Fun Easter Egg Coloring Ideas

Over the years, my creative daughter has come up with some really easy beautiful Easter egg designs using things we have had around the house.  Here are a few of our favorite designs.  

If you try this technique you might get dye on your hands, so plastic gloves are suggested.  She held the egg halfway in the dye for a few seconds.  Then she turned the egg just a bit and dipped it back in the dye. She repeated the technique on the other side by turning it just a bit the other way. Dipping the egg this way, caused a layering effect with the color. 

We used paper reinforcement circle stickers to make some pretty designs.  

This egg was the result of putting the stickers really close together. 

This egg had the stickers with more space between them. 

Using a hole punch tool on label stickers, she was able to make polka dots.  She placed the dots on the egg where she wanted them before dipping it in the dye. 

Do you have rubber bands around the house? Then you have all you need to make these cool designs.  For the first design, we wrapped a thicker rubber band around the middle of the egg

When the egg was unwrapped after the dye had dried, there were white stripes around the middle. 

This has always been one of my favorite eggs that I have made. I used multiple thin rubber bands and wrapped them lengthwise around the egg.  I waited until the dye dried before removing the rubber bands. I reminds me of a tiny pink watermelon. 

This egg was made with a combination of a thicker and thinner rubber band. 

This marble looking egg was made with scotch tape. She randomly placed the tape all over the egg in a messy fashion.  Some of it was crinkled. It looked like a mess.  After the dye dried, she removed the tape, and what was left was this really cool effect. 

She spent a little more time placing the tape on this egg. She cut the tape into small pieces that resembled pieces of grass. 

Tie dye kits are available now, but these tie dye eggs were made by two of my kids using different techniques without a kit. My daughter made the egg on the left, and my son the one on the right. My daughter likes to make a mess, and just dipped her finger in different colors of dye and painted the egg in random places with her finger. My son didn't want to get dye all over himself. He dipped different parts of the egg in the color and quickly wiped off the excess dye.  Which type of eye dyer are you?  Messy or neat? 

This year we will probably only color a dozen eggs.  Everyone is too old for the Easter Bunny to come over and hide eggs, so there is not reason to make a lot.  I did find a golden egg kit at the Dollar Tree this year that I am excited to try.  I will let you know how it turns out.  

What are your favorite egg coloring techniques? 

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Throwback Thursday Easter Egg Techniques

Will you be coloring your Easter eggs in the next couple of days?   Today's Throwback Thursday post goes back to 2012 when we colored our eggs  using items from the stationary aisle at the store.  We really like how our eggs turned out that year.  If you would like to give some of the techniques a try, be sure to check out this post Egg Coloring Techniques

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Easter Egg Fortunes - Feature of the Day

Today's Dare to Share Feature of the Day is a creative idea that would be a lot of fun to do for your family and friends.  The guys over at Crafty Lumberjacks shared a great way to put a fortune in an uncracked egg. I can just imagine seeing the surprised look on a little ones face when a piece of paper comes out instead of a raw egg.  I might even need to try to do these for my teenagers.. :)  Be sure to stop over at Crafty Lumberjacks to see how to make Easter Egg Fortunes. Thanks so much Andrew and Dennis for linking up to this week's Dare to Share!

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Easter Egg Owls - Feature of the Day

Want a really fun way to decorate your Easter eggs this year?   How about turning them in to fun owls like these made by Wesens-Art.   She has a free printable that you can print to make some Egg Owls of your own.  Don't they look adorable hanging in her tree?!  Be sure to stop over for the printable, and get started making your own  Egg Owls.   Thank you so much for linking up this great craft to Dare to Share!  

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How We Spent Our Easter and Other News

As the kids get older, they really take the tradition of egg coloring seriously.  This year was no different.   Kyle, who I guess thinks he is too cool to color eggs sat out.  The girls and I didn't mind, that meant more eggs for us! 

We also once again watched one of our favorite Easter movies while we colored our eggs. I think we ended up watching it 3 or 4 times all together in the last few days.  

I love the kit we used this year. Our eggs were so bright and colorful. Kara loved them so much, she had a hard time choosing which ones we could peel for our deviled eggs. 

 Here are some of our favorites

The Easter Egg Buddies made another appearance at Easter dinner.   We enjoyed ham, two types of potatoes, asparagus,  broccoli, rolls, and deviled eggs.  I wanted to get a picture of the food before it disappeared. 

We had also planned on going to church on Easter morning. My teeth had other plans.  I was already getting to bed a bit later than I wanted to since I had to prep the eggs for the Easter Bunny.  When I laid down, one of my teeth started to hurt. The pain kind of came out of the blue, and didn't let up. I was in pretty intense pain most of the night.  I remember seeing 5 a.m., so I was awake until at least then. The alarm went off at 8:30. (church was at 10)  I was still in a lot of pain and extremely tired so I knew I could not make through Easter service. Kyle was also dealing with a cold and wouldn't stop sniffling. Everyone was okay with mom going back to sleep for a few more hours  I found a few home remedies to try online that helped  ease the pain and called the dentist on Monday. Luckily they were able to fit me in for this afternoon.  I am not sure if a filling fell out, or if I had a cavity that I did not know about since it is has been awhile since I have been at the dentist. I guess I will soon find out.. 

And in other GOOD news.. We heard back from the rheumatologist today.  The abnormal blood test that my daughter had a few weeks ago was A FALSE POSITIVE.  The test they ran last week  came back in normal range, which means she does not have lupus!  Whew!  

I hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

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Easter Egg Coloring Techniques

Have you colored your Easter eggs yet?  We will probably work on ours tonight or tomorrow.  I thought this would be a good time to show some of the fun ways we colored our egg the last couple years using things out of the junk drawer. 

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Easter Egg Buddies

Today I made these little guys for something special we are doing this weekend. They are super cute,

 and easy to make.  

I started with a bag of plastic egg from the dollar store. I decided on using blue for the bunnies, and yellow for the chicks. 

I still had some chenille stems from when I made my Bunny Treat Boxes. I used a half of stem for each ear. 

I love that these particular eggs had small holes exactly where the ears should be.  The chenille fit perfectly in the holes, so I didnt even have to glue it. 

Disclosure: the link to the  4 mini  heart punch is an affiliate link. I think my punch has been discontinues but I found something very similar 

I used a 4 heart punch to punch small hearts for the nose.  I then hot glued on all the pieces, such as the eyes, nose and tail to the egg.  I used white craft foam for the feet.  

To make the chick's beak, I folded a piece of orange pipe cleaner in half. Then I folded it again into a V shape and hot glued it onto the egg. 

I thought I had a picture of the legs, but I must have missed taking it.  These eggs also have holes on the bottom of the egg there were perfect for the  chick's  legs.   I used a longer piece of pipe cleaner for the leg, and then twisted a smaller piece around it to form the feet.  I used yellow craft foam the wings. I would have added a feather, but I did not have any yellow ones in my supplies.   To keep the eggs upright, I places some dollar store accent gems inside the egg. 

I can't wait to show you what I planned for these guys in just a few days.. Stay tuned! 

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Egg Coloring Techniques

We colored our eggs tonight, since we are going to be busy the next couple of days. One thing nice about the kids getting older, we can take our time coloring our Easter Eggs. No more  worrying  about one of my children (who will remain unnamed)  trying to eat egg soup their first year of coloring. (It did make a great scrapbook page though!)  This year we tried some fun new techniques while coloring, and the results turned out even better than expected. .

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Tip of the Day-How to make the perfect hard boiled eggs

It is best NOT to used fresh eggs because the fresher the eggs, the harder they are to peel.   I am using eggs that I bought 2 weeks ago. 

Place in a pot of cold water.  Make sure there is enough water to cover the eggs by at least one inch.

To prevent cracking,  let the eggs warm up to room tempature before you boil. Going from cold to hot too quickly causes the cracking. 

Bring water to boil.  As soon as the water starts to boil turn off the burner. Move the pot off the hot burner. 

Cover the pot for about 12-15 mins.

Place the eggs in the bowl of cold/ice water and let cool. 

Once cool peel and eat. (or color for Easter)

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