Creating Easy Watercolor Easter Eggs is a delightful way to add a fun and creative touch to your holiday celebrations. To make these colorful eggs, simply grab some of the simple stated materials. Let your imagination run wild as you work on this project, making them unique and cheerful. These vibrant Easter eggs will surely bring a smile to your face and brighten up your holiday decor!
Supplies:
This is what you’ll need to make watercolor Easter eggs using markers:
Crayola Markers: the classic markers work better than washable ones, generic markers also work
Ziplock sandwich bags: you can reuse one bag for multiple eggs
Small bowl of Water
Napkins or paper towels for cleanup
Hard Boiled Eggs or Craft Eggs
Step 1:
Color on the Bag
Start by coloring on the plastic sandwich bag. Just scribble a few different colors in splotches or stripes on the bag.
Step 2:
Transfer Color to the Egg
Next, dip your egg in water to get it wet, then place it on the bag. Grab the corners of the bag and pull it up and around the egg. The wet surface of the egg turns the marker ink into wet paint.
Smoosh the egg around inside the bag to get color over the entire egg (remember to be very careful if you are using blown out eggs). Then set it back down on the table and open up the bag.
Step 3:
Dry the Egg
At this point, you can leave your colored egg on the bag and let it dry completely, OR you can pick it up with a napkin and dab it dry. We dried ours off with napkins so we didn’t have to wait then set them back in the egg carton. The napkin does absorb a little of the color, but plenty of color will remain on the eggs. You could even use a blow dryer on low to speed the drying process.
Tips + Tricks
You can experiment with different color combinations to get different effects on your eggs. Just remember the colors are going to mix, so stick to colors that will look good together, like pink-purple-blue, or red-orange-yellow. Just two colors together works nicely, as well. The pretty turquoise egg in the photo above came from using blue and green markers. Just be sure to avoid any color combinations that will turn brown once they are mixed (like green + red).
You can also experiment with how you color on the bag. For most of our eggs we just colored in splotches, but for the egg above I colored a row of yellow on top, orange in the middle, and pink at the bottom. It’s such a pretty watercolor effect!
This technique is much tidier than using cups of dye, but you will still want to have paper towels or wipes handy because you’ll end up with some drops of “paint” on the bags that can stain fingers if you touch them. You can use a paper towel to wipe your bag clean and reuse it for each egg, or you can start with a new bag for each egg.
