Let’s paint some mini foam Easter eggs from the dollar store and make this cute framed speckled Easter egg art to decorate for spring and Easter.
Make a beautiful piece of Easter decor – by painting pastel Easter eggs and gluing them into a picture frame to display in a gallery wall or on your Easter mantel.
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A note from Aimee: This blog post first appeared on The Crazy Craft Lady in March 2015. It has since been updated to bring you the best, most current creative content.
Let’s talk about Easter eggs!
Nothing says Easter quite like Easter eggs, am I right? I love decorating beautiful Easter eggs – I’ve painted Easter eggs, made floral Easter eggs, made an Easter egg wreath, and covered eggs in music paper.
But at the end of the day, there are only so many ways you can display Easter eggs. You can toss them into a bowl, add them to a centerpiece, and that’s about it. But in this craft, I’m getting creative and displaying Easter eggs in a frame.
It’s kind of like a 2-for-1 craft. You can paint and decorate your eggs, and then create a cute piece of framed art to hang on your wall or display on a shelf.
DIY Framed Easter Egg Art with Dollar Tree Supplies
Supplies Needed to Make this Easter Craft:
- mini foam Easter eggs (Dollar Tree)
- white acrylic craft paint
- acrylic craft paint in assorted pastel colors, plus dark taupe
- paint brush
- tooth picks
- scrap styrofoam
- picture frame
- white or light gray cardstock, 1 sheet
- craft glue
Tutorial: How to Make Speckled Easter Egg Art
Watch this quick video tutorial below, and then follow the step-by-step tutorial below:
- Watch the video above before you begin, and let that be your visual guide for this craft.
- Gently pull the ribbon hanger off each Easter egg.
- Prime the eggs. Stick a toothpick into the bottom of a foam egg. Paint the egg white, and then stick the other end of the toothpick into the scrap styrofoam. Repeat this process with all of the eggs. Let the paint dry.
- Paint the eggs. Select your favorite hues of pastel acrylic craft paint. Keep the toothpick attached, paint each egg, and then place them back on the scrap styrofoam to dry.
- Add speckles to the eggs. Dip a paint brush into dark taupe paint. Then pull the paint brush bristles back, and let the paint fly! Now your eggs have speckles. Let the paint dry.
- Cut a piece of cardstock down to size, and place it into the picture frame.
- Carefully remove the toothpick from each egg. Add a generous dab of craft glue to the back of each egg, before arranging them inside the picture frame.
- Let the glue dry before displaying your new Easter artwork.
Here’s my finished framed Easter egg art on our living room mantel – It’s displayed with my new faux window reverse canvas project!
Framed Easter Egg Art
Let's paint some mini foam Easter eggs from the dollar store and make this cute framed speckled Easter egg art to decorate for spring and Easter.
Materials
- mini foam Easter eggs (Dollar Tree)
- white acrylic craft paint
- acrylic craft paint in assorted pastel colors, plus dark taupe
- paint brush
- tooth picks
- scrap styrofoam
- picture frame
- white or light gray cardstock, 1 sheet
- craft glue
Instructions
- Watch the video tutorial before you begin, and let that be your visual guide for this craft.
- Gently pull the ribbon hanger off each Easter egg.
- Prime the eggs. Stick a toothpick into the bottom of a foam egg. Paint the egg white, and then stick the other end of the toothpick into the scrap styrofoam. Repeat this process with all of the eggs. Let the paint dry.
- Paint the eggs. Select your favorite hues of pastel acrylic craft paint. Keep the toothpick attached, paint each egg, and then place them back on the scrap styrofoam to dry.
- Add speckles to the eggs. Dip a paint brush into dark taupe paint. Then pull the paint brush bristles back, and let the paint fly! Now your eggs have speckles. Let the paint dry.
- Cut a piece of cardstock down to size, and place it into the picture frame.
- Carefully remove the toothpick from each egg. Add a generous dab of craft glue to the back of each egg, before arranging them inside the picture frame.
- Let the glue dry before displaying your new Easter artwork.
Don’t Forget to PIN this Easter Decor Project for Later:
For posterity’s sake, here’s my original blog post and craft from back in 2015:
I’ve got a super easy, and super inexpensive Easter craft to share with you all today. No lie. If you have a dollar (plus tax, I suppose) and 10 minutes, you can make some great Easter egg art!
I was at Dollar Tree the other day, and they had just started putting out Easter decorations. Easter, people! This means Spring is around the corner!
Here we go. This tutorial is super simple, and takes about 10 minutes.
Supplies
- 1 package of glitter styrofoam Easter eggs
- craft glue – I used quick-drying glue, since I’m impatient
- Picture frame – I used an extra frame that I had lying around
Tutorial
Just glue the foam easter eggs to the paper in the back of the picture frame.
For about a minute, I considered doing a random pattern. But I quickly came to my senses and realized that an irregular pattern was not going to happen… Don’t fight the OCD, people!
Just keep gluing… Blue. Green. Red… Blue. Green.Red.
Let the glue dry, and you’re done! I placed my new art on my mantle, next to a sweet teal glitter bunny that I also picked up at the dollar store.
This is so cute! I love all the bright colors it brings to your Easter decorations. I hope you’ll share it over at Motivational Monday this week: http://makingitinthemitten.blogspot.com/2015/03/motvational-monday-march-1st.html