Two Ways To Color Easter Eggs
Try something new for coloring Easter eggs with these two methods that kids can help with too. One method uses colored rice and the other method uses colored whipped topping.
Materials:
1st Method: Colored Rice
- Uncooked rice (1/4 to 1/2 cup per color)
- Food coloring
- Container with a lid
- Hard boiled eggs
2nd Method: Colored Whipped Topping
- Container of whipped topping (such as Cool Whip)
- Food coloring
- Shallow baking pan
- Wood skewer (for swirling the food coloring around)
- Hard boiled eggs
Instructions:
For The Rice Method:
- Place about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of uncooked dry rice in a small plastic container. Drop in about 6 to 10 drops of food coloring. Stir the food coloring into the rice with a spoon until it is mixed in. Put a hardboiled egg in the container, put the lid on, and then shake everything around so the colored rice bangs up against the egg and colors it. The final result should be a pretty colored, speckled looking egg.
For The Whipped Topping Method:
- Spread some Cool Whip in a baking pan (we used most of our 8 oz package). Drop several drops of food coloring over a small area of the Cool Whip and swirl it around a bit with a wooden skewer. (We did four different areas using four different colors). Place hard boiled eggs in the colored Cool Whip and then roll them over once so they are coated on all sides. Let them set for about 15 minutes and then swish them around in a bowl of water to clean them off. The final result should be a lightly colored egg.