Easter Eggs

We dyed Easter Eggs Friday evening. First we did some tie-dye style eggs. You put an egg in a baggie and add a drop or two of food gel. The egg dyer then rolls the egg around in the bag putting dye on egg. More food gel is added and the process repeated until the entire egg is covered. The children liked this method. Jake lost one of his eggs when it rolled off the table. No biggie since we had boiled a lot of eggs.

Next we tried drawing on the egg with crayons and wax pencils before dipping the eggs in traditional dye baths. The crayon didn't show at all and the wax pencil (included in the egg kit) wasn't much better. Children are pretty forgiving about stuff like that. They don't know any better.

After the eggs were colored, the children put some stickers on them. Again the stickers were from an egg kit, but they sure didn't adhere well. Viva put all her stickers on one egg. Jake only used half his stickers. Bentley spread his out on a few eggs.

Next Viva wanted to try out glitter paint--again, one of those products included in the egg kit I purchased at the store. Again it was a bust. The glitter glue slid down the curved egg surface. Bentley was not forgiving of this problem. He was upset to see his artwork slide into a puddle. Kara gave him a paintbrush and he did his best to fix the mess.


The tie-dye eggs are in the back two rows, mostly in the corner. They were the prettiest!