Colorful egg fun

We live in a country where the most common color of an egg is brown.  In fact, when the calendar declared we were approaching "egg dying" season, I was doubtful we would even be able to partake in this activity because I couldn't picture brown eggs turning into beautiful shades of pastels.  However, as luck would have it, we managed to track down some white eggs at the store (at the very bottom of the supply, almost out of sight) in time for a fun egg-dying experience!

Our friend Ever, along with her mama and baby brother, came over to join in the festivities.  My sister-in-law had given us some egg dye from the states when she visited, and Bekah had tracked some down at a store in town.  We were well stocked with white eggs and lots of dye!

Hard at work.

Geoffrey found stirring to be his best method, and he took it very seriously.

Truly, dyeing eggs, even in one solid color, takes concentration.  

Ta-da!

It's like magic.  One minute it's white, and then this happens!

Three musketeers!

Who knew dyeing eggs could be this fun?? (Actually, this was their response to finding out we were having pizza for dinner.)

Maybe next year she will want to dive into creating multi-colored eggs.  She was pretty content with solids this time.

As I pointed out before, he took this very seriously.

We let the eggs dry before hiding them in the backyard for an egg hunt.  The kids thought this was amazing, and proceeded to continue hiding eggs long after the original hunt had ended.  

We gave Geoffrey a head start - the girls were not allowed to begin until he had found one egg - it was pretty cute how long it took for him to see this egg that was right in front of him. :)

Happy determination.

I discovered that Geoffrey's bag was empty, and soon after, realized that once he would find an egg, he would return it to it's hiding place.  Clearly, with that expression, he didn't seem to mind too much!

Nothing like happiness on a child's face; and from something so simple as hunting for hard-boiled, colorful eggs.

Geoffrey figured it out and began holding onto the eggs he was finding.  He catches on, eventually! 

Happy egg-dyeing, everyone!