Clarice is trying very hard to get me involved in everything that makes the American holidays so special for her, and so when Easter time came she was very excited to be able to take me to Fort Morgan so we could spend the day dyeing eggs with the nephews.
So off to Fort Morgan we went and, after collecting Avery from school, we settled down with 4 or 5 white eggs apiece, a white crayon, several tubs of egg dye (food colouring, vinegar and hot water) and some carefully bent wire and began the experience that is dyeing eggs. First I tried a layered effect with bands of colour which came out nicely (bottom left) then following Clarice's lead I tried drawing/colouring a picture in white crayon. On a white egg. It's not as easy as it sounds. So me being the over achiever I am decided I would draw a chicken on one side and a witty joke on the other. All without being able to see what I was writing or drawing. Any of you who have tried to decipher my handwriting at the best of times will understand how bad an idea this is. So the fact it was almost readable was rather amazing (it's the yellow and green one). Clarice's example of the flowers on blue, (top right) shows the effect that can be achieved. I love the contrast.
Then we tried dying, colouring and then re-dying a different colour. This was a first for Clarice, but worked very well. This resulted in the three in the top row, the rabbit was done by colouring the white bits and dying the whole egg blue, then colouring the rabbit in and dyeing the egg green. The detail was added with pen to make it look more rabbit-like. Clarice was working on the multicoloured hearts and finally created her masterpiece that is the 2nd from the left egg with flowers on. This one and the stripy one are my favourite. I also tried to make a Union Jack coloured one, but it wasn't very good.
Of course the best part of the whole process is eating them at the end!
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