Did You Dye Easter Eggs with your Family When You Were a Kid ?

[Joshua_me]

And if so....share some happy memories about it.....

 

[rareboy]

We did not.

But my partner and I have done it every year for the last 30 years...up to a couple of dozen for family and friends.

It has always been fun to give them in everyone's basket.

We also used to make an easter egg every year for our easter tree.

 

[cbnick]

Still do. Wouldn't miss it.

 

[Lukeee]

No. As far as I am aware that is an American thing. I don't know anybody who does that and I don't understand what the point of it is.

 

[Fuzzy1]

We always coloured easter eggs as children, sometimes I still do, when I was 8 my parents moved to a farm in southern Manitoba right along the Canada, US border, it was a primarily Ukrainian ethnic area, there I learned the technique of making the Ukrainian style easter eggs that uses wax resist dying to put extreemly elaborate patterns on eggs. These are true works of art and take hours to do. In contrast sometimes I'll let nature do the work and put a basket of natural white and brown eggs on display for my easter table.

 

[rareboy]

For the joy of it.

We always inscribed them our eggs with the name of the recipient.

Some did it more elaborately...

 

[rareboy]

 

[G-Lexington]

Oh yeah. But since I grew up in the artificial 70s, it was Paas all the way.

Those dye tablets dropped into water (with vinegar added, I think). White crayons so you could write stuff on them before dropping them in (and that part would show up white after the rest of the egg was dyed). Stickers to put on afterward. And holes punched in the Paas box so you could dry the eggs on it.

Sometimes, I'd try to do something really complicated, but nearly always, I just tried to get a couple really nice single or dual colored eggs. I was minorly obsessed with getting a good green-to-yellow one each year.

Lex

 

[chrisrobin]

Mother also taught us how to boil eggs in onion-skin water, darkening the shade of Easter dyes, creating jewel tones.

We then engraved them with images by using pen knives. I was pretty good at making tulips. May try it this year. We'll see.

Can't remember the Slavic name of those eggs, but it will come to me.

I recall being offered some colored eggs that were a bright carmine red. Was told they were boiled in onion-skin water... very cool.

 

[chrisw87]

I honestly can't remember if I did or not.

I might have at school or at home, can't remember for the life of me, but I feel I have.

 

[Mako247]

once tried to help a friend of mine to do this
they went out and bought the dyes and bought
hardboiled eggs - yes they were kinda lazy that way

anyways we set up the dyes
dropped in the eggs
went and had a cocktail or seven
came back a while later to pull the eggs out
the eggs were still white!!!!!


turns out those preboiled eggs are coated with wax for freshness

oh well we went and had more cocktails

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Not that I can remember.

 

[CowboyBob]

Yes. My Mom boiled eggs and she bought the Paas Easter egg coloring kit. We had an Easter basket waiting at the front door with candy when we woke up.

Always had a big ham dinner with all the family at the house.

 

[Spiff]

I always love how your polls always have the standard "leave me alone, I'm masturbating" option.

 

[G-Lexington]

Now I want to masturbate with Easter Egg dye...

Lex