Easter Egg Ideas
It’s that time of year – time to dye some Easter Eggs! It’s sad, I’ll have to buy some eggs. My chickens all lay brown or blue eggs- not great for dyeing.
I got a cool idea from a magazine in the dentist’s office, but I haven’t tried it so no personal guarantees!: Tie Dyed Eggs can be made by placing hard boiled eggs in a colander in your sink. Dash a 1/2 cup of vinegar over the eggs. Now take 2 to 3 colors of food coloring and drip them onto the eggs, gently shaking them about to spread the colors around. It was suggested to start with yellow, then do darker colors on top.
Another egg idea, this time using vegetable dyes, comes from My Bountiful Life.
A lot of ideas from Twin Groves School District - I like the marble eggs idea.
Or you can virtually decorate an egg at akidsheart – it’s silly.
Yet more ideas for eggs are over at dltk-kids. I’m going to try their stone easter egg technique.
Amazing Moms has some ideas that are very small child friendly – but I’m not going to glue yarn on my egg faces to make hair. Just not my style, sorry. I am intrigued by their idea to wrap eggs in plants, stuff into a nylon, and then boil. I might try that one.
Another idea that I haven’t seen on any of the sites I’ve surfed:
Masked Off Eggs
materials: hardboiled white eggs, masking tape, scissors, hole punches, egg dye (commercial kit is fine). For the hole punches, experiment with some of the cool ones that are sold for scrap booking – I’ve used a little carrot and a little tulip punch but the bunny one didn’t work on masking tape. You’ll have to try what you have.
1. set up – boil the eggs, mix the dyes, protect your work surface, etc.
2. cut out shapes from the masking tape, and apply to the egg. The eggs need to be really dry so the masking tape sticks on all the way. Press the edges down firmly. Be creative here – my cousin cut out strips and arranged them to look like the Kiss band logo, and I cut out ovals and arranged them to be a rabbit. Whatever you can think of, or randomly stick on little punched out shapes.
3. Dye the eggs in desired colors, then let dry.
4. peel off the masking tape to reveal your design.