Painting Easter Eggs (2015)

Ok, so I have this thing with Easter eggs.  I don't know what it is, but I can't resist collecting them.  They are... Just. So. Pretty! 

I have plenty, way more than required for any reasonable egg hunt....but Easter rolls around...or I'm out treasure hunting....and I see a color or design that I don't already have...you see where this is going....:D

(Right now Dollar Tree has plastic eggs that look like baby chicks.....I have resisted)

So needless to say, I already have a ton of plastic eggs (two big bins full) and then I discovered ready-to-decorate foam eggs at Wal-Mart last year.  Ohhhhh snap!

So now I can have Baby Girl paint faux eggs for the same price as dying hard-boiled eggs and then I get to keep them forever???  Love it!  

(I still boil up a dozen real eggs for her too, it's just something you got to do)

Read on to see the eggs we have painted so far this year!

Materials

Foam eggs, brushes and lottttts of paint.  

I like using acrylic paints for these projects.  They are permanent, easy to work with, economically priced and readily available.

The paints on the left are, I mean were, mine and Baby Girl's are on the right.  You can see that her's were a little worse for wear.  She used up what was left and has now worked her way into my stash as well ;)

Toothpick Trick

So in my head I thought I was going to poke a toothpick into the end of each egg.  That way I could hold the toothpick while I painted and then stick it into some Styrofoam to dry without touching any wet paint.  Well, it turns out that the foam eggs are just too hard.  I didn't really want to have holes in them any way.  

I decided to paint one side at a time, but the darn eggs kept rolling over every time I set them down.  I figured out that if I set them down next to a toothpick they would be wedged in place.  See? I did need those toothpicks!  :D

Just be careful when letting go of the egg.  For some reason many of the eggs seemed to have a heavier side and I never knew which way they were going to roll!  After a few messy smudges (and a handful of curse words) I figured out how to hang on until the very last minute.  That way if I needed to I could move the toothpick.

My Eggs

You may have seen photos of these already from my Etsy shop post.

If not, you can view that post by clicking  here.

Baby Girl's Easter Eggs

(These are the same eggs as pictured at the top of this post)

  I love the colors that Baby Girl chose.  She also globed on lots of paint, so they ended up with a fun texture.  So pretty and so faux, and I get to keep them!  I made sure to take a Sharpie and add her name and the year at the bottom of each one also.

Those are our Easter eggs so far.  I'll be back with an Easter decor post soon.
Thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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