Dying Eggs

I bought an egg dying kit this year so that we could re-live our childhoods and introduce Alison to the concept of edible Easter Eggs.  Yesterday, four days after the dying event, I was still finding red food coloring patches on the dining room floor to clean up.

3-13-13 - So far so good, the eggs are making it into the cups relatively unscathed.

Everything started out great.  We showed Alison how to dunk the eggs in the cups using the little wire tool thingie and she took off.  You've probably already figured out what our first mistake was: using the darn wire thing.  Because of that, we had numerous eggs endure several levels of smacking (table, then chair, then floor) on their plunge to the earth.  No eggs went undyed, but a few will certainly never be eaten.

Monitoring

Exit Strategy

Our egg exit strategy evolved over time from using the wire thing, to helping with a spoon, to just grabbing them out; which led to our second big lesson: You can never have too much newspaper on the table, chair, child, floor, etc.

It was fun!  No one has been bold enough to eat one yet, but we had a lot of fun making a mess.