Handmade Easter Decor and Spring Craft Ideas
Ways to decorate blown, wooden, paper, and craft eggs for display, from painted patterns to decoupage and egg trees.
5 tutorials published
Paint unfinished wooden eggs with acrylic craft paint: light sanding, a base coat on a skewer, a taped half-dipped line, dots, stripes and leaf sprigs, then a matte sealing coat. Decorative only.
Wrap plastic or foam craft eggs in cotton yarn or twine: start with a flat spiral at the wide end, glue in short sections, keep the rows tight, change color for stripes and finish neatly at the tip.
How to apply the printed top ply of a paper napkin to blown, wooden or paper mache eggs: separating plies, tearing motifs, brushing on in small sections, smoothing wrinkles and sealing.
Two ways to build a 3D paper egg: a folded honeycomb-style egg glued spine to spine and an open strip egg held with brads or thread, with paper weights, piece counts and sizes for a tree or table.
A step-by-step method for emptying a raw egg with a pump or bulb syringe, rinsing and drying the shell, cleaning up afterward, and knowing when a craft egg is the better option.
