Decorating Ideas

Decorating your egg can be as simple or elaborate as you would like it to be. You can make beautifully designed Easter eggs with items you probably currently have in your home. Some of these ideas work egg-ceptionally well on the hollowed eggs.

• Ribbons – take leftover ribbons and glue them to your egg in the desired colors and patterns (blown eggs)
• Glitter – spread your egg with a thin layer of glue and then roll the egg around in glitter (superfine glitter will give your egg a sugared look) (blown eggs)
• Lace – using the same principle as the ribbons decorate your egg (blown eggs)
• Sponge Paint – dig out your sponges and craft paint to create an original design
• Stickers – let the kids decorate using their favorite stickers
• Crayons – with a parent’s help color on a warm egg
• Mosaic – be creative and glue pieces of tissue paper, small pasta pieces or shells to your egg.

These recipes will come in handy if you have decided to stick with the tried and true dyed Easter egg

Simple Egg Dye

Combine 1/2 cup boiling water, 1 tsp. vinegar and the food color together adding drops of food coloring to achieve desired colors. Dip hard cooked eggs in dye for about 5 minutes or until desired color.

Natural Egg Dye

Dye your eggs in boiling water, with vinegar and the item used to create the desired color, boiling both eggs and dye items together. Don’t forget to compost your dye items when you are finished dyeing your eggs.

Color ideas:

Lavender Small Quantity of Purple Grape Juice

Violet Blossoms plus 2 tsp Lemon Juice

Violet Blue Violet Blossoms

Small Quantity of Red Onions Skins

Blue Canned Blueberries

Red Cabbage Leaves

Purple Grape Juice

Green Spinach Leaves

Liquid Chlorophyll

Greenish Yellow Yellow Delicious Apple Peels

Yellow Orange or Lemon Peels

Carrot Tops

Celery Seed

Ground Cumin

Ground Turmeric

Saffron

Brown Strong Coffee

Instant Coffee

Black Walnut Shells

Orange Yellow Onion Skins

Pink Beets

Cranberries or Juice

Raspberries

Red Grape Juice

Juice from Pickled Beets

Red Lots of Red Onions Skins

Hard boiled, hollowed out, color dyed or fancier designs, anything goes when decorating your eggs for this Easter season. The only rule is to have fun.