Tie-Dyed Easter Eggs

Super easy tie-dyed Easter eggs.

My boys make a ridiculous mess when it comes time to dye Easter eggs so this technique was amazingly simply, and our fingers weren't stained with food coloring for a the week to follow.

First I hard-boiled the eggs.  To hard-boil an egg, place eggs in a sauce pan.  Then add water until it just barely covers the eggs.  Place on stove and heat until the water starts to boil.  Once the water is at a full boil, turn the heat off, place a lid on the pan and let it sit for 15 minutes.  Then drain the hot water and run cool water over the eggs to stop the cooking.

Let the eggs cool. 

Spread shaving cream in a pan.  I used a bread pan just to make the process small, but you could use a 9x13 pan or whatever you have available.  The squeeze drops of food coloring on the top.  Using a toothpick, blend the dyes together slightly by running the toothpick through the shaving cream from top-to-bottom and side-to-side.

Roll the eggs in the shaving cream.  This will create little blobs of colorful shaving cream.  Set the eggs aside to let the dye soak into the egg shells.  I used the cardboard container that the eggs come in.  Let the eggs sit for at least 15 minutes.  The longer the dye sits on the eggs the darker the color will be.

Rinse off the eggs and let them sit to dry.

This is the first year we've dyed eggs and I haven't ended up with a puddly (is that a word) mess all over the table.  It also was a super easy activity that didn't take a long time to set up, and so when my boys only spent 5 minutes doing it, I wasn't frustrated by how quickly they became disinterested.

What you need to do this project...  besides eggs that is.  ;)