Seven Fun New Ways to Decorate Your Easter Eggs

How cool are these eggs? You can achieve this fun striped look by banding your eggs with rubber bands during the dying process.

Why spend your money on a dying kit when you can use Kool-Aid packets? The colors are crazy vibrant; it's cheap and easy-- and no nasty vinegar egg dye smell to haunt your kitchen for weeks to come.

All you need for these beauties is eggs and markers. Encourage your little ones to be creative and decorate their eggs with whatever their little imaginations can conjure. Another way to use these--have your kids write their names on their eggs, and come egg huntin' time, they can only hunt for THEIR eggs.

Okay--all eggs are edible, but I can't really eat a hardboiled egg that's been sitting out for like, eight hours after an egg hunt. That's gross. Make these fun rice treat eggs--you can even "hide" smaller treats inside.

These eggs are from Martha Stewart, so you know they're a good thing. I love the cheery polka dots, though you could use any shape you choose. They look so modern and cool. If you have a family member or frenemy you need to one-up this spring, this is your egg. People will be sick with envy.

Another way to wow people this year... these eggs are perfection. Take your kids on a nature walk to find the leaves you'll use in decorating the eggs. You can make it a fun--and educational--outing when you teach them about which leaves belong to which trees.

Here's another way for the kids to personalize their eggs. Painting plastic eggs with chalkboard paint may seem a bit overboard for one holiday--but you can reuse them. FOREVER. Imagine: you never have to buy Easter Eggs again. That's an idea I can get behind!