I know my children don’t have a clue about Easter but that hasn’t stopped us enjoying some Easter crafting. Yesterday we tried our hands at decorating and dyeing hard boiled eggs. This was actually quite quick so the children were able to follow the whole process. I thought I’d share it here as my two really enjoyed it.
You will need:
eggs
Scotch Magic Tape
scissors
vinegar
food colouring
{STEM activity} Dyeing eggs for Easter
First hard boil the eggs. I boiled them for 10 minutes then placed them in a sieve and ran cold water over them for a minute before leaving them in a bowl of cold water for another 10 minutes.
When they are cool you can start to decorate them. My 4 year old loves to practise his cutting so I gave him small pieces of Scotch Magic Tape which he cut into triangles and different shapes and placed on the egg.
We then placed each egg into a tall glass of cold water mixed with 2 tablespoons of vinegar and a generous portion of food colouring.
After an hour we took the eggs from the water and removed the Scotch Magic Tape to reveal our designs.
Scotch Magic Tape is great for crafting with children as it doesn’t stick to itself and is instantly reposition-able, so if you make a mistake it’s quick and easy to fix!
If you try this yourself my top tip is make sure you squeeze out any air bubbles under the tape otherwise the dye will leak through and spoil your design.
We were sent the samples of Scotch Magic Tape for some Easter crafting 🙂
You may be interested in some of our other egg experiments:
Dyeing eggs for Easter with food colouring
Egg in vinegar experiment for kids
I think these are great – what a lovely and fun family holiday activity. Results are good too!
That’s a great idea, I never thought of using tape to make the patterns 🙂
Great Easter Idea. I am a huge fan of the scotch tape, it is brill for wrapping up presents also!
This is such a brilliant idea. It always makes me laugh when I hear about dying eggs as I had a craft book once that suggested painting them then covering them with tissue paper – what a kerfuffle! Much easier to dye. This is great, thank you so much for sharing 🙂
I love the effect that this makes. Really cool
Those are really good! We are getting the hang of blowing eggs. I also love the shrink wraps Lakeland are selling for hard boiled eggs 🙂
That’s such a great idea – I never would have thought of doing this x
This looks like a great Easter craft! My children would really enjoy it. So simple yet effective. Thank you for sharing!
So cool for Easter and so much fun .x
we also had the scotch tape to do this! hope my kids will find it fun!
This is a great idea Jenny, I bet my son would love it! Thanks for linking with Tuesday Tutorials #pintorials
These look great, what a good idea x
Ahh those are cute! I keep meaning to have a go
What a fun idea, We haven’t done that many easter craft activities but we’ll definitely try out this one. x
What a lovely idea, thanks to our chickens we always have plenty of eggs so I might try this 🙂 x
We tried this and it didn’t work may be I didn’t leave it long enough or use enough dye!
They look great..funnily enough this is our afternoon activity today.
COOL EASTER craft I so love this
We did egg dying a few days ago and the girls loved it 🙂 It’s such a fun activity for them x
Egg-cellent Easter Craft! 😉
lovely! I want to try these with pastel inks! x
These are a really easy, simple idea! The results are really sweet too!