How to decorate eggs with your child: 10 creative Easter ideas

The Easter table looks bright and festive when there are many colorful, beautiful eggs in the basket, decorated with your own hands! And if there are children in the house, it would be a sin not to take advantage of Easter preparations and organize drawing workshops!

How to decorate eggs for Easter in a way that children can actively participate in the process? We offer 10 creative and simple ideas!

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Multicolored trails

Such a beautiful pattern is very easy to make, even a child can handle it!

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To work you will need a thin brush and 4-5 colors of gouache. Take a boiled egg with two fingers and paint it with careless stitches, changing the color of the paint.

This pattern will look beautiful on both brown and white eggs. Light shades of gouache will go well with brown shells: white, yellow, light pink, red.

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Napkins + glue

You can paint eggs for Easter in a beautiful and unusual way using thin multi-colored napkins and PVA glue!

To prevent the glue from being thick, dilute it with a little water, then cut out different patterns from the napkins. It is desirable that they are small, then the child will be able to glue the decor onto the egg himself.

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In this technique, careless patches of different colors, combined into one mosaic, look very good. You can also glue thin strips around the perimeter of each Easter egg.

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Using a hole punch, you can make lots of paper circles from colored paper and stick them onto the egg in the same way! After decorating, leave the eggs to dry on oilcloth or newspaper.

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Drawing with colored dots

Another technique for painting Easter eggs that is feasible for a child is to paint with colored dots with paint. First, paint the eggs in a solid bright color with food coloring, and then let the child put many small colored spots on the egg with different colors of gouache.

To make the pattern original, do not paint the egg completely, paint it with dots only on one or both sides.

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Toothpick drawing

You can decorate eggs for Easter with your child using a toothpick, then the baby will not worry that his pattern will “float”. Just dip the toothpick in gouache and leave thin strokes on the shell. This method is very convenient for drawing flowers and zigzags.

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Cover with glitter

This Easter egg decorating method is suitable even for young children. Draw circles on boiled eggs using PVA glue, then roll them in colored glitter and let them dry.

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Creative chaos

Who said you can't paint eggs for Easter in the modernist style? Modern art is in fashion now, and most importantly, you don't have to worry that the drawing won't work out.

You can use an old toothbrush or paintbrush for this decoration. Paint the eggs with food coloring in one color, and when they dry, sprinkle them with any contrasting paint. You can use a toothbrush to make fine colored dust.

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Pastel Easter bunnies

For such cute bunnies, you only need to dye the eggs halfway, and to ensure the colors are pastel, don't keep the eggs in the dye solution for too long.

Then give your child a dark wax crayon and let them draw the rabbit's eyes, ears, nose, and cheeks.

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Bright bunnies

You can also draw rabbits on Easter eggs using gouache and a dark marker. Paint the eggs in bright colors with a solid color dye, then let your child draw the rabbit's face with white gouache.

Even if your child doesn't do it very neatly, trace the outline of the face and ears with a black marker when the paint is dry. The rabbits will immediately become more defined and cute!

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Gilded eggs

How to dye eggs for Easter if you're visiting? Make these incredibly beautiful golden eggs with your child!

To start, paint them in a solid color; gold foil looks especially beautiful with blue, pink, yellow, lilac, and crimson.

Then paint spots of glue on the egg so that when it dries it has a marbled effect. Take a piece of thin foil and wrap it around the egg so that it sticks. Spread the foil over the egg with a sponge or toothbrush. When the glue dries, shake the egg in your hands to loosen some of the foil.

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Lace pattern

A very simple pattern on eggs with a child can be made using simple wide lace. After you have painted the eggs, let them dry.

Then take a piece of lace, cut it so that its length corresponds to the diameter of the egg. Soak it well with gouache and attach it to the shell for a few minutes. After that, you will have a beautiful openwork print.

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Easter decoupage

You can also decorate eggs for Easter using decoupage. Take a few beautiful napkins with a pattern, and remove only the thinnest layer with the pattern from each.

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Dilute PVA glue with water, place the napkin on the egg and using a large glue brush, soak the napkin with it so that it lays down smoothly. Cut off the unnecessary edge of the napkin with scissors and leave the eggs to dry.

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Yellow birds

Another creative way to decorate eggs for Easter is to turn them into chicks! For this, you will need empty egg shells and boiled eggs.

Paint the boiled eggs bright yellow and let them dry, then let your child paint the eyes and beak on the egg with gouache. If you have decorative feathers, you can glue them to the top of the egg, if not, you can also paint the comb.

Break open the white empty eggshell and place the finished yellow “chicks” into it.

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