Planning an Easter egg hunt? Looking for some unique and exciting ways to hide those colorful treats? You’ve come to the right place! This article is packed with Easter Egg Ideas to make your hunt unforgettable.
From classic hiding spots to creative challenges, we’ll explore a variety of options to keep both kids and adults entertained.
Fun Easter Egg Crafts Ideas
1. Foil-Covered Easter Eggs
Tara Donne
Make Easter eggs look extra delicious with this candy-inspired idea. You’ll need colorful foil wrappers and your eggs (no need to dye for this one!). To make, wrap each egg in 6″x 6″ foil wrappers. Arrange them in a bowl for a colorful display.
2. Washi Tape Easter Eggs
Tara Donne
Kids can achieve this striped look with strips of easy-to-tear Washi tape, which comes in many different colors and patterns. To make, prepare your eggs as desired with dye or by using plastic eggs. Then, apply the Washi tape in a variety of configurations.
3. Egg-Ceptional Ribbon Eggs
Tara Donne
Compile scraps of ribbon and your eggs for this Easter egg idea. To make, tie scraps of colorful ribbon around eggs for a perfectly packaged Easter display.
4. Pretty Patterns
Tara Donne
For this Easter craft, gather up some markers and eggs of your choice. To make, have your kids draw simple designs, like X’s and O’s, onto eggs with regular markers.
5. Spring Flower Easter Eggs
Tara Donne
Buy small flower embellishments from the craft store for this Easter egg idea. To make, embellish your eggs with petite flowers to give them a seasonal makeover. It’s the perfect Easter egg decoration for your kitchen, especially when you place them on top of tiny jars or bud vases!
6. Get-the-Message Egg
Photograph by Heath Robbins
You’ll need your eggs, words clipped from magazines, and a glue stick for these Easter eggs.
To make, follow these steps:
- Prepare your eggs with dye or paint.
- Look in magazines for terms related to Easter or springtime and clip them out (or customize an egg for each family member, choosing words to describe personalities and interests).
- Apply a glue stick to the backs of the clipped words, then smooth them onto an egg.
7. Margarine-Marbled Egg
Photograph by Heath Robbins
You’ll need eggs, food coloring, white vinegar, margarine, tongs, and a paper towel for this Easter egg.
To make, follow these steps:
- Hard boil eggs, then cool them to room temperature.
- Mix 1 cup of cool water with 20 drops of food coloring and 2 teaspoons of white vinegar in a glass measuring cup.
- In a microwave-safe bowl, melt 1 tablespoon of margarine (use the stick type). Stir it into the dye.
- With tongs, quickly dunk an egg in and out of the mixture three times, then let it soak for three to five minutes.
- Remove it and let it dry.
- Gently rub away any remaining margarine with a paper towel.
8. Tissue-Speckled Egg
Photograph by Heath Robbins
You’ll need eggs, colorful tissue paper, a hole punch, and a glue stick for these polka-dot eggs.
To make, follow these steps:
- Prepare your eggs with dye or paint (or leave plain!).
- Stack a few layers of tissue paper, then punch dots with a hole punch. Separate the layered dots.
- Working in sections, apply a glue stick to your egg, then roll it in the dots or dab them on with a glue-sticked finger.
9. Ombre Easter Egg
Photograph by Heath Robbins
For an ombre Easter egg, gather dyeable eggs, a bottle cap, a glass, boiling water, white vinegar, food coloring, and tongs.
To make, follow these steps:
- Place an egg on a bottle cap inside a wide, flat-bottomed 8- or 10-ounce glass.
- Make the dye solution by adding 1 teaspoon of white vinegar and 40 drops of food coloring to 1/2 cup boiling water.
- Carefully pour the mixture along the inside of the glass until a quarter of the egg is covered. Let it sit for five minutes.
- Next, carefully add clear, warm water, again pouring it along the inside of the glass until the egg is half submerged. Let it sit for three minutes.
- Add water for one or two more stripes, waiting two minutes after each addition.
- Remove the egg with tongs and let it dry!
10. Egg Heads
Tara Donne
You’ll need eggs, yarn, glue, and markers to make these eggheads. Make Easter egg decorations a family affair. Disguise shells by drawing on facial features and adding yarn hair and hats.
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11. Swirly Palette
Johnny Miller
This simple Easter egg idea requires eggs, a paintbrush, and tempera paints. To make, kids can brush squiggles of washable tempera paint on the eggs with a 1/2-inch-wide flat paintbrush.
12. Flamingo Egg
Ryan Liebe
For this Easter egg idea, gather your eggs, food coloring, glue, pipe cleaners, feathers, beads, pom-poms, and a small black bead or googly eye.
To make a flamingo Easter egg, follow these steps:
- Use a pink plastic egg or dye an egg pink and let dry.
- Glue on legs and head with pipe cleaners.
- Glue on feathers for wings.
- Add a small bead for an eye (or use your favorite googly eyes!).
13. Panda Egg
Ryan Liebe
Gather your eggs, paint pens in bright colors, glue, and pom-poms for these un-bear-ably cute Easter eggs.
To make:
- Use paint pens to draw ovals on the eggs as shown, and color them in.
- Draw a face and paws.
- Glue on pom-pom ears.
14. Beetle Egg
Ryan Liebe
Gather your eggs, food coloring, paint pens in bright colors, glue, and pipe cleaners.
To make, follow these steps:
- Dye eggs using your favorite method.
- Use a paint pen to draw eyes, wings, and patterns on the dyed egg.
- Glue on legs and antennae with pipe cleaners.
15. Basket of Berries
Ed Judice
For this Easter egg idea, you’ll need pink or red plastic or dyed eggs, black permanent marker, green felt, green pipe cleaners, and glue.
To make:
- Use a black permanent marker to draw seeds on plastic or dyed eggs.
- For each, cut a berry top from felt.
- Snip a small hole in the felt center, then poke a piece of pipe cleaner through the hole.
- Attach the two to the top of the egg with glue dots.
16. Cheery Chicks
Ed Judice
For this Easter egg decorating idea, you’ll need eggs, a cardboard egg carton, glue, googly eyes, and cardstock.
To make follow these steps:
- Cut the eggshell pieces from a cardboard egg carton.
- Use glue dots to adhere googly eyes and a cardstock beak to your eggs.
- If you like, set your chicks in a shredded paper nest.
17. Silly Monsters
Gretchen Easton
With this Easter egg idea, you can show the children how to use markers to draw different mouths onto label stickers or hole-punch reinforcements, then adhere them to your Easter eggs. You’ll need eggs, markers, googly eyes, label stickers, glue dots, and pipe cleaners.
To make follow these steps:
- Draw mouths on label stickers and stick to eggs.
- Stick googly eyes onto your eggs above label sticker mouths.
- Cut and bend pipe cleaners into arms, legs, hair—whatever!— then attach with glue dots.
18. Sparkling Geodes
Gretchen Easton
You’ll need small paper plates or bowls, glitter, sequins, tacky glue, a paintbrush, and eggs for this Easter egg craft.
To make, follow these steps:
- Fill small paper plates or bowls with glitter and sequins.
- Pour an inch or so of tacky glue into a paper cup.
- Have the kids 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.
19. Baby Fruits and Veggies
Gretchen Easton
Strawberries, lemons, limes, and carrots! For this fruity Easter egg idea, you’ll need construction paper, glue dots, markers, and eggs.
To make, follow these steps:
- Show kids how to fold pre-cut construction paper leaves and stems.
- Attach them to the tops of your eggs with glue dots.
- Add some final touches with markers such as fruit details, faces, or whatever your child desires.
20. Sweet Sea Creatures
Gretchen Easton
In this Easter egg craft idea, kids can create their own turtles, crabs, octopuses—or any type of fish! You’ll need felt, glue dot, paint, pipe cleaners, and your eggs.
To make follow these steps:
- Pre-cut felt features, then attach them to your egg sea creatures with a glue dot.
- Use pipe cleaners to create arms, legs, and antennae.
- Paint the eggs with final touches.
With a little creativity, your Easter egg hunt can be a truly memorable experience. These Easter Egg Ideas are just a starting point – feel free to adapt them to your own backyard, garden, or even indoors.
Most importantly, remember to have fun and enjoy the spirit of the season!