Looking for untraditional ways to decorate Easter eggs? I’m sharing four of our favorite untraditional egg decorating ideas – including silk dying, tie-dye, wooden eggs, and our review on the new EggMazing Egg Decorating Kit.
Why dye eggs the traditional way when you can decorate them in untraditional ways?
Henry and I love dying Easter eggs. We start early and often decorate dozens and dozens of eggs every spring. It’s just a fun tradition that we both look forward to. And we’ve already tried a few different ways this year.
We have eggs everywhere already. We just bought 54 more eggs yesterday. And they won’t last. All that to say, we are crazy about egg decorating.
So, I thought I’d share a few of our favorites from years’ past – including our newest favorite.
So without further ado …. our four favorite UNTRADITIONAL ways to decorate eggs. While dying eggs is always fun, we love trying different ideas that create unique and untraditional eggs. (Note: All of these ideas are actually tried and true from us. Click through for full details on each project. You won’t regret it.)
Untraditional Idea #1: Tie Dye egg decorating
This is a messy and fun idea for dying beautiful eggs – and it takes items you probably already have in your pantry (psssst: vinegar, paper towels and food coloring).
Henry loves this type of decorating because it’s pretty messy and always surprising to see how every egg turns out at the end. I always tell him that every egg is different – just like people.
Grab the full tutorial for tie-dye eggs here.
Untraditional idea #2: Silk dying egg decorating
If you haven’t tried this, please drop everything and run to your nearest Goodwill and grab a few ugly silk ties. Every time we do it, we love to see how the silk transfers to eggs. It’s incredible – every egg is a work of art.
Grab the full tutorial for silk-dyed eggs here.
Untraditional idea #3: Wooden painted egg decorating
This is a little tradition we do every year – and it’s so easy and fun. Simply let your kids paint wooden eggs and pack them away to decorate for Easter each spring. This is something even tiny littles can do more abstract eggs are quite lovely.
Grab the full tutorial for handcrafted wooden Easter eggs.
Untraditional idea #4: The EggMazing egg decorating kit
Finally, our newest untraditional Easter egg decorating idea. The EggMazing Egg Decorating Kit was apparently on Shark Tank, but I had never heard of it until last week when my friend Sarah mentioned it at craft night.
And like a live infomercial, her four-year old was thrilled to demo it for us. Friends, I literally pulled up Amazon Prime on my phone and ordered it before he was even finished with an egg. It was THAT GOOD. Most of my friends bought one, too.
Since then, Henry has spent every night after school decorating eggs on his own with this kit. It’s so fun and the eggs turn out beautifully. It’s pretty much fool-proof – even I can do it.
Bonus: there’s very little mess – besides some marker residue on our hands. It’s also so nice to have a kit that my son can do almost entirely on his own. (For reference – he’s 5.)
It’s been fun to play with different color order and mixtures. It just takes four batteries and a little creativity.
Since it’s not recommended to consume the eggs after decorating, I’m trying out blowing out a few eggs and also this totally bananas way to dry out eggs and finish with varnish. I’ll update this post when I figure out how it works.
Needless to say, this has been the new favorite in our home. And I loved it so much, I wanted to share it with you.
Again – this isn’t sponsored. I forked out my own money for this kit. However, if you want to purchase a kit yourself (seriously – your kids will thank you and you will probably end up loving it, too), you can also use the link below. It’s an affiliate link, which means I’ll earn a small commission and you won’t pay any more.
What’s your favorite way to decorate eggs? Are you all about traditional or UNTRADITIONAL?
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I love your egg decorating enthusiasm! Our homeschool group did some very messy egg decorating that involved cool whip and food coloring all over Abe’s hands, and I like this fancy contraption you found better, I think 🙂
I bought the EggMazing kit and sent it to my granddaughters. I can’t wait to hear how they like it. Thanks for the recommendation.
Fun. They all look Egg-Mazing! LOL
I just took a look at the “how to make your Easter egg last forever” tutorial, and I have to disagree with it. I’ve been making Ukrainian Easter eggs for years, and I can definitely attest to the fact that if you let normal grocery store eggs sit to dry out, you will be in for a world of pain. Pretty much all eggs sold in stores in the US (even organic, farm raised ones) have to be cleaned up prior to sale, so they’re frequently sprayed down with some acids to make the shells cleaner. This also thins them down slightly and makes them easier to break. The shells are also pretty thin to begin with, thanks to a restricted diet for commercial egg layers. These thin shells mean that when you let one of these eggs dry out, what is more likely to happen is that the albumen will seep out of the pores in the egg shell as it thins during aging and putrefaction. It will spoil the design and smell pretty terrible.
If you have access to fresh eggs from chickens that get to run about and augment their diet with bugs and greens and such, you’ll likely notice that these shells are a little harder to crack cleanly. These will frequently dry out with little problem BUT it will take a lot longer than that article will lead you to believe: 18 months was the longest I’ve ever had to get an egg to naturally dry.
That’s pretty ridiculous, so I blow all my eggs out these days. If you have a Dremel tool (or something similar), it’s pretty easy to take a high speed cutting bit (I like #125) and make a hole at one end, maybe 1/8 inch in diameter or so. I then “scramble” the insides with a length of wire and use a veterinarian syringe I picked up at the Tractor Supply Store to blow air into the egg, which forces the yolk and albumin out. It’s pretty easy to use the syringe to inject water into the egg, shake it about for a bit, and then blow the water out for a super clean shell. I usually pop the egg shell onto a grill skewer and put the other end into a jar of lentils or a block of styrofoam to let the shell dry out before using it for decorating. The skewer method is also a great one to use after varnishing your egg. It keeps the varnish really even.
Oh! And don’t use a water-based varnish! That will cause most dyes to run. Oil-based, all the way. Avoid spar varnish as well. Although it is really durable, it yellows very quickly.
I haven’t decorated eggs in years but we now have some younger kids in the family and this would be so much fun. The last time I decorated eggs we just dipped them in dye.
I do the traditional way but last year we did it with flower dye and that was fun!
Normal dye process, but I also like the old school plastic shrink things.
We love those, too!
This looks Ike a lot of fun! My son would love to try it! I usually it the traditional dip and dye kit.
I’ve only ever dyed traditionally – with a kit or with food coloring and vinegar. From the ones you listed I’d like to try Silk dying.
We typically do the pellets in vinegar. I’ve also done the little sleeves that come predecorated and shrink around the egg in boiling water. I want to try the shaving cream method and this new one you’re showing looks awesome! My 3 year old would love it. Happy Easter!
We usually just do the regular kits for dyed eggs, but I want to try to cool whip or shaving cream version! The EggMazing looks pretty fun too!
The Cool Whip is on our list, too!
I like the Cool whip or shaving cream method. We have done it both ways and it comes out so cool!
I love these ideas! I also like using a white “magic” crayon on the egg before dying. My boys think it’s so cool when their design magically appears once we dye the egg!
Yes! Henry loves the crayon trick, too. We use the white crayon when we watercolor paper, too. Always fun to see the message appear.
Every year for the past 3 years my daughter & I try something different or “new to us” :). We love marbling everything now, so we are definitely going to do that too this year. Thanks for the chance to win this too!
Love the marbeling idea!
Very nice! I think I will buy my grandkids one of the eggmazers! Thanks for sharing! Leticia
This looks like so much fun!!
Usually a typical tablet kit and sometimes wrapping the eggs in a paper towel, panty hose or mesh fruit bag for a pattern
I have to confess I’ve never dyed eggs with my kids 🤦♀️ I want to try all of these methods!!
We love the traditional little box of egg dye, but would love to try the egg decorating device. Thanks for the giveaway!
Love these! My fav is traditional vinegar water and paaz kits! Something so nostalgic about them.
Agreed! It’s always fun!
I’ve never tried any way except the traditional way with the dye pellets and vinegar!
Nothing wrong with that! It’s tradition for a reason.
It’s really fun to let the kids pick out a cheap little kit, I always did the traditional egg decorating so it feels like a splurge to buy a kit lol
This is definitely more of a novelty and a splurge. But a fun one! We always do normal dye, too. There’s something sentimental about it.
I want to try the shaving cream and food coloring this year.
That is fun and simple, too! (My friend actually uses Cool Whip, which I think is a great idea.)
Lovely ideas! My favorite is the traditional one-color dip dye; boring I know 😁
Not boring! Traditional. And I love tradition. (We always do “normal” dye, in addition to other fun ways.)
So great, I love all these ideas and all in one place 🙂