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Easter bunny shares some trade secrets Must apply for supplement The Easter Bunny is busy decorating eggs again and he has passed along a few of his trade secrets Let the try some of the simple ones or get creative yourself with some of the fancier types These Ideas can be used on either hardcooked or blown eggs How to blow eggs Wash and dry eggs Pierce both ends of the egg with a large needle Slightly enlarge hole at the small end of the egg Push needle well into egg to break yolk Hold egg over bowl with small end down Blow Into hole at opposite end Rinse shell with cold water To color eggs Try felt pens nail polish food color tog fabric dyes ink acrylic enamel or poster paints NOTE If planning to eat bardcooked eggs that have been dyed make sure that a nontoxic vegetable dye is used as the shell is porous eggs This is easy to dot Cut tiny pictures from magazines or gift wrap use dried flowers feathers or stickers Glue decoration on egg which may be plain dyed or painted Let dry then coat with spray varnish or coating 1 Modge Podge NOTE varnish may dis color pictures If desired instead of varnishing on top of decoration coat with white glue and glitter Glue will be clear when dry Batik eggs Draw design on egg with light pencil Melt candle wax using a small brush paint wax on areas you don want to be colored Dip egg in dye of desired color then Into a vinegar bath to set the color You can use several colors by repeating the pro cess remembering to cover the previous colors with wax unless you want to mix colors I blue over yellow makes green Remove wax by dipping egg In boiling water This process can also be reversed by dipping egg design drawn on it in melted ball tall fish with tissue wax covering it well paper fins frogs striped Remove from wax and let bumblebees and so on cool Scratch on design with Tips After drawing darning needle Dye then tlppen let remove wax as described dry and coat with clear nail above NOTE Here a an idea for the really young ones to try Dtp egg in wax then color with ordinary crayons To make it shiny coat with oil Egg Animals Owl shown here Color egg with black or brown felt pen Glue on beak made of triangle of construction Use two small stones or feet polish to prevent smearing To make stands for decorated eggs glue on small plastic curtain rings buttons spools stones pieces of wood or bottle caps Health and Welfare Canada officials today urged old age security pensioners In Ontario who are receiving Guaranteed income Supple ment to reapply before the March deadline if they want to continue receiving the supplement W A Wright Regional Director for Old Age Security said that his office mailed out some applications to peniioners who have been receiving the supplement in Ontario durlntt the past year The Acton Free Press Wednesday March 1978 9 Every recipient who wants the supplement is entirely to continue receiving the dependent on the income of supplement must reapply the pensioner Mr Wright said The federal governments Guaranteed Income Supple- ment Is available only to Plans are underway to persons receiving Old Age establish town signs at Security pension Amount of Acton outskirts SAI One Day Only Saturday March 25th Fun with Easter eggs After you have decorated family recipe for a mustard the hardcooked eggs for your sauce which Is a Easter Egg hunt and the kids are still feeling creative mix up some egg yolk paint and let them decorate cookies PAINTBRUSH COOKIES cup butter or margarine for your Easter ham MUSTARD SAUCE cup sugar dry mustard 1 egg beaten Pig Dye egg pink Glue on miniature for four legs and snout Make a curly tall from a pipe cleaner Draw eyes with a felt pen Mouse shown here Glue on large pink ovals of con paper for ears Add a pipe cleaner tail draw on whiskers and eyes with a felt cup brown or white sugar cup vinegar In small saucepan blend tap vanilla cups wholewheat or all purpose flour 1 tap baking soda 1 tsp salt Beat together butter or sugar ei la Stir in flour and salt until blended Chill at leaat one hour Preheat oven to degrees On floured board roll out dough to thickness Cut pattern Easter egg bunny basket from paper place on dough and cut around it with a sharp knife Place cookies on ungreased baking sheet Decorate with egg yolk paint At this time additional decorations such as colored sugar nuts and raisins may be added Bake minutes Makes 3 down threeInch cookies EGG YOLK PAINT g yolk and divide it among two or three small dishes or sections of an egg carton Add food coloring to the yolk to achieve various colors Note that blue does not mix well with the yellow yolk Paint designs on cookies be fore baking The remaining egg white can be used in a variety of For example add it to a souffle or to scrambled eggs or omelettes Glaze bread buns or pastry with it or Bpread it on your face for a refreshing facial mask Egg white can also be frozen for several months Bike stolen in 15 minutes A thief let little time pass when he swiped a woman bicycle on Mill Street East last week The woman left her bike leaning against her home and IS minutes later discovered It was missing sugar and dry mustard to remove any lumps Stir in egg and vinegar Cook over low heat stirring constantly until sauce comes to a boll approximately minutes Makes cup Serve hot or cold with ham Lakeview Centre