38 of Our Most Creative Easter Egg Designs

Good enough to eat, these radish eggs can either be painted or dyed.

To make: Paint or dye three-quarters of a blown-out white egg pink. Create roots by attaching pieces of off-white twine to the bottom with hot-glue. Roll up light green crepe paper to create a stem; seal seam with glue. Cut leaves from crepe paper; wrap around stem, and attach with glue. Glue stem to top of egg.

Paint the entire egg with green acrylic paint. Once dry, apply "veins" using a thin-tipped white paint pen.

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We can't get over this lovely design. To mimic the look, brush both sides of a small piece of ditsy floral fabric with Mod Podge, then hang it to dry. Draw a butterfly on stiffened fabric and cut out, then hot-glue the beautiful creature to a natural or dyed egg.

Turn eggs into sweet bud vases and scatter them around the Easter table (you can set them on candlesticks) or place several in a colorful egg cartoon and place on the buffet with the delicious Easter spread.

To make: Use a serrated knife to cut off one end of an egg; discard the end. Rinse the shell with warm water and a few drops of distilled vinegar. Repeat as desired. Fill shell halfway with water and desired flowers. Display in an egg carton or egg cups.

Just looking at this egg gives us a peaceful feeling! To make it, dye an egg purple, then wrap it several times with white string and thread dried lavender sprigs through string.

You don't have to choose just one Easter egg design. We love this coordinated country trio decorated using an assortment of techniques: traditional dye, decoupage, and twine. Consider other ways you might mix and match designs as you scroll through the decoration ideas on this list.

Robin's Egg: To create the base color shown above, add two drops of green food coloring to standard blue egg dye, and then dye egg. Once dry, dip a fine-tipped paintbrush in a small bowl of brown liquid ink (available at craft stores) and splatter on the egg.

Paper Napkin Egg: Unfold a pretty floral paper napkin and cut into ½-inch-wide strips. Use Mod Podge and a small paintbrush to adhere strips to the egg, lining up the pattern and trimming away any excess napkin. Once covered, let dry, then apply a final coat of Mod Podge.

Twine Egg: Use a small paintbrush to apply crafter's glue onto the top of an egg. Starting in the center of the top, wrap twine (we used four-ply red and white twine) into a tight circle. Continue to brush on glue and wrap the egg until it is completely covered. (You will use approximately 12 feet of twine.) Trim excess.

Head the the sewing basket and grab the spare buttons to create these jewel-like beauties.

To make: Start by dyeing eggs the same colors as the buttons. Once dry, hot-glue buttons to the eggs, either covering completely or in a center band.

It's easy to make a "cross-stitch" egg, and no, you don't have to be an artist to make it happen: Draw small x’s (to mimic cross-stitches) with a paint pen in the shape of an initial on natural or dyed eggs.

Dye eggs a mustard yellow (these were colored with natural turmeric dye). Once dry, wrap the center of the eggs with washi tape to create the stripes.

Talk about a meta Easter egg! To achieve this look, draw a basket on the front of a white egg using a brown paint pen. Next, use pastel paint pens to draw eggs. When the paint is dry, add details on the eggs with a fine-point white paint pen.

Make these pastel beauties last for years by first blowing out the egg whites and yolks. Here, we've glued on tiny scrapbooking flowers as decorations, but you can use this technique (steps 1–4) for any natural Easter egg designs that you would like to keep.

Step 1: Insert a long needle into the bottom of each egg; make a small hole, then make a slightly larger one in the top.

Step 2: Move the needle around inside the shell to break the yolk.

Step 3: Blow over the smaller hole—feel free to use a straw if you don't want to touch the egg directly—until the liquid drips out of the larger hole.

Step 4: Run the egg under water. Blow the water out, and let the shell dry overnight.

Step 5: After coloring the egg, attach fabric scrapbooking flowers with tiny dots of glue. Lightly press each flower with your finger, then release.

Cut designs from floral paper napkins. Adhere to eggs with glossy Mod Podge.

Use white Puffy Paint to dot the raised patterns on eggs. Once dry, paint eggs with glossy green acrylic paint to mimic vintage jadeite.

The secret behind these botanical beauties? Country Living contributing editor Jodi Kahn used temporary tattoo paper.

Step 1: Begin by downloading free images from graphicsfairy.blogspot.com and thevintagemoth.blogspot.com

Step 2: Arrange them in a word processing or photo document, resizing each to fit on an egg.

Step 3: Print the images on tattoo paper, cut them out, and adhere to blown-out eggs, following package instructions.

Use a small paintbrush to fleck tan acrylic paint (thinned with a bit of water) on undyed farm eggs. Once dry, handwrite guests' initials with a gold paint pen and display on moss and twigs as place cards, or place on candlesticks to add height and texture to your table.

The German tradition of decorating trees dates back centuries. To make this version, fill a tea tin with floral foam and insert blooming branches (here, dogwood). Hang dyed blown or painted wooden eggs using a length of ribbon looped around the egg and held in place with a wooden craft bead.

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The fun part about this design idea is that you don't need to dye your eggs to make it happen (although you can): Start with naturally brown eggs, then sketch a wood-grain pattern with a white paint pen.