Stuck for last-minute egg dying and crafty ideas to do with those hardboiled eggs before Sunday? Here are some quick ways to dye Easter eggs – mostly by using stuff right in your cupboards, so you don’t have to buy one of those fancy kits for each of your kids.
Are you trying to avoid food coloring this year with your Easter eggs? Here is how to make Tissue Paper Easter eggs – the tissue paper is the dye, so no messy containers full of dye just waiting to be spilled!
Has your daughter been eying up those fancy glitter Easter egg kits? Here is how to make glitter Easter eggs them at home without having to buy a whole kit just for the glitter effect.
If your kids are more on the groovy side of things, make some fun tie-dyed Easter eggs!
Strive to Simplify has some great information on how to use natural vegetable dyes to dye Easter eggs. She has a great chart on vegetables for different dye colors, such as using red onion skins for red easter egg dye and spinach leaves for green, which were two I knew about, but she also has quite ingenious ones I never would have thought of like hibiscus tea for purple and paprika for orange. Highly recommended!
Mama Knows has some fun Easter Egg holder printables… print them out, have your kids color them up, then they have their own holders for their Easter eggs to show them off!
Cynthia Schaffer has eggs made by painting eggs with chalkboard paint and then decorating them with chalk. Pretty ingenious!
Measured by the Heart has eggs done by using your glue gun to make patterns on Easter eggs before dying them.
The Come Together Kids blog has a different spin on Easter eggs for your craftier kids. These are not decorating hardboiled eggs, but a very clever Easter egg fabric batik which is done with glue.
Want to get in on the fun or have older kids who think regular Easter egg dying is too babyish? Missy Polyclay has some great looking Easter eggs made by gluing embroidery thread (ie DMC or Anchor thread) onto eggs, wrapping them in a single layer from top to bottom.
Budget Barbie has these fun eggs made with water balloons for the eggs and wrapped with yarn. I bet some boys could have a fun Easter egg water balloon fight with these!
Definitely Deals has this cute Easter egg tree.
And lastly, what is an Easter egg hunt without having a cute bag for putting those eggs in? Purl Bee has these cute Easter Egg hunt bags that you can easily whip up if you are a sewer.
Have you forgotten how to make the perfect hard boiled egg? Or hate when they turn out with those green yolks kids love to hate? Here is our simple way of making green free hardboiled eggs!
Don’t forget that for food safety, you should never leave Easter eggs out at room temperature for more than a couple of hours if you plan to eat them!
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