Sara Andrea Fajardo | Brightly https://www.readbrightly.com Reading Is the Just the Beginning Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:11:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 How To Make Cascarones: DIY Confetti Eggs https://www.readbrightly.com/how-to-make-cascarones-diy-confetti-eggs/ https://www.readbrightly.com/how-to-make-cascarones-diy-confetti-eggs/#respond Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:00:39 +0000 https://www.readbrightly.com/?p=113858 Cascarones are eggshells filled with confetti and are for anyone and everyone! Learn how to make your own and join in the cascarón fun!

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]]> My American mom taught me how to make cascarones, confetti-filled eggshells, when I was a little girl growing up in California. What I loved about them was that they made me feel closer to Peru, the land where I was born. As a boy, my father used to play with them during Carnival. They’d be filled with confetti, flour, even paint. Sadly, that tradition has faded in Peru, but I still love hearing stories of how my aunts and uncles would surprise each other with every crack of the cascarón. As the youngest of five, I can relate to that feeling. Cascarones are the great equalizer; you only need to catch someone by surprise, and you can be the reigning cascarón king or queen.

Are you ready to start celebrating in style with your own cascarones? Let’s learn how to make them!

Mi madre estadounidense me enseñó a hacer cascarones (cáscaras de huevo rellenas de confeti) cuando era niña y vivíamos en California. Lo que me encantaba de los cascarones era que me hacían sentir más cerca de Perú, la tierra donde nací. Cuando mi padre era niño y vivía en la cordillera de los Andes, jugaba con ellos durante los carnavales. Estaban rellenos de confeti, harina e incluso pintura. Lamentablemente, esa tradición se ha desvanecido en el Perú, pero todavía me encanta escuchar historias de cómo mis tías y tíos gozaban de las caras de sorpresa que producía cada explosión del cascarón. Como soy la menor de cinco hermanos, puedo identificarme con ese sentimiento. Los cascarones son armas secretas convirtiendo hasta los más pequeños en grandes; solo necesitas sorprender a alguien y puedes ser el rey o la reina del cascarón.

¿Estás listo para comenzar a celebrar a toda cáscara con tus propios cascarones? ¡Aprendamos a hacerlos!

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Rompe cuidadosamente la parte superior y vacía el huevo.

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Lava y seca la cáscara con cuidado.

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Decora el huevo a tu gusto.

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Llena la cáscara con confeti hecho con recortes de papel reciclado.

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Sella el agujero con un trozo de papel o cinta adhesiva.

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Rompe el huevo en la cabeza de un amigo y  ríanse de lo lindo poniendo todos los huevos en la misma canasta, digo, en la misma cabeza.

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