all."
For all he knew, his students came from the moon or something. But decorating fragile things, scrap or not, was one of those artsy things that he'd been wanting to touch on anyhow.
"You've got a few options for decorating your eggs. You can just dye them. Stick them in a cup with dye in it, and when you pull them out, presto. Color. That option works well if you want to draw on them with a crayon first. The wax will resist the dye, so that part of the egg will stay the color of the crayon. You can just paint them. You know, with paint. Pretty straightforward. You can take an egg with some color to it, either a dyed one or a brown hen's egg or something, and you can carve patterns in it. Careful with that one, since eggshells are pretty fragile and you'd be working with something sharp..." Odds were high that he'd be watching Butters like a hawk if he chose that option, "or you can just stick things to it. Feathers, googly eyes, whatever you dig the most. I'm not going to tell you you're decorating your eggs wrong."
A beat.
"You might want to empty them out first, though. Grab a bowl, poke a hole in either end, and blow. I mean, you can let 'em stay in one piece if you really want to. I don't live in your dorm building and I don't have to smell that funk if you break one of 'em. But the not-keeping-rotten-eggs-around thing comes pretty highly recommended. Just saying."
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For all he knew, his students came from the moon or something. But decorating fragile things, scrap or not, was one of those artsy things that he'd been wanting to touch on anyhow.
"You've got a few options for decorating your eggs. You can just dye them. Stick them in a cup with dye in it, and when you pull them out, presto. Color. That option works well if you want to draw on them with a crayon first. The wax will resist the dye, so that part of the egg will stay the color of the crayon. You can just paint them. You know, with paint. Pretty straightforward. You can take an egg with some color to it, either a dyed one or a brown hen's egg or something, and you can carve patterns in it. Careful with that one, since eggshells are pretty fragile and you'd be working with something sharp..." Odds were high that he'd be watching Butters like a hawk if he chose that option, "or you can just stick things to it. Feathers, googly eyes, whatever you dig the most. I'm not going to tell you you're decorating your eggs wrong."
A beat.
"You might want to empty them out first, though. Grab a bowl, poke a hole in either end, and blow. I mean, you can let 'em stay in one piece if you really want to. I don't live in your dorm building and I don't have to smell that funk if you break one of 'em. But the not-keeping-rotten-eggs-around thing comes pretty highly recommended. Just saying."
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