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    Home » DIY Projects

    Painting Easter Eggs with Watercolors

    March 16, 2022 by Patti Estep Leave a Comment

    Carton of watercolor Easter eggs over four different Easter egg designs
    Carton of watercolor Easter eggs

    Watercolor Easter eggs are so fun to create. See a few different techniques and ideas that you can use for your own holiday egg decorating. It's a fun activity to add to your Easter crafts this season.

    Cardboard carton of egg decorated for Easter with a set of watercolors set on the side.

    While coloring easter eggs with natural dye takes a long time, using a basic kids watercolor paint set took no time at all.

    Disclaimer: While Crayola products have been evaluated to contain no toxic ingredients, they also state that their art materials are not food grade. This means you should not eat painted hard-boiled eggs. If you feel wasteful about throwing them out, consider blowing out the insides of the egg and using them for cooking. You could also buy fake eggs but I haven't tried them so I'm not sure how they would work with watercolors.

    A children's watercolor set, a jar of water and a carton of boiled eggs.

    Watercolor Easter Egg Ideas

    This is my first time trying watercolors on eggs. They were pretty great for decorating, even with just this basic kids watercolor set, a couple of extra brushes, and a glass of water.

    Three eggs painted. One in light blue, green and lavender.

    Colorwashed Eggs

    It literally takes seconds to give them a watercolor wash to be used alone or as a base coat.

    Painting Eggs

    The basic coat dries in a short time and then you can paint over the top if you want. Here I painted the egg with a purple wash. Then using a small paintbrush created spring green grass with little strokes on the bottom half of the egg.

    A speckled watercolor Easter egg.

    Making Speckled Eggs

    This one was painted orange first. Then just dip the bottom of your paintbrush in black paint. The first impression will be the largest dot. After that, the dots will be smaller. So you can dip the paintbrush in fresh paint each time, or use it a few times before going back to the paint resulting in different sized dots.

    Watercolor Easter eggs in shade of blue, green and yellow stripes bleeding together.

    Watercolor Bleeding

    These eggs are a great example of a typical watercolor effect.  I used green, blue, and yellow paint in a stripe-like pattern and allowed the paint to bleed and flow. You could also wet the eggs first and then add paint. Don't they look like true works of art?

    A red painted watercolor Easter egg with a red flower and stem painted on top.

    Here is just a basic flower with a stem and leaves painted over a base coat of red. Notice how I used the cap of a water bottle to hold the egg like a little stand. It works better than using the egg carton while they are still wet.

    A carton of watercolor Easter eggs decorated in different techniques next to a set of kids watercolors.

    So many choices and a great way to get creative for your Easter celebration.

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    Carton of watercolor Easter eggs

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    About Patti Estep

    Patti is the creator of Hearth and Vine, a home and garden blog filled with projects to inspire your creative side. She loves crafting, gardening, decorating and entertaining at her home in Pennsylvania. When she is not working on a project at home or searching for treasures at nurseries and thrift stores with her girlfriends, you’ll probably find her with family and friends, at a restaurant, or home party enjoying new and different food adventures.

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