Decorating Easter Eggs!

Happy Easter! 

Yes, it is that time of year again! 

There are many ways to make eggs. 

Two ways is to dye them using food colouring and using nail polish (yes, nail polish) to colour them.

Here is a pictorial step by step.

Your kids can do most of it by themselves.

1. I use Egg Perfect Timer and it works every time. You can use this with easy without having to be super vigilant about watching the time to make sure your eggs are perfect. This is my egg timer, that we love. Thank you Uncle Marcos! The perfect Christmas present, nice and small and everyday useful!

2. Boil your eggs and just watch the egg perfect timer to see how hard you want your eggs. It will turn from red to black (black being the indicator of how done it is).

3. I always put my eggs into cool water right after I pull them out of the pot. It helps so that way you can peel faster and better as well as for this project being able to use the eggs quicker.

4. Put the eggs in a bowl to let cool and dry a little bit. Dry with a towel if you need to.

5. This is where you mix the dye.

Ingredients:

White Vinegar

Hot water

Food colouring

Directions:

a) mix the hot water and 1 tsp-1tbsp white vinegar (depending how much hot water you have, I did between.

b) add 5 drops of food colouring, more if you want a deeper colour.

c) stir and let sit a few minutes before you start your eggtastic project.

6. Start your dying project. Put the egg in and stir around with the spoon and have fun.

Don't forget to have a toddler watching you who wants to eat the egg and play in the coloured water. Ha.

7. Switch egg back and forth for new colours and deeper colours. Each egg sometimes will create its own pattern.

8. Have your two stations going at the same time. I use the tin between them to have them put the eggs on to dry as they are finishing.

9. You can paint one side of the egg while it is face up, let it dry, and then turn it over and paint the other side. Or just do the one side.

10. If you have a small toddler, they can help do it, but you need to hold the egg. I find the nail polish easier for them with the brush then a bowl of coloured water they would more than likely splash and get all over the place.

11. Put them on the tin, which I recycled from another use, and it lets them dry before you put them in the egg cartoon. I did not have one stick to the tin.

12. Put into the egg cartoon and you are prepared for Easter morning!

Go have some fun making some Easter Eggs!