Hand-painted Easter eggs

This year I wanted to try something different with easter egg coloring. I love Easter. I love coloring Easter eggs. But it’s always over in a flash since my kids and I usually don’t color more than about a dozen. This year I wanted to draw out the process and make it more of an art than just a quick ten minute tradition.

I’ve always been in love with hand-painted Easter eggs. There are so many different kinds and involve so much time and attention-to-detail. Such as these ones. I can only imagine how many hours that it took to paint those beautiful eggs and while I admire them greatly, it’s impossible to fathom such a craft with small kids.

However. We can still be creative and I can still implement in their little minds an appreciation for small details and putting time into something a little more involved and intricate such as hand painting an easter egg.

Picasso did say that every child is an artist.

The eggs that I used were local farm fresh eggs. They weren’t mass-produced, sterile and identical.

Some were green, some were brown, some were cream. Some were duck eggs. Some shells were extremely thick while others were considerably delicate. All of them needed a good wash before we started.

I decided to blow the eggs. (Snicker… ;)

Egg-blowing is a method that involves puncturing small holes into the top and bottom of each egg. The bottom side needs to be a little bigger. Then you simply “blow” all of the yolk through bottom hole.

My bottom holes were a little bigger and some were quite irregular. It made for a quicker exit, which took less time. And is good when you have impatient and only partially interested children.

I have a couple of these neat vintage-y giant thumbtacks. Tiny finishing nails work well too.

This reminds me of a paint splatter painting. ;)

Bonus… Now you have lunch figured out!

Don’t forget to rinse the eggs inside and out!

Gather some fun craft supples. Though I’m pretty limited on color selection, washable paints work BEST with young kids. This will wash out. THANK GOODNESS.

Also I tried watercolor on the brown eggs and it worked pretty well! Definitely something that I want to explore more in the future when I’m not chasing a toddler around.

Also I had sequins that I wanted to use up so I just scattered them over newspaper, dotted my eggs randomly with the sequins and ta-da! Instant glam!

In the spirit of irony, I was going to title this post, “How many pictures of Easter eggs can you upload onto your blog post about Easter eggs?” but I decided to just post one more picture instead.