Washi Tape Easter Eggs


It's that time of the year again! Time to start hauling out your Easter decorations! When I opened up my tote I noticed I had two unopened bags and a gallon ice cream sized bucket of plastic Easter eggs. I don't host a hunt, so it was time to do something with all my plastic Easter eggs. Of course you could make a wreath or decorate them with alcohol ink, but I wanted to do something a bit different.


In addition to my crazy stash of Easter eggs, I also have a growing stash of washi tape. Washi tape is just decorative masking tape, so the projects are always super easy (as easy as peeling and sticking most of the time). So I dug out all of my pastel or bright colored tape and got to work.


My first attempt was a traditional horizontal stripe. It looked a bit wonky, but undeterred I kept taping.


I added another stripe and yep, total wrinkly mess. Turns out flat tape on very curved surface is not such a hot combo. I finally discovered that carefully taping along the seam in the egg with a tape that doesn't have a geometric pattern is your best bet for a horizontal stripe. But if you come into this project expecting it to be neat and tidy, you will be disappointed. 


So then, I started to embrace the wrinkly tape-ness of it and the project got a lot more fun. I did vertical stripes--with two strips of tape making 4 stripes and some with 4 strips that nearly covered the egg. Then I tried just starting at a diagonal and trying to keep the tape relatively flat and letting it take me where it wanted--I ended up with some cool criss-cross patterns (like the star and leaf one below).


These didn't turn out quite as neatly as I expected, but they were still quick and a ton of fun. If you have a stash of plastic Easter eggs and washi tape, why not give it a whirl!

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