The Lee Family: Dying Easter Eggs

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Dying Easter Eggs

On Saturday afternoon, after the kids went swimming/played in the pool and had lunch, we set out everything for dying Easter eggs. I hard boiled four dozen-and-a-half containers of eggs, figuring Jackson either wouldn't be terribly interested or would dye slowly and soon learned I should have hard boiled five dozen-and-a-half containers so each kiddo could have their own 18 eggs to dye. All the kids were in their swimsuits which made it perfect for dying eggs and washing off after. Each kiddo had their own color cup set so they could dye on their own and they all had a ball! Olivia seemed to plow through her eggs and was done before anyone. Sofia took her time and wanted just the right color and really enjoyed it. After they were all done dying their eggs, they picked out eggs to "paint" from "paint sets" brought by Connie. They worked surprisingly well and Sofia and Chandler really got into it, spending at least another hour at the outdoor table carefully painting eggs. The kids really had a fun time and the eggs were beautiful!

After they were all done dying and painting their eggs, Olivia suddenly noticed that her hands were dyed along with the eggs and got upset that the color wouldn't wash off. Olivia really loves having clean hands and so I googled how best to get the color off of hands. I rubbed baking soda onto her hands and then poured vinegar on them. It bubbled up and the color came off very easily. Who knew?! She was happy and ran off to play in the pool once again. Since I know we won't be eating any of the eggs, I put the most colorful ones into a glass bowl for display during our Easter meal and left them out for a few days for us to enjoy them.

Sofia is very focused!