Easter Colors

Last night we decided to color Easter eggs. 

This little bit of inspiration struck while we were strolling past the egg aisle of the grocery store during one of our regular hunts for dinner ideas. (The "What should we have for dinner?" question is a nightly bit of drama around here and it's always welcoming distractions of any kind.) Easter eggs. It sounded like a pretty great idea. (Better than making dinner, even.)

I stated my brilliant new intentions to a not-so-enthused Ken, carefully chose a carton of perfect white eggs, and then changed the dinner-hunt into a food-coloring hunt. 

Once we got home and unpacked our shopping bag (which consisted of eggs, food coloring, and an Easter lily -- no dinner items), and while I haphazardly set about boiling the eggs (and subsequently cracked three of the dozen), Ken was suddenly struck with a bit of inspiration of his own. When he opened the box of food coloring, he was delighted to find that each little bottle came equipped with a gnome-like hat. This little character-like quality put his creative imagination into overdrive. This is what followed:

I think it was a food-coloring vs. eggs battle (ambush, more likely) and the food-coloring clearly won.

Since we didn't have a proper egg-coloring-kit that came equipped with egg-dippers, we had to use our fingers for the coloring process, which caused things to get messy pretty quickly.

(Our fingers are still stained in multi-colors.)

But we had a lot of fun dipping layers-upon-layers of coloring onto each egg, no doubt rendering them completely inedible in the process. 

Also...

...Ken took his newfound food-coloring obsession a step further and started adding drops of it to his glass of riesling... and proceeded to drink it. (It was gross.)

And, finally, here is our finished Easter project:

Nine multi-colored, science-experiment-gone-wrong Easter eggs.

Happy Easter!