24 Best Egg Painting Ideas and Techniques to Make Mini Easter Masterpieces
You've never made Easter eggs like these before.
Year after year, we pull out the Easter egg dye or gather material to dye eggs naturally and spend a few hours the week before Easter Sunday creating a rainbow of eggs. Whether you are decorating eggs for the annual backyard egg hunt or to take pride of place on the Easter brunch buffet, this year we encourage you to get creative with your Easter egg decorations and try something easy, bold, and of course fun to make. Enter: these best Easter egg painting ideas. If you've got a penchant for crafts, love to get a little messy while decorating, and are looking to get out your egg decorating rut these painted beauties are just what you need.
Along with the other Easter crafts we know you are going to make to decorate your house with this year, you can put some of these creations together with your kids in an evening of crafty family fun. They'll love creating an egg that looks like a fresh lemon or a cross-stitched one in the shape of the first letter of their name. They will also love helping paint eggs for the Easter egg tree that get wrapped with ribbon for hanging. There are easy Easter egg painting techniques for any style, whether it's a funky paint splatter look you're after or a fake faux boise for a more classic design. There's something for everyone's Easter table decorations with these versatile patterns of stunning egg painting ideas.
Button Eggs
Use vintage or new buttons to create these colorful beauties.
To make: Start by painting or dying eggs the same colors as the buttons. Once dry, hot-glue buttons to the eggs, either covering completely or in a center band.
Easter Egg Tree
The German tradition of decorating trees dates back centuries.
To make: Fill a tea tin with floral foam and insert blooming branches (here, dogwood). Hang painted wooden eggs (you can paint them with glossy spray paint or acrylic paint) using a length of ribbon looped around the egg and held in place with a wooden craft bead.
Speckled Egg Garland
Display this simple to make garland year after year.
To make: Use an awl to poke holes in ends of papier-mâché eggs, then paint eggs white, robin’s-egg blue, and turquoise with acrylic paint. Once dry, spatter with dark blue paint. Thread twine through holes, and hang, adding a tassel detail, if desired.
Radish Eggs
Good enough to eat, these radish eggs can either be painted or dyed.
To make: Paint or dye three-quarters of a blown-out white egg pink. Create roots by attaching pieces of off-white twine to the bottom with hot-glue. Roll up light green crepe paper to create a stem; seal seam with glue. Cut leaves from crepe paper; wrap around stem, and attach with glue. Glue stem to top of egg.
Vintage Egg Basket Vase with Painted Wooden Eggs
A vintage French egg collecting basket filled with colorful wooden eggs makes the perfect home for displaying your abundant spring bouquet (here are lilacs, anemones, Scabiosa lavender, allium, and ranunculus).
To make: Dye or paint wooden eggs white or robin's egg blue. You can also leave a few natural. Place a vase inside the basket and surround with eggs. Fill vase with water and flowers.
Easter Basket Egg
Paint a mini Easter basket onto your Easter egg to then decorate your Easter basket with—mind blown yet? Use paint pens or a fine paint brush to create this cute design.
Lettuce Ware Eggs
With a canvas so small and delicate, consider a thin-tipped paint pen your Easter egg decorating BFF. The nimble tool keeps your designs perfectly precise, as seen in the white veins drawn across these leafy green acrylic-painted decorations.
Cross-Stitch Initial Easter Egg
All you need is a white paint pen to create an easy cross-stitch design in the shape of your initial or the first initial of your family's last name.
Spatterware Eggs
Mix a bit of acrylic paint with water in a bowl, then use a flat-edge paint brush to douse each egg with colorful imperfect "splats."
Swedish Folk Art Easter Egg
Create some beautiful designs with this Swedish folk art inspiration, whether you paint this pattern or similar ones you find online.
Faux Bois Easter Egg
"Faux bois" translates to English as false wood and is a great design ideas for your eggs. Draw wood-inspired patterns onto your eggs (preferably brown eggs) with a white paint pen.
Watercolor Gingham Easter Egg
Watercolors and a flat-tipped paintbrush will turn any plain white egg into an Easter egg masterpiece.
Puffy Paint Eggs
Just because you're working on a flat surface doesn't mean your eggs can't take on a bit of extra texture. Dot each shell with Puffy Paint, wait for it to dry, and coat with green acrylic paint for the finishing touch.
Ladybug Easter Egg
A black paint pen makes this ladybug possible, drawn over a pink or red Easter egg and adorned with black wire antennae.
Lavender Sprig Easter Egg
Tie a sprig of lavender to a lavender-painted egg for a perfect springtime addition to your Easter decorations.
Lemon Easter Egg
Dye or paint your egg a pale yellow and use a black marker to add tiny dots along the top and bottom. A stem made out of rolled up brown felt and leaves of cut out green felt are hot-glued on to make an undeniable lemon egg.
Rickrack Easter Egg
This egg is entirely customizable, from the colors to the size and amount of rickrack you choose to hot glue on your egg. This palette is a great cheery color combination!
Gold Leaf Tulip Easter Egg
You can create this elegant design by first drawing a tulip design on an egg. Next, paint over the drawing with Mod Podge and let dry until it's tacky to the touch. Then, layer gold leaf on top and use a brush to press it onto the glue.
Folk Pattern Easter Egg
This familiar design is made possible with just a few strokes of a navy blue felt pen on a brown egg. If you need some more design inspiration, it's known as "Pfaltzgraff folk art."
Vintage Botanicals Easter Egg
Creating this chic egg is easier than it looks. Just cut out images of your favorite floral designs and use Mod Podge to adhere them to a painted or plain egg.
Erin Cavoto is the Editorial Assistant at ThePioneerWoman.com, covering food, holidays, home decor, and more.
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