Well, it’s been a hot minute since I have last blogged. Easter this year in Edmonton, Alberta is looking a little different for the second year in a row with all of the restrictions still in place here, but we still tried to keep it fun for the kids. Like every year, they always have a lot of fun painting Easter eggs.
A couple of years ago we picked up the “Eggmazing” egg decorator. It comes with markers, and you place the egg in it, and it spins it for you while you hold the markers to add fun stripes. It’s our favourite. You could easily bypass the need for using traditional liquid dye if you wanted to! We still do both - for variety, and because you can get some really amazing colours if you dye the eggs first and then add the stripes after. Highly recommend.
Just a note that I’ve split this post into two to ensure the photos load properly - there will be a link to go to the next post at the bottom. You can see our completed collection of colourful Easter eggs at the end of the second post.
We used white and brown eggs this year. We found the brown eggs worked way better with giving beautiful rich colours with both the liquid dye and the Eggmazing markers.
Another thing we tried was putting some rice into a Ziploc bag and adding food colouring, then dunking your egg in and mixing it around. The rice adds some speckles to the eggs. It worked OKAY, but wasn’t anything to write home about. We’ll probably skip it next time.
Check out that last image - our dye kit came with some gold paint to apply with a sponge. It worked really well with giving either a light shimmer, or thicker golden stripes. It looked really neat on the darker blue and green eggs - those were my faves.
I’ve split this post into two so click on to the next post here!