Colouring Easter Eggs

Easter

EASTER EGG VARIATION—ELASTIC BAND DESIGNS:

Wrap elastic bands gently around the eggs and then lower them into the dye. When the eggs are dry remove the elastic which will leave white designs.

EASTER EGG VARIATION—CRAYON DESIGNS:

To add crayon details and designs have your child draw on the eggs using crayons before they are placed in the dye. The dye will not adhere to the wax leaving those colours shining through.

Learn more about the history of the Easter Bunny here: https://time.com/3767518/easter-bunny-origins-history/

To learn more about Easter check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter or try here http://www.holidays.net/easter/story.htm

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EASTER EGG VARIATION—NATURAL DYES:

If you are looking for a homemade dye recipe that doesn’t involve food colouring and is more natural try these sites:

This one offers six colours, I've tried tuermeric and coffee grounds: http://www.realsimple.com/holidays-entertaining/holidays/more-holidays/homemade-easter-egg-dye-00000000056344/index.html

This one offers many different colours; I've tried beets: https://www.marthastewart.com/267850/dyeing-eggs-naturally

DYED EASTER EGGS:

This wouldn’t be a proper Easter Theme Day without egg decoration!

Materials: Hardboiled white eggs, liquid food colouring (from the baking aisle), hot water, white vinegar, mugs or small bowls (to make half and half eggs), spoon to mix, slotted spoon or tongs to gently lift the eggs from the dye, egg carton to set eggs in to dry.

Step 1: For every colour you wish to make you will need a separate bowl or cup and also a 1/4 tsp of food colouring. So set out the mugs or bowls and add the food colouring first. I make sure to set each bowl/cup on a piece of paper towel or newspaper as well.

Step 2: Into each cup or bowl of food colouring add 3/4 cup and 1 tbsp of white vinegar. Mix each one to combine the colour.

Step 3: Gently lower an egg into your homemade dye and let the egg sit until it turns the colour you desire. The longer they are left in the deeper the colour. NOTE: To make an egg have two colours use a shallow bowl full of dye and lay the egg on the side. Half will be dyed that colour. Then lay the egg in another bowl with another colour on the other side.

Step 4: Gently remove each egg and let it sit in the egg carton to dry. If you have a paper egg carton you may want to lay stripes of waxed paper in each slot so the wet egg will not dry and stick to the paper.

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Learning Activities

There are many theories as to why we dye eggs at easter. This article presents three reasons:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/49566/5-theories-about-why-we-dye-eggs-easter