Dyed Easter Eggsperiment

I read on pinterest how to dye your eggs with shaving cream and food coloring. The pinner swore the eggs came out with vibrant colors and it was more fun then the old fashioned way of dying them, so we gave it a shot.

First you spray a lot of shaving cream into a container, we chose an old pizza box for easy clean up. Then you put lots of droplets of food dye all over the pile of cream. Mix with a disposable tool, we used sturdy weeds from our yard, then you are ready to dye your eggs.

Roll your egg around in the mixture until it is covered with cream then set it aside to dry. The longer you let them sit the more colorful the eggs will be.

Rinse off after desired amount of time has passed. The post said for 20 minutes but ours were barely colored after that length of time so M and I had to redye them and let them sit for a couple hours.

There were a few that turned out really pretty but most of them were pastel pinks and purples.

K wrote a letter to the Easter Bunny and left a rock she painted for him. She is always good about leaving thank you notes for Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. It's very sweet. Here's a closer look at the rock. It's an egg shaped rock so she decorated it like and Easter egg and put a basket with eggs in it.

On Sunday morning they came down and hunted for the eggs the Easter Bunny left for them. He always hides the eggs we dye along with some plastic candy filled eggs. They also each received some fun items in their baskets.

A chocolate bunny, water cup, bunny bubbles, bracelet, gum, tic tacs, flower seeds, a huge bubble wand, and a rubber band airplane.

For dinner we went pretty simple. I made croissants from scratch, M cooked a ham and we had salad and green beans with sparkling apple cider to drink. I pulled out our glass dishes and the girls thought that was the coolest thing. L kept saying how fancy it was, they are used to eating off of plastic stuff.

 For dessert I made strawberry shortcake cupcakes. They were delicious! You can find the recipe here.