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Decorated Eggs, Easter Egg Dying and Decorating.

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While we did the Tie Dying, I also started experimenting with a few other methods of colouring eggs using a home made dye using ingredients that almost everyone has already in their kitchen.  These were some of the results;

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These are obviously pretty straight forward.  Dyed in a food colouring/vinegar/warm water mixture.  Then a scrap booking embelishment stuck on.  Would have preferred embellishments without the clear plastic behind them, but the craft shop didn’t have any like that and you can’t really tell from a distance anyway.

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I love how these turned out.  Just use leaves from the garden, lay over the eggs then cover with a stocking or pantyhose.  I actually used some stocking I had on hand and didn’t even need to ruin them in the process.  Dip dye for a few minutes and you’re done.

Crepe paper results

Crepe paper results

 

We actually discovered this dying method accidentally.  After we had finished the Tie Dying from a previous post, we placed the eggs on this pre shredded crepe paper.   Some of the eggs still had a bit of water in them from the boiling process, so when that ran out and wet the paper, the colour transferred onto the eggs!  So I took it a step further, wet a hand full and covered them in it.  The results are pretty cool I think!

The dying solution we used was 3 parts hot tap water to one part vinegar, with as much food colouring as you wanted, we only used about a teaspoon per large cup.

Some of the other patterns we created can be seen below.

Boiling in water, food colouring and vinegar (later discovered boiling is not actually necessary) Some foam stickers to create patterns where the dye cant reach. Trying to keep the eggs afloat to only colour one side - not very successful! The leaf wrapped around egg within stocking prior to dipping in the dye solution Leaf patterns covering in crepe paper. Wet crepe paper Crepe paper results Cant have a craft project without glitter?  Yes, actually you can and you should Egg decorating Samples of some of the eggs we created Egg Craft Eggsperimenting with dying EGGS!
Filed under: Decorating, Easter Craft and Egg decorating, Home Made Gift Ideas, Kids Craft, Kids in the kitchen, School Holiday Entertainment, Toddler and Preschool activities, Uncategorized Tagged: craft, diy, Easter activity, Easter Craft, Easy toddler craft, fun, glitter, holidays, kids, preschool, Quick toddler craft, rainy day, spring, toddler

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