Painting Wooden Easter Eggs Craft
Painting Wooden Easter Eggs Craft is a great thing to do when the price of eggs is high! The kids will have fun creating wooden egg designs and the eggs last all year long.
Cost: $1
Equipment
- Small round paint brushes Small round paint brushes
Ingredients
- Wooden eggs at your craft store
- Acrylic craft paints
- permanent Sharpie marker
- a push pin
- Other materials- Plastic wrap or plastic bag, Water container, Paper towels, paper plate.
Instructions
Prepping for the project
- Cover your workspace with plastic (such as plastic wrap or a plastic bag). You can set your egg down to dry on this surface without it sticking.Take a push pin and push it into the bottom of the wooden Easter egg. This will give you something to hold onto while you're painting your egg. If it goes in fairly straight you can even use it to twirl your egg around to make designs while you paint. The push pin does not have to go all the way into the egg, just until it's firm.Squirt a small amount of your acrylic craft paints (in the colors of your choice) onto a paper plate as a pallet.Paint the Easter egg wood a solid color for the background of your design. I chose white and I experimented with black. I would like to try other colors next time.
Painting wooden egg designs
- Draw your design onto the egg if this is helpful for you. Your design can be flowers, a design, faces, anything that you would like to try! Use the small paint brushes to paint your design onto the egg. Be sure to clean out your brushes between colors. Set the egg down on the plastic to dry. You may need to do this between colors in your design. A painted egg doesn't need a finish. But if you would like to do so you could use a clear polyurethane spray or liquid. Some people use a wax and wax the surface of the painted wooden Easter egg.
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Notes
There are tips, variations and a link to a full length tutorial video on the post!