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Eggs, Eggs, and More Eggs How & What you will need  Different Ways to Dye an Egg  Fancy Eggs  By the Family

1. Rinse eggs in cool water
2. Place the eggs in a large pan, don't crowed
3. Fill pan with cool water, 1 inch over eggs
4. Add several tablespoons of salt
5. Heat until water boils
6. Remove from heat Cover, and let sit 20 minutes
7. Carefully remove eggs and rinse in cold water.

• Table cover - an old shower curtain, or plastic sheet
• Latex gloves - local medical places or paint stores have cheap gloves. (hint - know any EMTs, nurses, CNAs, or painters)
• Old butter tubs for holding dye, if you don't have enough check garage sales, and second hand stores like Good
• Large slotted spoon for dipping out eggs
• Old clothes or a man's old shirt worn backwards makes a great smock

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Many Different Ways to Dye an Egg

Tips

• Don't forget the gloves!! Your choice rubber/latex gloves now or white gloves Easter morning. After all you don't want everyone a church seeing multi-colored hands.
• Remember vinegar always helps when dying eggs.
• How to remove wax from eggs - either dip in hot water or place in oven at 200^o F for a couple of minutes

Mix

• 3/4 cup hot water,
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon food coloring

Natural Dyed Easter Eggs

While boiling eggs

• include red onion skins
• include yellow onion skins
• for pattern wrap egg with onion skin, and tuck in to a panty hose to hold it in place than boil

• One cup of hot water, 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons of turmeric, 1/2 teaspoon vinegar
• One cup of hot water, 1 Tablespoon of instant coffee, 1/2 teaspoon vinegar

• cranberry juice
• pickled beets juice
• grape juice

• blueberries
• cranberries

FANCY EGGS

Etched Eggs

1. Melt paraffin (wax) in a double boiler slowly. This not the time to experiment or take a short cut!
2. First dye your egg any light color you wish. This will be your background color.
3. After it is dry, dip it into melted paraffin wax.
4. Allow the wax to cool
5. Etch your design by scratching through the wax with a darning needle.
6. Dip the egg into another color of dye (darker).
7. Remove the wax, polish the surface by rubbing in any remaining wax.

1. Wet the eggs.
2. Place pieces of colored tissue paper on them.
3. Set it aside to dry.
4. When the egg dries the tissue paper falls and the egg is colored.

Use non-toxic markers, let the kids draw pictures on the eggs

Retro Eggs (Tie-Dye)

1. Make up several colored dyes (strong).
2. Dampen an old clean piece of cloth with water and wrap it around the egg.
3. With an eye dropper, drop spots of different colors of dye on the cloth.
4. Twist the cloth tightly around the egg so the colors blend together.
5. Gently unwrap the egg and let it dry.

1. Dip natural sponge in dye.
2. Squeeze out excess dye.
3. Pat on egg.
4. Let egg dry.

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Family Eggs

Each person picks a job or two. After half of the eggs are done, everyone expect the adults changes jobs

Adult boils the eggs

Person 1 dies the background (light color)

Person 2 draws a picture with a white crayon

Person 3 dies the egg (darker colors)

OR

Person 1 draws a picture with their crayons and person 2 does the dying

Than

Let eggs dry

the adult removes wax

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