slo’s TUESDAY 4/4 poll - Coloring Easter Eggs

[slo]

Do you color Easter eggs at your house?
If yes…..are you coloring eggs this year, or did you color them in the past?
(multiple choice)

Poll choice #4 - I tried editing it to say….
We colored Easter eggs with another child when they were younger.
(meaning - stepchild, grandchild, niece or nephew, a friends child and etc)



For Me…….We are not coloring Easter eggs this year.
We have colored them in the past, when my girls were younger, and they had a lot of fun doing this. But now I have no kids here, so no need to do this anymore.

 

[Kitty 34]

I dyed Easter eggs last Friday with my grandson who had come to visit for part of the week.

 

[slo]

I dyed Easter eggs last Friday with my grandson who had come to visit for part of the week.

Fun!
Great memories for you both

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Did it plenty of years but have not in last several and doubt I will in future but I did enjoy doing it

 

[bobbiwoz]

I will probably color some eggs. No longer with children, but I do like to see them. We enjoy hard boiled eggs.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I colored when I was a kid, when Vince and Natalie were kids and when the grandkids were young. No coloring this year.

 

[mamamary]

We did when the kids were little.

 

[PollyannaMom]

We did them all the time when I was a kid, and when DS was little. No particular plans to this year, but I may change my mind. - I enjoy doing them.

 

[AndreaDM]

We colored them on Sunday with the grandkids, those eggs will become deviled eggs for Easter dinner.

 

[scbruno]

Not no more. My kids are older and one is away at college. They use to love coloring eggs. For some reason they still like to hunt for easter eggs.

 

[fly girl]

I love coloring easter eggs! I am always down for it.

No coloring this year, we are going on vacation for spring break and leave on Easter. DD has not colored in years, the "too cool for school" mentality. However, if she is like me when she is 16/17 she will find it enjoyable again.

 

[Micca]

We dyed eggs when our DDs were little, at some point we switched to the plastic eggs for an egg hunt.

 

[ronandannette]

I’ve done them at all ages - sometimes by myself and sometimes with children or other grown-ups. No plans for this year but I suppose that could change.

 

[RedAngie]

Yes, we’re planning to dye eggs on Sunday before Easter dinner.

Nothing fancy. Just drops of food coloring in glasses of water and vinegar.

 

[soccerdad72]

Our kids and my siblings' kids (not so little anymore) all color eggs at my mom's on Easter weekend. It's one of the holiday events that they all still look forward to.

 

[RUDisney]

My kids are older, so we no longer color them, but here is my favorite way to do so. I learned this from Martha Stuart many years ago. They are made with silk ties.

You take the muslin out of the tie and cut the tie into pieces that will fit around a raw egg. I use rubberbands and binder clips (binder clips work better) to hold the silk around the egg. The "good side" of the tie should face the egg. Place the eggs into water and boil them until hard.

Cool in cold water and remove the silk from the eggs and below is the result. The solid purple ones are eggs that boiled with no tie on them. The water will turn color and dye the eggs.

These are easy peasy. I used ties that my DH didn't want anymore and I also purchased cheap ones from Sally's.

 

[Meriweather]

I did when I was a child and part of the time when my kids were children.
Then we switched to the wrappers you put on them and now we don't do any egg decorating.
Hard boiled for deviled eggs.....but not decorated.
And we hide plastic ones in the yard for the grandkids

 

[mumto3girls]

I colored them when I was a kid and when my girls were younger, but it’s been a few years now. I am not expecting to do any this year but that could change.

 

[loves to dive]

We did when we were kids, my mama continued to do it up until about 10 years before she died. She liked to decorate for every holiday. My son and I did it until he was about 8 and he felt he was too old. Don't do it now.

 

[NAB]

We always coloured eggs, only time we didn’t was when the 6 sibling believed in the Easter Bunny. Don’t know how my mom sat in the furnace room colouring dozens of eggs herself.

Always did it with my kids on Good Friday . They still do if their home. But now it’s just me and my so I will do a dozen for my Easter Table.