Who doesn’t love receiving happy mail? The bright eggs, sweet treat and simple surprise of this fun and easy project waiting in the mailbox for someone is fabulous.
From sophisticated and sparkly, to bright and playful in the best colors of the season – all you need is a plastic mailing tube (ours are from here), Easter eggs, egg fillers and crinkle paper.
Three big eggs filled with jelly beans cost $3.04 to mail. Petite helped stuff the eggs (consuming a few jelly beans in the process) and package the tube. Then at the post office, our patient post office workers let her pick out stamps and helped her put them on the tube. We did not secure the ends of the tube, they fit quite snugly and I wasn’t afraid of them coming off, however, if I had been mailing anything but candy, I’d recommend taping the ends securely to prevent any curious handlers from opening your tube.
How fantastic would this be to send to a mom friend with some grown up spring treats inside (an Essie nail polish or dark chocolate)?
We’re smitten with the idea of an Easter Egg “hunt” in a tube and can’t wait to hear about your creative twists!
Those are so cute. I bet the mail carrier would love delivering them too.
I would send them to my sisters. My kids would love them but they get bigger packages in the mail.
I would send them to my kids!
How cute! I think these would be fun to send from my daughter to her aunts, uncles, and grandparents.
Most likely to the lady I got paired up w on the bloggy basket gift exchange
This is an adorable idea! Pinning.
I would send one to my grandma!
My nieces
I really love these! So pretty.
Can I send one to myself? :)
Oh My Gosh!! I’m totally sending something like this to my niece!!
This is a great idea… I might send one to everyone I know! But top of the list, my nieces :)
My girls would send them to their pen pals!!
Love the idea! would love to send to my step son’s cousins he just met through letter writing.
These are SO fun! I totally want to send some of these to my friends. What a fun surprise to open up the eggs to discover something fun inside! :)
I looked at the site where you bought them – what size do you recommend to purchase?
I’m fairly certain we bought the 12″ (or close) size for this project (they are about 3″ in diameter. Smaller eggs will fit in the smaller diameter tubes – it just depends on the size eggs and how many you want to send!
Thank you!