Y1-2. Coloring Easter Eggs

Spring has just arrived here in Buffalo, even though it is still only 25 degrees outside. But it is still the time to rack in the spring and summer delicious meals! Spring has to be one of my favorite times of the year not only because of my birthday but because of all the Easter Eggs, candy baskets and Easter Sunday of course! Coloring Easter eggs is my one and only favorite thing to do right around Easter. It amazes how much one person can go in detail on some of their work, but it is also fun just do it with little siblings and family. To color Easter eggs you of course need eggs, boiling water, vinegar, and liquid food coloring. But if you choose to buy a kit it will come with coloring tabs and all sorts of stickers and designs to put on your egg. Now I am going to show you how to make them!


Boiling The Eggs

Step 1: hard boil as many eggs as you would like to.  One thing when you boil your eggs you want to make sure you keep them covered while boiling.  Then allow the eggs to simmer for at least 15 minutes to cool down.

Step 2: Then remove from the heat drain the water then rinse them with cooler water.

Coloring The Eggs

Step 1: Add 1 teaspoon of vinegar to ½ cup of boiling water. Then add at least 20 drops of food coloring depending on how light and/or dark you would like your color to be.

Step 2: Now dip the hard-boiled egg into the water and the longer you keep it in the darker the color will turn out.

Step 3: Then after you color the eggs it is important to refrigerate them.
If there isn’t a color you have you could always mix colors together to make one, for example red and yellow will make orange.

Tie Dye Eggs

To make the tie dye eggs you dip one portion of the egg in a color, let it dry then cover that colored part with something, like tape for example, then dip it in another color and repeat. Also if you do end up using the tape method it can create multi tone colors on your egg.

Applying Designs

Say you want to put a flower on your egg or something cute that resembles your or spring, its super easy to do, even though it may sound complicated. There is just one simple step! All you have to do is simply take a white colored crayon and design whatever you want onto the egg as if you were coloring. This will remain white because the food coloring will resist away from the wax that is in the crayons.

Coloring Egg Kits

If you do end up going to buy a store bought coloring kit it comes with different and unique features that you can not do to your homemade colored Easter eggs. The store bought kit comes with stickers letters and other fun things you can put on your eggs. It also comes with a variety of different colored tabs that you place in the vinegar for it to dissolve to create the color.
You would be amazed at what some artist can do on easter eggs. Some of them are very elegant and very in depth with the details.