Make an egg holder

Make an egg holder is really easy and a great way to use up leftover scraps of wood. I had been tempted to invest in a plunge router to make wooden egg trays like this, but it was honestly super simple to make this egg tray with just an inexpensive hole saw that I already owned!

SUPPLIES FOR A DIY WOODEN EGG HOLDER:

Solid piece of wood (I used 3/4″ thick pine)
1 1/4″ hole saw
Saw (to cut the wood to length – whatever you have)
Drill
Pencil
Ruler / Combination square
Sandpaper
Wood glue
Masking tape or mini clamps
Food safe wood finish

First, decide on the overall length and width for your DIY wooden egg holder. You can adjust this – but I would not suggest making your egg tray narrower than mine because you need room for the width of the eggs. I didn’t need to make my DIY egg tray to fit a standard dozen or 18 eggs because mine come sporadically from my chooks.

For reference, my egg tray is:
– 11″ long,
– 3 3/4″ wide
– 2″ tall
– 1 1/4″ holes
– With 10 holes for eggs

Cut your wood to length (11″ long to make it the size of mine). Then cut two additional pieces for the “legs”. My legs have a length the same width as the egg tray, with a height of 2″ (you can adjust this) so I cut a 2″ wide piece of wood from the same length of wood.

I ended up with three pieces: 2 for the legs and one for the tray.

Next it was time to determine the placement of the holes:

The edges of the holes are 1/2″ apart. From center to center, the holes are 2″ apart. You can space it out with a ruler and make markings as a guide with a pencil – they can easily be sanded off after.

Then we pre-drilled a hole as a guide for the hole saw, to make sure we drilled these holes exactly where we measured them out to be:

Then I sanded the holes and edges:

Finally, I used a bead of wood glue and attached the legs to the tray, using painter’s tape to hold the glue in place while it dried. Be sure to sand off any glue that squishes out. To finish it, I just used the same food safe oil I used for my DIY driftwood egg cups: