An Egg of a Different Color

It's egg dying time again! I ended up hard boiling 4 dozen eggs yesterday (most of which were free or just over a dollar). I sent half a dozen to school with Roo this morning to color there. Here's her artsy eggs:

They used an egg dying kit with stickers and glitter. They even marbled some with shaving cream. Pretty, aren't they?

Preparations

Last year we decided there HAD to be a better way to dry eggs. I think we always punched the the discs out of the back of the egg dye kits for egg drying when I was a kid. Mike and I always use food coloring and never buy egg dying kits. I did some Googling and found this: egg drying rack. Now in my example picture the pins are a little too far apart. Push them down as far into your foam as you can for stability.

Other than the drying rack we switched my pretty fabric table cloth with a vinyl one. Make sure to put a dark towel under your drying rack as well. Each kid put on an apron, picked a whisk (for egg dipping) and was given some eggs. We mixed color in mugs. We put a roll of paper towels on the table, a wet wash cloth, paint brushes, 2-3 sandwich bags, glitter, food markers, and plastic cups.

Another clever thing Mike did for Roo was to put a bit of foam into a color as floater. That way she could leave an egg in one color and then flip it over and color the other half the same way in a different color without having to holding her egg half suspended in color. It worked wonderfully.

Make Art!

Soap bubbles make cool dinosaur egg looking patterns, but it's best left to grown-ups as my tables been flooded with colored soapy water in the past. Painting the eggs with a glue and water mixture and rolling them in a baggie of glitter was fun, but those shed glitter (they'll probably be tricky to peel). Rubber bands worked well, easy and effective. I used rubber bands to make a Ninja Turtle egg. I tried marbling with olive oil and a few drops of red and blue. It came out like a jaw breaker! Those stay oily to the touch though. Foam floaters and food markers where a big hit with the kids.

Finished Product