Shaving Cream, Food Dye and Eggs?
Happy Good Friday!
I know its been a while since I posted about some kids crafts and since this Sunday is Easter, I thought there was no better way to get back into the habit than by restarting with dying Easter eggs!
The fun thing about Easter eggs is that there seems to be a million different ways to color them. (And they might have been around for a while now, but I grew up with the box dye and made many an Easter egg that way. So while I've got this blog and I've got two boys that are just getting into the Easter spirit, I've decided to start trying out some of these ways to color Easter eggs.
And for this year I decided to use the shaving cream and food dye method.
The Project
Color Easter Eggs using Shaving cream and food coloring
Instructions from Crafty Morning
Results
I know that the actually instructions say to use a cookie sheet for this project, but I decided to use little aluminium containers. I used about five of them and filled them about half way up with shaving cream. I then dropped my food dye onto the shaving cream. (I used just regular colors, but apparently neon food dye works better. I guess I'll have to try that next year!)
I just used two colors in each pan and just used whatever combos I thought would look the best together or would create neat looking eggs. Once I thought I had enough color in the each container I used a plastic knife to swirl the colors together.
Finally it was time to dye our eggs! (This is my favorite part of Easter and I've been waiting four years for Blue to be big enough to help me!)
Blue and Lion had a lot of fun rolling the eggs around in the pans. Okay, Lion didn't really get it. But he liked playing with the eggs and the shaving cream. (And if I had read before hand that you could also use cool whip instead of shaving cream, I probably would have used that instead. So I didn't have to worry about eating shaving cream the entire time!)
After the eggs were thoroughly rolled in the shaving cream and covered completely. We set them to the side to continue dying (while we went to play with something else.)
I like that no matter how well I thought I mixed the colors, when you add the eggs the colors take on a life of their own. And new swirls are almost added every time you push an egg around!
I know the instructions say let them sit for 10 minutes and then rinse them off, but I think I let them sit a lot longer. (Playing with cars takes a long time, sometimes!)
Anyway here is how our eggs turned out!
I tried this two times and the only color I was able to really show is the red. So I'm not sure if I was using too much shaving cream or not enough food coloring. Or if my food dye is just old. Or perhaps this just is not an effective way to dye eggs.
And next year, I guess we'll be trying a different way!
