Decorating Eggs for Easter, with Alison Perry

Easter fun doesn’t have to be eggs-tremely stressful. Alison from Not Another Mummy Blog shows us how to decorate eggs with ease…

One of my favourite things about Easter, as a kid, was decorating eggs (oh OK, I admit it, and eating chocolate ones). My mum would hard-boil a few and I’d sit there with paints and brushes, trying to make each one better than the last.

Now, as a mum myself, I’m keen to do the same with my six-year-old daughter. However, I’m a big fan of doing things the faff-free way. Whether it’s cooking, crafting or something else, if there’s an easy way, I’m all for it. Here’s how we decorate eggs in our house…

What you need:

Eggs (I used white hen eggs as the colour comes out better than on brown eggs.)

Food colouring

Vinegar

Jam jars

Tongs

Marker pens

Step 1: Dye the Eggs

Hard-boil your eggs. Take a jam jar and put 230ml of boiling water, 1 tsp of vinegar and 20 drops of food colouring in it. Give it a mix, then using the tongs, place one hard boiled egg into the jar. Leave for five minutes, or longer if you want a deeper colour. Repeat this with different colours in different jars. Remember to rinse the tongs in between jars to avoid colours from mixing.

Step 2: Allow eggs to dry

I popped the eggs onto a wire rack with kitchen roll underneath to catch any colourful drips.

Step 3: Decorate

After 20 minutes or so, the eggs should be dry. Take your marker pens and draw a design onto each egg. Done!

It’s a really easy way to make colourful eggs – and once they’re dyed, kids can join in with the drawing part. My six-year-old took over an hour to carefully draw designs on her eggs, and has already asked when we can make some more! I call that a cracking good afternoon.