Will you be dying eggs today?

Me and my boys dye eggs every year. It should be really exciting being that its my 16 month olds first time. We just do it the simple way, we use food coloring and easter egg dying kit decos. First we're going to the zoo. So we have fun filled day ahead of us. Then we're coming home and dye the eggs. They are going to be leaving for a while and when they come home, we're going to have a easter egg hunt. What your doing sounds fun and creative. Let us know how it turns out. Happy Easter!

I remember doing something like that in middle school. We would blow the eggs out of the shell and decorate them. Anyway, this year there will be egg dying, but my brother and sister in law will be doing it. They are only 11 and 12. My son is still too young to color eggs. Heck he cant even sit up yet let alone color an egg. lol I believe they are doing the egg coloring later today.

I Thought hard boiled eggs are such a waste too... But if you need them right away, i guess that is fine, anyway you do it once a year. Well we do not celebrate easter by having egg hunts. We dont have much of that in the country.

I wish I felt like doing what you're doing but I don't have it in me this year. I just bought a cheap egg coloring kit and boiled my eggs last night. I'll color them later. I'm only making 6 because I know not everyone likes them and whatever is left over I will use to make egg salad for myself later.

Interesting idea you have so you arent wasting the eggs. I personally wouldnt want to save the shells and clean them so they are sanitary to handle. Yuck sounds gross. I am a little germ phobic when it comes to stuff like that. Anyway to get to the point of your article I didn't dye eggs with my children at my house as I didn't feel like spending a dollar on egg dye or having to think of something to make that I could use a dozen eggs in the recipe so I just waited until my sister bought her children egg dying kits as she does every year then my daughter and my son and I went over to her house and my daughter dyed eggs with her children. This was probably more fun for her anyway then if she did it by herself.

We will not be dying any Easter eggs today. I fondly remember doing this with my parents when we were kids. Since we do not yet have kids of our own, there are no Easter egg decorations or Easter egg hunts for that matter. I will probably come back to this discussion or other similar discussions at some point in the future to get advice on egg decorating if we do this for our kids someday.

Wow, that sounds abmitious! Will the paper mache dry in time? I always thought that took awhile...anyway, I wish I'd thought of that. Our problem is that the kids never want to 'break' their pretty eggs so I end up with a few dozen sitting in the fridge for weeks until I finally sneak them out in the trash...and then I feel guilty on a few different levels. We dyed 2 dozen last night and will probably do another dozen or two today...one dozen doesn't go far between 3 kids. The baby doidn't know what to think at first but after the first egg he got excited when he'd drop it in the cup and it would change color...of course then he discovered that if he smashed it on his tray a few times he could peel it open and spread egg everywhere too LOL...but it was fun!

My kids dyed eggs yesterday with Nanny. They had fun.

Earlier when I saved this discussion so I could answer it when I had time, I thought I would be saying no. We wouldn't be dying eggs today. Yet as I sit here, my husband just put a dozen eggs on the stove to boil. We picked up a box of marble egg dye and will be coloring eggs when they cool down. He likes hardboiled eggs, I will eat them once in awhile and the baby likes the white part. So they shouldn't go to waste.

we do that same just use a simple coloring kit we will do about 18 eggs not many, I like hard boiled eggs. We really don't go way out we will by a basket for the kids well my grand daughter now and thats about all we will do we don't say the Easter bunny leaves it but we do hid the eggs for the grand daughter can fine.

Of all holiday traditions, dying eggs was the one I just didn't look forward to doing. I am very crafty and love makig from scratch and all that, but egg dying, just didn't do it for me. I did it for the kids and let them do it soon as they could, but was very glad when my daughter had her child and she took over that gruesome task for me!