Every year, I dread Easter. Not because of the chocolate or even the jellybeans (nom, nom, nom). It's cleaning up after the whole Easter egg dyeing process that just sucks the fun out of the holiday for me. But 2012 is going to be the mess-free Easter for me!
That's right. None of that old-fashioned dippin' and dyein'. I am going full-on, easy, breezy drip-free egg decorating. Care to join me? Here's the plan!
1. Stickers. The kid likes to put them on the doors. And the walls. And the toilet. So gosh darnit, we're going to use them in an appropriate place this holiday!
2. Silk ties. This is an oldie but a goodie taught to me by an older woman in my community, and a certain home-making maven approves (ahem, rhymes with Bartha Pewart). Best part, folks? There are no paints. Repeat after me: no paints. Yeah, you're sold too, aren't you? We have the whole process, step by step!
3. Markers. What do you mean you don't have any of these? You have a child, do you not? Good. So listen to me: these are amaaaazing. On pumpkins. On eggs. On anything but the wall of my hallway where a certain child has written her name (so glad the nursery school teachers shared that little gem).
4. Glue and glitter. Seriously, people, how did I not think of this before? I have a 6-year-old daughter who does not think there is anything that cannot be improved with glitter (well, she's kind of right). So you take that hard-boiled egg, you roll it in glue, then you roll it in glitter and ... voila! Genius! Not "totally" mess-free, but glitter is a lot easier to sweep up than food dye, right?
What's your mess-free Easter trick?
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Comments 52
newspaper!!! and give kiddo some gloves
I am the total opposite about easter egg dying, I LOVE to dye them, I love to watch the kids go ape Shhh over dunking every single egg into whatever colors they can, I love their creations. I use food coloring and vinegar to dye my eggs. I also put a whole mess of news paper down in the dye zone. So my kids might have purpblugred colored fingers lol, thats the whole point!
We just like the old fashioned dye kits. I put an old towel down on the table and we are good to go. We colored eggs yesterday and we had a blast.
We just do the dye thing. I spread newspapers on the floor and table, and the kids have a great time. I do bring out the crayons and the kids make designs on the eggs. I also have stickers that they can use.
The sticker idea is great.
LOL At glitter being less messy than egg dye. Try to vacuum that stuff out of your carpet! I put newspapers down on the counter before we egg dye and cleanup is a snap. I do the same thing before carving pumpkins.
I usually just spread out some newspaper over my kitchen table and put the dyes in different containers. The decorating is usually contained to a minimum. I dont usually worry so much about that mess.. its not that big of a deal to me. However I do like the glue and glitter idea above.. I may do this.
We bought some stickers, but we're still using dye.
We are a messy egg coloring family and love it.