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We go to Colorado for Spring Break some years- my husband’s family has a timeshare there, so when Spring Break lines up with the week they have the townhouse we head to the snow! It’s a lot of fun, but it always messes with our Easter plans. Here in Vegas, Spring Break is always the week leading up to Easter, which means that we get back from our vacation the night before the Easter Bunny comes. After a ten hour drive home, the last thing I want to do is let the kids stay up past their bedtime to dye Easter eggs!
Our solution? We make craft eggs in Colorado! In the past I’ve purchased plastic eggs and used stickers, and I’ve also gotten wooden eggs and all kinds of decorations for those. Now they even sell eggs that look like real ones- without the sulfur smell or the hard-boiling! All of the decorating ideas below can be done on those or on real eggs- but keep in mind if you use craft eggs, you can keep your creations for much longer!
The four decoration ideas below come from FamilyFun Magazine, which is one of my absolute favorite magazines. They always have awesome ideas for parents, including kid-friendly recipes, crafts like the ones below, and fun ideas that add a little more fun into my kids’ lives. Be sure to check them out online or subscribe today- just $7.99 for a full year!
SILLY MONSTERS
You’ll need: Markers, White Circle Label Stickers or Hole Punch Reinforcements {see photo}, Glue dots, Googly Eyes, Pipe Cleaners
Use markers to draw different mouths onto the label stickers or hole-punch reinforcements, then adhere them to the eggs. Stick on googly eyes. Cut and bend the pipe cleaners into arms, legs, hair—whatever!— then attach with glue dots.
SPARKLING GEODES
You’ll need: Small paper plate or bowl, paper cup, glitter, sequins, tacky glue, paintbrush
Fill small paper plates or bowls with glitter and sequins, and pour an inch or so of tacky glue into a paper cup. Brush the glue onto the eggs, then roll them in the glitter or sequins, shaking off the excess. Place the geode in the egg carton to dry. {Tip: Leave a few eggs partially dyed and then cover just the colored part with glitter for a cool effect.}
BABY FRUITS & VEGGIES
You’ll need: construction paper, glue dots, pipe cleaners, templates {download for free right here}
For the strawberry: Accordion-fold the leaves, then use a glue dot to connect the edges, creating a circle. Attach the leaf circle from the template and a ½-inch pipe-cleaner stem to a red or pink egg with glue dots.
For the lemon or lime: Crease the leaf from the template down the middle, attach one end to a 1-inch-long piece of pipe cleaner with a glue dot, then use another glue dot to attach the pipe cleaner to a yellow or green egg.
For the carrot: Roll the leaf cutout from the template into a tube; close it with a glue dot. Attach the leaf bundle to the top of an orange egg with a glue dot, then bend the ends of the leaves outward.
SWEET SEA CREATURES
You’ll need: pre-cut felt {from templates available here}, glue dots, acrylic paint, markers, pipe cleaners
For the crab: Use glue dots to attach the pre-cut felt claw shapes to 1½-inch-long pipe cleaners. Use two more to attach the pipe cleaners to an orange egg. Attach self-adhesive googly eyes to the ends of inch-long pipe cleaners, then attach the pipe cleaners to the egg with glue dots.
For the turtle: Use acrylic paint to add a yellow stripe around a green egg, leaving an oval showing, for the turtle’s shell. Adhere the felt fins and head with glue dots, and dot on eyes with a marker.
For the octopus: Use glue dots to attach each of the legs, then draw on the eyes with a marker.
Whether you’re decorating real eggs or making eggs you’ll use for years to come, I hope you have a blast making these cute Easter eggs! You can find even more egg decorating ideas right here.
Photos used with permission from FamilyFun Magazine.
