Creative Easter Eggs?

We get white stickers (like the ones people use for lables, garage sale pricing etc), and cut them to whatever shapes you want, then dye them.
My mom and I used to do the "blow out" method.
You take a tooth pick or something else thats small and sharpe, and poke a small hole in the top and bottom and then blow out the egg inside (sometimes you need to sjake the egg before to break up the yolk). Then you can dye them however you want and display them (either hanging from pretty ribbons or around the house in decorative baskets). just be really carefully because it's just a shell (we used to hang them in windows and it looked pretty cool).
Good Luck!

They have all sorts of kits you can buy... I have seen glitter, stensil, tie-dye (my favorite!!) Stickers, etc. Maybe pick up a couple kits?

When I was a kid we used to use white crayons to draw designs on the eggs first. The dye doesn't stick to the wax, so the designs would stay white when the rest of the egg colored. :)

Glitter! Roll it in a mixture of glue and water. I have never done it, but I have heard of people doing it. I'm the dip and dunk mom! LOL! Good luck and Happy Easter!

We used to use crayons- white and cookies ones before using dye. We alsop did blown eggs so we could keep a few.

Add a little cooking oil to each color dye. Start with a light color and put the egg in for a few moments. Take the egg out, wipe gently and put in the next color, working from lightest to darkest colors. You can dip into as many colors as you like for beautiful swirl eggs, but be careful as too many colors and your egg may look a bit muddy.

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Depending on how old your children are this is a great project to do with a little older kids. I take raw eggs and wash the outside shells. Then I take a thumbtack or something with a sharp, sharp point to make a hole in the both ends of the egg. Then take a skewer or a extended paperclip or cake tester and poke it through the holes. While you go through break up the yoke and whites. Then using your mouth blow air through the hole to get all the yok and stuff out. After you think all the innerds are out use a small dropper to get water inside the egg to wash it out. Then you can dye it as you wish. It is really cool to keep them from year to year. Have fun. My kids 13 & 10 love to do this.

I just search the net for good ideas when it comes to this stuff -

Blown Out Eggs: http://artfulparent.typepad.com/artfulparent/2011/04/deco...

Painted Eggs: http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2011/04/easter-mantel-lin...

Have fun!

We have used hinkle dye since I was a kid and I never was exposed to other plain dyes until adulthood, and boy did I find it boring after using hinkle my whole life. Basically with hinkle you decorate the eggs by using Q-tips to apply the dye and you can make some pretty beautiful and creative eggs this way. My 3 and 5 yo both made some nice ones last year when they were a year younger and we will be doing this year as well. Hinkle is harder to find nowadays, but it is all I will ever use. Anything else is just too boring. You can create portraits, landscapes, flowers, polka-dots, stripes, swirls, names, animals, anything you can think of. We had a lot of cats on eggs last year. Any my at the time 2 yo did lots of polkadots and stripes and swirls, and things like that, but my daughter was already drawing pictures on the eggs with the dye. I would definitely try to find hinkle.

We still do the simple dip-egg-in-dye-in-a-cup, but only dip the egg part way in one color, then more in another color, then the other end in still another color. So we end up with different multi-colored striped eggs.

maybe try coloring them with crayons and washable markers, it makes it easier to put your own special touch to each egg by being able to draw pictures, scenes and patterns. i remember using a clear wax crayon as a kid to draw on the eggs before "dipping" and the waxed parts would stay white so whatever you drew on them showed up, drawings, names, "happy easter", stuff like that. you could probably also try rolling them in washable paint or watercolors to create s

I saw an article that used rubber bands to make the eggs striped. Wrap the eggs as much as you want, dip, then remove the rubber bands in layers redipping after as you like. Make sure you let them dry in between colors.

We made these one year. We purchased the silk ties at goodwill. I assume silk fabric would also work.. They were cool looking. We still have some we put out each year.

http://www.marthastewart.com/article/silk-tie-easter-eggs

Decoupage would be fun..

It will depend on the age of the people doing any of these. It takes patience.

You can get all kinds of easter egg dyes. They even have tye dye ones. If you want to save some money many of the goodwills have the kits and they are about a quarter of the price there. You could also do some elmers glue and glitter or glitter glue on the eggs.You could do it on top of the already dyed eggs.

I saw a cute ad for Rice Crispie eggs with M&Ms inside. You couldGoogle the instructions.

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I saw a cute ad for Rice Crispy eggs with M&Ms inside. You couldGoogle the instructions.

I wanted to do a more frugal (and safe) dye this year. I googled natural easter egg dye or non toxic egg dye. I can't remember what all the different things I found but do remember beet juice for making a pink. I think there was 4-5 different natural colors using food you may have on hand.