4 Easy Easter Egg Ideas
How to make Easter eggs
The first egg I decorated was the animal print egg. For this one I used a base dye of blue & green to create a teal egg. I then used Hoch by Julep (a creme turqoise) to paint spots on the egg. I let the polish dry for about 15 minutes then I used black polish to paint incomplete circles around the edges of the spots to create the look.
The next Easter egg idea also utilises nail polish; specifically a matte polish (black) and a crackle polish (hot pink). I realised after that it would have looked better had I taped off the stripe so in the future I would do that before painting the stripe. The key to a good crackle effect is to get a few good coats of the base on first. Then you want to paint the crackle on as thick as you can while the base is still tacky.
The third egg is an alternative to etching wax onto an egg prior to dying. To achieve this look I used clear polish and painted where I wanted the egg to stay white and then dyed the egg. A third way to achieve this look is to wrap your egg with rubber bands then dye the egg ensuring the dye is completely dry before removing. If you are doing this one with kids, try white crayons rather than the other options. It’s a little easier and way more kid friendly.
To decorate the fourth egg, after removing it initially from the dye, I added more dye to create a darker purple and added a tbsp of oil and swirled it around. I then rolled the egg around in it and then added a drop more of red food colouring and blue food colouring to create the splatters. I then carefully patted it dry with a paper towel.
Easy to make and so pretty & unique!
Do you decorate Eggs for Easter?
Elizabeth Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys travelling, developing easy recipes, crafting, taking on diy projects, travelling and saving money!
Very nice! I can’t wait to try this when Easter comes around.Our son should be old enough to have fun with it.
Your Easter eggs are very pretty and I hope to follow your instructions to make my own in the near future. Thank you for sharing your craft ideas with your readers.
speckled one is very pretty
thanks for all the decorating ideas
With Easter coming up before to long I am looking for some new ideas for coloring eggs.These are very pretty.Thanks I will be using your ideas.
Awesome Easter EGGS! I can’t wait for Easter 2014!
I just showed my son your eggs and now he has some ideas for Easter!
I’d love to see what he comes up with!
What great idea, I honestly have never thought of nail polish. We dye & paint and use some glitter and glue here as well, Miss K loves shiny things.. still.
Thank you for this wonderful Easter section. I will be watching for ideas!
I love decorating eggs for Easter, never thought of using nail polish before tho, what a neat idea
awesome Idea to use nail polish I would never have thought of that.
That’s so cool!! What a great idea for Easter activities with the kids!
Awesome Easter eggs for kids!
What cute eggs. I don’t dye my eggs but I have seen them done with onion skins, silk ties, etc. That would be fun.
They look great! Unique!
I don’t ever remember dying eggs for Easter as a child but I did with my own children. I also painted some blown out egg shells with pictures and hung them from twigs in a vase.
I never thought of using nail polish to decorate eggs. That’s a brilliant idea!
I loved the coloured eggs. I think my ggrandchildren would love them as well. I suppose the vinegar is to set the dye on the eggs. Thank you for this craft and the eggs are so elegant.
These are very cute. This year my family did swirly eggs with shaving cream and food dye. it was very fun
I used wooden eggs from the Dollarama
I love painting wooden eggs