Monday, March 25, 2013

Getting ready for Easter

Yesterday we went to Gigi's house for lunch (yummy Gumbo) and to dye Easter eggs.  It's always an adventure giving 3 young kids fragile eggs and dye.  (I had deja vu writing that...probably because I wrote the same thing last year.) I discovered a trick on Pinterest that really helped reduce the number of cracked shells this year--using a whisk to hold/dip the eggs.  Worked great for Annabelle's little hands!  She just isn't able to control that little wire egg holder-thing that comes with the dye sets.

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Whisk trick in action

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Gigi found these little Q-tip looking things that had concentrated dye in the tube.  Cody and Gigi were trying to figure out to open it to make the dye flow (took the 2 of them quite a while).  When they finally figured it out, they celebrated and looked up to see that Kyle had already figured out to open his and had been using it the whole time.  The kids (and Cody) love these Q-tip things and we need to remember them for next year.

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Cody worked VERY hard on his egg creations.  Just look at that concentration!

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Still working on that egg.

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Masterpieces in dye on eggshell

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You can tell whether these guys had fun by the degree of messiness on their hands.  Yup...I'd say they had fun.

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