Wonderful Easter eggs



Blown Eggs

Eggs must be at room temperature. Prick the big end of an egg with a pin. Make the hole bigger by carefully chipping away the shell around the hole. Make another hole in the small end of the egg. Put your fingers over both the holes and shake the egg hard. This will break the yolk. Hold the egg over a bowl and blow through the small hole, emptying the egg into the bowl. Let the egg dry. Have fun decorating.

Decorating

You can paint, draw or glue paper, ribbon and wool on your eggs or you can dye them first and then decorate them.

To dye the eggs you will need:

Four cups

Measuring cup

Boiling water (ask a grown-up)

Vinegar

Food colouring

Large spoon

Hardboiled or Blown Eggs

Paper towel

What you do:

1.

Fill each cup half full with boiling water.
 

2.

Add 1 teaspoon vinegar and approximately 20 drops of food colouring to each cup. Stir.
 

3.

Put an egg on a large spoon and place the egg in the dye mixture. Leave the egg in the dye mixture until it is the shade you want.
 

4.

Remove the egg and lay on paper towel to dry.