Vegan Easter Eggs
Most people laugh at the idea of being against buying chicken eggs and painting them as an Easter tradition, but vegans, see it in a different light.
When someone says they’re vegan it means they’re against using animal products completely, not just against eating animal products, which is why a lot of vegans with young children have a hard time with Easter Egg hunts as well as activities that include painting Easter eggs.
Although I’m focusing more on vegan Easter food with this blog, I thought it was important to talk about alternative Easter eggs since it’s not Easter without a good old fashioned Easter egg hunt!
In this post I’m going to be talking about five nontraditional and vegan ways you can paint or go Easter egg hunting, without eggs from animals.
1. Ceramic Eggs
While these tend to be on the more expensive side, the good thing about them is that they’re made out of durable material so you can keep them for a long time, which is really nice.
I would think that you might want to use these ceramic eggs if you had older children who were good artists, because if they made something really beautiful, you could keep it for years, which is what I like the best about these.
I would not get these for young children mostly because there are definitely cheaper alternatives than ceramic eggs and young children might break them if they dropped them or threw them.
2. Wooden Eggs
Wooden Easter eggs are pretty much half of the price of the ceramic eggs and they seem to be just as durable, so that’s definitely a plus.
My only concern with wooden eggs is that they might be a bit more difficult to paint, especially with cheaper paint, since they are originally a golden brown color instead of an egg shell white to begin with like the ceramic eggs.
Economically speaking though, you get the same amount of eggs for half the price, so wooden eggs would be good for vegans on tight budgets.
3. Paper Mache Eggs
This is probably my favorite vegan Easter egg creation because you actually get to make the egg yourself, which is pretty neat.
Another really great perk about paper mache eggs are that you can design them much more intricately, they’re not hard to make and they’re also really inexpensive.
Infants and toddlers probably wouldn’t be able to make this, but young children would probably love making something like this and the best part for them is they can tear it to shreds if they want and it’s not a big deal at all.
4. Plastic Easter Eggs
This is for the busy mom who’s not in the market to spend a huge amount of money. In fact, this is what my mom got for me every year when I was growing up and I loved them! You can get plastic Easter eggs at the Dollar Store and they are reusable, which is another great perk.
Until researching this, I didn’t even know you could could paint these eggs, but in actuality, they come out pretty well with paint and they also can be reused for Easter egg hunts, which makes them overall my favorite, only slightly because this is what I grew up with.
They also already come in a huge array of colors, which is really nice too.
5. Avocados
You probably read that and thought I was crazy, but I’m completely serious. If you have any avocados that are pretty much rotten or too mushy, you can just paint over them and use them as eggs.
While this is kind of a silly example, the avocado is a pretty easy surface to paint on and it’s not too expensive.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a video or pictures of this because the idea is pretty new, but it’s not too difficult to figure out.
You just have to paint over the avocados and then hide them for an Easter egg hunt.
Hopefully you learned some interesting things about vegan Easter eggs and you have found the method that’s perfect for your family.