Eggtastrophe

A couple weeks ago, while browsing Walmart for Easter gifts, I found a little craft. A dozen cardboard eggs with dye! I picked it up and was reading the contents, when another mom saw me looking at it and said "Those are so great. Way better than real eggs". So, thinking I had another mom's craft approval I tossed it into the cart. When I got home, Cooper saw the eggs and immediately wanted to play with them. I love when he gets excited about craft time. It's the perfect bonding time for just me and him.

The instructions say to put down plastic or newspaper but I didn't have any, so, silly me thought that the tabletop is black, no big deal if dye gets on it. That would later come bite me in the butt.

The packages that the dye were in leaked everywhere as soon as I cut the tops off. They wanted the dye in the provided plastic bags, well, that was a joke. One of the bags had a hole in the bottom. So finally, hands covered in dye, I grabbed some cups that I figured Coop could roll and paint the eggs in. The only problem was that they didn't provide any sort of removal tool like a typical egg dye kit. So to get them out of the bags and the cups we got more dye on our hands. Cute craft turned annoyance in less than 5 minutes. Yeesh! 

I will say that once dry, the colours were pretty cool on the eggs. So if I'm crazy enough to use these again, maybe just paint? 

It definitely wasn't a mom that came up with colouring eggs. Who comes up with a kid craft that uses food colouring? Cooper dyed one egg at preschool, so here I thought he could manage this task when Uncle Nick brought over a dying kit. I clearly forgot the key point... He's three! He has so little patience for a craft like this. The real eggs needed 5 minutes in the dye but every thirty seconds, "Are they done yet?". It takes him 20 minutes to get his shoes on in the morning and yet he can't wait 5 minutes for a silly egg!? Colouring Easter eggs is definitely a two drink minimum kind of craft.

-The Cooped Up Mom