10 Extreme Easter Eggs

Sometime this week, you'll see that grocery stores have tons of eggs at very good prices. You'll think, "Oh, we should dye some Easter eggs!" If you want to go all out, we've got some cool decorating ideas from some talented folks all over the internet. But if you aren't up to such creativity, don't let these extreme eggs discourage you from having some fun decorating eggs any way you like!

1. Famous Art Eggs

The artist blogger who goes by U. painted eggs for Easter, and reproduced different familiar artworks on each. Some of the painters represented are Andy Warhol, Picasso, Magritte, Mondrian, Van Gogh, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This project requires a steady and patient hand.

2. Game of Thrones Dragon Eggs

Jacquie LongLegs is a Games of Thrones fan, so she made her Easter eggs to resemble the dragon eggs seen in the HBO series. You can make them, too! She'll show you how it's done in a short video.

3. Star Trek Eggs

These eggs are each emblazoned with a different insignias from the various planets and groups of the Star Trek universe. DeviantART member kryz-flavored used polymer clay and paint to decorate real eggs. He identifies each insignia for you:

Top down, left to right: tos command, tos engineering, tos science, tos medical silver/red klingon, klingon, tng combadge, voy combadge cardassian, obsidian order, tng-era UFP, vulcan IDIC ferengi, lore's "free" borg, romulan star empire [not quite finished]

4. Easter Egg Jelly Shooters

Pretty! These eggs are made with three colors of gelatin, plain gelatin, coconut milk, and rum. Oh, and you'll need a proper mold to put them in. You'll find the recipe at the Jelly Shot Test Kitchen.

5. LED Easter Eggs

Why just decorate eggs when you can make them glow? Instructables member PaleoDan shows you how to add battery-powered lights to blown-out eggshells.

6. Pop Culture Easter Eggs

Lesley A. Jensen, also known as DeviantART member Red Flare, creates a new set of pop culture Easter eggs every year. You can browse through her gallery of eggs from TV, movies, comic books, and video games. She hasn't yet revealed her eggs for this year, so check back. The eggs shown here are decorated to resemble characters from the video game Mass Effect in the 2012 collection.

7. LEGO My Eggs

Flickr user Rakka made Easter eggs that resembled LEGO bricks! She glued small mints onto hard boiled eggs and then painted them in LEGO colors. Who cares if they don't interlock -they look so cool.  

8. Roy Lichtenstein-style Eggs

Bella Manu at Art Club Blog recreated the look of Roy Lichtenstein's art for her Easter eggs last year. She achieved that by using black acrylic paint for outlines and limiting the colors to red, yellow, and blue to imitate Lichtenstein's comic-book-art style.

9. Beaded Eggs

Svitlana Polishchuk of Ternopil, Ukraine, makes all kinds of crafts covered with tiny beads. These Easter eggs are made of bead-covered wood, made to look like the baby chicks that would hatch from them! See more Ukrainian beaded eggs at Travel West Ukraine.

10. Deviled Easter Eggs

It's a shame that so many eggs go to waste when they are dyed and decorated -and not eaten. But Debra Taylor found that you can dye the inside of an egg just as easily as the shell. She posted instructions for making colored deviled eggs to serve at your Easter dinner. If you use egg dye with vinegar, don't worry about the flavor, as the spices in the deviled part are more pungent than the small amount of vinegar in the dye bath. What's a deviled egg without flavor, anyway?

You'll find more inspiration for your Easter eggs in these previous posts: 13 Exquisite Easter Eggs and 6 Ways to Decorate Easter Eggs