For really eye-catching Easter Eggs, try dyeing, then découpaging.
Find full instructions below.
For the dye, use food coloring drops, boiling water and vinegar, mixed. Give the boiled eggs a rubdown with vinegar before putting them in the dyebath, and they take the color more intensely. Click here for the best dyebath recipes and instructions.
For the découpage, use origami paper and tiny shaped hole punches. The origami paper is just the right weight — try punching out shapes in the spectrum of colors. Put some Mod Podge in a bowl, and use a sponge brush to apply Mod Podge to a section of the egg. Add the punched shapes (they’ll stick to the Mod Podge), then coat them again with more Mod Podge to secure them in place.
This is a great project for kids — not too messy and you can’t really get it wrong.
P.S. — When we made the eggs in these photos (April 6, 2007), my older 3 kids and I went through 4 dozen eggs and were still going strong, but then the babies woke up from their naps which meant the whole production had to be put away. I remember wishing I had reserved a dozen eggs to work on just by myself. It was very therapeutic. And pretty much every color combination and pattern had some merit about it, so the work was very satisfying as well.
Um, those are the prettiest Easter eggs I’ve ever seen.
I love projects like that! Because they are disposable, I don’t feel any anxiety of perfection and just enjoy the process! So satisfying!!
Your eggs look great!!
Those are beautiful! I never thought to decoupage them. What a great idea!
Love this idea!
Beautiful eggs, Gabby. Happy Easter to you, Ben, Ralph, Maude, Olive, Oscar and Betty!
so cute! what are you going to do with all those eggs now?
Liz, the kids will hunt for them and then we’ll eat them.
We’re already down by almost a dozen, because the kids have eaten the ones that accidentally broke while we were découpaging.
A family of 7 can go through a dozen eggs in a matter of minutes.
Those are amazing!! I’ve never once decorated an egg, maybe once in school but that was (if memory serves) with tempura paints, so it wasn’t really worth it.
It’d be a great how-to, I’d love to tackle that once Damien gets a little older!
What beautiful little treasures! Happy Easter, my friend!
I love those eggs, they look great..
Just my two kids will eat a dozen hard boiled eggs a day, it is their favorite snack. We are boiling 5 dozen…thank you Costco
I have so much origami paper. Thanks for sharing this.
Beautiful eggs. Thank you for sharing such a pretty and doable project!
These are truly “decorated” eggs! Beautiful! Happy Easter and enjoy spring break!
Love those decoupaged eggs. I used to decoupage boxes before having kids and it was very therapeutic when I think back maybe I will do a project with my daughter over this weekend. Thanks design mom for being such an inspiration.
I ran out and bought ModgePodge to decorate eggs tomorrow. And we bought a butterfly shaped hole punch. Can’t wait!
gosh. those are just beautiful. we’re going on an easter egg hunt today where they’re bringing in baby lambs for the kids to pet. wish i had eggs that pretty to put in our baskets.
happy easter to you and your sweet family.
Love those eggs!
Wow, your eggs are beautiful. I can’t wait till my little one is old enough for us to tackle something like that.
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very mod eggs gabrielle!
they did a great job!
Happy Easter, Gabrielle! He is risen indeed!
I’m sending my wife the link to your site, because she is a designer/artist/mom of three who wants us to move back to nyc.
For now, loving the Boston suburbs.
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Ok I am officially a craft-tard. Those are the most gorgeous easter eggs ever.
Ooohh…brilliant! I can’t wait till next year to copy you. Love your blog and visit often. I’ve linked you on mine (hope you don’t mind ;))
Hippy hop, hippity hop.
Will the Easter Bunny stop?
Will he leave a treat behind,
An Easter basket for me to find?
I’ll look over here,
I’ll look over there,
I’ll look behind things,
I’ll look everywhere
I’ll look until I find my treat,
And then I’ll sit right down and eat.
Happy Easter!
Your eggs are just gorgeous! And it sounds like a project even a goofus like me can do!
Thanks for including the easy steps!
These are beautiful eggs! I can’t wait to try this next year…if I can remember that far from now!
Love the egg idea! Can I enter the giveaway? Thanks.
loved those cushions – and the glass bowl! :)
Great collection! It would look perfect in my home.
I too love your eggs. For whatever reason I can’t view the things that I am sure are lovely from the Nordicetc site…is it that I use a Mac? Glad to find your site.
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I love your tip for making Easter egg colors more intense! They never seem to be quite dark enough. In case you would like to link to it, I added a link to your idea on the Easter egg page:
http://www.craftlinky.com/easter-egg-crafts.html
Beautiful!!
I’m featuring this on my 2 dozen ideas and techniques to dye Easter Eggs today!
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So there are no problems with eating the decoupaged eggs? They are beautiful and look fun to do but I am concerned it could/would seep thru the porous egg shells or hairline cracks.