Egg-vengers, Assemble! DIY Marvel Easter eggs

I look into the DIY Marvel Easter eggs I created and how I made them:

Hello, my name is Becky. I’m 35 years old and I still decorate Easter eggs every year.

I don’t think there’s been an Easter that I haven’t painted eggs – at least not one that I can remember. It was always a family tradition, even once I became an adult. Well, I should say that the family tradition went from “most of the family doing it” to “my mom buying and hard boiling the eggs and only myself and occasionally my uncle doing it,” but still.

In 2020 when the pandemic hit, decorating eggs on my own was one of the ways I coped with not being with my family on Easter (and, in 2020, it also happened to be my birthday). When I finally was able to spend Easter with them again, they were still excited to see what eggs I would decorate!

I’ve certainly gotten a bit more creative in recent years with my egg designs. I’m sure it’s no surprise that I like to try and come up with a Disney related twist! I’ve tried different techniques (paint, sharpies, temporary tattoos), and different Disney themes (princesses, Baby Yoda, Orange Bird, and more).

One I tackled recently was the Marvel franchise!

I like the preface all of my projects by saying I’m not really an artist. I’m pretty good at imitating certain things if I have an example. I’m usually quite bad at drawing or painting people, so I try to avoid that. I was not going to try and make an egg to look like Captain America’s face for example – that would have been a disaster!

Luckily, the Marvel superheroes have symbols that represent them, and I can do that a bit more easily. So I mostly focused on that, with a few other fun things thrown in. Below I’ll give some details for making my DIY Marvel Easter eggs!

Egg-vengers, Assemble!

I decided to represent a number of the Avengers with eggs. I included most of the main/original Avengers, but also added in a few that I liked (or which I thought were easier to do!).

Avengers – the Avengers symbol was a relatively easy one to do with just a thin black sharpie. I decided to do it on a yellow egg since I didn’t have much yellow in my other eggs.

Black Widow – this was probably the easiest one as her logo is so simple. It’s usually red on black, but I reversed it (it’s much easier to dye a red egg than a black one!)

The Hulk – I had to leave this one in the dye for quite awhile to get the bright green that I wanted, but I think it worked out pretty well. I then drew the first on with the black sharpie.

Thor – I’m quite happy with how this one turned out in the end! I wasn’t sure what color egg to do. I think I originally had it in purple dye and then didn’t like that, so I put that egg into several different colors to get this brownish red. My mom had some metallic paint sharpies which worked really well for Thor’s hammer!

Captain Marvel – here’s where things get a little more complicated! I did a double dye dip for Captain Marvel – blue on the bottom and red on the top. I’m not an expert at egg dying, so you can see the red got pretty blotchy. It’s okay though, because the real focus is her star symbol, which is super vibrant thanks to the gold sharpie.

Captain America – On the next three eggs I used one additional technique – stickers! If you cover up part of an egg with a sticker and then dye it, once you peel the sticker off you’ll have a plain white area. I actually used removable vinyl from my cricut and cut it to shape, but basically anything that covers it should work (I’m thinking painters tape might work too).

So for Captain America’s shield, I cut out a ring shape. I wanted it mostly blue on the outside, but also a blue circle on the inside. However, I also had a star shape I put in the middle so that would be white! I used a red sharpie to add the red lines, and then left the rest white.

Iron Man – This is definitely my least favorite of the eggs (just like Iron Man is my least favorite superhero…). I tried to do his mask, but some of the dye ran. I dyed the egg yellow first, then covered up the mask part before dipping it in red dye for awhile. It was okay but kind of blotchy. I added a few details with a red sharpie.

Spider-Man – For this one I cut out two stickers for Spider-man’s eyes, and then dyed the egg red. I did the black lines freehand with a thin black sharpie. I think Spidey may have turned out to by my favorite of the Marvel Easter eggs!

The Infinity Egg gauntlet

I didn’t just stop there, though. Welcome to part 2 – the infinity egg gauntlet. Eggs kind of look like infinity stones, and I was getting some great, vibrant colors this year. So I decided to do one in each of the infinity stone colors.

On their own, they just look like dyed easter eggs, of course. That’s why I needed to build a gauntlet!

I used cardboard and cut out a general hand/glove shape (I first just traced my own hand and then made it bigger). Once that was cut out I also cut out holes to hold the eggs.

Turns out that a holder like this needs to be elevated for that to actually work though, so I then basically macgyver-ed some of the cardboard so it would stand up. I probably could have done this better so I won’t go into detail about how I did it. Do as I say, not as I do here – just use this for inspiration if you want to create your own!

Finally, I did in fact paint the whole thing gold. It doesn’t really look like it in the pictures (it looks like it’s just the brown cardboard) but I promise I did and you could tell in person!

Do you normally decorate Easter eggs? Which DIY Marvel Easter eggs would you want to create?