Dying for a Good Dye Job

After eating all those eggs (I never want to eat frittata again!!!) - we finally got to dye the eggs with my Brownie unit last week.

Decorating eggs isn't particularly hard - but just simply dyeing them is particularly interesting either.

By covering the eggs with plain old tape and stickers - the designs end up looking quite amazing. The girls were so impressed with how they turned out.

Luckily there was only one broken eggs and only a few tears - fortunately she didn't start designing her egg yet so we just gave her a new blank egg. A nice fresh start.

I made some prototypes for the girls, so they would know what to expect - just a little tape and stickers can go a long way. For the dye we just used a little warm water, tablespoon of vinegar and food colouring. Just continue to add food colouring until you get the colour you want.  

We also took this opportunity to review the colour wheel with the girls.

The overall process was a little messy but what isn't?

David also decided to try his hand at dyeing eggs - Ukrainian much?

Personally, I think he was trying to show up 7 & 8 year old girls - Look Melinda, I can dye eggs better than a child. I am so proud. No seriously, his egg turned out wicked. True story.