• Take a look around your local craft store in the spring and you'll find a variety of egg-shaped objects ready for Easter decorating. Wooden eggs in a range of sizes as well as glass and plastic eggs await your creativity. Consider making stained glass Easter eggs to fill a bowl on your holiday table or to hang from an Easter tree.
  
  

Painted Stained Glass Eggs

• Stained glass paint and self-adhesive leading strips can transform a plain wooden or glass egg in to a stunning Easter decoration. The leading strips are flexible, so you can arrange them as you like around the egg. The leading strips make pockets, or sections, where you can add the stained glass paint. After arranging the lead strips, fill each pocket with a different color of stained glass paint using the applicator tip on each bottle. Squeeze the paint into the pockets up to just beneath the rim of the lead lines. If air bubbles appear in the paint, puncture them with toothpicks. Work on filling in one side of the eggs at a time, let the paint dry and then flip to fill in the opposite side.
  
  

Papered Stained Glass Eggs

• One way to make stained glass Easter eggs is to recycle colorful tissue paper. You'll also need decoupage medium in either a semi-gloss or high-gloss sheen, whichever you prefer. Tear the tissue paper into small bits before attaching them to a wooden, glass or plastic egg with the decoupage glue. Spread a thin layer of glue onto one section of the egg, press the paper into the glue and then smooth the displaced glue over the top. Fill the egg completely with the colorful bits of tissue. After the glue dries you can spread another thin coat over the papered surface to add a bit more gloss.
  
  

Mosaic Stained Glass Eggs

• Another way to craft stained glass Easter eggs is to cover plain wooden or glass eggs with bits and pieces of real stained glass. Look for stained glass mosaic pieces in your craft store; not the tiles, but the pieces. Tiles are too linear to fit around the curves on the eggs. Glue the stained glass bits to the egg using clear mosaic glue or viscous jeweler's glue. Work on one side of the egg at a time; flip it when the glue dries and cover the remaining section.