Materials Needed to Decorate Eggs:
Hard boiled or blown out eggsFood coloringVinegarWater (should be room temperature or warmer than the eggs you are coloring)Optional: Crayons, stickers, rubber bands, and other objects to make designs
How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs
Hard-boiled eggs must be kept in the refrigerator after coloring to ensure food safety. If you don’t mind eating eggs with colorful shells, these can be eaten as is or used in recipes, like egg salad.
How to Blow Out Eggs
Blown eggs don’t have to be refrigerated and can be kept and used for more than one year if you don’t break them.
Simple Instructions for Coloring Eggs
Adding Designs on Eggs Before Coloring
Prior to coloring your eggs, there are a few ways to add designs to your eggs.
You can use crayons to draw designs on the eggs before you dye them. The wax of the crayons won’t come off, and the egg won’t absorb the dye in the places where the crayon has been drawn on the egg. You can place rubber bands or stickers on eggs to keep areas from being colored. You can dye an egg to a light color, add a rubber band or stickers, then continue to dye the egg darker. This will leave lighter areas when the rubber band or stickers are removed.
Tie-Dye Eggs
Rather than dipping eggs in the coloring, you can use food coloring directly on the eggs to create a tie-dye effect.
Fun With Easter Eggs
Plan on playing some of these Easter egg related games at your next Easter gathering or party. You can use real eggs or plastic eggs to play these fun games.
Easter Egg Hunt: This is one of the more popular games played with Easter eggs. Very simply, one person hides the Easter eggs and the other people search for them. The only trick is for the person hiding the eggs to remember where they are, especially if you are using real eggs.Easter Egg Rolling: Mark a starting line and a finishing line. Contestants must roll their eggs from one line to the next using a spoon or similar object to push the eggs. If a player touches their egg with their hand or breaks their egg, they are out of the race. The first person to get their egg across the finish line wins. For an added twist, roll the eggs down a hill.Spoon Races: Designate a starting line and a finishing line. Every person gets an egg and a spoon (larger, soup spoons work best). All contestants line up on the starting line and put their eggs in their spoons. At the word go, everyone races to the finish line; the first person to cross wins the game. If your egg falls off your spoon, you must go back to the starting line and begin again. For a bit of variety, make this a relay race or make the contestants run an obstacle course. If you want to make things tricky, you should have the racers hold the end of the spoon in their mouths.Yard Bowling with Easter Eggs: Place one egg in the center of a large circle. Have all players stand just outside the circle. Everyone should have one egg. Each person takes turns rolling their egg towards the egg in the center of the circle. The object of the game is to get as close to the center egg as possible without touching it. If you touch the center egg or break your egg, you are out.
