DIY Easter Eggs: 10 beautiful and easy-to-use decorations
DIY Easter eggs are the perfect pastime for young and old to prepare Easter decorations. It is a "simple idea that will surely stimulate the imagination of the little ones making everything truly unique. Few, simple elements will be enough to give life to your own personalized egg ... be it hard or chocolate.
Before continuing, watch the video below to learn how to make a rabbit-shaped place card!
DIY Easter eggs: which ones to choose?
Before moving on to the action it is important to pause for a moment on the choice of Easter eggs to decorate: wood, polystyrene, hard-boiled, chocolate or emptied of yolk and albumen, all will be fine, the important thing will be to choose also based on the " Are you looking for some eggs to color but would like to serve during Easter lunch? Then opt for boiled eggs that you can make marbled or dyed with food coloring. Alternatively, chocolate eggs will be perfect as a dessert and you can amaze your guests by decorating them with sugar paste flowers and leaves ... guaranteed result.
The polystyrene eggs, the wooden ones, or the emptied shell, on the other hand, will be excellent for giving life to DIY Easter eggs to use as decoration: place them in the center of the table on Sunday, or decorate your very personal Easter tree that will drive the kids crazy!
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1 - Easter eggs painted with watercolors
The technique for coloring Easter eggs with pencils and watercolors is very easy and suitable even for younger children. The ideal in this case is to use hard-boiled eggs or egg shells completely emptied of their contents. In this second case, the utmost attention will be needed to avoid breaking the egg by applying too much pressure with the tools. Green light to the imagination! Use brushes of various shapes and sizes to apply gouache or watercolors over the entire surface of the egg: you can also overlap the colors to create new shades. One idea would be to first draw the outline of the shapes with a pencil and then go and color each space with a different color.
Giotto Watercolors 36 Pcs available on Amazon at € 9.15
2 - DIY Easter eggs with a black marker
If you are a lover of simplicity and the essentials, you will surely appreciate these eggs drawn only with a fine-tipped black marker. Choose, if possible, white-shelled eggs, in this way the contrast with the black ink of the felt-tip pen will stand out even more.The porous shell will be the perfect canvas to unleash your imagination, letting yourself be guided only and only by your personal taste. These eggs that are very reminiscent of the famous Mandala to be colored, they are perfect as a decoration to display at home all year round!
Set of 8 non-toxic permanent markers: black, white, gold and silver available on Amazon for € 13.99
3 - Decoupage technique for Easter eggs
The decoupage it is a much appreciated and exploited technique especially for the decoration of dishes and ceramics in general. In a nutshell, it is a question of transferring cuttings of designs onto the ceramic that are glued onto the object and covered with layers of transparent varnish. For Easter eggs we can talk about the Washi technique, that is to use paper cuttings to adhere to the shell of the "egg and then cover with a layer of transparent varnish to be applied with the brush. The result is terrific, especially if you choose a paper decorated with abstract or geometric patterns.
Washi Tape Adhesive Paper 50 pcs available online on Amazon on offer at € 16.97
4 - Embroidery thread for colorful Easter eggs
A simple and brilliant idea: use the embroidery thread to wrap the egg shell and make it super colorful. It will be enough to get many spools of embroidery thread of different colors, apply a thin layer of vinyl glue on the egg shell, perhaps with the help of a brush, and finally start wrapping the thread.
You can decide whether to proceed in an orderly manner, or let instinct guide us: in both cases you will be amazed by the result!
Kit of Skeins of Embroidery Thread - 50 colors available on Amazon for € 8.78
5 - DIY Easter Eggs with Paper Ribbon
You know the paper patch that is used to fix gauze over a wound? We all have at least one coil in the bathroom door: here's an idea to use it as an Easter egg decoration. First you will have to cut many strips of plaster taking the measurement of the circumference of the egg. At this point you can decide whether to color the strips of paper with the same or different color paints. Once this is finished, all you have to do is attach the strips of patch on the eggshell to get the final result!
Tempera case with palette and brushes - 22 colors available on Amazon for € 12.07
6 - Easter eggs decorated with colored fabric
So many scraps of fabric abandoned in the drawers and you don't know what to do with them? Use them to cover the egg shell and create some very original DIY Easter eggs. For this idea it is better to use polystyrene eggs: attach the pieces of fabric with the "help of a little glue", create contrasting effects and also use cords to finish everything avoiding the borders between a fabric and the "other.
Vinavil Vinyl Glue 250 gr available on Amazon for € 3.59
7 - Crochet Easter eggs
Do you know how to embroider crochet? Try to create real "clothes" to be worn by Easter eggs, the result will be absolutely unique! This could also be a way to teach older children the technique of crochet embroidery .
Kit of 11 pcs Crochet hook of different sizes + accessories available on Amazon for € 12.99
8 - Chic Easter Egg Sequins!
You can buy many sachets of sparkling sequins in a thousand different colors online or in shops like haberdashery. Then use them together with your child to line the Styrofoam eggs using simple seamstress pins. Not only will you get custom DIY Easter eggs, but they'll look great and everyone will want to copy them!
9,000 loose sequins of different colors that can be purchased on Amazon for € 9.99
9 - Stickers and stickers to stick on the Easter egg shell
To involve even the smallest children, you can buy stickers and stickers of different shapes and sizes: sticking them on the egg shell, or on wooden eggs will be child's play!
Pack of 6 sheets of Easter themed stickers online on Amazon for € 8.99
10 - Nature-themed chocolate Easter eggs
Chocolate eggs are greedy and children will not be able to resist! Before devouring them, however, try to involve them in the decoration: you can use leaves and flowers of sugar paste or wafer to stick with a little melted chocolate. Beautiful and delicious!
Sugar Flowers Decorate on offer on Amazon at € 4.75
