I so very much enjoyed dying Easter eggs as a child. Back then I used the traditional PAAS Easter egg dye that is still available today, except back when, all we had to work with were the dye tablets and a white wax crayon for drawing with, and the tablets had to be dissolved in very hot water with vinegar added, so I had to be careful not to burn my fingers when dipping the egg into the dye. Now the tablets can be dissolved in cool water, and vinegar can be added for a richer color.
I loved using the white wax crayon to draw on my Easter eggs, then dipping the egg into dye, to see what image revealed itself magically! The PAAS kits now still include that white wax crayon, but also now include stickers, egg shrink-wrap thingys, and variations of the dye to do swirl patterns.
I dyed Easter eggs with my children, too, probably much the same way as I dyed them when I was a child, although I think we got out colored crayons to draw on the eggs before dying them.
In 2005, John and I started a yearly tradition of dying Easter eggs together, and we've carried on that tradition every year since. Below are pictures of our eggs. Most of the drawings are made with acrylic paint, which is a very nice artistic medium to use before dipping the eggs into the dye. We also use permanent markers for fine details.
2005
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