It’s been awhile since I’ve colored eggs for Easter, but with our grandchildren here of course we had to do it. I hard boiled 11 eggs and ate one so that left us with 10 eggs. 😉
I plopped the tablets from the egg decorating kit into cups of vinegar and made several bold, color dyes to chose from.
The kids (of all ages) had fun drawing on the egg with a clear wax pencil or crayon, deciding which color to dip the egg into, then watching and waiting, with anticipation, to see how their egg would turn out.
The most unique egg is one our grandson envisioned and had help with the drawing. He has talked about Christmas trees since Christmas…he was so enthralled with our tree…so he wanted a Christmas tree on his Easter egg. O well, we couldn’t have Easter without Christmas.
An egg with Happy Easter written in Portuguese, the other language we hear in our house these days, is another special egg for our basket.
Ukraine is known for their beautiful Easter eggs. I have a bowl full of Ukrainian Easter Eggs. I brought a few home with me from my visits there. These eggs are wood, not the typical, fragile “real” eggs. Ukrainian Easter Eggs are amazing… detailed, intricate, artistic. I took a class on how to paint Ukrainian eggs but I never caught on to the technique. It is an art, and like all art, it usually takes much practice, and some talent.
I enjoyed watching my grandchildren having fun decorating their Easter eggs in their own creative way, and their eggs are just as special.
What fun to do this again, and this time with those adorable grandchildren. Drawing a Christmas tree on an Easter egg seems quite appropriate.
Last night at bible study I observed blown-out eggs hung on the branches of a lilac bush my friend had cut. It was already leafing out. She said one year it bloomed. I never thought of this and may steal this idea.
Thanks for the reminder. I used to bring in a lilac branch each spring.
It would always leaf out…so wonderful to watch it leaf out and have signs of spring in the house.
I never had one that bloomed.
I will go out and cut one today…before the snow storm!
Oops, I see I already commented about the lilac branches and then repeated myself today in the comments section. My, my memory is short. I’ll be curious to hear how yours does.
Not lilac bush, but branch.
Years ago I also bought all the materials for Ukrainian eggs. I attempted the project once!
Yes, once is all I had to try to decide it’s not for me.
Colouring Easter eggs is always a fun activity! It looks like all of you kids enjoyed it!
We did…it was a fun activity to do again.
So fun!
It is fun to do these projects again…
Valerie – I remember your giving me one of your beautiful Ukranian eggs when you returned from there on a mission trip – first thing I put out every year – thanks again! I love the photos of you and your sweet grandchildren dying the eggs. They are quite adorable. How is their English coming along?
I miss doing that with my grandchildren, who are 10 and 12 (Mpls) and I don’t get to see the Wisconsin ones (ages 8 and 13) this time of the year.
Thanks Shirley.
I’m glad you have, and are, enjoying the Ukrainian Egg. 😉
We will miss our two grandchildren when they move to CO soon.