Decorating Easter Eggs

 1.Leaf and Flower Eggs
Stenciled flowers and leaves give chicken and goose eggs a rich, complex look.

Make the Leaf and Flower Eggs

 2.Lace Eggs

This Easter, take hard-boiled eggs to new heights by embellishing them with lacy patterns.

How to Make Lace Eggs

 3.Speckled Butterfly Easter Eggs

Give egg-shaped boxes a natural touch with speckled paint, butterflies, and a rabbit cut from decorative paper.

Speckled Butterfly Easter Eggs How-to

 4.Stenciled Eggs
With stencils made of waterproof vinyl adhesive tape and cut-out shapes, you can create perfectly rendered patterns on your Easter eggs. Make plaid, polka-dotted, punctuated, or monogrammed eggs, or create your own designs.

Make Stenciled Eggs

 5.Natural Egg-Dyeing Techniques
This Easter, try these natural and unique egg-dyeing techniques that are simple to do and produce beautiful results.

Natural Egg-Dyeing Techniques

 6.Tissue Paper Eggs
Use this simple technique to create beautifully decorated Easter eggs.

Make Tissue Paper Eggs

 7.German-Style Paper Cutout Eggs

Give the scissors a rest: The easiest way to make silhouettes for these intricately decorated eggs is to use craft punches.

German-Style Paper Cutout Eggs How-To

 8.Square-Patterned Eggs
Bright colors and geometric designs make modern-looking eggs, like these square-patterned ones.

Make the Square-Patterned Eggs

 9.Paper-Napkin Decoupage Eggs

Brighten a clutch of undyed eggs with stylized patterns from paper napkins.

How to Make Paper-Napkin Decoupage Eggs

 From Martha Stewart