Well this year, thanks to Martha, we were able to pass up all those egg dying kits they sell in the stores and create some unique eggs of our very own. We knew going in this would be a learning year for us, with the goal being that we'd maybe a few we could save from this year to add to the really nice ones will make next year. When we have enough eggs, we'd like to make an egg tree of our very own. Here are a few of the lessons we learned.
- We chose many designs, but only picked one day to do the eggs. I think next year during each week of Lent we will choose one design each week, and spread it out over a longer period of time.
- Rubber bands, and letter stickers were the boys favorites.
- So we could save the eggs, we dyed them raw, then very carefully poked a small hole in the top and bottom of the eggs so we could blow out the contents. This is a pretty disgusting process. It's also a very delicate one, so don't get too attached to your final product, you may lose it in the end. Also, pace yourself or share the work. I did 8 and felt like I had personally inflated all of Nena's 99 luft balons.
- Lace did not work that great (at least not the cheap kind from Walmart)
- Stickers do not adhere to cold eggs.
- Dry eggs throughly before removing rubber band, stickers or any other type of applique you might have used. If you don't the colors will run together.
- When using food coloring, make sure you use the color directions for egg dying, not icing, otherwise you're smoky blue will come out very purple.
Honestly this was the best year we've had dying eggs. The boys really got into creating different designs, and we are all looking forward to next year.
A Happy and Blessed Easter to all!
Egg-ceptional! Egg-cellent! Egg-strodinary!
Posted by: Mom | April 03, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Those are magazine perfect eggs
Posted by: Yvonne | April 11, 2010 at 01:50 PM