Wooden-decorated Easter egg crafts are a fun alternative to traditional Easter egg decorating for kids and adults.
Try these wooden Easter egg decorations and crafts with your kids for Easter, the Spring Equinox, or another spring holiday at home or in the classroom. Decorated wooden Easter Egg crafts offer an eco-friendly, sustainable alternative to plastic eggs filled with candy on Easter morning. This makes decorating wooden eggs healthier for your family and better for the environment than filling plastic eggs with too much sugar on Easter morning.
Unlike plastic, wooden eggs can be reused year after year, making them an excellent choice for reducing waste. Their smooth, sturdy surface is perfect for painting, dyeing, or woodburning, allowing for more creativity and a longer-lasting keepsake. They even come in white to look just like hard-boiled eggs. Decorated wooden eggs are natural and timeless compared to plastic eggs, and they can add a charming, rustic touch to your Easter décor. Wooden eggs make gorgeous spring DIY home decor and look lovely adorning spring nature tables.
Best of all, decorated wooden Easter eggs can become treasured keepsake crafts and heirlooms to be passed down through the generations. Toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary-aged kids also love to hunt for wooden Easter eggs, such as these cute Easter Chicks, as much as they enjoy finding them in their Easter Baskets. People worldwide also enjoy making wooden egg crafts for Spring Equinox Celebrations and other spring holidays. First published in March 2016, this list of wood Easter egg crafts is regularly updated and republished to improve the content and add more Easter craft ideas!
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Wooden Easter Egg Crafts and Decorations:
Decorating wooden Easter eggs is a delightful and eco-friendly craft for kids and adults of all ages and artistic abilities. It’s like decorating hard-boiled eggs, with a few similar and slightly different decoration methods. Unlike their fragile, hard-boiled counterparts, wooden eggs offer a durable canvas for artistic expression.
They allow various decoration techniques, ranging from simple and rustic to intricate and elegant. The beauty of wooden eggs lies in their versatility and longevity. Unlike hard-boiled Easter eggs, they can be displayed year after year, becoming treasured personalized elements of holiday decor or meaningful family heirloom gifts for loved ones. You might also enjoy these Easter art projects and egg painting ideas.
There are many beautiful ways to decorate and make wooden Easter egg crafts. First, choose the materials you want to use from the wooden Easter egg craft supplies in the next section. Then, try the fantastic wooden Easter egg crafts and decorating ideas on the list below. Or find inspiration to create your own decorated wooden Easter eggs!
Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Craft Supplies:
Choose the Easter egg decorating supplies you want to use from the wooden Easter egg craft materials listed below. You will need wooden eggs, paint (or paint pens for coloring), and a set of paintbrushes, depending on how you color or decorate them. Unlike paint, a woodburning pen is a simple tool for creating lines or adding texture to designs. Alternatively, dip wooden eggs into liquid watercolors, diluted with water or food coloring, like real Easter Eggs!
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- Acrylic Paint and paintbrushes.
- Liquid watercolor paints or food coloring. (For dip-dying or painting with a paintbrush. Please visit this tutorial on coloring wooden blocks or eggs for instructions.)
- Woodburning tool or pen.
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14 Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Ideas:
Click on the creator of each wooden Easter egg craft idea for the full step-by-step instructions for each Easter egg decorating idea:
- How to Paint and Decorate Wooden Eggs by Rhythms of Play.
- Star Wars Painted Easter Eggs by Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.
- Lego Easter Eggs by Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.
- Colorful Watercolor Wooden Easter Eggs by Fun at Home with Kids for Modern Parents Messy Kids.
- Thumbprint Easter Egg Decorating by Childhood 101.
- Painted Wooden Eggs by Fireflies & Mudpies. This easy egg craft uses smaller robin eggs, but this technique will work on wooden eggs of any size.
- DIY Resurrection Eggs by Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.
- How to Paint Harry Potter Easter Eggs by Adventure in a Box.
- Space Eggs: Wooden Easter Egg Decorating Idea for Kids by Adventure in a Box.
- Matryoshka Wooden Easter Egg Craft by Adventure in a Box.
- Owl Easter Eggs by Adventure in a Box.
- Easter Chicks Wooden Egg Craft by 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. Each of these crafts uses either real hard-boiled eggs or faux craft eggs. However, I thought these Easter egg decorating ideas would be perfect for decorating wooden eggs, so I included them below.
- Emoji Easter Eggs by Studio DIY.
- Galaxy Easter Eggs Tutorial by Dream a Little Bigger.
- Embroidery Floss Wrapped Eggs by Craftberry Bush.
- DIY Embroidery Thread Easter Eggs by Family Focus Blog.
- Yarn Wrapped Easter Eggs by The Happy Housie.
- Jute Twine Wrapped Eggs by Domestically Speaking.
- Hand-Crochet Covered Easter Eggs by Flax and Twine.
- Marker or Paint Pen Easter Egg Decorating Ideas by Rhythms of Play (photo below).
Using markers or paint pens to decorate wooden Easter eggs is fun and easy. Try these delightful Easter egg decorating ideas and time-saving egg-decorating hacks with kids, from toddlers to teens, for Easter.
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More Wooden Easter Egg Crafts:
DIY wooden egg craft ideas are a fun alternative to traditional Easter Egg decorating. These wooden Easter egg crafts are also fun to make and decorate for the Spring Vernal Equinox. You might also enjoy learning how to COLOR brown eggs.
Wooden Decorated Easter Eggs
Decorating wooden eggs is a fun way to create Easter keepsakes you can reuse each year. Kids love to hunt for wooden Easter eggs on Easter egg hunts and 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 mantels, in baskets, and on spring nature tables.
Please visit these spring activities and this list of Easter traditions from around the world for more fun ideas!
Learn more about Nell Regan Kartychok, author of this round-up of creative wooden egg decorating ideas HERE, and 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