Need alternatives to coloring Easter eggs? Cost of eggs too high to dye Easter eggs? Here are fun ideas for kids crafts like fake eggs to dye, dyeing marshmallows, Easter rock painting, and more fun kid activities for Spring.
Cheap Alternatives to Coloring Easter Eggs This Year
With the high cost of eggs, egg shortages, and other rising costs, dyeing Easter eggs may be out for a stretched budget and lack of supplies this year for your Easter party or Easter dinner activities — especially if your boiled eggs for Easter never get eaten and they just get thrown out after hunting eggs.
No worries, though!
You can still have fun doing a colored egg activity with these fun Easter egg alternatives — and many you can still hide and find for an Easter egg hunt!
Easter Egg Dyeing Alternative #1: Dye Easter Marshmallows
You may have already seen this TikTok trend or parents talking about this egg alternative online: color jumbo marshmallows like Easter eggs.
It may sound weird, but it actually works!
The marshmallows take egg dye or food paint markers well. Just dunk or food paint onto the marshmallows and they will absorb the colors.
Dyed marshmallows are fun for kids to decorate, kids can eat them, use them to decorate the Easter table, and you can still hide them just like Easter eggs.
Easter Egg Dyeing Alternative #2: Decorate Wood Eggs or Paper Mache Eggs
If you don’t want to use food alternatives to fresh eggs, decorate wood eggs, cardboard eggs, or paper mache eggs.
I love these specific sturdy eggs because they open and you can still put Easter candy and trinkets in them after the eggs are decorated.
They’re also fun because you can keep them and add more decorated eggs to them each year!
Easter Egg Dyeing Alternative #3: Color Easter Rocks
Have you heard about decorating kindness rocks like this?
You can do the same thing and decorate Easter rocks that you then hide for prizes!
CRAFT TIP: Just be sure to get the correct markers that will work for drawing on rock eggs. (They’re not the same as the edible food markers!)
Easter Egg Dyeing Alternative #4: Make Colorful Jell-O Easter Eggs You Can Eat
If you aren’t looking to make eggs to hide and just want a fun Easter craft for kids to do for the holiday, make jiggle eggs!
Grab Easter molds like these and fun Jello flavors and let kids help with making these fun Easter eggs that they can eat as part of their Easter treats.
Easter Egg Dyeing Alternative #5: Paint Easter Balls
Grab some plain ping pong balls in bulk and use paint markers and Easter stickers to decorate them for Easter.
You can also buy pastel colored ones and bright colored balls and still decorate them.
Then, hide them just like you would for your regular Easter egg hunt.
PARTY TIP: If you’re using the different colored ping pong balls, let kids trade the different colors in for different Easter prizes like these.
Easter Egg Dyeing Alternative #6: Decorate Easter Cupcakes
If decorating Easter eggs isn’t that big of a deal, have an Easter cupcake decorating contest instead.
You can make our cute Easter chick cupcakes or provide plain iced cupcakes and different cupcake decorations for kids to use.
Also add these cute marshmallow flowers to make for your cupcakes!
PARTY TIP: When we had a cupcake decorating party, we used these cute paint trays. I placed a cupcake in the round part and then added different sprinkles, icing colors, candies, and other edible decorations. The kids then each had their own cupcake “tray” and decorations and it worked out really well.
Easter Egg Dyeing Alternative #7: Dye Easter Potatoes
OK. Hear me out:
People are dyeing potatoes and they are making really cute fake Easter eggs!
Be sure to use those mini round potatoes like this and use your usual egg dye like you would for Easter eggs or food markers.
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Happy Easter!
I hope you have fun with these alternatives to coloring Easter eggs!
