Can you stick Easter eggs with the napkin technique?

Easter eggs can be made with the Napkin technique stick on and decorate. You should pay attention to whether you want to process artificial eggs or real chicken eggs, as you should use different approaches.

Cover artificial Easter eggs with napkins

1. If you have artificial plastic Easter eggs, take a nice acrylic paint and brush the egg with it on each side. To avoid smudging, you can poke a kebab skewer into a small hole at the tip of the egg and hold the egg while painting.
2. Then you can put the egg to dry and in the meantime paint more Easter eggs with acrylic paint.
3. Then take a napkin with an Easter or spring motif and cut out the motifs. They should be as small as possible so that they fit on the surface of the egg. Flowers, small rabbits or small Easter eggs are particularly suitable for this.
4. Once you have cut out the motifs, peel off the two lower layers from the printed layer.
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5. Now place the printed layer on the egg and carefully coat it with the napkin glue. Start in the center of the design and slowly work your way towards the edge.
6. You can then attach other motifs to the Easter egg in the same way.
7. Once the napkin glue has dried and all the motifs are in place, take the varnish. Glitter lacquer works particularly well. Brush the entire egg with it and then let it dry. Then you can hang up the Easter decorations.

How to decorate real chicken eggs with the napkin technique

If you want to decorate real chicken eggs with the napkin technique and they are to be eaten afterwards, do without the above-mentioned preparation.

1. If you still want colored eggs, you can use food coloring, which you can get in almost every supermarket for Easter, and use it to color your Easter eggs.
2. Then cut out motifs from the napkins as described above and pull the printed layer off the lower napkin layers.
3. Put this on the egg and dab it with the napkin glue.
4. However, you should avoid using varnish so that the eggs can still be enjoyed.

Even if you can stick Easter eggs with the napkin technique, you should with real chicken eggs prefer to use decals and stickers and only artificial eggs with the napkin technique decorate. Have fun!