Many people dye hard boiled eggs for Easter in solid colors, but why not do something more creative this year?
Whether you decorate hard boiled eggs, wood eggs, or plastic eggs, here are a few ideas for decorating Easter eggs that you may have not thought of.
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Plaid or Stripes
Instead of dyeing hard boiled eggs one color, try dyeing them multiple colors. You can dip the Easter egg partially in one color of dye, then dip it partially in another color. Turn the Easter egg different directions in order for the colors to mix when they overlap creating new colors.
Slightly Cracked
If you slightly crack a hard boiled egg before dyeing it, you will get a spiderweb effect when the Easter egg is dyed.
Resist Dying
Draw on your Easter egg with wax (or a crayon) to create a pattern before dyeing. The area covered in wax will not accept the dye. You can also cover your Easter egg with rubber bands, lace, stickers, or tape before dying to achieve a similar effect.
Marble Effect
To get a marbled effect on your Easter eggs, simply dye them a base color like usual. After the base color has dried, dye them again using a different color that has 1 tablespoon of olive oil mixed into the dye. You can add a different colored marble effect to the egg once each coat has dried.
Speckled
For a speckled robins egg effect, dye the eggs as usual, however flick brown paint from the end of an old toothbrush to get a speckled effect after the coat of dye has dried.
Spray Paint
Imagine all of the different ways you can paint Easter eggs using spray paint. You can use stencils. You can layer colors on top of colors. You can use metallic spray paint, glitter spray paint, or glow in the dark spray paint. The ideas are endless!
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For glamorous Easter eggs, decorate them in glitter, rhinestones, feathers, and/or sequins.
Consider dyeing them first, then add glue to a small portion of the Easter egg and add the decorations to that part.
Stickers
If you are pressed for time, you can decorate your Easter eggs with stickers.
For a designer look, avoid cartoon character stickers and use simple shapes.
Metallic
For metallic Easter eggs, you can spray paint them with metallic paint, cover them in metallic foil, or cover them in gold leaf.
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For interactive Easter eggs, you can paint them with chalkboard paint and let people decorate them with chalk without the worry of messing up their nice Easter clothes.
Decoupage
Decoupage is the art of gluing paper to an object.
You can decoupage your Easter eggs using newspaper (maybe the comics), tissue paper, scrapbook paper, or most anything you can think of to decorate them.
Painted
If you are artistic, you can paint Easter eggs.
Many painted Easter eggs are actually made out of wood so they can be reused year after year.
Hot Glue
You can use a hot glue gun to add dimension to your Easter eggs.
You can add dots, lines, squiggles, or whatever pattern you choose.
photo courtesy of Will Merydith flickr.com/photos/merydith/5462639477/Different Sizes Easter Egg
Most Easter eggs are the size of chicken eggs.
Instead of the traditional size, why not decorate an egg the size of an ostrich egg?
You could even go with a duck, quail, goose, or turkey egg?
Consider using a collection of different sized eggs together.
Free Range Farm Eggs
Free range chicken eggs have a tendency to have beautiful pastel colors.
These eggs are naturally beautiful, so you don't have to decorate them at all.
