Easter is right around the corner and we’ve already started dying eggs!! My son LOVES hard boiled eggs (well, just the whites) so he was beside himself that I was making these for him.
About Easter Egg Dying
Before we started dying eggs, we visited www.heinzpaaseaster.com to virtually decorate an egg. My son, who hates to get his hands dirty, enjoyed decorating eggs virtually more than anything else! The nice thing about decorating a virtual egg is that Heinz and Paas will donate $1 for each egg (up to $25,000) you share with your family and friends to the Make-A-Wish foundation. Here’s the egg we decorated:
Yes, my kids were less than thrilled that I put my name on the egg instead of theirs. So we made more eggs and shared them with everyone we knew! Take a look:
After playing around with the virtual eggs, we started dying the real deal! I have to say…I absolutely LOVE dying eggs. Ever since I met my husband, we’ve dyed eggs at his parents house on Easter. My mother in-law hard boils enough eggs so each person can decorate a dozen eggs. It’s a crazy amount of eggs, but so much fun! This past weekend, the kids and I tried out some new egg dying kits from Paas.
The color cups were great! They have a two lines on the side of the cup that help you know exactly how much vinegar and water to put in the cups. It’s fool proof, something I definitely need! The kids really liked the Decorating Doodles markers. They really went to town decorating their eggs! I thought they were great, but a little runny. I wasn’t expecting that. But they had fun!
The Touch of Velvet kit was definitely different! You stick a design on your egg that is made from double sided tape and then pat the powdery velvet stuff on the eggs. It will only stick to the design you put on the egg! It kind of felt like the skin on a peach! The other kit we had, Volcano Explosions, seemed like a really neat idea. While your eggs are cooking, you use a crayon sharpener to make crayon shavings with the enclosed crayons. As soon as the egg is done, you take it out of the hot water and sprinkle crayon shavings over the hot egg. Here’s what ours looked like:
This kit was not a favorite of mine. The shaving the crayons was a little tedious. I get why the crayon shavings are not pre-packaged, but still! Neither kid wanted to touch the hot egg so we try setting it on the plate to sprinkle the shavings over top of it. It didn’t seem to work as well as the picture on the box!
My favorite egg:
I don’t really know why the dye kept rubbing off. I think maybe it had something to do with me putting salt in the water. A friend told me it will help me peel the eggs easier if you add a shake of salt for each egg that is in there. It didn’t quite work out right. Now only was the dye rubbing off, but the shell seemed to stick to the egg even more. But that didn’t stop us from having a good time!!
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