Designing Easter Eggs with Character
Easter is coming soon. Planning to decorate any eggs? Why not add some character to them? Here are some fun and easy Easter egg designs inspired by Disney characters.
(1) Super Easy
It doesn’t get any easier than this. All you need is an egg, a black Sharpie and a few seconds of time. I didn’t even hard-boil this one since I was experimenting, but I wouldn’t recommend that to you. He may have to be my jack-o-lantern design this year too.
Turns out you can make quite a few Disney characters with this approach. Baymax has been joined by Eve (EEEEE-VA) and a wandering Stormtrooper. They won’t win an egg decorating award contest, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one of those anyway. Other ideas include Jack Skellington, Bailey the Beluga whale, Olaf or any of the 101 Dalmatians.
You can also try this approach with colored markers. Here’s a tribute to the logo from Coco hanging out with Mickey’s pal Goofy. Kind of an odd mix, but the two share simple designs.
(2) Easy
These next designs were inspired by the lovely inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood (Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Piglet and Rabbit). Instead of drawing their faces, I just replicated the color scheme using traditional egg dye and more Sharpies. They’re a little simplistic, but fun. I also made Flounder, Sully and Frozone this way (pictured below). You could try this with any of the characters from Inside Out too.
I was hesitant to post these next two, because they didn’t turn out great. Maybe it will inspire you to something better? Although it looks like a mess and a cornstalk, I was really going for a subtle nod to Peter Pan and Tinkerbell.
(3) Intermediate
These classic Disney-inspired character eggs (Minnie, Pluto, Donald & Dale) required a few more steps, like drawing more detail, using more than one color egg dye or attaching tape to the eggs between colorings. If you try using stickers or tape, do yourself a favor and color the eggs right after you boil them. I learned the hard way that stickers won’t stick to cold hard-boiled eggs from the refrigerator.
Here’s Cheshire Cat and an alien from Toy Story. I gave up getting the stickers to stay on the alien to keep his eyes white (see above), so I left them off. Now they can’t see the claw coming for them.
I tried this approach with a few princesses too. Here’s Rapunzel from Tangled on the left (X-pattern to mimic her dress) and a nod to Sleeping Beauty (make it pink, make it blue) on the right.
Maleficent and Ursula required a little more time with a Sharpie. The Maleficent egg was the only one that cracked during my decorating session, proving once again that she’s the mistress of all evil!
(4) More Difficult
These next styles were a little more difficult for me, but they could easily be a breeze for you. Mike Wazowski took me three tries, because the sticker wouldn’t stick to the first one and the mouth looked super creepy on the second. (Picture one of those Pinterest Fail slideshows.) This is the best Mike I could make for the amount of time I had. Sully was easy, just purple marker on a turquoise egg.
The logo on Mr. Incredible was a little tricky, since I used tape to preserve the yellow before dipping it in the red. His pal Frozone was easy to make. The way the turquoise color separated, I almost changed my mind and made the egg into Elsa (Frozen fractals all around…)
The Moana logo was tricky too. Flounder was easy. I know Moana and Flounder are from different movies, but it seems like they would be friends if they met. Now that I think about it Flounder does make a brief appearance in Moana… as a digital Easter egg!
Here’s most of the gang before heading back into the fridge.
Feeling inspired yet? Hopefully you found a reason to smile and a few ideas for adding more character to your Easter eggs this year. It doesn’t have to be Disney (wait, what?!) just find a color scheme or pattern you like and go for it!
Don’t want to color eggs but still want to look for them? Check out my post on the digital variety!
You can do it. Add a little magic to your Easter!