Coloring Easter Eggs

 Children and adults love to decorate Easter eggs for the big

hunt or to use for decorations around the home. My children
and I have experimented with a few ideas and wanted to pass
them along to you. As always use precautions when working on
any kind of project.

You will need to have your eggs boiled for these projects.

Color Your Eggs with Food Coloring

Have a small bowl for each food coloring color you want to
use and any mixed colors you want to make. Add 1 cup of hot
water along with 1 tablespoon of white vinegar to each bowl
and then measure ¼ teaspoon of food coloring into each bowl
and mix. Then add your eggs to the mixture and allow them to
soak until you get the desired color you want about 5
minutes or longer.

Refer to this chart as a guideline to make other colors with
basic food coloring. For deeper colors add more until you
get the color you prefer.

Purple – About 5 drops of red coloring and 15 drops of blue
Teal – 5 drops of blue coloring and 15 drops of green
Raspberry – 14 drops of red coloring and 6 drops of blue

Making Designs on The Eggs

To make various designs on the eggs you can use some of the
ideas below.

Marbleized Look

Simply place several eggs in a strainer type bowl and pour
vinegar over them, after this is done drip, a few drops of
your food coloring choice and roll them around in the
strainer and then proceed to add your other color choices
until you get the effect you are looking for. Let each color
set on the eggs about 30 seconds before adding the next
color. Then rinse them and let dry.

Rubber Band Technique

For this you will need a large rubber band to wrap around
the egg several times but still leaving some of the egg
shell exposed. Then you put the egg in the food color of
your choice and allow it to sit until you get the desired
effect you want. Rinse with cool water and then let dry.

White Crayon Messages

Use a white crayon to draw designs or write things on the
eggshell. The next step is to put the egg in the food color
of your choice and allow it to sit until you get the desired
effect you want. Rinse with cool water and then let dry.

I hope you find these ideas and tips helpful and fun as an
Easter activity for the family. Just remember that candy
eggs are fun to eat, and plastic eggs are fun to find with
treats inside but coloring your own Easter eggs is an
activity in which you can make some fun memories.