Craft Pros Love These Cute Easter Egg Painting Ideas
It's OK to ditch the dye kit.
When it comes to decorating Easter eggs, there are two types of people: the “grab a dye kit and call it a day” crowd—and the ones who treat every egg like a tiny blank canvas. If you’re in the second camp, we see you. It’s not every day you get the excuse to show off your DIY skills and play around with different artistic mediums.
That’s why we’ve rounded up a colorful collection of Easter egg ideas you can create with paint, markers, and stamps. Think dreamy watercolors, puff-paint polka dots, bold acrylic designs, and so much more. Use your masterpieces to fill Easter baskets, dress up your holiday table, or simply display them around the house. Putting your creativity to the test is the perfect way to make the lead-up to this spring celebration even more fun—and a whole lot more memorable.
Polka-Dot Easter Eggs
You can either use a traditional dye technique or paint the background color of these eggs, then add 3D dots with puff paint.
Cross Stitch Eggs
Following our simple cross-stitch template, use an X stamp and whatever color ink you want to stamp each pattern. Let the ink dry completely. Add a little definition with lines, using your Sharpie to detail the shapes.
Paint Marker Easter Eggs
With a fine-tipped paint pen, paint on any pattern you'd like. We used brown and white here, but you can choose the palette that works best for you.
Watercolor Easter Eggs
Start by mixing a few colors of your watercolor paints on a palette. Then brush clean water onto the egg, followed by a few light watercolor strokes in the areas where the egg is wet. Continue to wet different sections of the egg and brush on the same or different colors until you achieve the watercolor look you're after.
Gingham Easter Egg
Nothing says spring like a cheerful gingham pattern. Use watercolor paints and a flat-tipped paintbrush, along with paint in any custom colors you choose, to achieve the look on a white egg.
Confetti Painted Eggs
Use paint pens in various hues to draw short lines all around your eggs. The result is a festive, confetti-inspired look.
Two-Tone Painted Easter Eggs
Choose two hues of acrylic paint in contrasting or complementary colors. Use one for the base of some eggs, and let it dry before painting simple floral patterns on top with the other. Reverse the process on other eggs for a pretty, two-tone batch.
Lettuce Eggs
Use a thin-tipped white paint pen to create the look of lettuce leaves’ veins upon green dyed eggs. Skillful artists (with steady hands) can even achieve a convincing trompe l'oeil effect using this method.
Emoji Easter Eggs
How are you really feeling about springtime? Express it on your Easter eggs with this cheeky painting technique. Use yellow craft paint and black and red paint markers to whip up a whole set of emoji eggs that are sure to wow the crowd.
Painted Patterns
Use paint pens to create repeating patterns, including triangles, hearts, or chevrons, for a bold graphic look.
Graphic Black-and-White Eggs
Use a black paint pen or permanent markers to create cool and unique eggs with a bold look evocative of graphic novels or comics.
Alesandra is a digital travel and lifestyle journalist based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Prevention, Insider, Glamour, Shondaland, AFAR, Parents, TODAY and countless other online and print outlets. Alesandra has a masters degree in journalism with an emphasis on cultural reporting and criticism from NYU, and a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley. An avid traveler, she trots the globe with her husband and their twins.
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