Kyleigh's Story - Easter Egg Coloring (Practice Run)

On Sunday 4/5/2009, we decided to do a "practice" Easter egg coloring activity with Kyleigh. 

I was born and raised in Taiwan, so I didn't have much experience with Easter celebration.  The only memory I had about Easter was that one year (when I was very young), I was coloring on raw egg shells. Somehow my grandparents or maybe my mom got the egg whites and yolks out of the raw eggs without breaking them.  Or maybe my memory was wrong, who knows.  My husband said that in America, people dip or paint boiled eggs instead. 

I had previously gotten 2 packages of Easter Egg Coloring Kits from CVS (free after Extra Bucks, Yay!).  I opened one package and read the instruction. We decided to do the simplest single-dipping, because all the other variations looked too complicated to me. (And I don't think Kyleigh would care, yet.)  We were so inexperienced that it took us 15 minutes just to discuss what kind of containers we should use for these colors.

I got the eggs boiled and dried. The first step for Kyleigh was to help mixing the colors.  It took longer than we thought, because the color tablets just wouldn't dissolve quickly.

Then it's time to dip.  Even though we kept saying "putting it down" and "don't throw it", Kyleigh kept throwing the eggs into the buckets (of course).  We didn't even put her snowman apron on at first.  So we were lucky that there wasn't any spilling accident. 

Daddy gave Kyleigh the egg dipper. She's playing with the green egg.

The eggs were almost ready. "Hey, Daddy!  What are you doing with my red egg?" (Lower left corner of the picture)

Time to get the first batch of eggs up.

And put some new eggs in.

After the eggs were dry, Kyleigh could decorate them with the stickers. The egg in Kyleigh's hand was the only double-dipped egg (yellow and green) in this batch.

Kyleigh was only putting one sticker on each egg initially, and she stopped. Daddy encouraged her to put more on each egg. Kyleigh knows how to bend the sticker paper to get the sticker off.

"Ummm... Where should I put this sticker?"

"How about on my palm!?"

"I can also put one on each finger."

"Mommy, look!"

Daddy asked Kyleigh if she wanted to eat the eggs, and started cracking one egg. Kyleigh mimicked Daddy and also picked up one egg and started cracking it on the table.  I just then found out Daddy didn't know how to peel a boiled egg!  (LOL)  Kyleigh was doing a better job in fact.  

We ended up keeping the eggs in the refrigerator and didn't hide them for Kyleigh to find.  I think we had enough fun just coloring them.

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