Happy Easter!

Yesterday was Easter Sunday and everyone was up early for mass which was at 7:30am, at Holy Trinity Church. It wasn't hard waking the kids up, as compared to a school day, because they were excited to see their Easter eggs being distributed.

Here's Solomon, Daddy put him in a basket while everyone was busy putting on their shoes. He didn't seem to mind.

The day before, Saturday, the kids plus cousins were busy the whole afternoon dyeing hard boiled eggs. We started off with 9 trays of eggs, which makes 270, and ended with around 250 eggs. There were some casualties during boiling, and many more during the colouring process!

We started off dyeing the eggs by dipping half in one colour and the other half in another colour. This produced two-toned eggs. We used 1/2 cup water+1 tablespoon vinegar (as a fixing agent I think) and added food colouring as needed.

The results were a bit boring though. I remember when we were kids, we used to decorate Easter eggs by drawing on them with magic markers! This was much easier and a lot of fun and produced more fancy eggs. However, the colour tends to seep through the shell and stain the egg inside. So since we do not want our kids ingesting toxic eggs, we had to use proper food colouring.

Anyway, I read on the internet that one of the methods for decorating with liquid food dye was to draw on the eggs with white crayon before dipping in colour. The areas with the drawings would not absorb the colour due to the water repelling wax. So we tried this, using small birthday cake candles and the results were great! Then the kids tried dipping and mixing more than 2 colours and came up with very interesting eggs indeed.

There were a few egg crashes, stained tables/dresses and food colouring spills; which earned some mummy-naggings, but all in all they had a good time making a mess and getting colourful hands!

So yesterday the eggs were handed out to all the children after mass. I'm sure the kids were proud to see their handiwork being appreciated!

Here's Solomon again, obviously he got a blue egg!