Coloring Easter eggs

[orriskitten]

Anyone else doing this with their toddler, or am I the only idiot who thought it would be fun?

She and I are both dyed, my table is stained and I've frantically said "no be careful" more times than I can count.

It was the one thing I thought I could handle today and I just want to cry lol.

Share your egg (mis)adventures!

[charlielove]

We are doing this later today! I put her egg in a whisk for extra protection while she dips.

[muppetinma]

Yeah, nope. Not a chance. Likely not next year either. You guys are brave!

[newgirl412]

There are less "permanent" type ways to dye eggs. Put a packet of koolaid in one cup water and use it to dye the eggs or use shaving cream with food coloring to dye the eggs.

[katie]

I just bought the little kit to do it. So we shall see how it goes!

[abbypug19]

MH wants to and I do not so he's in charge of that. I'm going to stay in the other room, it seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

[Deleted]

Holy hell. I just got done doing this wight TWO toddlers. Never again. My h and I are going to tag team j tomorrow. There was dye everywhere. Be careful, don't touch, and don't drink it was said a million times.


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[TrudyCampbell]

We are doing it tomorrow!

[creamsiclechica]

We are tomorrow! I am certain it's going to be a beautiful mess.

Hi, Mel!! She is so stinking cute!!

[spaghetticat]

I found a "no spill" kit. It wasn't perfect, but I don't have a heart attack. And now she likes to eat the colored eggs.

[orriskitten]

Apr 18, 2014 10:54:54 GMT -5 muppetinma said:

Yeah, nope. Not a chance. Likely not next year either. You guys are brave!

Not brave, stupid. Very stupid.

In other news, we have an egg casualty that got rolled off the table. Dumb me said "let's eat it! "and now she only wants to crack open the eggs.

[orriskitten]

Apr 18, 2014 11:04:03 GMT -5 spaghetticat said:

I found a "no spill" kit. It wasn't perfect, but I don't have a heart attack. And now she likes to eat the colored eggs.

I saw one and didn't buy it, went back for it and there were no more. Grr.

[carawestt]

I think we're going to do it tomorrow. I still need to hard boil some eggs.

[orriskitten]

In other news, the kit I got has gold glaze to dab on. Nope, no way. Not happening. My stupidity only goes so far.

[melis74]

We did it last year and will do it again tomorrow. I'm sure this year will be a bit more tricky but still fun!

[orriskitten]

Apr 18, 2014 11:02:50 GMT -5 @dragonmommy422 said:

Holy hell. I just got done doing this wight TWO toddlers. Never again. My h and I are going to tag team j tomorrow. There was dye everywhere. Be careful, don't touch, and don't drink it was said a million times.


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You were smart with the tarps. I did no such thing. The damage of dye happened in seconds. Also, she wanted to throw the eggs in the cup. Here I was thinking she'd enjoy the dipper. Ugh!

[Deleted]

I'm at the house I nanny at (the boys are napping) and I was terrified of ruining something, even though the mom was so insistent about me doing it. I think now that I've been through dying eggs with two at once, having two adults help one toddler will be easy and fun.


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[ktstorm]

We are tomorrow with my mom. She has magical toddler-whispering powers - I don't have the guts to do it on my own. Last year it was a only in a diaper activity and he was more interested in breaking the egg and trying to eat the eggshell than the dye. I forsee my child trying to drink the dye this year.

[helicase]

We are doing it tomorrow. T will be more of a helper while I do it, though. I don't trust him AT ALL.

[honeybee503]

I let her color on them with crayons. She only dropped one after yelling, "ball!"

[vthokie]

We're doing it at my parents. I forgot to bring crappy clothes to dye stuff in. Uh oh

[dixeedeluxe]

We'll do it tonight. We've done it every year up to now and it's always been terrible and not fun.

[rubber pants]

We will do this Later. She did some at daycare and loved it!!

[blessed2bmama]

We are doing it this afternoon after nap (MH is home today so we can double team!) but after reading this, we may do it outside and have her just in an old t shirt of mine that can be ruined. ;-)

[artgal84]

We didn't do it, too stressful. Haha. I bought foam eggs from the target dollar spot with glitter glue and we decorated those.

[kdrake8]

I let Grammy do it with her....

[thedahliharpa]

My stepmom did it with both girls yesterday alone. I'm still finding glitter on them. This may mean I'm off the hook.

[thedahliharpa]

Apr 18, 2014 11:53:48 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

We'll do it tonight. We've done it every year up to now and it's always been terrible and not fun.

But...the memories! :-)

[geekychic]

I did. It was fun and messy.

She watched me do a couple and then figured out what to do. She wasn't into the egg dipper, prefering to throw the eggs into the bowls.

Hands and torso were more dyed than the eggs.

[PatBenatar]

We're doing it tomorrow. I'm scared!

My mother colored some with her today and said it was a success though