- Wooden Eggs (I got these from Hobby Lobby.) I liked the idea of wooden ones because of their base color, but also because I wanted to use them more than once. However, I’m sure real hard boiled eggs would work, too. Just be careful not to crack them!
- Craft Paint
- Plastic Ziploc Baggie
- Water
- Packing Paper/Newspaper…a place to dry the eggs
DIY Rustic Painted Wooden Eggs
These DIY rustic painted wooden eggs are the perfect addition to your Spring decor! I always enjoy decorating for the different holidays and seasons. It really feels like a way to celebrate them. Changing and adding things according to the seasons keeps things fresh and new in the home and simply adds joy.
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In Spring and for Easter, eggs are one of the biggest ways out there to celebrate! My kids have always enjoyed decorating eggs in bright colors and of course in mixing colors, too, sometimes to a shade of mud lol. However, my go to in decorating in general is colors that are neutral. I’m just drawn to them! So I wanted to create some simple and rustic neutral eggs.
Here’s how to create the look. What’s great about this is you can obviously go the colorful route, too! It’s also a fairly neat project, so even your kids can possibly create some eggs without getting covered in paint themselves!
How do I make diy rustic painted wooden eggs?
- Wooden Eggs (I got these from Hobby Lobby.) I liked the idea of wooden ones because of their base color, but also because I wanted to use them more than once. However, I’m sure real hard boiled eggs would work, too. Just be careful not to crack them!
- Craft Paint
- Plastic Ziploc Baggie
- Water
- Packing Paper/Newspaper…a place to dry the eggs
- Squirt a very small amount of paint into the bag and a drop or two of water. You may be adjusting the amount of one or the other as you go to achieve the desired look. There’s no “right” way.
- Add an egg or two, seal the bag and shake, wiggle, squish around, etc…
- Carefully dump the eggs out onto the paper to dry. If you feel like the egg has too much paint on it, crinkle some of the paper on it to dab it off. This also creates a cool effect! (This might be more messy…lol)
It’s that easy! Happy Spring Decorating!
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Wooden Easter Egg Decorations and Wooden Easter Egg Crafts
There are many beautiful ways to decorate wooden eggs and make wooden Easter egg crafts. First, choose the materials you want to use to make decorated eggs from the wooden Easter egg craft supplies below. Next, try your hand at the fantastic wooden Easter egg crafts and wooden Easter egg decorating ideas on the list below, or find inspiration to create your own decorated wooden Easter eggs!
Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Craft Supplies
Pick and choose the Easter egg decorating supplies you want to work with from the wooden Easter egg craft materials listed below. You will need wooden eggs, paint, or paint pens to color them, and you may also need a set of paintbrushes depending on how you choose to apply color or decorate them. Or, dip them into liquid watercolor or food coloring–just like real Easter Eggs!
- Wooden Easter eggs, flat-bottom wooden Easter eggs, or white wooden eggs
- Extra fine-tip paint pens, pastel paint pens, or brush-tip paint pens
- Acrylic Paint and paintbrushes
- Liquid watercolor paints or food coloring
- Woodburning pen
14 Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Ideas
Click on the creator of each wooden Easter egg craft idea on this list to see the full tutorial for each Easter egg decorating idea.
- How to Paint and Decorate Wooden Eggs | Rhythms of Play
- Star Wars Painted Easter Eggs | Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
- Lego Easter Eggs | Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
- Watercolor Wooden Easter Eggs | Fun at Home with Kids for Modern Parents Messy Kids
- DIY Color Block Eggs | Crate & Barrel Kids Blog
- Rustic Industrial Eggs | Cherished Bliss
- Thumbprint Easter Egg Decorating | Childhood 101
- Painted Wooden Eggs | Fireflies & Mudpies – This easy egg craft uses smaller robin eggs, but this technique will work on a wooden egg of any size.
- DIY Resurrection Eggs | Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
- How to Paint Harry Potter Easter Eggs | Adventure in a Box
- Space Eggs: Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Idea for Kids | Adventure in a Box
- Matryoshka Wooden Easter Egg Craft | Adventure in a Box
- Owl Easter Eggs | Adventure in a Box
- Easter Chicks Wooden Egg Craft | Rhythms of Play (photo below)
8 More Easter Egg Decorating Ideas Perfect for Wooden Easter Egg Crafts
The wooden egg craft ideas below are not made with wooden eggs. They are each made with either real hard-boiled eggs or faux craft eggs. However, we thought these Easter egg decorating ideas would be perfect for decorating wooden eggs, so we included them below.
- Emoji Easter Eggs | Studio DIY
- Galaxy Easter Eggs Tutorial | Dream a Little Bigger
- Embroidery Floss Wrapped Eggs | Craftberry Bush
- DIY Embroidery Thread Easter Eggs | Family Focus Blog
- Yarn Wrapped Easter Eggs | The Happy Housie
- Twine Wrapped Eggs | Domestically Speaking
- Crochet Covered Easter Eggs | Flax and Twine
- Paint Pen Easter Egg Decorating Ideas | Rhythms of Play(photo below)
Using paint pens to decorate wooden Easter eggs is fun and easy. So try the delightful paint pen Easter egg decorating ideas at home or in the classroom for Easter this year!
More Wooden Easter Egg Decorations
DIY wooden egg craft ideas like these are a fun alternative to traditional Egg decorating for Easter. And are also fun to make and decorate for the Spring Vernal Equinox.
Wooden Decorated Easter Eggs
Decorating wooden eggs is a fun way to create Easter keepsakes that you can reuse yearly. Kids love to hunt for wooden Easter eggs on Easter egg hunts as much as they like to find them in their Easter Baskets as a non-candy alternative.
Wooden Easter eggs also make gorgeous spring home decor and look lovely displayed on mantles, baskets, and spring nature tables.
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