Wooden-decorated Easter egg crafts are a fun alternative to traditional Easter egg decorating for kids and adults. Decorated wooden Easter eggs can become treasured keepsake crafts you can reuse every Easter.
Try these wooden Easter egg decorations and Easter egg crafts with your kids for Easter or the Spring Equinox at home or in the classroom. Decorated Wooden Easter Egg crafts are an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic eggs filled with candy on Easter morning.
Wooden eggs make gorgeous spring DIY home decor and look lovely on spring nature tables. And toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary-aged kids love to hunt for wooden Easter eggs, such as these cute Easter Chicks, as much as they like to find them in their Easter Baskets. People worldwide also enjoy making wooden egg crafts for their Spring Equinox Celebrations.
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Wooden Easter Egg Decorations and Wooden Easter Egg Crafts
There are many beautiful ways to decorate wooden eggs and make wooden Easter egg crafts. First, choose the materials you want to use to make decorated eggs from the wooden Easter egg craft supplies below. Next, try your hand at the fantastic wooden Easter egg crafts and wooden Easter egg decorating ideas on the list below, or find inspiration to create your own decorated wooden Easter eggs!
Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Craft Supplies
Pick and choose the Easter egg decorating supplies you want to work with from the wooden Easter egg craft materials listed below. You will need wooden eggs, paint, or paint pens to color them, and you may also need a set of paintbrushes depending on how you choose to apply color or decorate them. Or, dip them into liquid watercolor or food coloring–just like real Easter Eggs!
- Wooden Easter eggs
, flat-bottom wooden Easter eggs, or white wooden eggs - Extra fine-tip paint pens, pastel paint pens, or brush-tip paint pens
- Acrylic Paint and paintbrushes
- Liquid watercolor paints or food coloring
- Woodburning pen
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14 Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Ideas
Click on the creator of each wooden Easter egg craft idea on this list to see the full tutorial for each Easter egg decorating idea.
- How to Paint and Decorate Wooden Eggs | Rhythms of Play
- Star Wars Painted Easter Eggs | Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
- Lego Easter Eggs | Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
- Watercolor Wooden Easter Eggs | Fun at Home with Kids for Modern Parents Messy Kids
- DIY Color Block Eggs | Crate & Barrel Kids Blog
- Rustic Industrial Eggs | Cherished Bliss
- Thumbprint Easter Egg Decorating | Childhood 101
- Painted Wooden Eggs | Fireflies & Mudpies – This easy egg craft uses smaller robin eggs, but this technique will work on a wooden egg of any size.
- DIY Resurrection Eggs | Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
- How to Paint Harry Potter Easter Eggs | Adventure in a Box
- Space Eggs: Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Idea for Kids | Adventure in a Box
- Matryoshka Wooden Easter Egg Craft | Adventure in a Box
- Owl Easter Eggs | Adventure in a Box
- Easter Chicks Wooden Egg Craft | Rhythms of Play (photo below)
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8 More Easter Egg Decorating Ideas Perfect for Wooden Easter Egg Crafts
The wooden egg craft ideas below are not made with wooden eggs. They are each made with either real hard-boiled eggs or faux craft eggs. However, we thought these Easter egg decorating ideas would be perfect for decorating wooden eggs, so we included them below.
- Emoji Easter Eggs | Studio DIY
- Galaxy Easter Eggs Tutorial | Dream a Little Bigger
- Embroidery Floss Wrapped Eggs | Craftberry Bush
- DIY Embroidery Thread Easter Eggs | Family Focus Blog
- Yarn Wrapped Easter Eggs | The Happy Housie
- Twine Wrapped Eggs | Domestically Speaking
- Crochet Covered Easter Eggs | Flax and Twine
- Paint Pen Easter Egg Decorating Ideas | Rhythms of Play (photo below)
Using paint pens to decorate wooden Easter eggs is fun and easy. So try the delightful paint pen Easter egg decorating ideas at home or in the classroom for Easter this year!
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More Wooden Easter Egg Decorations
DIY wooden egg craft ideas like these are a fun alternative to traditional Egg decorating for Easter. And are also fun to make and decorate for the Spring Vernal Equinox.
Wooden Decorated Easter Eggs
Decorating wooden eggs is a fun way to create Easter keepsakes that you can reuse yearly. Kids love to hunt for wooden Easter eggs on Easter egg hunts as much as they like to find them in their Easter Baskets as a non-candy alternative.
Wooden Easter eggs also make gorgeous spring home decor and look lovely displayed on mantles, baskets, and spring nature tables.
Don’t forget to look at our spring bucket list and Easter traditions you can start with your family.
Learn more about Rhythms of Play HERE!
Thank so much for including our wooden eggs! Love this round up 🙂
You’re welcome Jen! They are lovely 🙂
So Eggcited to decorate! Thank you for all of the great wooden Easter egg decorating ideas. My kiddos have already picked out their favorite wooden eggs to decorate, and we can not wait to get started, thank you!
You are very welcome Susie! I’m so glad that you and your kids have found wooden Easter egg decorating ideas that you like. We hope that you enjoy decorating them!
Hi, I love your ideas! They are so awesome. Can you tell me if you can transfer fabric print onto wooden eggs? I have seen it done with regular eggs and silk ties but not sure if the wood eggs would work. TIA
Hi Monica!
Thanks for the great question. I have never tried transferring fabric print onto a wooden egg, but I think it would work. Give it a try and let me know how it goes!
Nell
These Easter eggs look so gorgeous. I love all the egg craft ideas. I have already bought all the decoration items and now I am looking for some last-minute DIY ideas. Thanks for sharing these ideas.
Hello David! I’m so glad that you found these wooden egg craft ideas helpful, and I hope that decorating wooden eggs becomes an Easter Tradition that you cherish as much as we do!
Nell
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Hello Jojo!
I hope you enjoyed this list of wooden Easter egg crafts and decorating ideas. Thanks for saying hello. Let me know if you need any help with anything.
Nell