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Art Project: What's the Best Way to Decorate Easter Eggs?

What's your pleasure: Dyes, decals, shrink wrap or something else?

Most times of the year, eggs that are anything but white or brown will most likely be delicately but quickly removed from the vicinity.

But with Easter just around the corner, it's common for eggs to show up in all colors of the rainbow — or bearing intricate designs — this time of year.

What's your preferred method of coloring eggs for the holiday? Do you color eggs with your children the same way your parents colored them with you, or have you found a way you like better?

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Here are some tips from Paas, which has been producing Easter egg dyes since the late 1800s:

  • Everyone should wash their hands in hot, soapy water before and after handling eggs. Make sure an adult supervises all projects to ensure common sense food safety precautions are observed.
  • Kids don’t have to be highly creative to create an "eggceptional" egg. Help kids use their imagination to create cool looking eggs by gluing on fun materials found at craft stores, like fake gems, sequins, trims and ribbons.
  • To create an egg with a face, create a light flesh color by dipping your egg in a dye that’s made of a little bit of red and yellow coloring; for a darker flesh color, use a little red, yellow, and green. Then let kids “eggspress” themselves – with a smile or other look they paint on.

To make eggs with several different colors:

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  • Have kids draw on their egg with a clear wax “magic crayon.” Each time they use the crayon, they protect that color from dye. For example, keep an area white by drawing on the egg before they dip your egg in any color. Then dip the egg in the lighter colored dye first and then move to darker colored dyes.
  • Be sure to let the first dye color dry before dipping it into next color “bath.”
  • Cover up more areas to keep the color, and peel the wax off of other areas to add color.
  • When they’ve finished dying your egg, peel off all the wax layers to reveal an interesting multi-color design. Polish the egg by rubbing in any remaining wax (heat egg slightly in hot water).

For something a little more challenging, try one of these nine ideas from Reader's Digest.

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