Happy March and happy spring! We are headed out of town for Easter weekend, but we wanted to try a technique to make marbleized Easter eggs using nail polish before we left.
Last year we dyed eggs with shaving cream and they turned out great. Messy, but great. This year, we tried marbleizing eggs using nail polish and water and they turned out very cool! They almost look like graffiti-like and very abstract, which I just love. This project is super simple and can be done in minutes.
The items we used are solo cups, paper plates, plastic spoons, paper straws, different colored nail polish, water, and of course, hard boiled eggs. I have a stash of nail polish and Kate has several cheapies that we used. The neon colors turned out fun, and the blue polish was a hit too!
Fill the plastic cups with enough water to cover an egg. You want the water to be room temperature/warm. Next, add a few drops of nail polish in different colors and stir the mixture around. Carefully drop an egg in the water and sort of swirl it around until the egg starts to take on the colors of the nail polish. We used a paper straw to stir. A wooden stir stick would probably be best. A plastic spoon will take on the color, so avoid that. The sides of the cup will also take on the colors, but the egg will get covered as well.
After the egg has the color you want, fish it out with a plastic spoon and set them on paper plates to dry. It’s amazing how the colors stick to the egg! I sort of let the kids run wild with color choices and no matter the combination, they all turned out vibrant and unique!
This obviously could be a messy project but it really wasn’t too bad. I assisted the kids with putting the color in the cups. Make sure you put something down on whatever surface you are working on! We switched out cups and water often. We also found that if an egg doesn’t turn out how you want it to, throw it back in some water and add more to it.
