Does anyone still dye their own Easter Eggs?

YES! Even though it is just my husband, 89yr old mother, and me. I boil the eggs in different pots (some with the onion skins )..just a few but they do taste better LOL...even the next day,in devilled eggs. I'm a sucker for tradition.

I not only dye them we then continue on to decorate them with anything we have on hand. the button ones look so cute. I have made bunny looking eggs used pom poms pipe cleaners ribbons and just about anything we find kids love it. A friend of mine brought his daughter and she just thought it was so great they came over again tonight to do more

yes, and do you?

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I just did it yesterday with my son 7yr old *

My 4 yr. old GD and I are coloring eggs as we speak....She is having a great time and is even mixing her colors for new colors.

Even my teenagers still love to color eggs. They are more artistic now that they are older.

My 2 grandsons and I did 2 dozen eggs last Sunday. They did a great job and was fun Happy Easter

yes mam, full steam ahead!

We do color eggs every EASTER

Yes, I will dye some just for ME! No family, but I will remember everyone I used to color eggs with. Besides, the colored ones taste better than the white ones!! Happy Easter, everyone, love, Marji

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by jrob 10 Apr 2009

Is that like tanned fat is prettier than white fat? That's what my friend tells me.;)

We always put dye in the water when we boil eggs, even when it isn't Easter. It lets you know which are hard boiled and which are raw. Saves a lot of mess when you would get the wrong one. :)

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by jrob 10 Apr 2009

oh, good hint!

This will tickle some of you...I just got a note from my niece in Japan who let her 2 yr old daughter dye eggs all by herself...She put her in the bathtub with all the colored cups around her and let her go....just washed it all down the drain and then gave her a "BUBBLE"!!

Not any more. I did boil three dozen and will make deviled eggs out of them. I also made a couple dozen each of homemade peanut butter and cocoanut choc covered eggs. What fun that was and so tasty!!

When you have grands it is a must!!!!!!!!! God Bless

I'm about to go to my son and have a go at colouring eggs with the grandkids (6, 4 and 1 1/2) Should be messy and great fun!

Oh, yes. Mine have already told me that I had better have some ready to do. Thank goodness Mommy is here to help, lol. With the 3 rugrats and a greatniece to boot, we will be busy. Then they got to hide and hunt, again. Saturday hunt at the church won't be enough.

well i dye eggs only the the empty ones !!! and hang them in the easter branches!!!!!
some are getting bunny ears of felt and wubly eyes
and then we have our own egg bunnies!!!

Sure do, if the grand daughters are going to be here! We usually dye about 4 doz. as we all like to eat them! BUT since this is their year to go to other grandma's, I won't be dying any, but will be boiling some! Maybe I'll dye a few just to kid my 27 yr. old! We USED to hide them too, that is until the year we didn't find one that was hid in the rec. room...our poor dog was blamed for weeks for stinking up the rec room! Until we found that missing egg under the stero! Hee hee!

Of course and if the grandchildren are here we do them OUTSIDE! Hey at our age we can even hide our own eggs and then hunt for them!

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by bokkieborduur 10 Apr 2009

I agree with you Love Marie

by marjialexa 10 Apr 2009

Hee hee hee, no foolin' about hiding our own eggs. Why do you gals think I don't do design hunts, I'm hunting for all the 'real' things I'm missing all the time, hee hee hee. Hope you find a Happy Easter. M

Yes! I did it today with my 3 yo, my 16 month old and 2 of their friends. It was great fun and they loved the colors. We did it out on the patio table and they made a little mess, but not too bad. We will be doing it again, maybe even before next easter. The 3 yo actually ate one of them later on, I think he thought they would be chocolate!

Not any more...used to as a kid about 7 / 8 dozen ...then did 2 /3 doz. with G/S now that he is 11 he doesn't eant to anymore!!!! :(

Of course I still dye eggs. U get a beautiful color when u use purple onion skins & a real pretty color with yellow onion skins & of course there is food coloring with a little vineger added. Get beautiful colors. *

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by marjialexa 10 Apr 2009

How neat that someone else remembers this, Lillian!! We often dyed eggs this way, Mom's family was from Poland, her Mother taught her, and we didn't always have money for store-bought dyes. Thanks for the good memory. I have my onion skins ready for this year. M

We don't have little ones in the house - so we just boil them up when we need them - Hehehe! But I do create baskets and items for the grands to have at their own homes - out of the way of temtation here. *4U

I dye mine; it adds a lot of color to the supper table!!!

Since the grands are grown or mid teens I only dye a
few and cheat at that by making them all one color during the boiling process. Yep, I should be ashamed to have missed all that fun.

ABSOLUTELY!!!!! Just dyed 2 1/2 dozen with my grandson (5 yrs. old) and had a blast!!!
We also use plastic eggs for our Easter Egg hunt outside in the front yard. Whew!!! lots of work for FUN.

i still do my own food coloring lol you should see me and kids fingers we are always colored also such fun me and my granmother always did so i keep it going like she would have

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by lindaavolio 09 Apr 2009

Glad to see you back...your memories your your grandmother are treasures not to be forgotten but cherished!!!
Hugs, Hugs and more Hugs

by marymoore 09 Apr 2009

thank u

by shirlener88 09 Apr 2009

Good for you - caring on your Granny's traditon - glad to see you back. *4U

by jrob 10 Apr 2009

I love carrying out traditions that have been passed down, and BTW good to see you back lounging in that chair!;)

I just buy the plastic ones and wondered if any of you do your own "dye job". ;)

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by vixentlc 09 Apr 2009

LOL! Great picture! To awnser you Q, nope, we don't do eggs for easter, not even chocolate.

by marjialexa 10 Apr 2009

Hee hee hee, good one!!!