I decided to demonstrate egg dying for Easter for Ada. It's not done over here, so they don't have all the usual trappings (i.e. PAAS kits) readily available (though I probably could have found them online if I had planned ahead), so I had to make do with what I could get easily. And the other problem is that pretty much 99% of eggs over here are brown, rather than white, so I had to track down some super fancy eggs, that where a pale blue, rather than white - the closest I could get.
The result is that it didn't work, but thankfully last year Mom gave me little dye-pens (from PAAS, of course) that hadn't dried out completely. Between that and some washable markers, we have some slightly colored eggs.
It did also give me an opportunity to use the super cool technique I found online for dipping the eggs - put them inside a whisk. It's awesome!
Ada was most excited by the egg carton. Whatever.
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| See - egg in the whisk! It totally works! |
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| Ada's first egg |
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| It's not working, but hey, we tried |
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| Bonus photo from our trip to Clevedon today. It was super cold. |
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3 comments:
Love the whisk!
We'll have to try that this year. We had the typical little wire holder.
egg inside whisk...GENIUS! we might have to try it next week just for kicks! (and i hear kool-aid is a good substitute for egg dye...)
I know - on the same buzzfeed thread that taught me about the whisk it mentioned kool-aid. But they don't have that over here either. It's like living in the Dark Ages! I realized after that I probably could have worked out some better dye if I had tried harder.
At work today someone was telling me about their Easter, who I had (unsuccessfully) tried to help find Peeps (again: Dark Ages) and she mentioned that instead of decorating with Peeps they 'batik-ed' eggs. I didn't say anything.
This is probably why egg dying hasn't taken off - they call it fancy names like 'batik' and it sounds difficult. Sigh.
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