53 Cute Easter Egg Painting Ideas for 2025
Welcome Spring with these fun Easter egg painting ideas brought to life by your little ones. This timeless Easter craft idea is lots of fun for children and adults alike. The stores will be lined with egg-dying kits, but you can always spruce up the easter egg painting ideas with extra add-ons like white crayons, puff paint or glitter.
Not only are these homemade pieces of art beautiful in a bowl on your tabletop but you can also get creative with how you display them. Spelling out a word, with one letter per egg, is a cute way to make a holiday banner out of easter egg painting ideas.
Or better yet, make an Ostereierbaum, a German painted egg tree. You never know when a fun easter egg painting idea or display could turn into your latest tradition.
Considering the price of eggs is higher than ever, there is no need to worry about the egg itself going to waste just for the sake of art. You’ll start by carefully draining and drying each egg, and once you’ve got the liquid out, you’re halfway to a delicious egg bake.
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- How Do You Paint Easter Eggs Easily?
- Simple Easter Egg Painting Ideas
- Easter Egg Painting Ideas for Kids
- Easter Egg Painting Ideas for Adults
- Easter Egg Painting Ideas FAQs
How Do You Paint Easter Eggs Easily?
The quickest and easiest way to create Easter egg painting ideas is with the store-bought dye kits. Dissolvable little tablets that you can dunk your eggs in to impart a range of hues based on how much water you use.
These are cheap and fast, and you can certainly create beautiful Easter egg painting ideas with these kits. Simple acrylic paints or even paint markers, do the job too and offer you more control to create smaller designs.
Simple Easter Egg Painting Ideas
1. Little Lemons
This simple but seasonal Easter egg painting idea involves turning your empty egg shells into bright little lemons. Use a home dying kit to color them a bold yellow hue, then use a marker to add tiny, light-colored flecks
2. Ribbon-Wrapped
This Easter egg painting idea couldn’t be more simple, and adds an elegant touch to your tablescape. After dying or painting your eggs a variety of solid colors, tie a neat little bow on each one. Believe it or not, painting your egg a chic hue of chocolate brown is pretty cute, and looks great with a soft blue ribbon around it.
3. Shibori-Style
An ancient practice that involves imparting a few indigo hue and white designs, you can have the same effect for a cool Easter egg painting idea. Use rubber bands to create perfect lines or wash tape to create even circles, then paint the rest of the egg dark indigo. After the paint dries, remove the bands or tape for a nice simplistic design.
4. Kintsugi
This famous Japanese tradition involves appreciating the beauty of something broken becoming whole again. These ceramics get beautiful bright gold paint over cracks and chips and can serve as easy inspiration for Easter egg painting ideas.
If you can carefully crack your eggs and paint the cracks gold, great. If not, make “fake” cracks with thin gold lines.
5. Terrazzo Eggs
Draw some Easter egg painting inspiration from colorful terrazzo stone. Start by dying egg shells in solid colors, then carefully breaking them up into small flecks.
Grab a new egg and paint one side of it with adhesive before sprinkling on bits of the other dried eggs and letting it dry. You could also use confetti!
6. Watercolor Florals
With a Sharpie and some watercolors, you can create a special Easter egg painting idea that’s simple but creative. Draw out flowers using a black marker and fill them in with watercolors for a soft finish.
7. Abstract Art
The best part about abstract art is there is no right or wrong, which makes it ideal for easy Easter egg painting ideas. Blobs of color and some black dots or lines come together for a different type of Easter egg on your island.
8. Gold Accents
Add some sparkle to your Easter egg painting ideas with some metallic gold paint or gold leaf. Whether abstract blobs of it or carefully painted designs over a solid color, it’s an easy way to make them more interesting.
9. Pantone Colored Eggs
Looking for a slightly humorous Easter egg painting idea? Make each white egg into a miniature sample of various Pantone colors. Paint half the egg, then carefully add the color label below it with markers or stickers.
10. Mood Ring Colors
You might not think of black as a good base color for Easter egg painting ideas, but it can be. Use a rainbow of metallic paints to create a mood ring type of vibe on a stark black background.
11. Shaving Cream Special
Create soft cloud-like features for an easy Easter egg painting idea by mixing dyes with shaving cream. Gently submerge your eggs in the colored foam or partially submerge them for an ombré effect.
12. White Designs
Whether dots, stripes or something else entirely, you can use white paint or white crayons for a lovely contrast for this Easter egg painting idea. Settle on your color scheme and paint your eggs as you like. Crayon should be used before painting the base while white paint should be used after.
13. Polka Dot
It doesn’t get much simpler than this Easter egg painting idea that’s still chic and timeless. Use tiny dots of glue, beads or even puff paint to cover your painted egg in polka dots.
14. Gingham
This classic Spring and Summer pattern translates easily as an Easter egg painting idea. You can even use strips of tape to get perfectly straight lines as you create tiny plaid eggs to showcase in your home.
15. Confetti Paint
Utilize your already white egg for this cute and simple Easter egg painting idea. Using paint brushes or markers, simply add little dashes or dots in a variety of colors to look like confetti.
16. Confetti Dipped
Add some extra color to your home with this simple Easter egg painting idea. After painting your eggs any color you like, add a little glue to one part of the egg and dunk it in a bowl or confetti. You can also do this with glitter.
17. Doilies
Use those old-fashioned paper doilies to create an easy Easter egg painting idea. Trim them so they’re the right size to wrap around your egg, then layer them like ruffles for an easy and unique result.
18. Two-Tone
For best results with this simple Easter egg painting idea, choose two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. Pastel shades of blue and orange, for example, give an extra pop.
Create a dozen or more where each egg is one color on the top and the other on the bottom. Arrange them all together in a large glass vase to show them off.
19. Geometric
Use gold or black paint to add geometric Easter egg painting ideas. A rainbow of colored eggs gets some extra detail with tiny dots, triangles or squiggly lines.
Easter Egg Painting Ideas for Kids
20. Farm Animal Friends
With a few basic colors and some crayons or paint brushes, you can turn a simple eggshell into an adorable Easter egg painting idea: a variety of farm animals. A cute cat face or a squiggly pigtail come together to make a tablescape of springtime animal babies.
21. Pixar Friends Come to Life
With a little help from mom and dad, your child’s favorite Pixar movie character can make a great Easter egg painting idea for kids. Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. is perhaps the simplest, but The Incredibles logo isn’t too complicated either.
22. Splatter Fun
Have fun making Easter egg painting ideas for kids outside where they can make a mess. Use water-based paint that’s easy to clean and let them throw and splatter different colors of paint onto eggs for an abstract and simple design.
23. Galaxy Eggs
Totally different from traditional Easter egg painting ideas for kids, let them explore the wonders of the galaxy on a tiny egg. Paint your egg shells black and let them add sparkles, glitter and neon colors for a not-so-accurate representation of outer space and the Milky Way.
24. Mermaid Tail Magic
Turn a plain Easter egg painting idea into magic with a little bit of mesh and some paint. Kids will love how painting over the mesh leaves behind a mermaid-like pattern. Try painting the egg silver first, then once dry apply the mesh with another color over the top.
25. Red Radishes
Make your Easter egg painting ideas about the bounty of Spring’s harvest. Paint each egg in ombré red and pink to look like a radish, then roll up some green paper and glue it on the bottom to look like roots. Don’t forget to glue a few pieces of white yarn to the other side!
26. Alphabet Eggs
Help your kids learn the alphabet by creating large letters as an Easter egg painting idea. One letter on each egg and if they’re careful, they can practice arranging them into words. Older children can even spell out words or phrases and display the eggs on your mantle or kitchen countertop.
27. Baby Chicks
You’ll need a few extra supplies for this cute Easter egg painting idea for kids: a tiny triangle of felt to create a beak and little feathers for each neatly painted “chick”. Cut a section from your egg carton for an easy rest for each chick egg.
28. Pastel Hearts
Take a page out of Valentine’s Day with this cute Easter egg painting idea for kids. White eggs make colorful pastel hearts pop. One heart per egg or a bunch of mini hearts all over it are equally cute.
29. Bouffant Designs
Imagine each egg is like the head of a doll for this fun Easter egg painting idea for kids. Add eyes, a nose and lips and any other details you like. Paint the egg blue so she has blue hair, or paint tiny sunglasses instead of eyeballs.
30. Mini Burgers
Kids will get a kick out of this hilarious and adorable Easter egg painting idea. Make a burger by painting a brown sesame seed bun and a few lines in the center of your egg to represent the patty, lettuce and tomato.
31. Sweet Strawberries
Make your very own berry patch with this Easter egg painting idea for kids. After painting the eggs red with little white flecks, glue some green leaves made of paper or felt on top. These look extra cute nestled together in a bowl.
32. Family Tree
Teach your kids about a family tree and make your own with this fun Easter egg painting idea for kids. Before you start, print and pre-cut individual photos of each family member.
Help your kiddo glue them onto plain or colorful eggs. Then, affix ribbons to hang them, like a proper family tree, on a house plant.
33. Washi Tape Shapes
Let your kids explore washi tape by painting over it for their Easter egg painting ideas. Making letters, lines or shapes, the options are endless. They can even experiment with leaving the washi tape on the eggs.
34. Baby Carrots
Just like a mini pineapple, all you need is orange paint and green pipe cleaners or yarn for this Easter egg painting idea for kids. Paint the whole egg orange, with the option to add some white lines, before gluing on green yarn like the carrot tops.
35. Baby Pineapples
With some green craft paper and bright yellow paint, you have everything you need for a cute Easter egg painting idea for kids. After planting the whole egg golden yellow, glue a ring of spiky green leaves on top like the crown.
36. Chalkboard Eggs
Kids who are old enough to use gentle pressure will love this Easter egg painting idea. Cover the egg in black chalkboard paint and once dry, delicately write on a word or festive message.
37. Egg Vase or Basket
If you live on a farm or for whatever reason have access to larger eggs like a duck egg, it can become an extra cool Easter egg painting idea that also works like a vase. Help your kiddo cut off the top of the egg before planting the bottom. Add real or faux flowers once dry.
38. Gnomes
Use felt to create pointy little gnome hats for this adorable Easter egg painting idea. Kids can add a cute facial expression and a fluffy cotton ball gnome beard before gluing on a tiny felt hat.
39. Glitter Dunked
Prepare for a bit of a mess but plenty of fun with this Easter egg painting idea for kids. Set out bowls of glitter in all sorts of colors. After letting your kids paint them (or not) help them cover them in glue and cover the whole egg in glitter.
Easter Egg Painting Ideas for Adults
40. Cross Stitch Patterns
Combine the best of two art forms with this sweet Easter egg painting idea for adults. Using stamps, sharpies or fine-pointed paint brushes, create a festive cross-stitch design right on your egg. Create tiny X shapes in different colors, just as you would with thread.
41. Sashiko Style
With a bit of patience, you can end up with a lovely collection of beautiful Easter egg painting ideas that you created. The Sashiko style involves creating a series of tiny dots in various patterns and styles. Use an ultra-fine paint brush or marker to add colorful shapes using dots on your painted egg.
42. Wrapping Paper Decoupage
Use wrapping paper to easily impart color and design as an Easter egg painting idea for adults. Cut small pieces of your favorite colors and patterns and paint your egg all over with Mod Podge or glue before affixing the paper cutlets.
43. Geode Eggs
Turn empty egg shells into miniature crystal displays with this unique Easter egg painting idea for adults. Use rock candy and glue to carefully arrange pieces of sugar crystal onto the top of your eggshells.
Alternatively, you can attempt to carefully cut your eggshells open and put crystal designs on the inside.
44. Swirl Eggs
Have you ever seen those eye-catching art videos where an artist pushes an open paint can on a string over a canvas that swirls around leaving neat whirls and swirls? Bring that same energy to your Easter egg painting ideas for adults by drizzling different colors of paint over your solid-colored eggs.
45. Peter Rabbit and Friends
You’ll want to save and cherish this Easter egg painting idea for adults for years to come. Take your time crafting beautiful miniature portraits of Peter Rabbit and friends on your eggs. Not only are all those whimsical creatures adorable, but they are also perfect for Easter and springtime in general.
46. Fluid Painted
Remember when rainbow-dipped tie-dye fingernails were a thing? Channel that energy with this Easter egg painting idea for adults. Carefully pour paint over a dish of water and gently dunk your egg to make a funky tie-dye wash.
47. Botanical Beauties
Create lovely floral Easter egg painting ideas featuring your favorite blossoms. A black-painted egg makes any colored flower pop! Think of it like the front of a seed packet, where each egg showcases one flower.
48. Easter Basket
Using a small brush, you can paint a mini Easter basket brimming with colored eggs. This cute Easter egg painting idea for adults evokes the joy of receiving the real thing.
49. Faux Bois
Faux bois, or fake wood, is a wonderfully chic Easter egg painting idea for adults. Paint your eggs a warm shade of brown, then using a white marker or fine-tipped brush, add wood graining and knots.
50. Lettuce Eggs
Another out-of-the-box Easter egg painting idea for adults involves turning your egg into a head of lettuce. Paint the whole thing green, then use a white marker to make lines like a head of romaine. Feel free to make some little carrot and radish eggs as well to go with the Spring veggie theme.
51. Micro Florals
Instead of one bloom per egg, use the tiniest brush imaginable for this adorable Easter egg painting idea for adults. Cover every inch of your egg in little micro flowers that slightly overlap for a colorful and happy design.
52. Use Moss
Green and white are a chic color combination and can be made into some spectacular Easter egg painting ideas for adults. Whether you coat the whole egg in faux moss or add dots, letters or shapes, it’s a unique way to get in the spirit.
53. Royal Copenhagen Eggs
Find a new use for some temporary tattoos, inspired by Martha Stewart’s Royal Copenhagen eggs. Plain white eggs are a beautiful background for bold blue florals that will look chic on your countertop.
Easter Egg Painting Ideas FAQs
What Paint Should You Use on Easter Eggs?
Apart from using a store-bought dye kit, acrylic paint is the ideal choice for Easter egg painting. You can also use paint markers or watercolor kits.
How Long Do You Boil Eggs for Easter Painting?
Instead of boiling eggs in preparation for your Easter egg painting ideas, consider draining your eggs so they can hang out on your countertop or table for a while. Use a small needle or hanger to puncture a small top in the top and bottom.
After letting gravity drain the liquid into a bowl (which you can then cook with) gently blow into it to ensure all the egg liquid is out. If you simply must boil the eggs, make sure to do so for 12 minutes.
Painting Easter eggs is a timeless tradition, but there are certainly new ways to do it. Not to mention, it’s not just for kids! Adults and teens alike can delight in this family-friendly holiday activity. It makes a wonderful Easter party idea if you’re having people over.
You can often preserve your most well-done designs that can be Easter gifts passed down to loved ones as well. For even more fun things to do this Easter, check out other experiences happening on Classpop!
