Chica and I wanted to come up with some alternatives for decorating eggs besides using traditional dyes. Don’t get me wrong — we love regular dyed eggs, and we’ve given you some tips on dyeing eggs in the past, but we like a little variety around here. We started thinking of different techniques and realized we already had three really great ideas that could easily be applied to eggs shapes. Let me show you what we came up with!
First up, we used the same ribbon folding and pinning technique that we used to create pine cone ornaments at Christmas, using small Styrofoam eggs for the centers and Easter-themed ribbon. These would be so cute hanging on an Easter tree or perhaps, like I did here, on a drawer knob on a side table!
And remember Chica’s sequin ball? I like this technique even better on eggs! I mean, seriously, I am addicted to making these things. I have a little divot in my finger from poking all of those pins into the Styrofoam. But look at how beautiful they are! I have these three sitting on my desk at work and everyone who stops by is immediately fascinated by them. We even had a craft day during lunch last week, and I showed my co-workers how to make them.
And last but certainly not least, we used one of our new favorite crafting techniques, Zentangle, to decorate a white painted wooden egg. You could even do this on the shells of real hard-boiled eggs, if you pick up some food-safe markers. How neat would that be to serve on your Easter brunch table? You could let the kids Zentangle them the day before. I think this is an Easter egg decorating technique that even teenagers could get behind.
This just goes to show that sometimes your existing techniques and skills can be put to use in ways you never thought of originally!
To complete your Easter celebration, how about an adorable baby bunny costume, a polka dot garden party pack, or even Easter egg whirls?
8 comments so far:
I LOVE the seqiuns and the ribbon eggs!! Would either one of them be easy enough for Junior Girl Scouts (3rd and 4th grade) to do?
The sequin eggs are certainly easy enough for them to do. Chica’s niece helped her do the sequin ball and she is only 6. I’m a Daisy Troop leader and might let my girls try it out!
How did you make the ribbon eggs? I really can’t tell from the picture. Can you post pics and directions?
Everything on this page is just beautiful..
Thanks for sharing with the rest of us.
Debbie, thanks for the compliments! The ribbon eggs were made using the same technique we used last year for Christmas pine cones. We have a link to that project in the post above, but you must have missed it. Here’s another link to our ribbon pine cone tutorial. Enjoy!
Thank you so much Chica…I did miss it, as I didn’t know about you last year. But I am so over joyed knowing about you this year..Can’t wait for more ideas..
Thank you and Jo so much!!!
Debbie Lee, welcome to the crew, and we’re glad to have you with us now
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I made these with my Junior Girl Scouts and they LOVED it! One thing I learned: I had to either use Beading Pins or put a seed bead on the silk pin before the sequin. Otherwise th sequins fell off. (Applique pins worked perfectly with a seed bead, too.)