Marbled Eggs
By: Amanda Formaro
Difficulty: Easy
Age: 4 and up
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What you'll need:
- Hard-boiled eggs
- Food coloring
- White vinegar
- Cooking oil
- One container for each color (coffee mugs work great)
- Paper towels
- One spoon for each color
- Measuring tablespoon
- Newspaper
How to make it:
- Cover work surface with newspaper.
- Lay out a few paper towels for holding completed eggs.
- In each container, put one tablespoon each of vinegar, oil and food coloring. Repeat this for each color.
- Add enough water to each coloring mixture to cover an egg.
- Add a spoon to each of the color mixtures.
- Have a stack of napkins or paper towels at the ready, separate from the paper towels that you laid out to hold the completed eggs.
- Stir mixture with spoon to create a swirling motion.
- While liquid is swirling, place egg on spoon and dip down into swirling mixture. Remove egg quickly.
- Pat egg dry with a paper towel, set aside if satisfied with the color. If you're not satisfied you can repeat the process with a second color. Do as many color combinations as you like.
- When finished, pat the egg dry, leaving a little of the oil on the egg to give it a varnished look.
- Place completed eggs on paper towels as you work on more.
- Store eggs in refrigerator until ready to eat!
Tips:
- Check your local grocer as there are cool neon food colors available.
- One full squeeze bottle of food coloring is not quite a tablespoon, but will work nicely for this craft.
- If you have some food coloring on hand but the bottles are only half full, simply combine some colors to make your own (red + yellow=orange) to make up for the lack of quantity.
