Easter Egg Coloring for a New Generation

Coloring Easter eggs have developed from dying them in pots of boiling onions, to little water-coloring pellets, to new and exciting ways to personalize eggs for the future!

I vaguely remember my grandmother creating some beautiful, almond-hued Easter eggs every year with a pot of boiling water and some onions. She could have just gotten some brown chicken eggs from the whole foods market and called it good.

When I was a little older, I remember sitting around the dining room table with my mother, putting tiny Paas pills into water and vinegar to make pastel colored eggs for Easter. We could have just eaten some food coloring after we ate are eggs and called it good.

But now that I am an adult with a son, how will I color eggs with him? Surely he will see the Paas Easter egg coloring kits on any number of aisles in any type of stores, and demand them as the only thing that will make the 'perfect' Easter egg!

I think that instead of that option, I will come up with some creative ideas that will give him something other than your typical monochrome egg.

To truly customize and create a child's own eggs, why not use something they already have plenty of... crayons! Now wait, it isn't as boring as all of that. The idea is to color the boiled eggs shortly after they have come out of the boiling water, but have had long enough to cool so that little hands can touch them without being burnt. That way, they are not just coloring with the crayons like normal, they are painting with them! The color melts onto the egg and spreads out, creating a very unique egg. You may want to go out and buy a new package of crayons, because heat can be pretty hard on them, and you wouldn't want to ruin their 'good' crayons.

Find metallic crayons, and mix them with normal colors. This is going to melt the crayons into each other, and create some really interesting effects with the crayons, and make them look so much more interesting then your traditional colored eggs. Heck, even monochromatic eggs done in this fashion are sure to outshine a traditionally colored Easter egg (especially if you use a gold or silver crayon)! Mix the colored crayons up with some white, so you have some 'clear' spots on your egg for a different look.