Easter Crafts: How to Make Marbleized Easter Eggs

Decorating the Easter eggs is a tradition for many families. No matter how old children get, decorating the Easter eggs never stops being fun. Your Easter eggs can look any way you want to, you can tie-dye the eggs, speckle the eggs, draw faces on the eggs, cut out pictures and glue them on the eggs, anything. There are limitless cool effects that can be used to decorate Easter eggs, the trick is knowing how to do it. You may see beautiful Easter eggs and want to copy them, but can't find out how to do it. One of the many cool effects that can be used to decorate an Easter egg is marbleizing. This Easter craft is incredibly easy to make, so it's great for children. It doesn't take long at all, so you can make as many marbleized Easter eggs as you want. Here's how to do it:

Materials
-bowl
-vegetable oil
-food coloring or egg dye
-hallow eggs
-spoon
-newspaper

Instructions
1. This can be a messy project, so lay down some newspaper over your work area. Also be sure that you're wearing old clothes or at least an apron to protect your clothing from any stains.

2. Take the bowl and pour one tablespoon of vegetable oil into it.

3. Once the oil is in the bowl, you'll have to pour some food coloring into the mixture. Only do one color at a time for best results. Make sure you stir the oil and food coloring so that they mix well together. The oil and the food coloring will create the marble effect on your Easter eggs.

4. Take your hollow egg, and gently dip it into the mixture. Make sure that you get the entire surface of the egg so that all of your Easter egg will get the marble effect. If you don't want to dip the egg in the mixture, there is another way, but it's a lot messier. You can hold the egg up (over some newspaper or place mat), and pour the mixture over the egg and it will create the same marble effect on your Easter egg.

5. Repeat step 2, 3, and 4, except use a different color of food coloring so that your marbleized Easter egg will be multi-colored.

6. Do this with all of your Easter eggs and after, you can use them for numerous things. You can use them in your Easter egg hunt, you can give them away as presents (everyone will be impressed), or you can simply use them as decorations for Easter.