The Chicest Easter Egg Designs You Need to Try
When Easter rolls around, dyeing eggs is a necessary activity. This year skip the stencils and get creative with a design that is as fun to make as it is an elegant accent.
For the chicest egg hunt ever, up your egg dyeing game with these gorgeous DIY designs that will turn your basket into a work of art.
3) Sprinkle Easter Eggs
Let's face it, candy is a major part of Easter. So why not celebrate the holiday by combining two of its most important icons? These eggs, painted with candy sprinkles, hit the sweet spot.
Get the tutorial via Let's Mingle.
7) Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs
We're all about these all-natural Easter eggs that skip the fussy store-bought dyes in favor of chromatic plants. We've all seen what bright magenta beet juice can do to a cutting board-time to try it on your next batch of eggs.
Get the tutorial via Boulder Locavore.
6) Gold Animal Easter Eggs
You don't have to dye your eggs to jazz them up! Instead, try bedecking them with gold-painted spring creatures, like ladybugs, butterflies, and bunny rabbits.
Get the tutorial via Flax & Twine.
9) Color Contrast Easter Eggs
Create dramatic two-tone eggs with swirling, marbleized patterns in deep, jewel tones. The key is an art classroom staple, rubber cement.
Get the tutorial via Unsophisticook.
11) Washi Tape Easter Eggs
Washi tape is officially the queen of crafting materials. Use it on eggs to create adorable patterns with the colorful tape, or wrap an egg in tape before dyeing to create peel-off designs underneath.
Get the tutorial via Lovely Indeed.
12) Gold Leaf Easter Eggs
Give your Easter eggs an ordinary dye job, then use gold leaf to create a antique-looking layer of gilt on top. Gorgeous!
Get the tutorial via Little Inspiration.
14) Feather Decoupage Easter Eggs
These delicate eggs skip the dye in favor of pretty, patterned paper decoupage, amply bedecked with tiny feathers-perfect for celebrating the season's flocks of returning birds.
Get the tutorial via Oh So Beautiful Paper.
15) Marbled And Bronzed Easter Eggs
These chic, minimal Easter eggs combine lovely stone-look marbling with bronze patina. The effect is achieved using grape juice (!), among other ingredients.
Get the tutorial via Tera Janelle Designs.
16) Chalkboard Easter Eggs
Add a layer of intrigue to your Easter egg hunt by painting your eggs with matte chalkboard paint, and leaving messages in chalk for the hunters to discover later.
Get the tutorial via Oleander + Palm.
17) Tattooed Easter Eggs
Get your eggs tatted up with a wide array of temporary press-on tattoos. We love this 'Sailor Jerry' motif, or try metallic flash tattoos for a little music-festival splendor.
Get the tutorial via Wild Amor.
18) Ombre Easter Eggs
Ombre is a design classic for a reason; it always looks good. Learn how to manage your dye as you go to create a gradient ribbon of colorful eggs.
Get the tutorial via Sugar and Charm.
Indigo Swirl Easter Eggs
Dreamers everywhere will go gaga for these celestial, spangled eggs, marbled with indigo dye over their natural white hue.
Get the tutorial via Alice & Lois.
19) Chick Easter Eggs
Dress your eggs in their Easter best with this cute tutorial that turns them into itty-bitty chicks, complete with fluffy crowns of down and 'grass' nests.
Get the tutorial via It All Started With Paint.
20) Animal Print Easter Eggs
If you yearn for the eye-popping animal prints of your Lisa Frank trapper-keeper, this is the tutorial for you. Create eggs that pay homage to the queen of notebooks, pencil cases, and recess doodling.
Get the tutorial via Studio DIY.
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