Dyeing Easter Eggs

We woke up to snow this morning. It has been beautiful all week, but a storm came through last night and left a blanket of fresh snow on the ground. Even though it was cold outside, we decided to dye Easter eggs inside. The kids were so excited...they completed all of their morning chores in record time so that we could get on with the egg dyeing. I used two tutorials from Pinterest for the eggs this year. First, I used this tutorial for boiling the eggs and this tutorial for coloring the eggs with food coloring. We were very impressed with the bright/bold colors. The white eggs were bright, and the brown eggs were more of a jewel tone. The kids like to write on the eggs with a white crayon first so that their name shows up on the eggs...

we also spent some time making a few little Easter crafts...

My children devoured the eggs almost as fast as they dyed them. Lily told me after we cleaned up that she ate six eggs! They love boiled eggs!

Comments

[Marne Long]

First, your children are just gorgeous! Second, I also dyed brown eggs this year (first time I tried it) the colors just are do deep and intense, they are beautiful. I loved the results. I saw another idea I'll be trying tomorrow, dying easter eggs with kool-aid packets. Happy Easter!

[Alejandra de Leal]

All your children are just beautiful!!! I liked a lot the pictures, thank you for sharing the technique :)

[Jackie Brown]

such beautiful children and photos; i'm so glad you linked up to my site, I've been looking for your page again and I thought it was red hen something by the photo on the top. I'll bookmark it this time.

[jeanne]

I wondered if I'd try the food coloring pintrest pin myself, but I decided to wait and see if I could find out more about it. I guess they look amazing, huh? We didn't even dye eggs, even though I bought some dye, but we don't have the egg eaters you do. We like to dye the eggs, but not eat them so much (not as much as we like to dye them:). It's a good thing you like eggs with all the chickens I guess, huh?

[Julie]

Sherelle, thanks for sharing pics of the kids coloring eggs!! My kids are grown and miss this part of the holiday. Your girls are sooooooooooooo adorable, and Russell makes me laugh with his grin-smile!! Have a wonderful holiday with all of your animals and family. Bless you for sharing your life and pics with us!!!
Sincerely,
Julie W.

[Robyn Longhurst]

Thanks for sharing....totally using the canning jars for dip-dip-dipping! So pretty!

[Jennifer Hiers]

One that looks like so much fun but two you have beautiful kids. We are dyeing our eggs tomorrow and my daughter can't wait.