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How Not To Decorate Easter Eggs

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I’ve been dying Easter eggs with my kids for, what?, 12 years, I think. We’ve colored hundreds of hard boiled eggs. And over the years, we have collected quite an assortment of egg decorating accessories. So each Spring, we pull out the bag of egg dye equipment and set to work.

This year, though, seems to have been more of an egg fail than anything else.

TIP: Boil the eggs the same day that you plan to decorate.

Last Friday, I hard boiled 27 eggs, but didn’t find time to decorate with the kids until Sunday. By the time I pulled out the egg carton, 13 eggs were left. I ended up having to buy another dozen eggs to cook.

Creative Easter egg dying techniques

TIP: Don’t leave 4 kids alone in the kitchen with eight cups of dye. Things could get messy. Even in the time that it takes to run one load of laundry.

Easter egg close up

TIP: Encourage kids to dye the “old-fashioned” way–by dropping eggs in a cup full of colored water and stinky vinegar. It works.

My kids are determined to have “tie-dyed” eggs. Kinda cool, but very messy. And most of our eggs look brown or green now.

how not to decorate easter eggs

TIP: Don’t dye eggs if you want your kids hands to look clean anytime in the next week.

dyed hands

TIP: Don’t dye peeled eggs. They DO hold onto the color really well….however, they feel really disgusting when you pick them up out of the cup, and they don’t smell very pleasant, either.

how not to decorate easter eggs

TIP: Don’t use dye of a questionable age.

Cool Easter egg!

Tip: Don’t worry about what the eggs look like. Just have fun.

Despite the mess (my counter is still green and red), the fact is that the kids had fun. Our eggs might not be the most beautiful but they still make a pretty good Deviled Egg.

Basket of colored Easter eggs


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I became a mom in 1996, and in 2005 I had my fifth. Yes, 5 kids. In 2007, this blog was born (my 6th baby that will never grow up) and I've been sharing recipes, photography tricks, parenting tips, and everything in between. (Formerly Better in Bulk)

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  4. What a darling family you have! I have fond memories of dying Easter eggs as a child, and not so fun as a parent… I think that’s how it goes sometimes.

    Travelin’Oma sent me your way. I’m glad I took a look.

  9. I haven’t been brave enough to try this with my small children yet. I am trying to overcome my fear of messy activities. You have inspired me to try, even when it is sure to be a disastrous mess!

    I followed Travelin’ Oma over here and am glad I decided to stop by.

  15. I adore coloring eggs. I always make sure to take pictures of the mess. Especially since da hubbster is a neat freak.

    LOVED your pictures. FUN!!! Oh and deviled eggs are delish. Just watch out for the egg farts that are soon to follow :)

    Alita

  24. Great pictures! We haven’t dyed eggs yet, but I think this year we might try the rubber cement method. Put rubber cement on them, dye them, then peel the glue off. I hope it works better than my cheater way last year of eggs in a colander, poured vinegar over them, then dropped dots of dye on them. My husband was deployed though and I was looking for the easy way out. It turned out pretty sad though. This year, he can be in charge!
    .-= Army Blogger Wife´s last blog ..Wordless Wednesday–Baby, Baby =-.

  25. We haven’t done ours yet (not until Saturday when Russ is here!)

    looks like your kids had a wonderful time and their eggs look “perfect” :)

    I always just do traditional egg dying. Makes for pretty vibrant eggs .
    .-= debi9kids´s last blog ..Looking Forward =-.

  29. We (as in me and my siblings) always did the traditional egg dyeing kit. I love your Iron Tail Egg story. I’ll have to tell my kids about that. The only problem (seriously) is that they would ALL want to make a black egg. ;)

  35. Hi Lolli,

    That is a great post and so timely! I grew up decorating Easter eggs the “the old fashioned” way, too. Is there another way other than the Haas Easter Egg Kit? We loved it as kids and I now do it with my own kids. The funnest (most fun?) part was making what we called the Iron Tail Egg. In the annual cartoon TV movie, Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail, there was an evil rabbit (voice played by Vincent Price) called Iron Tail who was up to no good through the whole movie. He had this black tail made of iron. We used to take one egg and let it soak for a few minutes in EVERY color until it turned black. We called this the Iron Tail Egg. It was the BEST part of decorating eggs.

    Thanks for reminding me of some fun times as a kid!

    Holly

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