Every year as our family tradition we color Easter eggs in addition to Mommy assisting the Easter bunny with stuffing a few dozen eggs. This is to ensure no battles break out on the front yard. When doing so I always end up either having a costco sized egg salad to save for the next several weeks, deviled eggs or hard-boiled eggs. This is just me eating them as well because the boys are egged out by the time their baskets are filled. They refuse to look at one more egg unless its made of chocolate or has candy in it. It also depends on how hot its been outside or how long the eggs have been hidden. Most likely I have to toss them out and it makes me so sad to waste food.
When browsing Walmart or Target for basket filler I forget which one. I was so elated when I found these paper eggs for a buck and change. I could partake in our family traditions without wasting food. They boys didn’t care at all either way….in the beginning.
Until they kept dunking them…
and dunking them….
and dunking them and the color didn’t stick as vibrant as I would have thought. Despite adding vinegar. It was more of a watercolor tint to it.
The boys still loved getting their hands colored….. it was brighter on their fingers than the eggs.
Here are our eggs.
I realized I will either waste real eggs, paper eggs or fill plastic eggs and that will only fill a landfill one day. My kids promised if we never get paper eggs and we can go back to coloring eggs and reuse our plastic ones they will eat every single easter egg we color. That seems like a huge mom win for me right? Which is good. Nice compromise so we will color 6 eggs only and the rest would be plastic.
