Easter egg decorating

It's Easter time!! which means its time to get out your dying kits and start dipping those eggs. Decorating eggs for Easter is something I've done ever since i was younger. we would color the eggs with the white crayon and then dip the egg in the dye. I was always so amazed by how what i drew on the egg with the white crayon had stayed white and was magically visible because the rest of the egg was now painted a color. As i got older i became more adventurous in my dipping but eventually my siblings and i grew bored of the same thing every year. So now we try to go out and find different fun ways to decorate Easter eggs.

This year we did tye-dye eggs. all you need is a plastic bag, colored dye, straws with 1 end sealed shut (or anything that you can use to lift up drops of dye), eggs, and a cooling rack to get the eggs to dry.
Tip: also may need plastic gloves because it can get messy if you touch the eggs ever, also wax paper is good to put under your working and drying space to keep your table cloth save from any drips from the dye.

Step one: place egg in plastic bag and hold is so the opening is scrunched down so the egg is right at the opening of the bag.
Step two: use the straw to lift up any color dye and then carry it over to your egg. drop color or colors onto egg.
Tip use a different straw for each color
Step three: with what ever colors are on your egg. use the plastic bag to mix around the dye and completely cover the egg in dye
Tip: you can either cover the egg with one color 1st and then layer it or drop more then one color on the egg and mix them together with bag
Step four: set on drying rack

some other decorating things my family has tried with decorating eggs is stickers. we would do the regular dying of an egg and then go out and buy some face stickers and use them to put a mouth, some sunglasses, and maybe even a hat onto the egg. fun way to make the eggs come to life.

something i have also done which isn't quite your normal dying of Easter eggs, but its Ukrainian egg art. i learned it in middle school and it can be fun and in the end it looks really cool, but it takes a lot of patients and knowledge of how dying different colors on top of one another works. i wont go into to much detail but you use a tool that help you draw on wax onto an egg so then later when you dye it and then melt of the wax, the areas that had the wax stay white. and then you can put on more and more layers, and with the tiny wax tool you can very intricate designs. i encourage you to learn it, and try it, however this is not something kids would enjoy very much because it takes patients, fire, hot wax, and a steady hand.

No matter how you decorate your eggs just make it fun and creative and each egg with turn out very unique, as they should be.