When I read that fellow blogger Christie had her daughters blow out eggs and then color them my first thought was-- we could do that. And so we did.
We washed the eggs and then poked holes in either end. Then the girls went to town blowing out the eggs. Even I blew out an egg!
Galina thought it was pretty disgusting but she was a good sport and did it anyway-- unlike someone else.
Annalyn made her holes as big as possible-- but I called that cheating. :)
Here is Miss Someone Else. She could barely watch.
Julia got the hang of things and blew out four eggs in no time.
At the risk of being called totally gross, I won't tell you that we scrambled the eggs and ate them.
Coloring the eggs was really fun this year. Instead of the traditional food color and vinegar we colored the eggs with water colors and acrylic paints. We also decoupaged them with tissue paper. The kids went a little crazy with glitter once Julia brought it out.
I think they turned out beautiful... sparkly... bright... unique.
In celebration of our Risen Savior, we sat down to a nice ham dinner. Normally we do buffet, but we tried family style. Let's just say, we need a little work.
P.S. Wait a minute. Galina caught me in a lie. As I was typing this she corrected me by saying, "No Mom, we need a lot of work."
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They look beautiful! I laughed when you said you ate them..... we did too. LOL We made a giant quiche for breakfast the next morning. :)
Of course you ate them! Why throw food away? I would have done the same.
The eggs turned out beautiful. The nice thing with empty eggs is that you can use whatever colouring technique you want and actually keep the beautiful eggs. You know you can tie some thin string to a short (broken?) match, carefully put it through one of the holes in the egg and then you can hang your eggs up? That is one of the ways we decorate for Easter, with eggs hanging from branches in a vase. Our branches are usually birch, but you can use whatever branches you have!
The eggs are pretty. Not sure I could blow out the eggs either... I'm with Rachel! raw egg kinda grosses me out.
Love that you try new things and the kids are all for it!
Oh are they ever pretty!!
Looks like they had a great time decorating them. Unfortunately we didn't decorate any this year..i had a dozen boiled but the flu wiped out our house and i was doing double the amount of laundry.
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We had a lovely lamb and egg plant parm for our dinner with all the trimmings..we always do family style...but what is buffet style?
They are beautiful but I would be sitting with Rachel! HA! You are such a good Mom. :o)
lol. you could not waste that much egg with that many mouths to feed!
So fun!
Hi! This year we bought organic free roving chicken eggs. The chicken eggs were not the tradition white eggs color some of the eggs were brown or a bluish green tint. My children felt that the blueish green tinted eggs were so cool that they did not need painted or collored. The brown eggs were drawn on with non toxic markers. So much for traditional egg dyeing at my house this year there is alway next year. Pat
Lovely! I don't blame Rachel, though, I would have a hard time doing that. And I don't see anything wrong with eating the egg . . . what a waste if you didn't!
HOW FUN!!! We blew our eggs out this year as well and then made silk dyed eggs. This link (http://cucinatestarossa.blogs.com/weblog/2010/03/the-most-beautiful-easter-eggs-ever-.html) is a good one for explaining how it's done, although next year I will moisten the silk and cut it to fit really smoothly on the sides. It will be easier for little hands. I used mod podge on the outside to make them shiny and make them last longer.
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