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Spring Menagerie Eggs

Adorn your eggs with playful creatures and fresh veggies by making stencils using a craft punch and adhesive vinyl. 

Make the Spring Menagerie Eggs

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Cheeky Chickens

This brood is all smiles, er, beaks as they pose for a family portrait to welcome their latest addition. (The photo hanging behind them was taken before the new chick hatched.)

Make Cheeky Chicken Eggs

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Striped Crepe Paper Eggs

Combine various techniques -- bands, leaf garlands, and flowers -- to dress up plain and dyed eggs with crepe paper.

Make the Striped Crepe Paper Eggs

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Easter Eggs with Overlapping Dot Designs

Three overlapping dots stenciled onto eggs beget a batch of new hues. The design pays homage to CMYK printing, which combines cyan, magenta, yellow, and "key" black to yield a spectrum.

Make the Eggs with Overlapping Dot Designs

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Metallic Eggs

Eggs covered in gold leaf add a striking touch to any Easter display.

Make the Metallic Eggs

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Speckled Butterfly Easter Eggs

Give egg-shaped boxes a natural touch with speckled paint, butterflies, and a rabbit cut from decorative paper.

Speckled Butterfly Easter Eggs How-to

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Glittered Sticker Eggs

These beautifully glittered Easter eggs are a sparkling alternative to coloring them with dyes.

Make the Glittered Sticker Eggs

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Faberge-Inspired Eggs

Carl Faberge's dazzling bejeweled eggs were an Easter tradition for the last Russian czars, revealing a surprise inside for the lucky recipient. Make your own using a variety of beading, trim, and other baubles. 

In this example, we embellished hinged eggs with enamel paint and embossed gold papers. A fifth small egg stands alone on four gold beads glued to the base.

Learn More About Faberge Eggs

How to Make Fancy Eggs

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Elegant Eggs

Inspired by an easy Japanese technique, we've created these delightful decorations to enjoy this Easter and next.

Make the Elegant Eggs

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Dyed Eggs with Grass Appliques

Grass appliques add a touch of nature to pretty pastel Easter eggs.

Make the Grass-Appliqued Eggs

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Marbleized Swirls

If the earth hatched from a giant egg, as the ancient Persians believed, it might have resembled one of these in our dreamy dozen. We used a simple dyeing technique to create the intricate swirls of color. Every Easter egg made this way is one of a kind.

Make Eggs with Marbleized Swirls

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Trimmed with Gold

These eggs were trimmed with gold cord and imitation pearls, suggesting Faberge-era luxury.

Tips for Making Faberge-Inspired Eggs

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Bumble Bees

These insects are spinning a yarn about how they came to bee: quail eggs wrapped in bits of yarn make up the bees, while a larger chicken egg wrapped in yarn stands in for their hive.

Make Bumble Bee Eggs

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Flight of Fancy Egg

A purple paper butterfly floats from a wire attached to a pearl glued inside the bottom of a plain white egg.

Learn How to Make the Hinge for This Egg

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Egg Ornaments

Make charming egg ornaments embellished with ribbon and trimmings.

Make the Egg Ornaments

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Silk Tie Easter Eggs

Transfer patterns from silk ties onto Easter eggs using this unusual technique.

Make the Silk Tie Eggs

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Crepe Paper Egg Bunnies

These adorable table decorations can double as place cards; write names on one side of each egg with a marker.

Make the Crepe Paper Egg Bunnies

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Glittered Eggs

Coating Easter eggs with glitter provides a sparkling alternative to coloring them with dyes.

Make the Glittered Eggs

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Botanical Eggs

Eggs adorned with the delicate shapes of greenery and herbs announce the arrival of spring.

Make the Botanical Eggs

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Stenciled Eggs

With stencils made of waterproof vinyl adhesive tape and cut-out shapes, you can create perfectly rendered patterns on your Easter eggs. Make plaid, polka-dotted, punctuated, or monogrammed eggs, or create your own designs.

Make Stenciled Eggs

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Chocolate Eggs

These Easter eggs are filled with a delicious surprise -- dark chocolate.

How to Make the Chocolate Eggs

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Beaded Egg Ornaments

Personalize your Easter eggs and turn them into ornaments with a wood bead and ribbon.

Make the Beaded Egg Ornaments

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Country Cow

How now do you make a brown cow? With brown eggs, of course. An udderly adorable calf starts out as a speckled quail egg, and a pair of Holsteins get their spots from black paint.

Make a Country Cow

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Gilded Eggs

Apply gold and silver leaf over blown eggs for an elegant touch. We decorated chukar and turkey eggs in lavender and champagne-pink silver leaf, and chicken, pullet, turkey, and goose eggs in varying shades of gold leaf. 

Gold leaves and gilding glue are available at Pearl Paint.

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Wax-Resist Patterns

For thousands of years, Ukrainians have created elaborately patterned eggs called pysanky using a wax-resist process. Wax is applied to an egg, which is then dipped in colored dyes. When completed, the wax is melted off, revealing all the colors beneath.

Make Wax-Resist Patterns

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Pearl Trellis Egg

This trellis design requires gluing 12 strands of gold thread to the top of an egg, then threading a pearl on two strands at a time. Glue each pearl as you go, keeping the spacing even.

Tips for Painting and Decorating Fancy Eggs

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Metallic Polka-Dotted Eggs

For a dramatic effect, pile polka-dotted and beribboned silver blown-out eggs in a silver basket.

Make the Metallic Polka-Dotted Eggs

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Natural Egg-Dyeing Techniques

This Easter, try these natural and unique egg-dyeing techniques that are simple to do and produce beautiful results.

Natural Egg-Dyeing Techniques

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Beaded Eggs

Beads have captivated mankind ever since our primitive ancestors began fashioning eggshells into baubles.

Make Beaded Eggs

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Velvet-Trimmed Egg

A pale-pink egg embellished with strips of thin velvet ribbon makes a statement as it props up a gold-embossed paper bird.

Learn How to Tape Eggs

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Stamped Eggs

Wait -- don't toss that canceled postage into the trash. Use it to hatch Easter decorations.

Make Stamped Eggs

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Peek-a-Boo Egg

This painted lavender egg is home to an Easter rabbit embossed in gold leaf. 

Learn How to Paint and Hinge Eggs

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Ladybug Eggs

Ladybugs who lunch don painted-on faces and construction-paper attire (dots are made using a hole punch).

Make Ladybug Eggs

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Jeweled Eggs

Adorned with artificial flowers and shimmering with Swarovski crystals, these hanging eggs make a dazzling addition to any Easter decor.

Make the Jeweled Eggs

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Scrambled Lines and Letters Eggs

These graphic eggs take a design cue from the printing press, where misaligned plates result in slightly skewed, or "off-register," type and images.

Make the Scrambled Lines and Letters Eggs

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Tissue Paper Eggs

Use this simple technique to create beautifully decorated Easter eggs.

Make Tissue Paper Eggs

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German-Style Paper Cutout Eggs

Give the scissors a rest: The easiest way to make silhouettes for these intricately decorated eggs is to use craft punches.

German-Style Paper Cutout Eggs How-To

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"Cracked" Eggshells and Chick Designs

These "cracked" eggshells get their jagged edges from electrical tape, and a chirping chick is made by dabbing food coloring into vinyl stencils.

Make the "Cracked" Eggshells and Chick Designs

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Masked Designs

Adhere common supplies such as tape, stickers, or even little leaves to eggs; when you dye the eggs and remove the "masks," the designs stand out.

How to Make Masked Designs

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Oversize Botanical Decoupage Easter Eggs

Selected flower- and bird-themed artwork can transform a variety of eggs -- from naturally deep-green emu eggs to tinted and undyed ostrich eggs to painted wooden orbs -- into instant collectibles.

How to Make Oversize Botanical Decoupage Easter Eggs

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Dripped-On Eggs

Turn rubber cement into an ornamental element by dripping it onto blown-out eggs.

How to Make Dripped-On Eggs

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Speckled Faberge-Inspired Egg

The speckled beauty of a turkey egg suggests a natural kind of whimsy: Lifting the top by its acorn-cap handle reveals a porcelain egg on a downy-feathered nest of twigs.

Tips for Making Faberge-Inspired Eggs

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Big-Eared Bunny

Why is this bunny so chubby? From munching crepe paper-topped carrots!

Make a Big-Eared Bunny

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Pretty with Pearls

We swirled a string of miniature imitation pearls to the top of half of this hinged egg. Its base is made of a simple button surrounded by more pearls.

Tips for Decorating Fancy Eggs

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Confetti Eggs

Confetti-filled eggs have long been a popular part of Mexican Easter celebrations. Traditionally, an egg is broken over the head of a friend, who makes a wish upon its impact.

How to Make Confetti Eggs

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Stash-and-Carry Eggs

Transform plastic half-dozen-size cartons into attractive Easter egg carriers with ribbon and tissue paper.

Make the Stash-and-Carry Eggs

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Easter Egg Tree

This Easter, create a unique display for your blown and decorated eggs by hanging them from pussy willow branches.

Make the Easter Egg Tree

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Square-Patterned Eggs

Bright colors and geometric designs make modern-looking eggs, like these square-patterned ones.

Make the Square-Patterned Eggs

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Puddly Pig

This mama and her round little piglet are pretty in pink touches, fresh out of the carton -- but not for long! They're headed to a cool puddle of construction-paper mud as fast as their pipe-cleaner legs  will carry them.

Make a Puddly Pig

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Paper-Napkin Decoupage Eggs

Brighten a clutch of undyed eggs with stylized patterns from paper napkins.

How to Make Paper-Napkin Decoupage Eggs

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Baby Bird Eggs

Eggs that have been dyed a robin's egg blue make perfect bodies for these adorable baby birds. 

Make the Bird Eggs

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Latticed Eggs

For this trellis design, we glued imitation pearls on top of gold latticed thread.

Tips for Decorating Fancy Eggs

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Egg Baskets

These baskets are made of eggshells filled with embossed paper flowers that honor the arrival of spring. Experiment by filling them with grass, velvet flowers, or even tiny Easter animal toys.

Learn How to Tape Eggs for This Basket

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Silk-Dyed Easter Eggs

Add florals, stripes, and swirls to your Easter eggs with this simple silk-dyeing technique.

Make the Silk-Dyed Eggs

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Embellished Chocolate Easter Eggs

Write a personalized Easter message on a hollow chocolate egg using a contrasting shade of melted chocolate.

Learn How to Embellish Chocolate Eggs

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Dyed and Speckled Easter Eggs

Add speckles to your Easter eggs using acrylic paint to give them a textured, authentic effect.

Make the Dyed and Speckled Eggs

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Hinged Eggs with Gold Trim

What makes these painted eggs so exquisite? The gold trim, which was made from paper as well as cord and ribbon. 

Tips for Decorating Faberge-Inspired Eggs

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Tissue-Paper-Decorated Eggs

Perched on baking-cup pedestals, these plain blown eggs were decorated with cutouts from folded pastel tissue paper.

Make the Tissue-Paper-Decorated Eggs

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Egg Within an Egg

This hinged egg, which sits atop a bed of sequins, houses a small gold egg on a tiny pillow.

Tips for Creating a Faberge-Inspired Egg

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Leaf and Flower Eggs

Stenciled flowers and leaves give chicken and goose eggs a rich, complex look.

Make the Leaf and Flower Eggs