Easter Craft: Decorating Eggs

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Chocolate candy and plastic colored Easter eggs are common in Easter baskets. Some people may also try their hand at decorating eggs, real ones, when they have been dyed. Why not take decorating eggs a little further by adding non-traditional embellishments?

Each year hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of colored plastic eggs are sold to fill Easter baskets or for children to find during Easter egg hunts. Those aren’t always appropriate to use when decorating your home, however. You may want to create some Easter eggs that can be reused each year for decorations.

One way to create reusable eggs is to blow out chicken eggs. How do you do that? Start by washing the egg and drying it.  Poke a small hole in both ends of a raw egg. Poke a bamboo skewer into the egg to break the  yoke. Hold the egg over a bowl and gently blow on one end until the contents are emptied into the bowl. Allow the eggs to dry and then you can use one of these four ideas for decorating them.

Beaded eggs

These eggs can be created using blown-out eggs. You’ll also need a glue gun, glue, and strings of beads. Hot glue a string of beads at one end of the egg, then carefully wrap and glue the beads as you go. When you reach the top, you may want to use ribbon and silk flowers if you intend to hang them.

Chick and egg

What do you do if you crack an egg while you’re blowing it out? Make a chick and egg, of course!  You can dye the entire shell and then place a small toy chick into the egg. Your family or guests won’t be expecting to see a chick peeking out of the decorations.

Bumpy egg

Before you dye your eggs, try this decoration for an easy, yet different look.  Put glue dots all over the egg using a hot glue gun. Try to keep the size of the dots the same, but don’t worry too much if they’re uneven. Then dye the eggs as you normally would and let them dry.

Batik eggs

This idea is similar to the fabric decorations of India. Use a paraffin wax crayon to create a design on the egg. Dip it into the lightest colored dye and then allow it to dry. Draw another design and dip the egg into a darker dye. You can also use masking tape to mask off any area you don’t want to be colored.

There are many other ways you can enjoy the Easter craft of decorating eggs. Think outside of the box or the carton. The depth of your imagination will determine the look of the eggs you create. Remember to have fun as you create your reusable Easter egg decorations.