Easter Eggs

To celebrate Good Friday, we decorated Easter Eggs.We actually started yesterday as part of our chemistry lesson experiment- the boys learned how vinegar helps to make colors brighter. But we only did a few eggs yesterday (all of which were eaten before dinner) and did more today. I only let the kids do 4 eggs each (Natalie just watched) because with what we did yesterday, that makes for quite a few eggs and I was afraid they would get tired of eating hard boiled eggs and let them spoil. So far, they've eaten about half of them, though, so hopefully they will finish them up without wasting any. I tried to talk a little color theory to the kids to teach Heidi and Trevor about primary and secondary colors, but no one was very interested in that, so we just had fun coloring. We wrapped rubber bands around a few eggs to make stripes, used a net Austin had to make a cool pattern on a few eggs, and used the age-old white-crayon trick to make secret messages or pictures (Trevor was excited to find a T on one of his eggs- he is very proud of himself for knowing it and loves to find T's all over the place). I'm pretty sure they will all be gone (or nearly gone) by Easter, so they'll have to do an Easter egg hunt with just the plastic eggs.
The main event only lasted about an hour, but the kids kept on re-dying or partially re-dying their eggs for a few hours, before I finally said enough and dumped all the dye down the sink. I think this was one of the funnest years we've had dying eggs since most of the kids are old enough to handle it on their own and I mostly just supervised, gave ideas, and took pictures. Natalie can't wait to join in the fun next Easter!

By the time I got around to taking pictures of each kid with their most special egg, Asher and Leif had stripped their clothes off (not sure why) and Trevor had eaten his.