Supplies:

• Tape
• Hard boiled eggs
• Egg Dye (we used Paas tablets they are just so easy)

Directions:

Tape your egg (I used packing tape)

Drop your egg into the dye

Take out of the dye after 10-15 minutes

Take the tape off very carefully

Dump into a new color or you can do this before taping to get a different effect or you can leave it with the white.

Finished Egg

You will get different effect with different kinds of tape, how much you smooth out the bumps or not, how many times you change out the tape, if you cover the egg completely in tape or in stripes, and/or change colors and how long you leave it in the dyes.

Here are my left overs from my dyeing. I have great plans for even my paper towels and my shells:

I’m going to save the eggshells as we make egg salad sandwiches (yummy!) in a baggy and make this craft: Eggshell Pictures from Make and Takes

I’m going to modify this craft and use my dyed paper towels and use up my dye creating “paper towel” butterflies.

Today we got to do our traditional egg dying! I was very happy we were able to do it this year, since for some reason I’m working full time this week and I’m trying to catch up from being sick. It was fun to have some family time even if it was a little stressful to pull everything together quickly.

This year Zane was very into the egg dying. Last year I dyed them for him and he got to put stickers on them. This year he got to pick the eggs colors and loved watching Daddy drop them in the colors. Zarek just sat back and watched. We had a snack while we watched the eggs soak. Zarek loved the snack. LOL

I let Zarek look at an egg before it was dyed, for a photo more than anything. He picked it up and threw it to the ground. That’s what he thought of that. I gave him the memory game from the Paas pack and he liked playing with the small pieces of cardboard for a little while. I didn’t get any photos of him with the dyed eggs since he decided he wanted to go take a nap before they were dry.

Zane got to put stickers on the eggs again this year and loved it. He liked it so much that when he found a plastic egg in the house with foam stickers he stuck the stickers all over the egg. He did a really good job all on his own.

Tomorrow I will show you my favorite egg dying technique. Or if you check out my flickr feed you can get the basic idea.

Here is two free bag toppers for you to print and make little goodie bags. Instructions are with the images at flikr.

Don’t forget I will be posting printable freebies all month this month so if you don’t want to miss out make sure and subscribe to my feed.