40 Easter Egg decorating ideas 2025 – easy designs to try at home
We love to decorate for Easter celebrations! What is more fitting than a pretty painted Easter egg? Easter egg decorating has been popular for years, but these ideas will help you take your eggs to the next level!
Discover these modern ways to decorate your Easter eggs. Try dip-dyed, doodled, mosaic and metallic designs with these easy guides.
You'll find many ideas for decorating traditional eggs or faux alternatives. We have this fabulous papier-mache easter egg guide to get you started. You can also use foam, wooden or plastic eggs to create these designs.
Most of the designs on this list will work on any chosen material. We've even included free patterns for you to knit, crochet or cross stitch Easter eggs too.
If you like this article discover our Easter crafts or head over to our best Easter Crafts for Kids.
40 Easter egg decorating ideas to try
1. Modern Colour-blocked eggs
Indulge in the beautiful earthy tones of these dip-dyed eggs. A modern, sleek way to celebrate Easter. Choose your favourite colour combos and get painting.
Why not create a dozen and display them in a bowl for your Easter lunch table decor?
2. Marbling Easter egg decorating ideas
Marbling is one of our big trend predictions in craft this year. Decorate your eggs with this fun tutorial from Martha Stewart. Easy, fun and quick to make, you'll have an egg-cellent collection in no time!
3. Bunny and Chick Easter Egg Designs
Go for classic Easter themes and transform your eggs into Easter chicks and bunnies. The little ones will love creating these Easter creatures.
4. Dip-dyed Easter Eggs
It's easy to make your own Easter egg dye. This tutorial uses a homemade dye of vinegar, water and food colouring. The result is a stylish two-tone effect egg.
5. Try natural dies for a subtle effect
Natural ingredients can create vibrant natural dyes, try using blueberries or spinach. Once you've created your dyes you can decorate your eggs. Find out more with Madison Alcedo over at Delish.
6. Doodled Easter Eggs
Embrace all the rainbow vibe with Color Made Happy's simple idea for decorating eggs with pens... doodling is the trend that never dies and it's easy to try this at home.
7. Paint them with pastel tones
Keep it simple, subtle and pretty with these floral egg patterns by Lolly Jane. Find out how to paint subtle designs and get creative with your Easter decor.
8. Try wax-resist Pysanky eggs
Make beautiful DIY Pysanky eggs (traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs). Decorate your eggs with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method.
9. Gilded Foil Easter Eggs
An easy way to give your eggs a modern metallic effect is to use gold leaf. Pencil Shavings Studio has created these beautiful gold leaf eggs using a kit. Pick these kits up online: Gold Leaf Kit.
10. Easter eggs with typography decoration
Lettering and personalisation are another big trend in the craft world this year. Lovely Indeed has got these beautiful lettering designs to inspire you!
In the tutorial, they use a Cricut machine to die-cut their lettering and show how to do it without one.
11. Decorate Eggs with embroidery stitches
Looking to up your texture level? Try cross-stitching into real eggshells! You can find the step-by-step guide below.
12. Paint with bright, folksy florals
We're a bit smitten with traditional folk art designs on Easter Eggs. You can try this at home with some paints and thin paintbrushes.
This free tutorial from Hobby Craft is super easy to follow, you'll have a collection of eggs in no time.
13. Decorate Mosaic Easter Eggs
This sweet idea is as effective as it is simple. Take two empty eggshells and paint them in contrasting colours. Once dry, break one shell up, and use the broken shell to create a mosaic effect on the other.
Say Not Sweet Anne has a lovely tutorial to talk you through how it's done (pictured below).
14. Tie-dye Easter egg decorating ideas
For a different paint effect than traditional patterns, how about tie-dye? Crafty Morning has an easy tutorial to show you how.
15. DIY Pantone Easter Eggs
This one is for all you design lovers and Pantone fans out there. A Kailo Chic Life shows us how to decorate plastic eggs in our favourite Pantone shades.
16. Painted pebbles
If you prefer not to use real eggs, swap them for oval rocks and get pebble painting! We love these cute designs in spring-fresh pastel brights.
17. Crochet Easter Eggs!
If you prefer your Easter eggs of the vegan variety, reach for some yarn and a crochet hook and get crocheting! We've got a free tutorial to get you started.
18. Decorate with Sharpies
Another doodle-inspired egg design! This time try the effect in monochrome for a modern effect that's easy to achieve at home. Chandra at #Blessed has this super simple but beautiful idea over at Home Talk.
19. Knitted Easter Eggs
Take your Easter eggs to the next level and reuse them every year with this cute knitting pattern from Simply Knitting!
20. Confetti-filled Easter eggs
We love this idea for a fun way to make eggs that kids will love playing with once decorated. Fill them with confetti for a surprise element! Find the tutorial below for how it's done over at Babiekins mag.
21. Make felt Easter eggs
These clever felt eggs are from Love Embroidery. Create cute Easter decorations by stitching sweet embroidered details onto felt pieces. These make a wonderful keepsake you can enjoy for years to come!
22. Unicorn Easter Eggs
How about turning your Easter eggs into mini unicorns? Capture the look of the iconic unicorn cake that has swept the party world by storm in recent years... on your Easter Eggs.
Try it yourself with the tutorial below from Goods Home Design.
23. Star Wars Eggs!
One for all you Sci-Fi fans out there! Frugal Fun has come up with this space-themed set of Easter Egg Designs. We think they are amazing.
24. Cross stitch Easter eggs
Create your own decorated eggs without actually needing eggs! Cross stitch these beautiful cards designed by Maria Diaz.
25. Decorate with quilling
We love this idea for an ornate finish for your Easter eggs. Decorate them with paper strips for a beautiful hand-crafted effect.
26. Woodland Animal Easter eggs
How about painting your eggs to look like woodland creatures? Arty Crafty Kids has got a great tutorial to show you how...
27. Galaxy-painted Easter egg decorating ideas
Transform your Easter eggs into intergalactic wonders with this fun tutorial. These starry eggs will give your celebrations a unique twist!
28. Paint emoji Easter eggs
Put the fun into your Easter Egg decorating by turning your eggs into little yellow emojis. Choose your favourite emojis and get decorating!
29. Sharpie silhouette Easter eggs
We're bringing it back to traditional Easter themes with this one. Grab a couple of pastel Sharpie pens and try this simple way of adding a dotted design to your eggs.
30. Flash Tattoo Easter Eggs – add a flash of gold
Jessie Jane over at Hometalk has a great DIY for you on how to add a flash of gold design to your Easter eggs. We adore the beautiful eggs she has created with this method!
31. Create classic florals with watercolour effects
Go classic with this easy DIY method of adding flower effects to your Easter eggs using tattoo paper from It's Always Autumn... including some classic free flower patterns to download to transfer onto your eggs.
32. Moustache Easter egg decorating ideas
From the classic to the contemporary, here's an egg with a distinguished twist! Give your Easter eggs mini moustaches.... how can you resist? Head over to Number 2 Pencil to find out how.
33. Cover them in painted sprinkles
Give your Easter eggs a quick and simple update for a big cheer factor with this tutorial from Let's Mingle. Find out how to paint your eggs with simple rainbow sprinkles!
34. DIY glass Easter egg decorations
Is anyone else suddenly seized by the urge to faff about with flowers now spring is here? These delicate glass Easter egg decorations will put you through your flower-pressing and glass-painting paces and provide ample opportunity for gratuitous petal play.
35. Temporary tattoo Easter egg decorating idea
Temporary tattoos are a simple and effective way to create intricate designs on your Easter eggs.
36. Vintage-inspired painted Easter eggs
We love the simplicity of these vintage-inspired eggs, and using a white acrylic pen to draw on the designs is a stroke of genius.
37. Bluey and Bingo Easter eggs
If your little one is obsessed with our favourite animated Aussie dogs, here's a great tutorial from CBeebies showing you how to paint your own Bluey and Bingo eggs!
38. Watercolour painted Easter eggs
This tutorial shows that sometimes keeping things simple is just what you need. These pretty flowers are simply painted on with some watercolour pencils.
39. Thumbprint painted Easter eggs
We love the simplicity of this cute Easter design, and your little ones will love getting messy making the thumb prints too!
40. Perfect polkadot painted Easter eggs
Not only are these polkadot eggs super-pretty, but they're also made with an incredibly simple but clever technique!
Easter egg decorating ideas for the perfect afternoon
Easter egg decorating is a relaxed, enjoyable craft that can be enjoyed by both kids and adults. Whether you decide to draw, paint or even embroider your eggs, it's a mindful activity which is perfect for Easter afternoon.
Easter egg hunt ideas
Now you've decorated the eggs, why not do a hunt too? Our Easter egg hunt ideas are fun for kids of all ages, and we've even got a couple of ideas in there for the grown-ups!
