Kool-Aid Tie-Dye Easter Eggs
With Easter just around the corner, I wanted to share with you a fun and playful way for your readers to get into the holiday spirit. We all know a child’s favorite part of Easter is the annual Easter egg hunt, and what better way to prepare this than with Kool-Aid Dyed Eggs. Erica Katz, author of “Bonding Over Beauty,” has created the perfect video to help guide you through the steps to dye your eggs with Kool-Aid. Using simple materials from the kitchen and pantry, this activity is an easy and affordable way for families to spend time together while also creating something unique and memorable along the way. This year, skip the traditional food coloring, open up the pantry, and experiment with the wide spectrum of Kool-Aid colors.
Click here for the Kool-Aid Tie-Dye Easter Egg recipe.
Our Thoughts
I was extremely excited when this review came across my email. I've always hated dying Easter eggs with my kids. It's always been a chore just because of the massive preparation and clean up that ensues. Imagine for a moment if you will three boys all wanting to dye eggs at the same time, fighting over the cups of dye, whining that they don't get any more eggs than they have in front of them (even though the eggs have been split evenly), and dipping their fingers into the dye to get the eggs out at some point. You can see what kind of a mess usually happens around here when it comes to dying Easter eggs.
I had seen this method on Facebook earlier in the year, probably around the beginning February, before it was even in my inbox. When I read about using Kool-Aid instead of those sticky store bought dyes, I told my husband right away that THIS was what we were going to do this year. I have to say that this was the easiest and most fun way that we've ever done eggs!
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| Our Set Up |
While dinner was cooking I mixed up grape, cherry, black cherry, orange, lemon-lime, and lemon. My kids were so excited that they ate dinner nicely and were ready to get to dying eggs the second they emptied their plates! Just so that I could get a few minutes to set stuff up without being hounded, I told the two oldest to head downstairs to play for a few minutes. As they were downstairs I took precautions as usual and laid down some news papers on our dining room table, got the containers with the Kool-Aid, divvied up the eggs (they got eight each) and started with our youngest. M was thrilled that he was the first to dye eggs. B and R are more self-sufficient so they were able to both dye theirs at the same time. Here are some pictures from us dying eggs. Please note that we did the solid colored eggs. It was much simpler for us with the boys.
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| M dying eggs |
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| B dying eggs. |
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| R dying eggs. |
Here's some pictures of the eggs to show the differences in colors... B's eggs are more pastel colored since he was so impatient with getting the eggs out of the containers.
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| B's pastel colored eggs... He was impatient. |
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| M's bright colored eggs... They sat about 2 minutes in the dye. |
Just to give you a closer look of M's eggs and to show how leaving them in the dye really brightened the colors...
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| Orange |
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| Grape |
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| Lemon |
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| Lemon-Lime |
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| Cherry |
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| Black Cherry |
All in all, we were very happy with the way the eggs turned out! If you're looking for dye options that are easy to clean up, fun and safe for the kids, and smells yummy you should definitely try the Kool-Aid method!
***Please note that I received no form of monetary compensation for this post. The opinions expressed in the review are my own and were not influenced in any way.***
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