8 Easter egg decorating ideas

Let your imaginations run wild trying our top egg carton crafts for kids and Easter craft ideas.

While you sit back and admire your handiwork, why not whip up something delicious with the egg whites and yolks that you've set aside? Take a peek at our favourite egg recipes, or try our top ways with leftover egg whites and yolks.

Chocolate egg decorating ideas

1. Simple chocolate button egg

Pretty as a picture, our chocolate button egg offers a simple way to personalise an Easter gift. If you're prepared to make your own chocolate egg shell, all you need are the moulds, good quality chocolate and our easy-to-follow recipe – then hide the join with a cleverly placed ribbon. Use chocolate buttons, jazzies or your favourite seasonal sweets to take your creation from basic to brilliant in minutes.

If you do decide to make your own egg, guarantee a lustrous sheen with our easy guide on how to temper chocolate.

2. Striped chocolate Easter egg

Take a blend of milk, white and dark chocolate and create a striking striped Easter egg. Use our simple step-by-step guide and try making your own designs with different food colourings. For truly flawless results, invest in a thermometer to temper your chocolate.

Watch Miriam Nice show you a super simple way to create this effect in our handy decorating video.

3. Marbled egg

Ultra glossy and expertly painted, our marbled egg looks and tastes the part. This deluxe homemade sweet has that professional finish and looks as impressive as any shop-bought showpiece. Our multi-coloured work of art is perfect for boxing up for someone special. Switch up the chocolate depending on your tastes and try filling them with our chocolate truffles for an extra surprise.

4. Artistic chocolate egg decoration

Go all out with our next level decoration ideas. Try a Jackson Pollock-style spatter, chicks made from white chocolate buttons or a floral beauty in royal icing. These hand-crafted treats make fab gifts, or a fun activity for restless kids.

If you opt for the more intricate iced design, you'll want to know how to make your own piping bag.

5. Chocolate Krispie chick

Give your Easter treats the cute factor like this chocolate chick with a body made of Rice Krispies, complete with Mini Eggs, marzipan feet and an icing beak. Get the kids moulding their own cool chicks before decorating with white chocolate. Give them feathers, a polka-dot pattern or try writing initials in the mould for a personalised gift.

If the kids are up for more projects, get cracking with these decorated blown-out eggs. Even the smallest hands can help with drawing on designs and you won't need to shell out for expensive kit...

Hand decorated egg ideas

How to blow out eggs

1. Carefully pierce the egg by pushing a pin or safety pin at either end.

2. Try to make the hole at the base (widest end) of the egg, large enough to fit a cocktail stick through. Push the cocktail stick into the egg to break the yolk, twist it around a few times, and then remove it.

3. Hold the egg over a clean bowl with the larger hole pointing downwards and press the aspirator over the smaller hole at the top and use it to pump air into the egg. The air will push the egg yolk and white out of the shell into the bowl below. Cover and pop in the fridge to use in cooking or baking.

4. Once the egg feels empty, pop it into the second bowl and fill with warm water and washing up liquid. Use the aspirator again to pump soapy water through the egg shell.

5. Leave to drain on a kitchen towel. Once it's completely dry, you’re ready to decorate.

If you want to try the more traditional method of blowing out eggs, then check out our other helpful guide on how to blow out eggs which includes a tutorial video.

6. Go for glitter

For a simple, yet effective finish, dip the base of the egg in glue and then in glitter, and leave upside down in an eggcup to dry. For a really glitzy flourish, wait until the first half has dried, then brush the top with glue as well and roll in glitter for all-over sparkles.

7. Get personal

Create a personalised gift by writing an initial, or spell out a whole name in a carton by drawing one letter on each egg. Using a pencil first, draw out an Easter egg outline. Then, once you’re happy, go over it in permanent marker. Fill in any spaces with a silver or gold marker pen or paint then allow to dry.

8. Clever chicks

All you need for this cute design is a pack of small, circular stationary stickers and a fine black permanent marker. Making sure that they're evenly spaced, pop yellow sticky dots all over your egg. Then, with this as the template, use the marker pen to make a dot in the middle for the eye, add a beak, cockscomb and some spindly legs.

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