A Good Friday Indeed

Dyeing Easter Eggs

Dyeing Easter eggs at Heather's house on Friday morning.

Heather's house could probably be dubbed the "fun house" as she loves to let the kids do projects and get messy.  She has also been known to take Kaden back to her house for the day and bake cookies.  Lord, I'm going to miss her when they move back to Ohio!

 

 

I am constantly amazed at the difference between boys and girls at this age. 

Here is a snapshot at what dyeing eggs looked like with Kaden & Danni. 

 

Danni: carefully chose an egg and a red crayon.  From there, she took about five minutes to meticulously color each side of her egg before deciding upon the pink container of dye.  But instead of plopping it into the color, she gently placed her colored egg on the wire holder to slowly lower it into the dye so it wouldn't splash.

 

Kaden: nonchalantly grabbed an egg and a blue crayon. He made a few swirls on one side.  When I asked if he could color the other side he proclaimed that, "coloring was too hard" and sloshed his egg into the blue dye.  Then he just wanted to put an egg in each colored cup and rush off to play.

 

Crowd control... Or Owen control.

 

Note to self (and others) for next year:

• The dye requiring vegetable oil for a "marbled effect" is a waste of time.  Greasy, not a lot of marbling and the dye isn't very dark.  Would probably work much better with straight food coloring and adults (not 3-4 year olds).
• The "neon" dye seems to work the best-- dramatic, vibrant colors!
• Prefer the oil pastel crayons to plain crayons when coloring on eggs (much more dramatic color)
• Clear plastic coctail glasses seem to be the perfect size for dipping & retrieving.
• Don't let Kaden punch all of the holes out of the box the night before-- it makes reading the directions quite tricky.  :)