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[Twins Mom]

With the price of eggs, I can't see preparing that many eggs foe the kids to decorate.  Coloring goes pretty quickly and my Grands are young.  Any ideas on what activities might be fun?  In our home will use plastic eggs but looking for something for kids to do.  Saw something about coloring large marshmallows.  Any insight?

[LdyBugz]

@Twins Mom   Maybe decorate those plastic eggs with stickers and sharpie pens?

P.S., Decorate egg-shaped sugar cookies.  

[Sooner]

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@Twins Mom wrote:

With the price of eggs, I can't see preparing that many eggs foe the kids to decorate.  Coloring goes pretty quickly and my Grands are young.  Any ideas on what activities might be fun?  In our home will use plastic eggs but looking for something for kids to do.  Saw something about coloring large marshmallows.  Any insight?

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@Twins Mom Don't color dozens of eggs, color a dozen o so.  Use the eggs for egg salad after the hunt, let the kids help make it.  Eggs are a good buy for a meal.  Candy or plastic eggs are money spent but not maybe for the best use.

Use Easter eggs as a teaching mechanism about cooking and what eggs are and how they are protein for our bodies.  Let the kids shell the eggs and stir up some fun! Eggs are a blessing, a food people have depended on for thousands of years. 

[patbz]

We use plastic eggs for our preteen grandsons.  We bought 2 dozen this year plus 4 golden plastic eggs.  We hide $/ candies in them ; 50 cents to one dollar per egg. The 4 golden eggs will have slightly nicer prizes. Last year it rained and the boys searched outside until they found every egg ( didn't even notice the rain).

[ThinkingOutLoud]

hmmm...

- they can wrap cardboard eggs with yarn

- or make sugar/string eggs using a balloon you pop (starch might work instead of the sugar water?)

- or tissue paper eggs would be easy

[patbz]

I saw a mime recently about the egg shortage and Easter: they were decorating potatoes with tempera paint! The more I think about it, that's a cute idea.

[Sakuya]

Make egg-shaped cutout cookies the kids can decorate with sprinkles.

[LizzieInSRQ]

Decorate cookies

[ValuSkr]

I've gotten wooden eggs at craft stores, like Michael's and Joann's.  They often come in a carton, like eggs, and are undecorated.

[cjm61]

@Twins Mom I have to agree with @Sooner . Easter is one day a year. I will have eggs for my grandkids no matter what the cost. The time spent with them and making memories of our years coloring eggs is priceless.

Like @Sooner stated, just don't dye as many eggs as in the past, perhaps dye one dozen, saving the eggs to use to eat later. Maybe spend time coloring plaster eggs or wooden eggs if you want the activity to last longer.