Easter Preparation!!

We invited Andrea and the twins over today to help us with our egg decorating. The kids had a blast but we were all a bit multicolored by the time we were finished!

I'm always frustrated with commercial egg coloring kits...they never seem to be vibrant enough for me. I was on Pinterest a few days ago and saw a post explaining how to color your eggs with Koolaid! The colors looked great and I got so excited! But, superstore only carries 2 flavors of Koolaid and I didn't have time to shop around....we were already late getting home. So, back to Pinterest for me that night.

I found a post about using paste cake decorating dye to make your colors with and the results looked awesome! I put quite a bit of paste in each cup because we were working with 2 two year olds...I didn't want to be sitting around for 15 minutes at a time waiting for colors to darken. Then I added a couple tablespoons of vinegar and the rest hot water.

Our colors came out awesome! The pink and purple had a tough time dissolving but that resulted in some Tie-dye effects. The colors were quite potent and we didn't have to wait long at all to get some vibrant coverage!

Everyone had about 7 eggs to color because Maren was gone with friends. The twins were so cute! They loved using their hands and then they'd wipe their hands on their tummies...good thing Andrea opted to take their clothes off before we started.

All in all, everything turned out awesome!! I think I'll use the same method next year too, but maybe I'll try some different color combinations for some interesting colors. Thanks for coming to play guys!!