Color Easter eggs: ideas and instructions

Place eggs in a glass with egg colors, wait – and you're done? Not with us! Because there are so many ways to get really creative when coloring Easter eggs. We'll show you what else you can do with your Easter eggs – and how you're guaranteed to hide the prettiest eggs this year. So on the craft things, ready, go!

Easter egg with butterfly

You need:

  • blown white chicken egg
  • neon pink spray paint
  • Lace border (approx.1.5cm wide and 10cm long)
  • white satin ribbon (approx. 8mm wide and 50cm long)
  • Butterfly scraps
  • Decoupage glue
  • brush
  • thin stick

That's how it's done:

  1. Push the thin stick from bottom to top through the holes that were used for blowing out. With this you can keep and turn the egg just fine. Now spray the egg completely with neon paint, preferably outdoors.
  2. When the varnish has dried, place the lace ribbon around the egg once so that both ends come together at the top of the hole. First make a knot, then tie a bow from the ends. Pull a satin ribbon between the egg and the knot so that the egg can be hung.
  3. Brush some decoupage glue on the egg, place the butterflies on it and brush with a layer of glue. Also fix the lace border with some glue. Let dry.

Colored green and white

Color Easter eggs: ideas and instructions

You need:

  • Chicken eggs
  • Basket in green
  • Craft colors in white and sap green
  • Decorative grass
  • Daisies
  • thin brush

That's how it works:

  1. Blow out and clean the chicken eggs. Lighten the green craft paint with white until the desired color is achieved and prime the eggs.
  2. After the paint has dried, paint the eggs with small flowers or patterns as desired or as shown in the illustration. Then they come in a basket with decorative grass and are decorated with real daisies. Great what you can do with eggshells, right?
Decoration ideas: spring and summer

The instructions come from the book "Decoration Ideas: Spring and Easter" (OZ creative, 12.90 euros).

Hanging egg vases

You need:

  • Goose egg
  • Cord in pink about 30 cm long
  • 2 white pearls (average 0.5 cm)
  • pointed pliers
  • pointed needle
  • scissors
  • fresh flowers

That's how it's done:

  1. Use a needle to drill a hole in the egg. To do this, choose the upper, tapered side of the egg. Widen the opening so you can remove the yolk and egg whites. Rinse the egg with water so that all of the egg residue is removed.
  2. Carefully break out small pieces, starting from the hole in the egg, with pliers until you have a 3 cm opening.
  3. Use a pointed needle to carefully drill a small hole on the right and left of the opening for hanging it in the eggshell.
  4. Thread the cord from the inside out through the two holes. Thread a small bead on the cord at each end. Fix the beads with a knot each.
  5. Fill the egg with water and stick short flowers, e.g. B. daisies. The vases in the window look very nice. The mini vases also come into their own on branches and twigs.

You can find these and other great instructions in the book 'Buntes Frühlingsallerlei' by Frechverlag.

Sweet ideas for original Easter eggs

Easter eggs with rooster motif

Easter eggs with rooster motif

The poultry motifs are stamped, the necessary ingredients to order: stamp with chick motif (4 x 3 cm) 6.55 euros, running and standing rooster (6 x 5 cm) each 8.69 euros, at Phantasia. Set of four goose eggs for 12 euros at Kirsch Interior. Approx. 28 cm long horn spoon 18 Euro, Mahafaly.

Manual: Prime blown-off goose or chicken eggs with correction liquid in white where the motif is to be placed later. Press the stamp into a black stamp pad and carefully roll it off the primed surface of the egg. Let the motif dry and then fix it with spray varnish (clear varnish, matt).

Easter egg with rabbit motif

Easter egg with rabbit motif

The rabbit motif comes from Albrecht Dürer. A rabbit decorates a paper mache egg using the serviette technique. 10 m gift ribbon 9 euros, cherry interior.

Manual: Paint both halves of cardboard with acrylic varnish in a desired color, possibly twice if the color does not cover properly. Let it dry well. Cut out the rabbit or a desired motif from the napkin, place it in the middle and use the napkin technique.

Elegant Easter egg with feathers

Elegant Easter egg with feathers

Pen holder: Wrap breakfast eggs with satin, velvet ribbon or silver wire and attach a pretty feather – the feathery Easter decoration is done. Do you actually know how you can make the perfect breakfast egg? Simmer in vinegar – yes or no? Deterrent – yes or no? You can find all the answers and the most important Easter recipe here: boiling eggs.

Easter eggs with floral patterns

Easter eggs with leaf motifs

Before coloring, small leaves were fixed on the chicken eggs, the surface of which remained white. Particularly beautiful shot glasses replace the egg cups here.

Manual: You need blown out white eggs, a nylon stocking, liquid egg paint (cold colors) from Heitmann and small leaves, for example clover, ivy or fern tips. Place a leaf on an egg, pull the nylon stocking over it and tie it tightly so that no color later flows under the leaf. Mix the color with vinegar (follow the instructions for use) and immerse the egg until the desired color is reached. The medium green color is created when you dip the egg once in light green and twice in dark green. After drying, remove the nylon stocking.

Giant Easter egg in zebra pattern

Giant Easter egg in zebra pattern

Far away from Africa: The egg comes from the bouquet, the inspiration for the painted zebra pattern comes from a napkin. To order: An unpainted ostrich egg costs about 10 euros at www.strausseneier.de.

Manual: Reduce a 33 x 33 cm zebra napkin (paper products) to 50% on a copier. Cut out the black areas from the copy, making sure that the white areas remain together in one piece. Glue this stencil one after the other around an ostrich egg with scotch tape and draw out the cut out areas with a pencil. Because the egg is round, the lines balance somewhat. Color the recorded areas with a brush and black poster paint. Paint the egg with clear varnish.

Gilded Easter eggs

Gilded Easter eggs

Eggs, silver-plated and gold-plated: Blown-out eggs or wooden eggs are silver-plated or gold-plated with metal (one letter = 25 sheets, each 14 x 14 cm, craft shop). In order for it to adhere to the surface, you need an investment oil (note the drying time on the instructions for use!). Brush the eggs with the investment oil very thinly and let them dry. Divide the silver or gold leaves into small pieces, place on top and press on with a soft brush and fingers. Apply a clear coat as protection because metal tarnishes.

Onion skins & Co: Color Easter eggs naturally

It doesn't always have to be the classic egg colors if you want to color Easter eggs. You can of course also on Natural colors or vegetable colors To fall back on. The advantage: The organic colors are guaranteed not to contain any toxic dyes, but often the color does not cover quite as well. Natural colors for Easter eggs are available, for example, in the health food store and occasionally also in the drugstore.

You can of course do it yourself a color broth made from natural ingredients for egg coloring. Onion skins are ideal for this brew, for example. They give the eggs an almost golden hue. You need that for that outer, paper-thin shells of brown and red onions. Boil the onion skins in plenty of water and then let the eggs cook hard in the onion water. Then remove the eggs and chill them.

It makes for a colorful change in the Easter basket when you are with Beetroot or the juice of elderberries colors red. For green Easter eggs you can spinach use, for yellow eggs you take turmeric or Caraway seeds. They all conjure up a nice play of colors on your egg shells.

Coloring Easter eggs: inspiration from Instagram

Shortly before Easter, inspirations for Easter eggs and Easter handicrafts are also shared on Instagram. Here it says: Color what the stuff holds. Our favorites:

Flowers, feathers, garlands: Sara Eriksson has transformed white chicken eggs into elegant Easter decorations.

Our colleagues at Living at Home designed simple typo eggs.

At blogger Yvonne, pandas, rabbits and birds make their big egg appearance at Easter. For instructions on Miss Klein's blog

Jeran from California dyed marbled eggs this year.

Susanne from the blog "Hamburger Liebe" crocheted bunny hats for her eggs. Sweet!

"Twine" means thread or yarn – and "The Twinery" naturally wrapped their Easter eggs in yarn.

The American colleagues from Brit & Co. painted their Easter eggs with bird motifs.

What should not be missing in addition to a pretty Easter decoration, of course, are Easter recipes. How about a delicious Easter lamb? You will definitely find the right recipe in our recipe collections: Easter recipes.

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