These Marbled Easter Eggs are a quick and easy Easter kids craft that anyone can make! All it takes are wooden eggs, acrylic paint, and a baking pan!
Yesterday my boys made marbled Easter eggs using wooden eggs and acrylic paint. We used the same technique that we use to marbelize paper with actual glass marbles, and I love the way that they turned out!
We use disposable roasting pans from the dollar store, lined with a piece of white construction paper, to minimize clean up. It also gives you a nice bonus piece of artwork at the end of the project!Add a wooden egg and a few blobs of acrylic paint…you’ll notice that we stuck stickers to a few of our eggs in an attempt to recreate the loveliness we saw HERE…but, the truth of the matter is that the paint got too thick and gloppy for it to work properly. I couldn’t even find the stickers under all that paint on most of the eggs when we were done! We’ll probably try using stickers with regular egg dye when we do the traditional egg dying later. In the meantime, ignore what we did, and skip the stickers for this project 🙂
Give your kiddos their trays and start rolling them around. It works much better if you actually pick up your tray and tilt it side-to-side like Sawyer is doing here. If you take Sutton’s route and try to roll the egg around the paint with your fingers, all you’re going to do is make your Mom paranoid that acrylic-paint-covered-fingers are going to end up in places they shouldn’t 😉
He finally caught on to the proper technique and was totally thrilled with how his eggs looked!
See what I mean about that bonus artwork in the bottom of the tray? We’re going to cut ours up and make Spring/Easter cards to mail to our family and friends.
When your egg is mostly covered (it usually won’t get 100% covered because its odd shape rolls kind of awkwardly), have an adult take the egg out of the pan carefully and dip the remaining white spots right back into a swirly blob of paint. That should take care of covering the whole thing!
Place on a sheet of waxed paper to dry overnight. After a few hours, when the top surface of the paint was dry, I turned the eggs on their sides so that the bottoms could dry. The paint was really thick, so it took quite awhile for the eggs to dry completely.
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Kids Learn @ Kiboom Daily says
April 18, 2011 at 4:28 pmWe love the color patterns on your Easter eggs. They came out so great. Will definitely be sharing this on our site!
all the best,
Sherry + Wendy @ Kiboomu
Jamie @ hands on : as we grow says
April 19, 2011 at 9:15 pmI bet these could be done with a real egg too 🙂 Just gotta find the right food coloring 🙂
I’m featuring this on my 2 dozen ideas and techniques to dye Easter Eggs today!
Jamie @ hands on : as we grow
Deana Peterson says
March 9, 2013 at 4:43 amIve tried marbleing eggs with die and I did a better job on my fingers lol so im gonna try the dies this way…. thnk you for sharing your great eye deer ( idear) lol [email protected]
The Monko says
March 22, 2013 at 7:46 pmwow thats so simple, it looked like it was going to be complicated but even i could manage this. Thanks