Chalkboard Paint

You can make these cute eggs that have been painted with chalkboard paint.

Nowadays, you can buy small cans of chalkboard paint for a decent price in the craft or paint sections of many, many stores.

Basically, after you boil the eggs (or blow out the innards) you paint them.  Once dry, you can draw on them with chalk.  Prop up the eggs with papertubes whilst you are painting.

Alternative:  Black acrylic paint, and paint markers (permanent designs).  Especially if you are blowing the innards out of your eggs and want to save them for other Easters.

Lace Eggs

You can use pieces of lace to decorate eggs as well.  Get the best part of the design on the egg, wrap tight (tie off with a rubber band) and dye.

This photo is from Cottage Farm Villa who used lace and doilies to create her eggs.

Martha has a great video demonstrating this one:

http://www.marthastewart.com/245983/lace-easter-eggs

All things Rubber

I don't have individual photos for these two techniques, so bear with me.

TOP CENTER (sort of blue with light green designs):  Rubber Cement Dripped on Eggs

RIGHT (Pink Egg & Green Egg):  Rubber Band Tie-Dye

Rubber Cement:  Dye the egg first if you wish.  Then drizzle on rubber cement. Let dry and then dye the egg.  Remove rubber cement.

Rubber bands:  Dye egg with a light color first if you wish.  Place rubber bands all over egg in different patterns. Dye, remove some bands, dye, etc.


Because some of you will ask... the spiral one is Sharpie Markers, the checkerboard ones are done with electrical tape! :)

Collaged Eggs

Well, being a mixed-media artist, I'm sort of partial to collage art.

You can collage things onto your eggs.

• No, you probably DON'T want to eat them.

• Even better, blow the innards out, wash them, then collage them... and you can keep them from year to year.

You will need gel medium (matte or gloss finish). Brush on a thin layer of the gel medium, then the tissue or whatever, then one more layer of the gel medium.  

For these eggs I used:

Top Left:  Torn bits of mulberry paper (go to the art/craft supply store).

Top Right:  Bits of a road map.

Bottom Right: Napkin

Bottom Left: Sewing pattern pieces

Metallic Paint

After your eggs have dried, you can add acrylic paint.  One of my favorites is to sponge (or wadded up paper towel) on metallic paint over a contrasting color.

Again, I have no idea if you could/should eat these.  For me, it's all about how the egg looks.

Shine Your Eggs

Shiny, Happy Eggs! 

Use a dab of vegetable oil (olive oil, whatever) on a paper towel to shine up your eggs when you are finished with them. This can really help to make average eggs look fabulous! 

If you have collaged papers on to your egg - coat with gel medium varnish or a coat of gloss polyurethane (but don't eat those eggs, you know).

Traditional Rainbow

An oldie, but a goodie...

To make the traditional rainbow egg:

1) Dye half yellow.

2) Dye the other half red/pink.

3) Dye HALF of the yellow section blue.

4) Dye HALF of the pink section blue.

Yes, you can totally alter this and play around with the colors.  Try adding additional "stripes" as well.  I will warn you this one takes some patience and a steady hand - you can't just dunk this one in the dye and walk away! :)