Easter is the perfect time to get crafty, and you don’t need to spend much money to create beautifully decorated Easter eggs! With simple household items, you can design unique and colorful Easter eggs right at home. If you’re looking for an egg-free option, we’ve got plenty of creative, affordable ideas to help you save money.
No matter what supplies you have on hand, there’s always a fun and festive way to celebrate Easter with these DIY projects!
DIY Egg Dye Solutions
- Go old school and use food coloring with these tried-and-true tips from McCormick.
- Make marbled eggs by adding oil to some of your colors! Check out this tutorial from Better Homes & Garden magazine.
- Create a speckled design using rice, food coloring and baggies. This shake method offers a less messy option that gets toddlers and preschoolers in on the fun. Bonus: you can use the colored rice for a sensory bin afterward.
- Skip the dye altogether and make abstract eggs! Round up some materials you have at home (think tissue paper, washi tape, confetti, etc.), scissors, paintbrushes and watered-down glue.
- Tie-dye eggs with brush pens or markers. Check out this tutorial to learn how.
- Save your applesauce cups and reuse those as egg holders for watercolor-painted eggs.
- Bubble wrap makes an interested stamped pattern.
- Incorporate temporary tattoos to amp up your dyed eggs.
Egg-free Easter crafts
- Opt for dyeable faux “eggs” available at many craft and retail stores
- Paint rocks in colorful Spring patterns.
- Cut out egg shapes from watercolor paper. Use a permanent marker to create fun designs and add color with paint or markers.
- Craft string eggs using balloons as a mold. Blow up a balloon into an egg shape, coat the balloon in glue and wrap string around the balloon. Wait for the glue to dry before popping your balloon to reveal your new “egg” creation.
