First we tried the traditional approach with food coloring, vinegar, and water in a cup. The girls got bored waiting while their eggs sat in the dye. We also tried drawing on the eggs with a crayon before dying them, but the crayon flaked or melted away.
So we went back to last year's hit - the egg spinner. Luckily we still had some of the proper dye packets for the spinner left over from last year. Add a few drops of dye. Insert egg. Close lid. Each kid gets to push the button. Then, presto, a nicely colored egg. It keeps the girls engaged because they get to press a button and watch the egg spin.
We hung the blown eggs to make an egg tree, and added blown eggs from previous years. The hard boiled eggs we'll eat over the course of the long weekend.
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