Totoro Easter Eggs

Learn to decorate your Easter eggs to look like Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro! If you’re a fan of Studio Ghibli movies, you absolutely need to incorporate that into your Easter celebrations! Totoro is the perfect character to start with because of its already egg-like shape.

Ingredients for Totoro Easter Eggs

• hard boiled eggs – make sure you hard boil the eggs first, before decorating!
• black food coloring – a couple drops of black food coloring will create Totoro’s grey fur.
• black edible ink pen – these are so handy to have in your egg decorating supplies! You can easily add extra designs and patterns on eggs.
• painter’s tape – this is the perfect tape to use on eggs because it sticks well and blocks out the water, but doesn’t remove the egg shell when being peeled off!
• water
• vinegar – adding vinegar to the water when dyeing eggs helps the color stick to the eggshell!

How to Make Totoro Easter Eggs

Step 1: Tape the eggs.

Place an oval of painter’s tape onto the “belly” of each hard boiled egg. Then place two small circles of tape onto the eggs as eyes. You can use a hole punch to easily cut these out of the painter’s tape!

Step 2: Dye the eggs.

Combine the water and vinegar in a glass. Add 1-2 drops of black food coloring and mix well.

Place the eggs into the glass one egg at a time. Allow the eggs to sit in the dye for a couple minutes, until they are a medium grey color. Place them on a tray (or the egg carton they came in) to dry, then gently peel off the painter’s tape.

Step 3: Add the finishing touches.

Use the black edible ink pen to draw Totoro’s pupils, nose, whiskers and fluffy tummy directly onto the eggshells. Enjoy!

More Easter Egg Decorating Tricks to Try

How to Dye and Decorate Easter Eggs

A step-by-step tutorial on all the basics for dyeing and decorating Easter Eggs!

Metallic Easter Eggs

Create the prettiest, shiniest Easter eggs with the help of luster dust!

Natural Dye Easter Eggs

Use items already in your house to dye your eggs!

Braided Easter Bread

A great use for leftover Easter eggs!

Totoro Easter Eggs

Decorate your Easter eggs like Totoro from Studio Ghibli!

Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Dye Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 55 minutes mins

Course breakfast

Cuisine american

Servings 6 eggs

Calories 78 kcal

Equipment

• painter's tape

Ingredients

• 6 hard boiled eggs unpeeled
• 1 cup water
• 2 tsp white vinegar
• black food coloring
• black edible ink pen

Instructions

• Place an oval of painter’s tape onto the “belly” of each hard boiled egg. Then place two small circles of tape onto the eggs as eyes. You can use a hole punch to easily cut these out of the painter’s tape!
• Combine the water and vinegar in a glass. Add 1-2 drops of black food coloring and mix well.
• Place the eggs into the glass one egg at a time. Allow the eggs to sit in the dye for a couple minutes, until they are a medium grey color.
• Place them on a tray (or the egg carton they came in) to dry, then gently peel off the painter’s tape.
• Use the black edible ink pen to draw Totoro’s pupils, nose, whiskers and fluffy tummy directly onto the eggshells. Enjoy!

Video

Nutrition

Serving: 1 eggCalories: 78kcalCarbohydrates: 0.56gProtein: 6.29gFat: 5.31gSaturated Fat: 1.6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.7gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 187mgSodium: 62mgPotassium: 63mgSugar: 0.56gVitamin A: 260IUCalcium: 25mgIron: 0.6mg

Keyword animal easter eggs, cute easter egg designs, how to decorate easter eggs, how to decorate easter eggs with tape, studio ghibli easter eggs, totoro easter eggs

Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!