Crafty Easter Eggs
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An Easter Tradition
Coloring Easter Eggs has long been a tradition, but did you know there are lots of other great ways to decorate and display Easter eggs? Learn about new dyeing techniques, how to make easy and ornate beaded eggs, plastic canvas eggs, and our standby - the hollow plastic egg.
If you're ready to move beyond eggs themselves, how about Easter egg cakes, cookies, chocolates, and more? Mmmm, here's to a truly tasty Easter!
First things first - boil your eggs.
Whether you're dying eggs or blowing them out to shellac, you first need to boil them. How do you boil eggs adequately? Check out this great lens on Squidoo to learn how.
Dyeing Easter Eggs
These links give you great photos and instructions for dying your own Easter Eggs. Learn how to do it the Paas way, and learn how to do it the "natural" way, including using veggies as natural coloring bases!
These sites also have some great tips for creating designs on your dyed eggs.
These sites also have some great tips for creating designs on your dyed eggs.
- How to Decorate Easter Eggs
- Learn how to make eggs that are blown out, molded, swirled, crepe papered, dyed, spotted, striped, marbled, sponge painted, waxed, and more.
- Dying Easter Eggs
- Includes photos and instructions for dying, tissue papering, crayoning, stickering, marblizing, fingerprinting, splattering, rubber banding, stoning, and flowering Easter eggs.
- Aki's Kitchen
- A gorgeous site with photos and instructions for designing dyed eggs. Very clean and easy to read! Includes info on the "pantyhosing" technique and polishing your eggs (sealing).
- Easter Egg Dyeing & Decorating
- More great links to decorating idea sites.
Display and Tote your Dyed Eggs
It's no fun to spend time coloring eggs just to have them ruined in transport. Display and carry your eggs in style.
Pre-Filled Plastic Easter Eggs
Not interested in stuffing eggs this year? Running out of time? Grab a few packs of pre-filled Easter eggs and you'll be the star of the scramble. Don't worry, we won't tell!
Fancy Printed Plastic Easter Eggs
Ooh la la, loving these fun designs!
Beaded Easter Eggs
If you have the time and patience, beaded Easter eggs are gorgeous crafty projects that will be come special decorative treasures. The designs are only limited by your imagination!
- Yulia Crystal
- Several photos of ornately beaded eggs.
- All about jewelry making
- A step-by-step with illustrations on creating your own intricately beaded egg. It's actually not as hard as it looks!
- Decorating Beaded Easter Eggs
- A crafty project pattern from HGTV.
Beaded Easter Egg Decorations
Pretty Plastic Easter Eggs
Eggs aren't plain and boring anymore! Try camouflage or sparkly.
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Unassembled Plastic Easter eggs - assorted colors (12/PKG)
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Camouflage Plastic Easter Eggs - Set of 12
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More Easter Egg Crafts
Who says eggs don't grow on trees? Try the Easter Egg topiary.
- Display Ideas
- Fun and attractive Easter egg display ideas from Family Circle Magazine.
- Easter Egg Topiary
- This fun craft makes a great centerpiece for your Easter meal.
Amazing Egg Creations
There are some pretty awesome egg decorators sharing their photos on Flickr. I'm impressed!
String and Balloon Easter Eggs
When I was little we used to make Easter eggs out of string! I don't remember the exact directions, but you need balloons (we used huge ones), string (pastels and multicolors are pretty, or try one of the new textured strings), and starch or a glue and water mixture (try Modge Podge).
Blow up the balloon and secure with a knot. Dip the string in the starch or glue mixture and wrap around the balloon in all directions. When you have the balloon covered like a thick spider web, set it aside for a day or two to dry.
Pop the balloon with a pin and carefully remove. Cut a hole in the side of your egg, fill with grass and treats!
Below are some better directions than what I remember.
Blow up the balloon and secure with a knot. Dip the string in the starch or glue mixture and wrap around the balloon in all directions. When you have the balloon covered like a thick spider web, set it aside for a day or two to dry.
Pop the balloon with a pin and carefully remove. Cut a hole in the side of your egg, fill with grass and treats!
Below are some better directions than what I remember.
- Easter Egg Decorations
- Includes some generic instructions to make the balloon and string eggs.
- Paper Mache Easter Eggs
- The idea is the same, only you use string instead of paper.
- Easter Egg String Art
- This PDF has the pattern and photos for a fun, cute, smaller, and flat version of the string Easter Egg.
Easter Egg Graphics
Hop on over to these fun sites for some Easter Egg graphics.
- Easter Egg Graphics
- Several pages of static and animated, colorful Easter and Easter egg graphics. See the intro image for an example.
- Easter Egg Clipart
- Dozens of links to Easter clipart sites.
- Free Easter Eggs
- Large Easter egg graphics that have a "background" style pattern to them.
- Free Easter Egg Web Clipart
- Some unique and colorful designs from About.com.
- Animated Hatching Eggs
- Try the other links for more cute graphics.
Egg Decorating Kits for Kids
These fun kits are sure to delight boys and girls alike. No matter what age, kids will have more fun with the themes and stickers in these kits.
Easter Egg Cake Recipes and Decorating Tips
Even if you're totally new to decorating cakes, these tutorials with beautiful pictures will make you want to give it a try.
- Easter Egg Cake
- This gorgeous cake is simple to design with straight lines and dots. Learn how you too can be a decorating genius.
- Old Fashioned Holidays
- An old fashioned recipe for Easter Egg cake.
- Easy to Decorate Cake
- Fun decorating ideas use frosting, gels, and candies to design an Easter Egg cake.
Easter Egg Cake Molds
Make the perfect Easter Egg cake with a customized mold. Better yet, get mini-molds and the whole family can decorate their cakes just the way they like them!
Make your own Easter Egg candy
Before you get started, read this great tutorial on making molded chocolate.
Are you an Easter Egg fanatic?
Do you have pictures of your Easter Egg creations? Show them off in the Flickr module. Don't forget to say hi!
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TheresaMarkham
Apr 18, 2011 @ 7:52 pm | delete
- In my childhood, we blew the insides out of the eggs (through a tiny hole in the bottom), then after we painted it, we could keep it forever!
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gravityx9
Mar 20, 2011 @ 10:31 pm | delete
- fun lens! lots of great Easter egg ideas! THUMBS UP ! I have featured your lens with for Easter 2011 ! *SEE IT HERE*
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alteredkat
Mar 27, 2010 @ 2:02 pm | delete
- This lens is EGGS-cellent! 5*
..can't wait to dye eggs with the kids this yr.
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Intuitive
Mar 25, 2010 @ 4:30 pm | delete
- Since you've done such a great job of collecting all this information about Easter eggs I've featured it on my Easter Egg design lens. 5*
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OhMe
Mar 12, 2010 @ 2:20 pm | delete
- Great resource for Easter Egg ideas and crafts. Lenrolled to Easter Event in Pendleton SC
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