Easter is just about here and one of the fun activities to enjoy this and every Easter season is to color Easter eggs. Easter eggs are easy and enjoyable to color; you just need to emulate the following ideas.
Easter eggs usually start with hard boiled eggs, so purchase one dozen or two for embellishing. Submerge them in boiling water for about 10 minutes. The eggs will cook and become hard boiled. Now just let them dry.
The easiest way to color your Easter eggs is to acquire an Easter egg decorating kit. These kits usually include dyes to paint your Easter eggs various colors, templates or stickers to embellish and design them, and an Easter egg holder to easily allow them to dry. Most kits only cost a few dollars and are very practical.
You can also create your own colored dye. You can put together about 1 tablespoon of food coloring with 1/2 tsp. of vinegar, then add about a half cup to a third cup of water. Now just gently lower your Easter egg into the colored cup of water. The longer your egg sits in the water, usually the deeper and darker the color.
Moreover you can hand paint your Easter eggs. You can find many water color paints or other types of paints to design and decorate your eggs. Even undiluted food coloring generally works. It is important to note that you shouldn’t eat any eggs that you have used paint on.
Designing or decorating your egg is fun and easy as well. Once the eggs are hard boiled, you can secure stickers to the egg, use a brush to gracefully draw a creative design, or glue construction paper cut outs to your egg. Some people even dress their Easter eggs up with doll or handmade garments made from yarn or other kinds of fabrics.
By: Christine Steendahl