I want to decorate eggs with my 2 yr old son for Easter this year but he’s allergic to egg whites so I didn’t see the sense in doing real eggs. I bought some plastic eggs that we could decorate but I’m not coming up with many clevers ideas on how to do that other than using stickers. I need some fun, easy to clean up ideas for decorating plastic eggs.

Thanks!

Egg Holders
Display your Easter eggs proudly with these cute egg holders. They’ll look great on your family’s Easter table — and be a nice surprise for the Easter Bunny!
Egg Holder Easter Activity
What You’ll Need:
Construction paper
Markers or colored pencils
Ruler
Blunt ­scissors
Transparent tape
For each of your Easter eggs, draw a baby chick on a piece of construction paper. The wings and feet should be strips that extend at least 7 inches long. (You’ll use these to hold and wrap around the egg.) Color in the baby chick’s features using markers or colored pencils. Cut out the chick shape. If you want, trim the wing strip so that the edge is scalloped to make “feathers.” Tape the ends of the feet strip together to make a ring. Make sure it’s big enough to stand an Easter egg in the ring (but not so big that the egg wobbles). Tape the ends of the wing strips together to “hug” the egg and hold it in place. What a nice chick! For really special Easter eggs, try using the shell as a “canvas” and paint a picture on it. This type of decorative painting on eggs has been done for thousands of years — long before there were Easter eggs. Go to the next page for painting tips.

Egg Critter
This year, Easter morning could bring a visit from the Egg Critter! It’s fun to make this crafty creation, and it looks “eggs-tremely” adorable. Below are some suggestions to get you started, but let your imagination run wild!
What You’ll Need:
Cool-temp glue gun
White posterboard — two pieces, 2×3 inches
Orange felt — two pieces, 2×3 inches
Red felt
2-inch yellow plastic egg
2-inch yellow pom-pom
2 wiggle eyes
Feathers (assorted colors): three 4-inches long, two 2-inches long. Draw a foot shape onto the posterboard and cut it out. Using this as your pattern, draw and cut out another foot from the second piece of posterboard, and then cut two feet from the orange felt. With an adult’s help, glue the felt feet to posterboard feet. Place the feet (felt-side up) on a work surface, about 1/4 inch apart. Glue the yellow plastic egg to the feet — this is your critter’s body. For the critter’s head, glue the pom-pom to top of egg. Draw and cut out a beak or lips from red felt and then glue it on the lower part of the head. With an adult’s help (this can be tricky), glue the wiggle eyes to the head. For tail feathers, glue the four-inch feathers to lower back of egg. For wings, glue the two-inch feathers to the sides of the body.

Plastic Easter Egg Flowers
The first idea for decorating with plastic Easter eggs is make a plastic Easter egg plant. Buy a bag of dirt and seeds. Bury one or two seeds inside the plastic Easter egg and water as required. By Easter day you should see the first signs of growth. If you are not interested in starting from scratch, consider buying a couple of flowers then plant them in the plastic Easter eggs.

Plastic Easter Egg Candles
The next idea for decorating with plastic Easter eggs for the holidays is to use candles. Buy some small round candles(in pastel colors if they have them), and aluminum foil. Tear off a sheet of aluminum foil and place in the inside of the plastic Easter Egg. Insert the candle and set out. Make sure to blow out the candles before going to bed or leaving the house.

Plastic Easter Egg Pictures
The third idea for decorating with plastic Easter egg is to use pictures. Buy some Easter grass and place at the bottom of the plastic Easter eggs. Find and use small photographs of family and friends and insert into the plastic Easter egg. Place in your living room or on a mantel for everyone to see. For an added touch, if it does not mar the image in any way, try cutting your pictures into an oval shape.

“Chocolate” Plastic Easter Eggs
1 dozen plastic Easter eggs
1 can of Krylon Fusions paint in brown
Odds and ends of ribbons, string beads, ribbon roses and ribbon flowers
Glue gun and glue sticks
Crochet thread
Instructions
Spray paint the eggs brown. Decorate any way you like with the ribbons, string beads, and flowers. The eggs that I bought had two little holes in the end of them that I strung some crochet thread through so I could hang them.

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