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How to Make Decoupaged Tissue Paper Easter Eggs

Decorating and Coloring Your Easter Eggs

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How to Decoupage an Easter Egg

Decoupaged Easter Egg

Sherri Osborn
A visitor named Liz Hermens explains how to make fancy Easter eggs using pieces of tissue paper and decoupage techniques. Cover blown out eggs and you can use these as decoration for several years.

  • Age Guideline: 6 Years and Up
  • Time Required: 30 minutes (Does not include drying time)

    The above age and time guidelines are estimates. This project can be modified to suit other ages and may take more or less time depending on your circumstances.

    Materials Needed:

    • Blown Out Eggs
    • Colored Tissue Paper
    • Liquid Starch (You can also use any decoupage medium or diluted white glue)
    • Wax Paper
    • Clear Acrylic Spray

    Instructions:
    Start out by covering your work surface with wax paper. Pour some liquid starch into a bowl. Tear your tissue paper into small pieces, the smaller the better. Ripped tissue paper looks best, but you can cut them if you like.

    Make sure your blown out eggs are clean and dry. Dip one piece of ripped tissue paper at a time into the liquid starch and stick it to the egg. Cover the entire egg in this fashion, making sure the piece of tissue paper overlap so no white spots are showing. You might want to decoupage one half of the egg, let it dry, and then decoupage the other half.

    Once the tissue paper is completely dry, seal it using clear acrylic spray or a couple of thin coats of decoupage medium.

    If you want to display your eggs individually, try making some easy Easter egg stands or these printable Easter egg stands.

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