we paased

i entertained the thought of naturally dyeing easter eggs this year. i’ve wanted to every year, and even found a great tutorial on martha stewart for veggie dyed eggs, but then we paased anyway. 99 cents for a paas kit is hard to beat, especially when compared to purchasing beets, yellow onions, cabbage, etc.

we did, however, try out some new strategies we saw all on the web this season. good stuff.

like using a rubber band on the egg (and double dipping) to block out certain areas:

and criss crossing electrical tape to make a grid (yellow and blue make green lesson here.)

i also tried to make a “cracked egg” effect on, well, a cracked egg. kinda cute.

as stepford as i feel saying so, martha is a genius. (or rather the people who work for her at her empire are geniuses.) i mean seriously,  look at this slideshow of eggs!!!

we did the usual crayon resist thang.

and all in all, we had some good springy fun together! happy springtime of blooming and rebirthing! it’s an egggggscellent time of year, isn’t it?

 

and they made for a wonderful breakfast –

especially when all dolled up like chicks paired with lemonade scones… thanks to just jenn’s recipe blog.

Related posts:

  1. easter eggperiments
  2. wooden waldorf symbol eggs
  3. our egg ritual
  4. buttercream easter eggs
  5. eggshell candles

04.03

2010
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  • http://sippycupcentralmom.blogspot.com sippy cup mom

    love what you did with the rubber bands, happy easter!

  • http://childhoodmagic.blogspot.com/ Childhood Magic

    Love this! Might try it tomorrow!

  • http://homeage.wordpress.com/ amandab

    Beautiful eggs (and I love the chicks!)

    This is definitely on my list of activities for next year. Somehow time got away from me this time around.

    Happy Easter :D

  • Ca4ole

    Thanks for linking to my Food on Friday.

  • http://interiorgroupie.blogspot.com/ Heather @ InteriorGroupie

    those little chicks are too cute!

  • http://paintcutpaste.com/ jen | paintcutpaste.com

    thanks! we made these a couple years ago, but haven’t since! i keep forgetting on easter… but we still have all spring!