So yeah. This natural, silhouette egg-dying project is just as tedious as it sounds.
Rest assured I won’t be trying this again until the kids are old enough to lend more of a helping hand or I’m with my sisters or another group of adults and we can do this together, preferably with drinks involved.
We had a lot of fun this morning hunting through the front and backyards for interesting shaped leaves.
The most challenging part was actually getting the stockings to cover the various clippings of leaves, grass and flowers while keeping those delicate greens in place. I took the most time with the hand-blown eggs since if those turn out, we’ll be keeping them.
But that’s where the kids lost interest. They ditched me in the kitchen while I wrapped up that part of the project. [Note: Stockings were much easier to use than my daughter’s old tights.]
They were back when it was time to dunk them in the dye baths.
I’m going to leave them overnight to see if I can get more color saturation. When I checked this afternoon, the colors were still pretty muted.
My Plan B is to dip them in a food coloring bath if we’re not satisfied with the colors.
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