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16 Unexpected Easter Egg Decorating Ideas

April 1, 2014 by AllFreeHolidayCrafts

The Easter bunny will be hopping around before we know it! There’s no better time than now to start looking into egg decorating ideas to surprise the family with. Go old-school and dip your eggs in dye, or try one of the craftier methods we have rustled up for you. Egg decorating ideas come in all forms, whether you’re using hard boiled or plastic eggs. 

Decorating Easter Eggs



How to Hard Boil the Perfect Egg

Tips to the Perfect Hard Boiled EggHard boiling eggs may be second-nature to some, but many of us struggle to get it right. Always end up with the perfect egg, and take a few hints from our guides below. This year, the first step to the ultimate Easter egg will also be the easiest.

  1. Tips to the Perfect Hard Boiled Egg
  2. How to Boil Eggs for Easter




Coloring Easter Eggs

Natural Dye Easter Egg Tutorial The traditional way of coloring Easter eggs is to take hard boiled eggs and dip them in various dyes. While we have a blast every year dip-dying, there are so many fun ways to color your eggs! Try turning Dad’s old ties into an amazing Easter decorating tool, using a Sharpie to doodle on your eggs, or using Jell-O to tint them.

  1. How to Dye Easter Eggs with Old Ties
  2. Sharpie Doodle Easter Eggs
  3. Jell-O Dyed Eggs
  4. Natural Dye Easter Egg Tutorial


Perfect Plastic Eggs

Fabric Covered EggsWho says that Easter eggs are only for eating? You can use fabric, Sharpies, glitter–practically anything–to dress up a set of plastics eggs for Easter! The ideas below will inspire a new and improved Easter egg hunt that the family will love.

  1. Fabric Covered Eggs
  2. Altered Plastic Eggs
  3. Glittered Easter Eggs
  4.  Baker’s Twine Easter Eggs
  5. Yarn and Fabric Covered Eggs



Egg Cozies and Wraps

Simply Pretty Crochet Egg CoversSwaddle your eggs with yarn to give them a soft and cozy look with this warm Easter egg designs. Keep your eggs safe with these cozies; they’re functional and also make for a fun way to decorate.

  1. Chick Egg Cover
  2. Simply Pretty Crochet Egg Covers
  3. Stripe Teapot Cozy and Egg Cozies
  4. Egg Cozy Chick Family
  5. Granny Crochet Easter Eggs

 



What’s your go-to egg decorating method?

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: crochet easter crafts, easter egg crafts, Easter Eggs, Jennifer Hendrix, sewn easter crafts

Cute Craft Ideas for Easter

March 27, 2014 by AllFreeHolidayCrafts

Over at AllFreeHolidayCrafts.com we know how overwhelming it can be looking through all of the different crafts you can make for Easter. That’s why, to make things a bit easier for you, we’ve put together this collection of our very favorite egg designs, basket crafts and Easter bunny projects! These 34 Cute Craft Ideas for Easter are the only inspiration that you need for the upcoming holiday.

Baskets

Whether you use them to carry your eggs or simply display them as Easter decorations, Easter baskets are a fun way to get creative for the holiday.The options are endless when you use your imagination.

  1. Blooming Coffee Filter Easter Baskets
  2. Bunny Whiskers Tote
  3. DIY Paper Easter Basket
  4. Itty Bitty Easter Baskets
  5. Crocheted Bunny in a Basket
  6. Recycled Easter Basket

 

Eggs

Make your eggs egg-ceptional this year with one of the Easter egg ideas below. Whether you want to dye regular eggs or step it up a notch this year, we’ve gathered a bunch of fun and easy Easter egg design ideas and can’t wait to share them with you.

  1. Naturally Inspired Easter Eggs
  2. Tie Dye Easter Eggs
  3. Magnificent Marbled Easter Eggs
  4. Papier Mache Easter Eggs
  5. Painted Easter Eggs
  6. Watercolor Easter Eggs

 

 

Bunnies

Easter bunnies are a holiday staple, and making them is a crafty tradition we think you’ll love to begin. These cute and cuddly bunny crafts are so fun, you’ll wind up repeating them year after year.

  1. Bunny Hop Pillow
  2. Bunny Knit Egg Cozies
  3. Mini Sock Drawer Bunny
  4. Clothespin Bunnies
  5.  Peeps Bunny Bunting

 

Are you crafting your own Easter baskest, bunnies, or eggs this season?

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: Easter, easter baskets, easter egg crafts, Easter Eggs, Jennifer Hendrix

Decorating Differently: Easter Eggs that Won’t Break

March 19, 2013 by AllFreeKidsCrafts

I’ll be the first to admit that I love decorating Easter eggs. However, I’ll forever attach a certain amount of anxiety when it comes to dyeing designs onto an egg shell. Reason being: I’m clumsy and am always surrounded by rowdy siblings when I try it. Usually there are at least a couple of casualties by way of broken eggs by the end of my decorating experience. Having reached the age where I am master of my own Easter projects, I’ve decided to seek out new Easter decorating ideas which eliminate the broken eggs shells. Try these tutorials for a (hopefully) happier Easter.

Alternative Easter Eggs!

What first made me think of venturing beyond a fragile egg shell was this sturdy Colorful Swirls Marble Eggs project. No, these aren’t actually marble eggs (that would probably enhance my fear of coloring Easter eggs), these are wooden eggs! Try breaking one of those babies! I can’t believe these escaped my notice for so long.

Colorful Swirls Marbled Eggs

Another alternative Easter idea is to use up those plastic eggs. After every Easter egg hunt, they are all around the house. I love plastic eggs because they are indestructible!

Altered Plastic Eggs

But perhaps you’re not keen at giving the little ones (or your immature, adult siblings) wooden or plastic eggs to play around with. No problem. I was thrilled to find that a happy amount of soft Easter eggs existed. These little chicks, for example, are totally felt. Ergo, they won’t hurt if they happen to be thrown at you.

Felt Egg Chicks

Tough Enough for Tradition?

So maybe you’re happy and careful enough to stick with the classic Easter egg shell to decorate. If so, why not consider some new Easter egg decorating tips? I fond these awesome DIY Blingy Easter Eggs from Lovely Indeed. They’re accessorize your traditional Easter egg with a little ice.

Or you could consider going even more modern by using Paper & Stitch’s Metallic Egg Art Easter DIY. I love the metallic addition to a yearly tradition.

Metallic Egg Art Easter DIY

But You STILL Break the Eggs!

If you find yourself with broken shells this year, at least give them some dignity. Maybe these Easter Egg Planters can ease the pain of yet another casualty.

Easter Egg Planters

I hope these alternatives help in your Easter adventures this year. If you’re anything like me, you’ll be hightailing it to the craft store to get some everlasting eggs. Otherwise, maybe this is your year to add some variety to the regular decorating experience. Either way, good luck!

What is your biggest Easter egg decorating disaster?

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: craft ideas for easter, crafting with kids, Different, Easter, Easter crafts, easter egg crafts, Easter Eggs, Holiday, Kids Crafts, unexpected ideas

Lucky Day for Crafting with Kids: Easter Crafts

March 17, 2013 by AllFreeKidsCrafts

Polka Dot Easter EggsTop o’ the mornin’ to ya! Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all those who celebrate and to all those who craft (it’s definitely a great crafting holiday). If you’re looking for some excellently lucky crafts to make today, hop on over here.

For those of you who decorated for the day of green ahead of time (yay for not proCRAFTinating) or if you have all the luck you need (I envy you), I gathered some of the cutest Easter crafts, since believe it or not, that holiday is right around the corner. There’s something about Easter (or perhaps it’s the fact that the long-forgotten sun starts shining again) that makes me smile. The chickies, bunnies, pastel, eggs, and ahhh the craftiness. Next to Christmas, I’m not sure there’s a craftier holiday than good ol’ Easter.

Grab the markers, pom poms, dye, and feathers and let’s get to crafting some of the must-make kids’ Easter crafts this season.

 

How to Dye Easter Eggs

(the cool way)Tie-Dye Easter Eggs

This Easter, your eggs are going to be awe-inspiring. Is that possible? Once you crack open these links to Easter glory it is. It was a tough decision, but I’m going to go ahead and award these Tie-Dye Easter Eggs first place. I love tie-dye, so there’s a bit of bias there, but they’re cool regardless. Kids will absolutely love dyeing Easter eggs in an original and fun way this year, so experiment with these awesome ways to dye Easter eggs.

Dotted Easter EggsRubber Band Easter Egg Coloring
Marbleized Easter Eggs
Mustache Easter Eggs
Polka Dot Easter Eggs
Ombre Easter Eggs

 

What to Make for Easter That’s Yummy

Easter Cookies

As much as holidays celebrate something special, they also celebrate our love of eating. It seems that parties are usually centered around food, and our stomachs wouldn’t have it any other way. Let’s make Easter no different, except for this special Sunday, let’s make the food adorable. Almost too adorable to eat. Almost.

Spring Critter Pretzels
Fluffy Easter Tree
Easter Nest Sugar Cookies
Easter Popcorn
Egg Brownies

 

Polka Dot Bunny CraftEaster Arts and Crafts for Kids

Line your mantel with bunnies and chickies, and when the joyful day finally arrives, make sure that you have enough Easter decorations to deck out your backyard. Easter arts and crafts for kids are inherently cute, so it’s difficult picking a favorite. That doesn’t mean that I can’t, though. I just absolutely love these polka dot toilet tube bunnies.

 

 

Cutest Li’l Chickadee
Easter Button Egg
Easter Wreath
11 Easter Crafts for Kids
19 Easy Easter Crafts for Kids

Do you decorate for Easter or do you focus more on the meaning of the holiday?

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: craft ideas for easter, crafting with kids, easter egg crafts, easy easter craft ideas, edible crafts, Jaclyn Holtzman, Kids Crafts

3 Ways to Decorate Easter Eggs: Switch It Up This Year

March 15, 2013 by FaveCrafts

This post is brought to you by Latrice Murphy from Any Occasion.

 

Hey there, FaveCrafters! I’m happy to be back on the FaveCrafts Blog today to share a super quick Easter decor tutorial. I have three ways to create Easter eggs using supplies you probably already have in your craft studio.

 

Materials:

  • Paper Mache eggs
  • Mod Podge
  • Glitter
  • Washi tapes in various colors
  • Scraps of patterned paper
  • Mason Jar
  • Paper shreds
  • Shimmer Mists
  • Hot glue gun

Washi Tape Egg


This first egg is the easiest. You grab your Washi Tape collection and just add small strips to the egg. Once totally covered cover it with Mod Podge to secure it for years  to come.

Glittered Egg


This one is pretty easy too, but I’m going with a new trend this time – GOLD! It has made a serious comeback in the fashion industry and paper crafting. I’m not usually a fan of gold, but seeing it mixed with color has turned me. Start by liberally covering your paper mache egg with Mod Podge. Next, pour some course glitter in a bowl and toss your egg in and roll it around. Let it dry completely before adding it to your decor. You could also go back over the egg with Mod Podge to secure the glitter, but it’s kind of messy so I left mine as is.

Decoupage Egg


Lastly, we have the artsy egg. I love decoupage art because you can play with layering. I grabbed some of  my spring scrap paper and tore it into little pieces. I also tore up a piece of vintage book paper. I then did the same step as the Washi Tape egg. I added Mod Podge first and then smoothed the paper pieces on and in the end went over the entire thing with Mod Podge to secure it all.

It only took me about 1 hr to make 12 different eggs and to get them into the jars. Visit my blog to learn how to make the jars.

More Great Easter Egg Decorating Ideas on FaveCrafts:

  • Blinged Out Easter Egg
  • Pink Sparkle Egg
  • Colorful Pom Pom Egg
  • Mother Earth Egg

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: craft ideas for easter, decoupage crafts, DIY easter crafts, easter egg crafts, easy easter craft ideas, glitter

Link Love: Easter Egg Crafts

March 14, 2013 by FaveCrafts

Whether you’re four or 104, Easter egg dyeing is arguably the best part of Easter. It’s the most fun way to celebrate the end of Lent and usher in spring. You might be used to more traditional methods of Easter egg dyeing, but there are so many other DIY options. In fact, you don’t even have to dye your eggs – you can stick thumbtacks in them, cover them with paint or add a photo to the surface. The more personal and creative the eggs are, the more you’ll want to display them!

Before you celebrate Easter, take some time to decorate Easter eggs using your favorite supplies. Can’t get enough glitz and glamour? Glittered Easter Eggs will surely stick out on your table or mantel. The girly look and simple steps make this a fun afternoon project. Easter eggs don’t have to have a two-dimensional look, either. Find faux flowers at your local craft store and use them to create Pottery Barn Style Floral Easter Eggs. You can place these eggs in a basket or add a ribbon too the top and hang them up – the choice is yours! If you’re looking for even more great Easter egg craft ideas, check out our special collection of 30 Easter Egg Craft Ideas. You’ll find ideas for every kind of Easter eggs (we’re talking wood, Styrofoam and more).

Easter is just weeks away, so now is the perfect time to get crafting. Gather up the family and create a beautiful basket filled with delightful handmade Easter eggs. Turn your crafty adventures into a yearly tradition that you can hold dear for years to come.

 

  1. Jackson Pollock Eggs from Grow Creative
  2. Picture Easter Eggs from By Wilma
  3. Onion Skin Dyed Decorative Eggs from Scissors and Spoons
  4. Flower Glitter Easter Eggs from A Pumpkin and a Princess
  5. Glitter Dipped Easter Eggs from Create Craft Love
  6. Natural Dyed Easter Eggs from Just Short of Crazy
  7. Polka Dot Thumb Tack Easter Eggs from Paper n’ Stitch Blog
  8. Rainbow Easter Eggs from No. 2 Pencil
  9. Faux Gilded Easter Eggs from Just Paint It

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: craft ideas for easter, DIY easter crafts, Easter crafts, easter egg crafts, Easter Eggs, link love

Celebrate Easter with a Free Kids’ Crafts eBook!

March 11, 2013 by AllFreeKidsCrafts

Kids' Crafts for Easter eBookEaster is such an exciting and fun holiday, and your focus in March should be on just that. The days of fussing about what to prepare for Easter or how you’re going to keep the mini guests busy are over thanks to AllFreeKidsCrafts. We have gathered the best and most inexpensive Easter activities for kids to make your holiday stress free. Even better, you can access these full tutorials with step-by-step instructions accompanied by photographs absolutely free. All you have to do is download your free Kids’ Crafts for Easter eBook, and you’re ready to start crafting.

Bunny Easter EggYour free Easter eBook is full of ideas to keep smiles on every guest’s face throughout that special Sunday. Learn how to decorate Easter eggs in ways you never would have imagined on your own. Your Easter decorations will go from cute to absolutely stunning with the help of this holiday handbook. Yes, you read that right. There are kids’ crafts with amazing results that will drop the jaws of passerby, and you can find them inside this virtual Easter wonderland.

Tulle Tutu Easter BasketSearching through the fresh, green grass for the most beautifully decorated Easter eggs is a million times more fun when you have a personalized, hand-crafted basket to store them in. This free Easter eBook has tons of ideas to make your Easter the best one yet, and that means making a basket that will lead you to egg hunt victory. Though this triumph carrier looks expensive, it can be made in under $5, which means that you’ll have more money to spend on Easter candy… I mean, important things like the mortgage… You will be in the Easter spirit for weeks when you crack open the guide to greatness.

Chickie WreathEaster decorations are not complete if every room in your home doesn’t have it’s own Easter pick-me-up. Flip through the pages of this internet Easter sensation to find simple yet adorable crafts that will add just enough Easter joy to a table or dresser. You won’t believe how much money you end up saving surrounding the holiday when you make your own adornments. Dress up your front door in a way that will catch anyone’s attention and instantly reward them with an outstretched smile. Grinch, ghoul, or goblin, you can’t help but giggle when you see the adorable Chickie Wreath staring back at you.

Kids' Crafts for Easter eBookMake Easter easy on yourself so that you can enjoy what you’re supposed to: family, rebirth, love, and joy. This joyous journal is not only full of wonderful crafts that you won’t want to miss, it’s also free as can be. I’m honestly not sure that you can beat that. For some eye candy, scroll through the pages of this trendy textbook and feel the cheer of Easter enter your body.

 

 

 

Do you/ would you make Easter decorations even if you don’t celebrate?

Filed Under: Free eBooks Tagged With: craft ideas for easter, crafting with kids, Easter, easter egg crafts, Easter Eggs, eBook, Jaclyn Holtzman, Kids Crafts

Happy Easter DIY Craft Ideas – NEW from Cool2Craft

February 24, 2013 by Tiffany

Easter 4-up Cool2Craft TV

This week, the Cool2Craft design team is inviting you to check out 4 new Easter crafting ideas! Join EcoHeidi Borchers, Tiffany Windsor, Candace Jedrowicz and Lisa Fulmer for this week’s online episode.

EcoHeidi is crafting Easter Egg Sock Chicks, Tiffany is styling Embellished Eggs in Birdcage, Candace is creating a Seeds of Intention Clay Easter Egg and Lisa is making a Kids Fabric Egg Decorating Book.

It’s easy to watch the Cool2Craft TV Channel right from your computer. Watch craft demos and join in the live chat at showtime at Cool2Craft.com. Monday February 25, 2013 – 9 am Pacific/10 am Mountain/11 am Central/noon Eastern.

You can also check out all the project tutorials on all these cool projects at FaveCrafts.com!

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: Candace Jedrowicz, cool2Craft, Easter crafts, easter egg crafts, Easter Eggs, EcoHeidi Borchers, Lisa Fulmer, Tiffany Windsor

Link Love: Easter Crafts

April 5, 2012 by FaveCrafts

Easter is only a few days away! Are you ready? If you’re hosting Easter this year, I’m guessing you have room for some more Easter decor. Spruce up your home with a new wreath, Easter egg craft, or centerpiece for your table. Easter is a time of rebirth, so craft something full of beautiful pastel spring colors! Celebrate spring and the Easter season with one of these cheerful, last minute Easter crafts.

  1. Easy Easter Table Runner from Make It Do
  2. Magazine Page Cross from Saved by Love Creations
  3. Peeps Wreath from Tried & True
  4. Easter Bunny Onesie from Fancy House Road
  5. Textured Easter Eggs Art from Gummy Lump
  6. Bunny Finger Puppets from Purl Bee
  7. Paper Easter Cones from Happy Clippings
  8. Colorful Thread Eggs from Craftberry Bush
  9. Easter Egg Garland from Crafty Endeavor

Filed Under: Link Love Tagged With: craft ideas for easter, craft links, Easter, easter bunny crafts, Easter crafts, easter egg crafts, Easter Eggs

Eggs for Days: 15 Fun Ideas for Decorating Easter Eggs

April 4, 2012 by FaveCrafts

As a kid, I always looked forward to dyeing eggs for Easter, but I would quickly get bored with my standard red, yellow, green, and blue cups of food coloring. I mean, you can only make so many striped eggs before you lose interest. Luckily for my unfulfilled egg decorating aspirations, the days of dyeing Easter eggs with boring old food coloring are long gone!

There are so many clever ideas out there for how to dye Easter eggs that turn this traditional holiday activity into a full-on art form! Forget food coloring; you can get even bolder, brighter colors using Kool-Aid or fruits and vegetables as dyes. Or if you want a less messy (read: drier) option, you can get a fun, festive effect simply by using washi tape or tissue paper to decorate your eggs. You can even imprint images onto eggs, like words, flowers and leaves, or silhouettes, letting the negative space and the natural color of the eggshell shine through.

Here are some of the best tutorials for decorating eggs to make your Easter holiday egg-ceptional (Sorry, had to get at least one egg pun in there!):

If you want to add some detail to your eggs but don’t have the steady hand to draw your own designs, using lace to imprint your dyed eggs is a great option to achieve a beautiful, delicate pattern. Make a bunch of lacy eggs in any color scheme you choose, and set them out as a pretty centerpiece for Sunday dinner! Your guests will definitely be impressed.

 

 

We’ve all dyed the shells of eggs before, but have you ever thought to dye the egg itself? These Crackled Egg Jewels have such a stunning visual effect, when really all it takes is cracking your hard-boiled eggs before you dye them! These would make a fun Easter appetizer; you could even use them for deviled eggs!

Definitely one of the coolest techniques I’ve seen is for dyeing Easter eggs with silk ties. No artistry required with this tutorial, and you end up with the most amazing designs! Just buy some old ties with pretty patterns from a thrift store (they must be silk!), wrap them up in the material, and boil them, and you’ll have gorgeous, intricate dyed eggs that would put the Easter bunny to shame.

Making spotted Easter eggs is another easy way to achieve a stunning effect. For this tutorial, all you need is some candle wax and any egg dye, and you can have pretty speckled eggs like these! Or if you want a more uniform look, you can use little round stickers to make polka dot eggs.

If you like the idea of naturally dyed Easter eggs but want to take it one step further, you can use actual bits of nature to give your eggs an earthy, spring look. All you need is your trusty Mod Podge and some flowers or fern leaves from your yard, and you can craft these beautiful nature-inspired Easter eggs. You can also use a similar technique to make decoupage egg ornaments.

 

So hop to it! Leave the food coloring in the kitchen cabinet this year, and try out one of these innovative ideas for decorating Easter eggs. Just make sure you have some plastic eggs on hand too if you’re planning an Easter egg hunt, because you won’t want to hide these gorgeous creations!

 

Do you dye eggs every year for Easter? What’s your favorite method for decorating Easter eggs?

 

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: craft ideas for easter, easter egg crafts, Easter Eggs, egg decorating ideas, holiday crafts, Kelly Spence

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