What you need

3/4 cup of water

1 tsp vinegar

1/4 tsp food colouring

Eggs (works best with light coloured eggs)

Colouring your eggs

1. Have your  raw or hard-cooked (boiled) eggs ready (room temperature is best)
2. For each colour that you wish to use, mix 3/4 cup of water and 1 tsp vinegar and 1/4 tsp food colouring.
3. Add food colouring one drop at a time until you obtain the brightness that you desire.
4. Use tongs  to dip the  eggs in and out of the water
5. Submerge the eggs until tinted the colour you want, from 2-5 minutes.
6. Remove the eggs from the water and allow to dry before adding another colour or continuing to decorate (handy hint – use a cake rack to put your eggs on whilst they dry between colours)

Here are some more fun decorating tips

• Use wax crayons, magic markers or paints (acrylics, tempera, enamel or poster paints) on your eggshell.
• For egghead faces, use felt pens and paints or dye eggs flesh colours. You can then glue buttons, cotton balls, wool, sequins, macaroni, feathers, glitter, pencil shavings, fabric, yarn whatever you like to make the  eye, ears, nose and mouth.
• You can make stands for decorated eggs by gluing on small plastic curtain rings, buttons, spools, stones, pieces of wood or bottle caps.

Happy Colouring Your Eggs this Easter

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