At Easter time, why not imagine pretty decorations to brighten up gardens and apartments, to the delight of parents and children. Easter eggs can come in any color to decorate your cozy nest. Do you hesitate to get started? We tell you how to do it, from choosing eggs to egg decorating ideas for personalizing them.

Choosing the right eggs to decorate

You can use various materials to make your personalized Easter eggs: natural or synthetic, recycled or manufactured. You will easily find a support for your DIY in your kitchen or in a hobby shop.

Choice # 1: real eggs

Brown or white, big or small, bring some eggs that you want to decorate. Start by cleaning them gently so that you can work on a clean surface. Once dried, the egg must be pierced in several stages:

• Gently prick the top of the egg with a head pin (to prevent the pin from getting inside)
• Close the hole with your finger and shake the egg to merge the yellow and the white.
• Enlarge the hole with a thicker nail.
• Repeat steps 1 and 3 on the underside of the egg.
• Place the egg on top of a container. Blow inside from above in order to empty the contents from the other end.

Your emptied egg is ready to be decorated. Don't forget to put the contents of the egg in a container in the refrigerator while waiting to use it in a cooking recipe!

Choice # 2: fake eggs

There are many creative supports for making your Easter eggs at home. You can find eggs in stores at:

• Polystyrene
• Wood
• Plastic
• Paper Mache
• Plaster

Choose the material that suits you best, depending on your project (fragility, durability, weight, handling by children).

How to decorate Easter eggs?

That's it; your eggs are waiting for your creativity to adorn themselves with a thousand colors and textures. Gather your creative customization materials:

• Painting: choose your acrylic colors and opt for a soft bristle brush. Spray paint is also very easy to apply.
• Coloring: use thick multi-support felts.
• Collage: cover your eggs with glue and place on your scrap sheets, feathers, glitter, stickers, sequins and other materials
• Additions: do not hesitate to mix the shapes and colors using masking tape or elements to affix to the eggs to give them a different style.

Celebrating eggs

Brighten up your Easter table with these charming and festive eggs. Follow Anne Weil's advice to complete this tutorial with a few scissors. You will use a hard-boiled egg as a base, and then you can draw a smiling face on it with a pen and customize it with pretty paper.

In conclusion, decorating Easter eggs is a fun filled task for parents and children. Parents need to make the necessary preparations for the activity, but after that children can be left to their own devices to create whatever they want. Letting children create small little heads is fun, but really they can be absolutely anything.