the egg hunt

Easter egg hunting is really fun with a 2-year-old.  We had to have the Easter Bunny hide eggs in our living room because we had a cold and rainy Easter.  We did not do an egg hunt last year, as the little man was not walking yet.  He was so cute with his bucket, that is what he wanted instead of a basket, looking around for the eggs.  He found a few and then was having a hard time so he had Daddy help by holding his hand and walking around the room with him.  He would get so excited when he would find one.  We got some plastic eggs when we went over to a cousin’s house for the family Easter lunch.  The little man loves playing with (throwing) them, but I think we will have to hide them again and let him practice for next year.  Maybe this will be a new rainy day activity.

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tissue dyed eggs

I decided to tackle the second batch of Easter eggs today, using the tissue paper process I talked about here.  The little man was all ready to help me, we did one egg and he was done.  Oh well, maybe next year he will want to do it.  Since everything was out and ready, I just did them myself while he ate lunch.

 

Here are a few tips:

• You definitely have to have ART tissue paper, we did a couple the other day to see what would happen with regular.  The purple one got a really faint purple color, which is kind of pretty, but the others did not work.
• I think that different brands bleed color differently, we had 2 different packs and some colors worked better than others.
• Wear gloves! Otherwise you end up with tissue died fingers.
• If you get the eggs wet first the tissue is really easy to stick to the eggs, this might have made our colors run into each other more.
• The longer you leave the paper on the brighter your colors will be, until they dry.  We took ours off a little bit early, so they are lighter than the Something from Scratch eggs were.  I also think the lighter color has to do with our brand of tissue paper.

It is really interesting to see which colors worked better than others.  For instance our orange really did not show up, but the greens and blues kind of took over.  We are happy with them, I think they came out really pretty.  The little man likes them too, now that they are done.

I am excited to hide these for the little man’s first egg hunt.

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easter eggs – batch one

I know I said I was going to do tissue paper eggs with the little man, and I am, but I decided to dye some just in case we break said tissue paper eggs.  I want to have a few for him to hunt.  I dyed them with the traditional store-bought egg dye.  This brand can get pretty bright if you leave them in very long, but I was kind of in a hurry, and I kind of liked them pastel.

I remember making some when I was little with rubber bands and twine to get a striped effect, so I thought I would try.  You dye the eggs once, but lightly.  Wrap twine or rubber bands carefully but tightly around eggs.  Dye again to make the exposed areas darker.  Alternatively you can also draw on the eggs after the first dyeing with white crayon or a candle and get pretty much the same effect.

They came out very subtle.  I think we mus have used fatter rubber bands, and a less absorbent twine.  I like them, but not really sure they are worth the extra step.

Hopefully tonight or tomorrow we will have some tissue paper eggs to share.  Keep your fingers crossed for us!

 

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easter eggs

I think my little guy is still a little too little for traditional easter egg dying.  I am hoping to try this out with him and see how it goes.  I think that these are beautiful and look like fun. You wet the eggs, cover in pieces of ART tissue paper, and let dry before you pull the paper off.  Thanks Something from Scratch for inspiring me.  I will publish pictures of our eggs… if we don’t break them all.

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