30 Easter Egg Decorating Ideas

Easter egg decorating for the Easter holidays, is one of the funnest crafts of the year.  Easter egg decorating crafts are a fun way to be creative and inexpensive. Whether your an adult having some creative fun crafting, or want to create a fun Easter holidays activity I am certain I have found several fun ideas for Easter egg decorating you will enjoy trying.

I love that making Easter egg crafts is one of the crafts most people participate in. Whether you choose to go old school and work with natural eggs, or buy faux eggs, to decorate for Easter, the decorating choices are endless.

Before we decorate out Easter eggs we need to prep them. At the end of the post you will find instructions on how to hollow an egg, cut the cap off an egg how to hard boil an egg, and how to keep Easter eggs.  It’s always good to have instructions on the basics.

Different Ways Decorate Easter Eggs with Dye

How to Dye Eggs Naturally

Martha provides full recipes and directions for a wide variety of colours to add to a boiled egg. Granted its more expensive than a dye kit, but you know whats in it.

Dyeing Eggs Naturally | Martha Stewart

How to Dye Eggs with Shaving Cream

When I looked up how to do Easter eggs this way I was startled at how easy and fun this would be to do with children.

Shaving Cream Dyed Easter Eggs | Crafty Morning

Tye Dying Easter Eggs with Paper Towels

Tie Dyed Easter Eggs | One Little Project

Ombre Dyed Easter Eggs

These eggs are dyed but super easy to do.  To get the ombre effect you dye each egg a little bit longer than the previous one.  So pretty and so easy.

Ombre Eggs | Sugar and Charm

Cool Whip Dyed Easter Eggs

Cool Whip Easter Eggs are quick, easy, and require minimal clean-up. You will love this less mess way to dye Easter eggs with kids.

How to Make Cool Whip Easter Eggs | In Katrinas Kitchen

Egg Decorating Without Dyes

With so many people suffering from food dye allergies (including me) I wanted to include some dye free ways to Easter Egg decorating ideas.

Isn’t she just the cutest sweetheart of an egg.  Start with a brown egg, add a pretty headband and a sweet face.  She is just so adorable.

aFloral Wreath Crowned Easter Eggs | Flax and Twine

If you happen to have some pretty ribbon or unused washi tape in your craft room. How about decorating Easter eggs with ribbon.

Ribbon Wrapped Easter Eggs | Design Improvised

These simple elegant eggs are done with a cutting machine and gold vinyl.  I find their quiet elegance beautiful.  If you don’t have a cutting machine you could hand letter or stencil your own wording.

Easter Egg Project | EAB Designs

These glittered Easter eggs or so sparkly and fun.    Imagine all the difference colours of glitter you could use, tutorial in the post.  Love the brown egg idea.
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Glitter Easter Eggs | The Girl Inspired

This is one of my own Easter Egg designs.  These Easter themed placeholders make a simple tablesetting look elegant.  Complete step by step instructions for this simple design are in the post.a

a Floral Egg Place Holders

The secret to these easy decorative Easter eggs is printable tatoo paper. All the design and no mess.

Easy Decorative Easter Eggs | Monika Hibbs

Easter Egg Decorating with Paint and Embellishments

The variety of Easter egg decorating ideas for the holidays are countless and amazingly fun to read about. Here are some of my favorite examples.

You see speckled Easter eggs in all the gift shops, heres a tutorial on how to paint and speckle them yourself. I found her picture just so pretty!

Speckled Eggs | Saavy Saving Couple

These Easter Egg bunnies are created with thumb prints! I just love how cute they are sitting in their little spring pots.

Thumbpring Bunny Easter Eggs | It All Started with Paint

These Disney Pixar eggs are inspired by the families favorite movie. What a fun creative way to create together with the kids.

DIY Disney Pixar Easter Eggs | A Pumpkin and a Princess

Lia Griffith shares the full tutorial for these Animal Easter Eggs with Members, but I think they are inspiring.

Easter Egg Animals | Lia Griffith

The Bunny face Easter eggs couldn’t be easier to make. A Girl and Her Glue Gun includes a free svg file to make it super simple to create.

Funny Face Easter Eggs with Free SVG File | A Girl and a Glue Gun

These little cactus Easter eggs start with real eggs. A very unique and different Easter egg in natural cactus colours. I enjoy the neutral colours of these eggs.

Easter Egg Cactus | Quartz and Leisure

These magical Unicorn Easter Eggs are great for tweens, start by painting a wooden egg, adding a face and pretty accessories.

Unicorn Easter Eggs | I Heart Arts n Crafts

Temporary tatoos are the secret to these pretty Easter eggs. Those lovely vintage images are so special, did you spot the one of the car?

DIY Easter Eggs Decorated with Temporary Tattoos | House of Hawthornes

A simple yet adorable painted Easter egg craft. Such a sweet and unique looking Easter egg idea.

Ice Cream Cone Easter Eggs Karas Party Ideas

This farm themed Easter egg decorating craft is done with wooden eggs. After decorating your wooden eggs they can be used as toys. View from a Step Stool even shares the pattern for everything we need.

DIY Toys Farm Painted Easter Eggs | Views from a Step Stool

Moss is so trendy right now you see it everywhere in Easter and Spring decor.   Cherished Bliss provides us with a tutorial of her gorgeousand unique diy moss covered egg.
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Moss Covered Easter Egg | Cherished Bliss

Painted watercolour Easter eggs by following a simple tutorial, trust me, no art ability required.

Watercolour Easter Eggs | Pretty DIY Home

Whether you use real blown out Easter eggs or faux Easter eggs these decoupage napkin eggs are beautiful. Such an inexpensive Easter decor idea.
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DIY Napkin Decoupage Easter Eggs | Alice and Lois

I laughed when I saw these bunny and chick Easter eggs from Frugal Fun 4 Boys. How can an egg be this cute?

Bunny and Chick Painted Eggs | Frugal Fun 4 Boys

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General Egg How-To Tutorials

In the old days we had to work with natural eggs and blow them out if we wanted to keep them. Even if you purchase faux eggs to decorate instead, this is always good information to have.

How to Keep Decorated Easter Eggs

You can keep and store real Easter eggs as long as you blow them out first. Solid hard boiled Easter eggs are easier for children to decorate as they aren’t fragile, but we shouldn’t eat eggs that have been out of the fridge more than an hour.

To store the blown out Easter eggs just place them in an egg container and store in a dark place. The shells store well as long as they have been blown out.

How to Blow out an Egg so it Keeps

I promise this is easy to do, all you need is a little bit of patience.  The worst case scenario you may break one egg out of a dozen and your going to have enough eggs for an omelet supper either way.

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Supplies for Blowing Out an Egg

Eggs, towel, bowl, tape, small headed pin, large sharp darning needle, and a juice box straw.

Start with washing your egg.  Place on a clean towel,  along with needles,  straw, and bowl.

Firmly grasp the egg.  Poke the egg with the small needle in the pointed end first, apply steady pressure and twist.  You will feel the needle slowly grip and then drill through the eggshell.  This may take up to a minute or so, this requires patience.  I promise it works.

Once the small pin breaks the surface, apply tape over the hole.  This will help prevent cracking.

Insert the large darning needle.  Twirl it around gently to enlarge the hole a little bit and plunge in and out of the egg to break the yoke and sort of scramble the insides.

Using the small pin roughen up the edges enlarging the hole.

Repeat this on the other end.

Now that you have two holes. Cut the juice box straw and use just the little straight part.

Place your egg over the bowl, put the straw over the hole and huff and puff and blow the egg out.

Once this is done, run the egg under the tap to rinse out whatever little may be left inside.

You can then drain your eggs for two days, or do like I did and bake them at 300 F for ten minutes.  Let cool and decorate.

How to Remove the Cap of an Egg

You will need Caution, an egg, and a sharp box cutter.  Be cautious and careful and don’t get cut.

Make sure the box cutter blade is sharp.  Apply a steady pressure towards the narrow end of the egg.  Spin the egg slowly as you scratch a single line, it may take two rounds.  The egg will start to crack along the weak scratch point.  Continue cutting along the line until the cap of the egg is lose and comes off.

Empty the egg contents out into a bowl, you can still eat them.  Rinse the shell out thoroughly with water and let dry.

How to Hard Boil Eggs for Decorating

Place eggs in a pot, cover with water so that the water is 1 inch above the eggs.  Place on high heat, once they boil turn to very low heat and let them quietly cooks for about 12 minutes.

To test if they are hard boiled take an egg out of the water and spin on the counter.  If it spins well that means the yolk is hard.  If the egg wobbles it means the yoke is still runny causing the wobble.

I hope you have found this collection, unique, fun and informative. Happy crafting. Leanna