Spray Painted Plastic Galaxy Eggs



Over the last couple of weeks I have been digging into my stash of plastic Easter eggs to jazz them up. I used washi tape and decoupaged Easter napkins to decorate the eggs, but this week, I decided to break out the spray paint. And, arguably, I think this project turned out the best of all of my plastic Easter egg projects this year.


I grabbed a cardboard box and split the eggs open so they would lay flat and not roll around in the box. I started out with a teal spray paint (Rustoleum's Lagoon).  I made a few quick swipes across the eggs and then let it dry for a few minutes.


Next I grabbed a purple spray paint (Krylon Plum) and followed up with a Blue (Krylon True Blue). I knew I didn't want complete coverage of any one of the colors, so I painted in stripes and zig zags across the eggs trying to cover the plastic underneath, but not the other colors of paint.


I finished it off with some silver spray paint (Rustoleum Metallic Silver) that I tried to spray on in speckles as best as I could. I held the can a little higher and moved it rapidly over the eggs. After the silver spray paint, I was feeling pretty good about the project. They were looking really pretty. I let them dry for a couple hours so that I could put the eggs back together.


After I put the eggs back together, I realized that the coverage looked pretty good from the tops of the eggs, but the sides were still really bare. I didn't know how to spray the sides without them rolling around in the box.


I grabbed an empty egg carton and set the eggs in the carton on their sides. I used the lid too since I needed to lay the eggs on their sides and I couldn't use every egg slot. The two eggs in the middle on the lid did roll a bit, but the others stayed put, and it was much better than free floating in the box.


I repeated the process on both sides of the eggs with the teal, purple, blue, and silver paint. If I do this project again, I'll probably try for a darker blue since the blue and teal paint sort of blended together a bit.


But the end result is so sparkly and pretty. It's hard to capture in a photograph. And...aside from figuring out how to keep the eggs from rolling, this project was super simple and fast (only slowed down by dry times).


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