I have a set of polystyrene eggs that I want to decorate for Easter but the “how” is a mystery to me!  The surface doesn’t seem smooth enough to take a paint nicely (but I haven’t tried) and because of the shape I don’t want to try tissue paper…

Any ideas gratefully received!

Diana

Hi

Poster paint should work pretty well.
I would think you’d need a fairly thick paint, so not watercolours or powder paints, but poster paint goes on most things, so I’d try that

Stick on fabric and ribbons with glue, or tissue paper… We had an activity kit where you stuck little sequins on with a sort of blunt little plastic pushpins. Didn’t work very well, but looked very pretty.

Love,
SunshineXX

Becks replied before me with the same idea - I knitted covers for a few last year and may get around to doing some more this year.
Also going to wet felt around a few with dd soon.

It’ll be fairly friable but modroc is good, it’s essentially plaster of Paris impregnanted bandange so you can smooth it well, but as I said, it can be quite delicate if dropped. It’d give a great surface for painting though. You can get it from craft shops quite cheaply.

I think when I was researching wet felted easter eggs lots of people felted onto polystyrene eggs