Ways to Dye Easter Eggs

I blew my first eggs of the season this morning.

We will have a lot over the next 2 weeks so, I can get us ready for some egg dying.

Here is a list of some of the great ways to color those eggs.

Oil Marbelized eggs

These were made using a Cricut

Super cool Silk Tie Dying

These were made using Crayons, tissue paper and rubber bands

These were made from using Oragami Paper and mod podge.

Stickers

Craftster.org had these gorgeous eggs. They are dyed with onion skins. The leaves are held on by a stocking.

Happy Easter

HaPpY EaStEr

My Easter present from Ryan. He knows tulips are my favorite!
Manny digging in his basket.
The loot we found outside. Thanks Easter Bunny. Bawk Bawk!
Luck for us this Easter Bunny picked up after the dogs this morning before she hid the eggs. Otherwise, this Easter Bunny might have been cleaning shoes.
That wascally wabbit hid water balloons in some of the eggs. I see a water balloon fight in our near future.

On a Hunt!

Coloring Eggs

I really prefer to color eggs that are blown. I love keeping them from year to year. BUT, I really dislike blowing them. Not because I am grossed out. It is just hard to do. I am picky about the size of the hole and if you have ever blown eggs before you know the smaller the hole the more sore your cheeks get.

Anyway, last weekend I blew 10 eggs and this weekend I had about 16 more that needed blowing. SO, I recruited Manny. He did awesome. After getting over being grossed out that he might get raw egg in his mouth, he jumped right in. I will let you in on something though, the stinker was making big holes. Oh well. I was happy to have help.

Here comes the goo.

These are unwashed. I get a little fanatical about raw eggs. I rinse the eggs out really well and then I soak them in HOT bleach water, making sure some gets inside the egg. Then I let them air dry.

Then we eat. Two weekends in a row we have had scrambled eggs one day and french toast the other. Yum!

Then we color. Johnsie made a ton of green ones.

Manny got more creative. He used multiple colors and crayon resist designs.

Dad was having fun too.

Notice the boys are on the skins team. I didn't want stained shirts. Or pants either in Johnsie's case.


We dried the eggs on toothpicks poked into the egg carton.

We even tried some sticker resist ones. We did learn that it works much better when the egg only sits in the dye for a short time. Otherwise, your stickers loosen.

Some of our eggs. You can see some of the sticker resist ones.

Here are some tissue paper ones.

And foiled ones. The dye package we bought was called, Bright and Shiny eggs. It came with special glue and colored foils. Cool!

And I made these rubber band ones. I have no clue how the orange got on the green one. I first died it yellow and then added the rubber bands and then dipped it in blue. Orange? It's really cool though.

Just a note: Always break the yoke before you start blowing. It makes it way easier.