These 5 Easy DIY Easter Egg Decorating Ideas Are SO Creative

Ask most kids their favorite holiday, and they’ll probably respond with “Christmas,” or “my birthday” (in the case of my youngest, who thinks her birthday is a holiday). But with our kids, it has always been “Easter.” They love painting Easter eggs. I hear about it for weeks leading up to the day we all sit down to do it.

Since they love Easter so much, I’ve been looking for ways to expand our Easter traditions. So we’ve been adding on new activities like these 20 fun family Easter traditions, and trying out creative crafts like turning an old sock into an Easter bunny.

Recently, I thought it would be cool if we tried out some new ways to decorate eggs. Who says we should just paint them every year? While that’s always fun, there are a lot of ways to spruce up eggs for Easter. In the video below, I share 5 fast, easy, and creative Easter egg decorating crafts which are great for kids and adults!

Jump to:

• Video Tutorial
• 1. Ice Cream Cone Egg
• 2. Bird Egg
• 3. Bunny Egg
• 4. Egg with Straw Hair
• 5. Surprised Egg

Video Tutorial

1. Ice Cream Cone Egg

Materials:

• Egg
• Hot glue and glue gun
• Cotton
• Pipe cleaner
• Markers or pens in different colors
• Brown paper

Steps:

1. Start by hot-gluing a small fluff of cotton to the top of an egg.

2. Wrap some pipe cleaner in a color of your choice around the cotton. Yellow is a good option. You can think of this as whipped cream with a bit of caramel drizzled on top.

3. With your markers or pens, draw “sprinkles” all over the egg in a few different colors.

4. Get some brown construction paper and wrap it into a cone shape. Put the egg on top of it. Alternately, if you actually have ice cream cones on hand, you could just use those.

2. Bird Egg

Materials:

• Egg
• Hot glue and glue gun
• Googly eyes
• Construction paper
• Bows
• Feathers
• Cup for the egg

Steps:

1. Begin by using hot glue to attach the googly eyes to the egg. Cut the construction paper into a beak shape and attach that as well.

2. Next, attach some feathers to the back of the egg to create a large tail.

3. Next, add a bow to the top of the egg as an embellishment. Set the egg inside a cute ornamental cup, and maybe add another bow or any other decorations you would like.

3. Bunny Egg

Materials:

• Egg
• Felt
• Pen
• Cup
• Hot glue and glue gun

Steps:

1. Cut the felt into the shape of two bunny ears.

2. Using the hot glue gun, attach the ears to the egg.

3. Use the pen to draw a bunny face.

Set the bunny egg inside a cup and put it on display.

4. Egg with Straw Hair

Materials:

• Egg
• Hot glue and glue gun
• Pen
• Bow
• Straw
• Googly eyes

Steps:

1. Use hot glue to attach googly eyes to the egg.

2. Hot glue some straw to the top of the egg to serve as “hair.”

3. Glue a bow on top.

4. Use a pen to draw on eyebrows, a mouth, and freckles. Put the egg in a cup to display.

5. Surprised Egg

Materials:

• Egg
• Googly eyes
• Hot glue and glue gun
• Bow
• Cup

Steps:

1. With the hot glue gun, attach the googly eyes to the egg.

2. Use a pen to draw a surprised mouth on the egg and any other facial features you want.

3. Set the egg in a cup to display, and add a cute bow if you want.

See—there are a lot of ways you can decorate Easter eggs that go beyond just painting them. I hope that you enjoy doing these crafts with your kids!