50+ Egg Decorating Ideas

Try something new this year with one of these creative Easter egg decorating ideas for kids! There are over 50 unique designs and techniques!

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50 Egg Decorating Ideas for Kids

Every year you know that you’re going to be decorating eggs. It’s time to get some new ideas to wow the kids! All of these ideas are fun and simple to do! The kids will love having so many options and you’ll love to see their creativity. You just might join in on the fun, too!

Are you looking for some great egg decorating ideas? You better stock up on eggs because you’re going to want to make them all! Find out how simple it can be to make these eggs below. They’re all adorable and fun!

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carton of brightly dyed Easter eggs

Homemade Easter Egg Dye with Food Coloring — It doesn’t get any easier than this simple, 3-ingredient Easter egg dye recipe! We used it to get vibrant colors in minutes!

a rainbow of naturally dyed eggs in a wooden bowl

Natural Easter Egg Dyes — 4 gorgeous rustic natural colors made with kitchen ingredients you probably have at home.

basket full of potatoes dyed like Easter eggs

Easter Egg Potatoes — This Easter, with egg prices through the roof, why not learn how to dye potatoes like Easter eggs? We tried it and have tips to make colorful Easter Egg Potatoes!

Rice Dyed Easter Eggs

Rice Dyed Easter Eggs – Create vibrant, speckled eggs with this unique technique. The best part, there’s no mess!

marbled Easter eggs with nail polish

Marble Easter Eggs with Nail Polish — Dip the eggs in a bowl of nail polish water for a cool marbled effect!

chalkboard coated Easter eggs

Chalkboard Easter Eggs — This cool chalkboard effect lets kids draw designs with chalk!

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Silk Dyed Eggs Silk dyed Easter eggs create a swirled, marbled effect.

brown eggs with drawn-on decorations

Simple Easter Eggs — Great tips for decorating brown eggs!

ombre Easter eggs

Ombre Easter Eggs — I love the colors of these eggs! So fun! 

collage showing how to decorate eggs with Kool-Aid

Kool-Aid Easter Eggs Use Kool-Aid to create these colorful homemade dyes.

4 photo collage showing kids painting Easter eggs with watercolors

Watercolor Egg Painting with Kids  — Watercolor painting for eggs is easy for kids to do. 

eggs decorated with melted crayons

Crayon Shaving Decorated Easter Eggs — Look at how you can use those crayons shavings or old broken crayons to create something beautiful!

eggs decorated to look like hamburgers

 

Hamburger Easter Eggs These cute eggs are decorated to look like burgers!

eggs coated in glitter

Glitter Easter Eggs — Glitter doesn’t have to be a bad thing! Find out how you can use it for eggs! 

speckled Easter eggs

Speckled Easter Eggs  — The kids will have so much fun making their own speckled eggs! 

rainbow marbled eggs

Sharpie Tie Dye Easter Eggs — You can easily use markers to make a fun look! 

Star Wars decorated easter eggs

Star Wars Painted Easter Eggs — These are AMAZING and perfect for Star Wars fans! 

eggs decorated with shaving cream dye

Shaving Cream Easter Eggs — It’s no myth. You can totally dye Easter eggs using shaving cream!

rainbow of speckled dyed eggs

How To Dye Easter Eggs With Rice — Have you ever used rice to dye eggs? Who knew?!

white eggs with colorful stickers

Easter Eggs Sticker Art — Such a fun activity for the kids and free printable coloring page too!

eggs decorated with drawings of celebrities faces

 

Celebrity Easter Eggs — Look at this fun “tattoo” Easter activity! Make your favorite celebs!

cosmic glitter Easter eggs

Cosmic Easter Eggs – Holy cow, look how unique these eggs are! Perfect for space fans!

glitter covered Easter eggs

Easy Glitter Egg Decorating — Creating sparkling eggs with this technique!

colorful marbled Easter eggs 

Marbled Easter Eggs — This is a great activity for the younger kids! 

Easter eggs with white silhouette designs

Silhouette Easter Eggs This is a unique way to make super cool Easter eggs! 

Easter eggs decorated with tissue paper

Tissue Paper Easter Eggs — So much colorful glittery fun! 

Easter eggs decorated to look like planets

Solar System Easter Eggs — Any kid who is a fan of the solar system is going to love this! Decorate eggs to look like the planets!

Easter eggs decorated to look like LEGO people heads

LEGO Minifigure Decorated Easter Eggs — Perfect for a great LEGO activity for the kids. 

dyed eggs with geometric shapes

Food Dye Coloured Easter Eggs  Talk about a super easy way to make something cool.

tie dyed eggs in bright primary colors

DIY Tie Dye Easter Eggs — These Tie Dye Easter eggs have the neatest patterns!

pastel marbled eggs

Cool Whip Eggs — Who knew that you can use cool whip for this?! Love the colorful blends!

decorated eggs with colorful designs

Easy Egg Decorating for Kids Another easy tie-dye trick!

Easter eggs decorated to look like ice cream cones

Easter Egg Ice Cream Cones I love this unique activity for the kids! The eggs look like real ice cream cones!

multicolored egg on a paper covered in paint

Rolled Easter Egg Painting — Paint the eggs by rolling them!

pink Easter egg with a $ sign on it

DIY Money Bag Easter Eggs — What a funny design! 

blue dyed eggs in egg holders

Vegetable Dyed Easter Eggs — Vegetables can create some great colors for Easter eggs. That’s right…vegetables! 

eggs covered in decorated paper

Origami Paper Covered Easter Eggs — This would be such a great family activity. And no worries about messy dye!

collage showing how to dye eggs with bubble baking soda dyes

Baking Soda Easter Eggs  Have some baking soda at home? Use it to make this bubbly effect!

eggs with Avengers themed stickers on them

Avengers Easter Eggs — Check out these totally rad eggs for Easter fun.

collage showing how to dye eggs with shaving cream

Shaving Cream Easter Eggs — Messy play combined with Easter eggs decorating!

decorated eggs with an abstract modern design

Bold Dotted Abstract Easter Eggs  I love this quirky modern design!

hand holding a glow in the dark painted egg

Glowing Easter Eggs — These eggs will glow in the dark! 

eggs decorated to look like chicks and bunnies

Bunny and Chick Painted Easter Eggs — Make your Easter eggs look like cute little animals! 

eggs with Easter themed fingerprint art

Fingerprint Easter Egg Decorating for Kids  Fingerprint eggs are a great way for little kids to decorate!

eggs decorated to look like lemons

Lemon Easter Eggs — This is such a cute and simple craft idea, to make lemons out of eggs!

eggs decorated to look like gnomes, with marshmallow beards

Gnome Easter Eggs — You know that you want to make gnomes! 

white eggs with pastel designs

Silk Tie Eggs  — If you’re looking for a unique egg activity, this is the one! Raid the closet and use old silk ties to create this look!

colorful eggs with metallic gold foil

Gold Foil Easter Eggs — Metallic eggs are show-stoppers!

white egg with gold confetti

Confetti Easter Eggs — Confetti eggs will bring a whole new look to your decorating! 

dyed eggs with black mustache drawings

Mustache Easter Eggs You mustache make these adorable eggs!!

eggs decorated with Easter themed temporary tattoos

Decorate Easter Eggs with Tattoos — Talk about a super cute and easy way to decorate your eggs. 

pink and purple "princess" decorated eggs

Princess Easter Eggs  — The princess crown egg holders are such a nice touch!

 

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Lindsey Schatz
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  1. Aw, thank you for including our Chalkboard Easter Eggs in this EGGScellent collection LOL apparently you can now buy them at Hobby Lobby but proud that our version came FIRST.
    So many great Easter egg decorating ideas here, so EGGcited to try some of them out.
    (OK I’ll stop…)

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