For the past several years, my daughter and I have used the cool whip and food coloring method to dye our easter eggs! This year, instead of buying more gel food coloring, I wanted to try doing it with my non-toxic watercolor dyes! It is important to note that we did this with non-toxic watercolor dyes, so we could eat the eggs!
We started by hard boiling the eggs, and then I put them in an ice water bath to cool them down. Then, we spread out cool whip on two pans.
Next, I took 4 different colors of dye the work together and drop it randomly all over the cool whip. I used ocean/sea colors and my daughter did unicorn/galaxy colors. Then, with a craft stick, we stirred the cool whip up a bit so that there were pretty swirls all through the eggs.
Finally, we took the eggs and rolled them in the cool whip, making sure that they were completely covered on all sides! We then let the eggs sit for about 20-30 minutes.
When we rinsed these ones off, the swirls were pretty but less vibrant than in past years. Here are the ones we did a year ago to show what they should do:
I don't think we added enough dye to get the vibrancy that we were looking for. But, my daughter and I decided to use the watercolor and some straws and water pipettes to go right onto the eggs to create a more vibrant, tie dyed effect:
They turned out really cool!!! We had a lot of fun doing these eggs! I always try to do something that is a fun project so that we can enjoy the journey!
Do any of you color eggs? What fun ways have you tried before? Leave you suggestions in the comments below!
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