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Painting Easter eggs? Crafty ideas?

  • I know one can soak the eggs in food dye and then carve pictures on them after 'blowing' out the egg inside by pricking both ends with a needle or hard boiling them. I've done this before but I was wondering what else one could paint the eggs with to make them more colourful. I assume you can't use watercolour paints, can you? I'd like to do something fun and creative with my brother and sister (11 and 13) and though about making an Easter tree version of a Christmas tree. Any other ideas for Easter Crafts?

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    Here are some Easter egg decorating ideas for you to try... Tye Dyed Eggs - Try wrapping your egg with different sizes of rubber bands and dipping in the first color of dye. let egg dry and remove rubber bands to dip in another color. gives egg a neat effect! Decorate with stickers, stars or press on dots. Paint with nail polish; clear, colors & glitter. Try painting first and then dyeing as usual. The dye will adhere where the nail polish isn't. Draw designs with crayon - if you can do this with warm eggs the crayon will sort of melt onto the shell. Again, try dyeing afterward, the dye will adhere where the crayon isn't. Light a candle and let the wax drip in stripes onto the egg. Decorate with tiny candies, like for cake decorating. Attach with ake decorating gel. Spatter with paint using an old toothbrush. Natural Dyes Make your own dye using things in nature. Add a tsp of vinegar to your water when boiling your eggs, then add the materials to make the color and boil for 15 minutes. If you want a darker color, leave the eggs in the water with the dye material overnight. For red, use fresh beets, cranberries, or frozen raspberries. For orange, use yellow onion skins. For yellow, use orange or lemon peels, carrot tops, celery seed, ground cumin, or ground turmeric. For green: spinach leaves, greenish-yellow, use yellow Delicious apple peelings. For blue, use canned blueberries or red cabbage leaves. Use brewed coffee or tea for brownish beige. Have fun and happy Easter

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I went in Asda last night and got some easter egg decorationg kits at just £1 each. I think they contain paint, stickers etc.

jillmc

Try drawing on the eggs with clear wax crayons before dyeing them. That can make interesting designs. You can also use glue and just about anything you want to liven them up. Making eggs that look like bunnies is fun, I did that with my daughter one year. Flowers, esp tulips and daffodils, are also good easter designs--craft shops sell kits to make beautiful plastic flowers that look like glass. It's pretty easy and fun.

Jensenfan

Write or draw on the cooked egg with something like wax, and then dip the egg in colored water. I think the color would stick where it wasn't drawn on.

cowgirl

You can use acryllic paints on eggshells, but it is not recommended that you eat the eggs afterwards, so this would be a good use of blown shells. You can also make *stained glass* on the shells with white glue and bits of colored tissue paper, painting the glue on the shells and smoothing down irregular bits of the paper on this to dry. You can make it more permanent by coating it with shellac or clear nail polish. Again, blown shells will work best for this.

mickiinpodunk

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