Hard Boiled Egg Decorating Ideas
Danielle Ochiogrosso Daly
When you think of Easter, images of kids running around in their colorful Sunday best and plenty of holiday-themed candy probably come to mind, and with good reason. But what's Easter without some egg decorating, right? From covering them with glitter, to breaking them in half and making candleholders, to even dipping them in dye-filled Cool Whip, there are countless Easter egg designs out there that everyone can appreciate. The creative tradition of coloring eggs has a way of bringing the whole family together — regardless of age — for a fun, care-free (and kind of messy) afternoon.
Decorating Easter eggs has become an annual tradition for most, and it's one of the many fun activities associated with the holiday — Easter egg hunts, meeting the Easter bunny, and even enjoying an Easter movie marathon. So, whether you're on the hunt for an Easter egg design that'll make you feel like Picasso or something sweet and simple that your little ones and older kids alike can enjoy, any of these easy decorating ideas are sure to be egg-actly what you're looking for.
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Blossom Buddy Eggs
Brush a thin layer of glue onto an egg, stick on dried leaves and brush another thin glue layer over it. For floral "hats" cut dried flowers into small pieces no more than 1" long. Hot-glue two to three of the largest blossoms to the top of the egg, spacing evenly, then glue smaller flowers into empty spaces to create a full arrangement.
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Bunny Face Egg
Cut facial features from stickers, stick to a brown egg, and draw on the rest with permanent marker.
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Ice Cream Cone Eggs
To create tiny cones, start with brown eggs. Draw cone lines with a copper paint pen, decorate the top half with craft paint, and draw on faces with a paint pen. Use cotton and a red pom-pom to create the whipped cream topping. For 3D sprinkle eggs, all you need is puffy paint. Let one painted side dry fully before decorating the next.
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Stencil Eggs
Press a sticker firmly on a hard-boiled egg. Stipple dots around the letter with a paint pen, starting with dense dots and then spreading them out into an oval shape. Let dry; remove sticker with a craft knife. Hot-glue opposite ends of a plastic egg together to make a colorful holder.
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Gumball Machine Eggs
Cut off the bottom of a mini red plastic cup and glue the piece onto the top of an egg. Attach colorful dot stickers as gumballs. Flip the cup upside down and put a strip of silver tape on the front of the cup, wrapping one end over the cut cup edge. Hot-glue a soda tab over the tap. Glue the egg inside the cup base.
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Flocked Easter Eggs
This adorable craft calls for flocking, which is essentially the act of placing small particles — or in this case, flocking powder — on an adhesive. Once you get the basic process down, you can get creative with your patterns and motifs.
Get the Flocked Easter Eggs tutorial.
Con Poulos
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Easter Egg Characters
Who says all your Easter eggs have to look the same? Adhere faux flower petals, buds, and leaves to colored eggs using a hot glue gun (or paint ceramic eggs you can re-use each spring!). We used Gerbera daisies for bunny ears, hydrangeas for bird feathers, baby's breath for a lamb's coat, a lily or rose for butterfly wings, and green leaves for a carrot top. Draw faces with a marker for the cutest crew around.
Get the Easter Egg Characters tutorial.
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Polka-Dot Eggs
Go 3-D by simply adding texture with a hot glue gun, then dip into bright dyes for a fun finish!
Get the tutorial from Good Housekeeping.
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Punched Paper Easter Egg Craft
Mike Garten
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Surprise Egg
Create an oversized egg with a twist! Open an egg box, paint it white, then let dry. Starting at the top of one egg half, apply washi tape lengthwise one row at a time, trimming at the ends. Repeat this on other half until it's covered, then fill with toys or candy, close, and tie with a ribbon.
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Gold Leaf Eggs
To get this gorgeous gilded look, start with dyed Easter eggs. Then, using a foam brush, add splotches of glue from the Mona Lisa Metal Leaf Starter Kit. Let dry according to package instructions (the glue gets tacky when it dries). Apply the gold leaf from the kit to the sticky areas, smooth with your fingers, and use a stiff-bristled brush to sweep away any excess gold leaf.
Mike Garten
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Dipped Herb Silhouettes
Gather herbs like sage, thyme, and parsley and snip them into small sprigs. Lightly paint the backs of herbs with egg white and let set 10 minutes. While herbs dry, cut a nylon stocking into 5'' tubes. Place a prepared herb onto an egg and carefully tie the nylon around both ends so the herb stays put. Submerge egg in dye. Remove and blot dry with paper towels before removing nylon, then slowly peel off herb.
Con Poulos
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Sparkling Easter Designs
Lovely Unicorn: Paint a wooden egg white; let dry. Draw on face. Cut a mane from faux-fur trim, color in an egg dye bath, and attach (once dry) with fabric glue. Use templates to make felt ears and a gold paper horn; assemble and glue to egg. Wrap a 3 x 1/8-in. strip of gold paper around horn; secure with glue. Glue star confetti to cheek and hair.
Shiny Silhouette: Use the templates to carefully cut a chick or bunny from a foil candy wrapper. Adhere to dyed egg with Mod Podge. Use a damp cotton swab to gently wipe clean the foil shape; let dry.
Dazzling Glitter Egg: Try this trick on basic plastic eggs: Lightly sand the outside, brush on glue, cover in glitter, and let dry.
Con Paulos
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Twine-Wrapped Eggs
How cool is this textured twine-wrapped Easter egg idea? Adhere twine to one end of a ceramic egg with a glue stick, then apply glue and tightly wind the twine, working in sections, until you've completely covered the surface.
Con Poulos
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Color Easter Characters
Best dressed: Draw a face and hair on a ceramic egg. Wrap the bottom third of egg in thick yarn (tip: work from the middle down) and secure by brushing on white craft glue in sections. Create details like collars, bows, and buttons with felt and beads.
Dashing Design Egg: Follow tradition and dye your eggs first. Once dry, draw a series of short lines with a white paint marker.
Fuzzy Chick: Wrap a ceramic or wooden egg in yarn (tip: start at the top and work down) and secure by brushing on white craft glue in sections as you work. Use templates to make felt wings, feet, beak, and hair, and attach with glue. Glue on small black-bead eyes.
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Floral Easter Eggs
A dyed egg can be a blank canvas for a watercolor garden. Paint small X's with dots in the centers.
Con Poulos
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Whimsical Bunny
Decorate a painted egg with soft, furry ears and a floral crown. Paint a wooden egg, let dry, then add a spotted belly with white paint. Draw on a face. Use template to make ears from felt and faux-fur trim. Sandwich wire between ear pieces, then bend back the bottom 1/4 in. and use to glue in place. Glue small faux flowers around ears.
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Speckled Eggs
Use a toothbrush to flick watered-down acrylic paint across (dry) spray-painted plastic eggs.
Mike Garten
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Animal Critters
Say hello to spring with these farm friends! Dye hardboiled eggs green, pink, orange, and yellow. Print templates of the animals' features. Print out on corresponding colored paper and cut. Attach features using craft glue.
For bunny ears, chick wings, and frog eyes and legs: fold back 1/8'' at base to glue to egg. Let dry and adjust as needed.
For the lamb: unravel 3 cotton balls. Brush egg with glue, avoiding the narrow top, which will be the face. Smooth cotton to cover egg. Once dry, add pompoms for feet and tail.Draw faces with a fine point permanent marker.
Get the Animals Critters templates.
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Watercolor Easter Egg Idea
Transforming images into adhesive decals for your Easter eggs is easier than it sounds. Simply download our watercolor images template and print onto Grafix Rub-Onz Transfer Film (you may need to select the photo paper setting on your printer). Rub with your fingers or the flat end of a wine cork to apply to eggs.
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Mike Garten
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Bright Egg Votives
Why choose between decorating the house and dyeing Easter eggs when you can have both with this fun little design project?
Get the tutorial at Good Housekeeping.
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Natural Easter Egg Dye
Sure, kids appreciate store-bought Easter egg dyeing kits, complete with glitter and stickers. But making their own natural egg dye and seeing the foods they eat turn into pigments will instantly cause them to forget about the pricey and artificial alternative.
Get the Natural Easter Egg Dye tutorial.
Clinton Kelly
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Office Supply Easter Eggs
You can decorate Easter eggs with practically anything. If you'd rather do something besides dye your eggs this year, consider using a few of the handy supplies in your desk — highlighters, correction fluid, or circle label stickers, just to name a few.
Get the Office Supply Easter Eggs tutorial.
Mike Garten
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Sugared Easter Eggs
Contrary to their appearance, these decorated Easter eggs cannot be eaten, thanks to the fact that you need to use glue to get the sugar to stick. But they sure are pretty.
Get the tutorial at Good Housekeeping.
MIKI DUISTERHOF
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Paper Napkin-Covered Eggs
MIKI DUISTERHOF
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Glittered Egg Box
Take your decorating to the next level with this papier-mâché box that's fun for the whole family. Whether you make it your centerpiece or the final touch on your mantel, you won't regret it.
Get the Glittered Egg Box tutorial.
NANJAN
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Shaving Cream Easter Eggs
Easter egg decorating doesn't only have to be for kids. If you're looking for a way to have fun dyeing eggs but upping the ante a bit, you've found it. Bonus: This activity uses everyday household items, so you don't have to spend lots of money.
Get the Shaving Cream Easter Eggs tutorial.
Mike Garten
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Washi Tape Eggs
Got some washi tape? Try cutting geometric shapes out of it and adhering the shapes to the eggs for a cute pattern.
Get the tutorial at Good Housekeeping.
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Cool Whip Marbled Eggs
Decorated eggs that you can eat? What more could you want? Not to mention, these eggs are absolutely gorgeous. Grab a couple of tubs of Cool Whip, food coloring, and some eggs, and you're pretty much ready to dye.
Get the Cool Whip Marbled Eggs tutorial.
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