Dyeing Easter Eggs is so last year! This year pour your way to colorful and fun eggs and create your very own DIY Paint Pour Easter Eggs.
Confession time, dyeing Easter Eggs is one of my least favorite Easter traditions. I feel like it never goes well, especially with little kids. They are too impatient to wait for the color to soak in long enough, cups of water and dye inevitably get spilled, and I’m left with a million eggs I have to figure out how to eat and use.
I decided to take a new approach to this classic Easter tradition and created gorgeous eggs using the paint pour method.
What is Paint Pouring?
Paint pouring is when you mix acrylic paints with pouring mediums and then pour the mixture onto a surface. Over the years I’ve tried this technique on several different projects, from DIY Paint Pour Canvas Art to DIY Paint Pour Coasters.
Decoart has made this technique even easier with its highly-pigmented, ready-to-pour acrylic paints. These paints are the ideal consistency for creating unique and layered paint pours in one step. Paints are formulated to flow easily and don’t need to be mixed with any mediums or additives.
There are several different techniques for paint pouring including the popular dirty pour and puddle pour techniques. Or you can simply pour paint directly onto your project in a random fashion and move the object around to cover the entire surface.
Paint Pour Easter Egg Supplies
- Plastic Easter Eggs
- Decoart Fluid Art Ready-to-Pour Acrylics
- Tropical Blue
- Deep Turquoise
- Dark Aquamarine
- Coral
- Magenta
- White
- DecoArt Glamour Dust – Gold
- Bamboo Skewers
- Small Cup for Paint
- Floral Foam Blocks
How to Paint Pour Easter Eggs
Before you start, cover your work surface with a piece of plastic or paper. This project will get messy!
Use a needle or sharp object to poke a hole in the bottom of the egg.
Poke the sharp end of the bamboo skewer into the hole in the egg.
Hold the skewer and slowly start pouring the paint over your egg. As you pour use the stick to slowly swirl and slide the paint around until the entire surface is covered in paint.
If you want, give your eggs an extra bit of sparkle using Decoart Glamour Dust or glitter to add texture and dimension.
Place the skewer into a floral foam block to allow the excess paint to drip off and the egg to completely dry.
Helpful Paint Pour Tips
I used the Dirty Pour technique for this project. For a Dirty Pour, you start by pouring one color into the bottom of your cup. Next, add a complementing color to the center of the paint already in the cup. Continue layering colors by adding different colors of paint to the center of the previous color.
I found that the results were best when I only layered 3 different colors.
There are lots of different plastic Easter eggs out there, but after experimenting with several I found that the paintable craft eggs you can find at Wal-Mart, Michael’s, or Hobby Lobby worked best. They have a white matte surface, so the paint adhered well and the colors were vibrant.
The great thing about using the paint pour technique is there really is no way to mess this craft project up. Just keep adding paint until you get the desired look you want!
Add your DIY Paint Pour Easter Eggs to a colorful DIY Paint Pour Easter Basket. Or use them to create colorful decorations like a festive Easter egg garland.
DIY Paint Pour Easter Eggs

Dyeing Easter Eggs is so last year! This year pour your way to colorful and fun eggs and create your very own DIY Paint Pour Easter Eggs.
Materials
- Plastic Easter Eggs
- Decoart Fluid Art Ready-to-Pour Acrylics
- DecoArt Glamour Dust – Gold
- Bamboo Skewers
- Small Cup for Paint
- Floral Foam Blocks
Instructions
- Before you start, cover your work surface with a piece of plastic or paper. This project will get messy!
- Use a needle or sharp object to poke a hole in the bottom of the egg.
- Poke the sharp end of the bamboo skewer into the hole in the egg.
- Hold the skewer and slowly start pouring the paint over your egg. Use the stick to slowly swirl and slide the paint around until the entire surface is covered in paint.
- If you want to give your eggs an extra bit of sparkle using Decoart Glamour Dust or glitter to add texture and dimension.
- Place the skewer into a floral foam block to allow the excess paint to drip off and the egg to completely dry.
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