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    Home » Crafts » Liquid Watercolor Decorated Eggs

    Liquid Watercolor Decorated Eggs

    Published: Mar 24, 2014 · Modified: May 16, 2022 by Vicky

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    Have you ever used liquid watercolors before? I did when I was teaching, but hadn't with my own kids before. If you have never heard of them, they are a concentrated paint that can be used as is or diluted for the effect of traditional watercolors. I recently ordered some and the very first thing we did with them was to create these Liquid Watercolor Decorated Eggs.

    Liquid Watercolor Decorated Eggs - Using droppers and liquid watercolors to create vibrantly colored eggs.

    You will need: 

    • Liquid watercolors
    • Hard boiled eggs
    • Small cups for the eggs
    • Droppers

    **Liquid watercolors are not safe to consume so if you peel you eggs and notice any color on them, do not eat them.**

    Liquid watercolors

    This will be a messy activity so you will want to have your child wear a smock. You can pour some of the liquid watercolors into a cup and have your child fill their dropper or just fill it straight from the bottle. I held the bottle of watercolors for them (so they would not spill) and let them stick in their dropper to draw up the color.

    I placed an egg for each child to decorate in a small fruit cup and let them color the eggs using the liquid water colors and dropper.

    child squeezing a dropper

    Getting the liquid water colors into the dropper and squeezing them out provided the bonus of a fine motor exercise.

    working on fine motor skills

    You can dilute the liquid watercolors with water, but I chose to use them at their normal strength to get bolder colors.

    decorating Easter eggs

    My kids were excited to use a variety of colors on their eggs.

    watercolor decorated eggs

    Sometimes the colors mixed to form new shades.

    decorated easter eggs

    I placed them in an empty egg carton to dry. They didn't take any longer to dry than eggs dyed with an at home kit. They are so eye catching and each one is totally unique because of the way the drops of watercolor fell.

    Liquid Watercolor Decorated Eggs

    For more Easter activities check out:

    Easter Egg Letter Matching Game

    Easter Egg CVC Word Game

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    1. Boy Mama Teacher Mama

      March 31, 2014 at 2:52 am

      Will be trying this this year for sure! Thanks for sharing at After School!

    2. maryanne @ mama smiles

      March 31, 2014 at 4:40 am

      Your eggs are very pretty!

    3. pippi

      April 03, 2014 at 12:19 pm

      Is the color steadfast? Since watercolors are washable, I'd be afraid it would come off on your hands.

    4. Mary Catherine

      April 17, 2014 at 10:13 pm

      My preschool students LOVED trying out this egg-dying method. They were so proud of how they turned out. 🙂

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