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How To Make Painted Speckled Eggs

In: Spring & Easter Ideas and Projects

How to make painted speckled eggs to use in your Spring decor. Easy DIY craft using spray chalk paint and a fun technique for the spots.

I’m decorating my home for Spring and I wanted to add in some speckled eggs…but do you think I could find any anywhere??? Well, since I had to DIY some I guess you know what the answer was!!

I used to have some but I let my daycare kids use them in our play kitchen and you can probably imagine what they look like…I wouldn’t be displaying them in a pretty bowl!!

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DIY Painted Speckled Eggs

I found a bag of craft eggs on Amazon for this project. They actually looked so real!!

bag of artificial craft eggs

Painting The Eggs

Now, how do you paint them… I knew a brush would be tedious and I wanted a smooth look. So I went with spray paint with a chalky finish (Rust•Oleum Chalked Spray Paint) in 3 different shades: gray, blue, and cream.

The eggs roll around from the pressure of the spray paint; putting the eggs in a box with sides kept them from going too far.

It took 2 light coats of paint to get all the sides. The paint looks shiny when it’s wet but does dry as a chalky matte look.

painting plastic easter eggs

How To Speckle The Eggs

Now here’s a fun trick to get speckles on the eggs. Grab an old toothbrush and a plastic knife.

I scraped the toothbrush over the plastic knife pulling the toothbrush towards me which sent the paint spatters away from me onto the eggs. I learned by error the first time and did it the other way and got the paint all over me!!!

Making DIY  painted speckled eggs

You could make as many or as few paint speckles as you would like…there’s no right or wrong!

speckling  plastic craft eggs with paint

Making A Pretty Spring Arrangement w/ Painted Speckled Eggs

Once the paint was dry it was time for my favorite part…let’s decorate!! The eggs are going to go on my kitchen hutch for Spring.

white footed bowl
STARTING WITH A WHITE-FOOTED BOWL, I FILLED THE BOTTOM WITH SOME PACKING WRAP AND ADDED A SMALL MOSS WREATH.
NEXT, I ADDED THE EGGS. THEN I TOOK A PIECE OF GRAPEVINE GARLAND AND MADE A CIRCLE FOR A NEST.
speckled eggs in nest
THEN I FILLED IN THE EDGES AND MIDDLE SPACES WITH GREEN MOSS

Finished DIY Painted Speckled Eggs

Green hutch filled with white accessories and a bowl of speckled eggs.

Aren’t they cute??

spring display with DIY painted speckled eggs

You can see this Spring egg DIY plus so many more in this Easter Egg Decorating Ideas article on the Home BNC website.

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Comments

  1. Corky says

    March 19, 2023 at 12:24 pm

    What paint did you use for speckes? Dip toothbrush in paint before drawing through knife?

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    • Jennifer Howard says

      March 20, 2023 at 7:32 am

      Hi Corky, I used a dark brown chalk paint but an acrylic would work just as well. Yes, dip the toothbrush bristles in the paint before hand.

      Reply
  2. Vicky says

    February 16, 2023 at 7:03 pm

    Cute bowl of eggs. I learned the toothbrush trick 40 plus years ago when finishing 4 bar stools from Naked Furniture. Remember the store. Quality unfinished furniture. My new table, chairs and hutch were the then popular golden oak but had dark specks. Wala, stain and toothbrush to rescue. Perfect match. Just chalk painted bottom of stools.

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    • Jennifer Howard says

      February 17, 2023 at 9:24 am

      I wish there were still unfinished furniture stores around!! We used to have one near me in NH that had so much great stuff!

      Reply
  3. Donna @ Modern on Monticello says

    March 31, 2021 at 3:22 pm

    I saw some of these in a craft booth shop just this week and of course thought “I should look up how to make them” and you just saved me the trouble by sharing this post! I didn’t even think about using a toothbrush. They turned out great and keep these from the kids so you can use them next year too. Thanks for visiting the party this week. #HomeMattersParty

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    • Jennifer Howard says

      April 1, 2021 at 7:42 am

      I know!! The toothbrush was everything!! Thanks for having a great party!!

      Reply
  4. Kim | Shiplap and Shells says

    March 22, 2021 at 2:30 pm

    What a great idea Jennifer! I’d love to share this on my weekly blog post on Saturday.

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    • Jennifer Howard says

      March 22, 2021 at 7:45 pm

      Oh, thanks Kim! That would be awesome!

      Reply
  5. Cindy says

    March 21, 2021 at 2:11 pm

    These are super cute Jennifer! Great tip to use spray paint, less messy!!

    Reply
    • Jennifer Howard says

      March 22, 2021 at 8:39 am

      Yes! I love that chalky spray paint too; definitely going to use it on a bigger project!

      Reply

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