Parents across the country have been taking to TikTok to post the egg-centred creations their children have made in the lead up to Easter.
In Birmingham, Megan Ensor’s five-year-old son Caleb Dove recreated characters from Pixar animation The Incredibles including Edna Mode, also known as ‘Eggna Mode’, and Jack-Jack using hard boiled eggs.
He and his mother used paint to mimic the characters’ hair and fine liner pens to draw faces on the eggs.
Caleb with his Incredibles inspired egg project (Megan Ensor/PA)
“I’ve got two sons and both of them are obsessed with The Incredibles, especially Jack-Jack, so we were fiddling around with names and I just thought of one scene in particular, which was when Jack-Jack was fighting with a racoon in Incredibles 2, and I just incorporated that with eggs,” Ms Ensor, who is 25 and works as a cleaner, told the PA news agency.
“We thought of the name the Increggibles, which made my son really excited.”
The project – which also features other elements including a car made from cardboard and houses constructed with card – took roughly a week-and-a-half to create.
“There was a lot of cutting and sticking and my son was having fun with the glue stick and putting it all together,” she said.
Caleb’s egg project features members of The Incredibles including Edna Mode and Jack-Jack (Megan Ensor/PA)
“When all the box was done, we decided to move on to the eggs which took hours.
“When we were boiling them, I lost about two because they completely cracked.”
Despite not winning with his entry, Caleb provided some Easter joy to social media users through a video of his creation, which was shared by his...
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