Huh.

[conuly]

All the different PAAS products.

I find the Stars and Stripes one to be the most bizarre. Not to mention rather unpatriotic.

I mean, over the years, my family has bought a huge variety of egg dying kits. (I *really* like to dye eggs.)

We've bought the plain kits. We've bought the glitter kits. We've bought marble kits and speckled kits and kits with crayons. We've used our *own* crayons. We've blown out eggs and boiled them and dyed them half-cooked, which *really* sucked. We've used food coloring, and I believe one year we experiemented with natural dyes, though I may be thinking of something else. We've had years with egg dyes spread all over the kitchen table. We've had years where I dyed eggs in June (or July, I can't remember). We've had dyed eggshells sitting in our compost for months after the fact. One year I believe I had an egg dye fight, and my gym shirt never *did* get clean again.

And our eggs came out nice, or nice enough, anyway - but they never came out even remotely like the pictures on the box. The glitter would clump up. The dye wouldn't adhere properly. The dyes would mix because, y'know, you never put an egg into just one bowl. The paint would get on our hands. Once I tried those egg tattoo things, and I ended up with unsightly bulges instead of a picture. We'd use stickers (this is the crucial part) and they'd either peel off or end up all overenthusiastically applied to a single egg.

If my experience is at all typical, "stars and stripes" eggs are going to turn out just the same - a completely unpatriotic blend of colors, with all the stars crowded onto one egg.

And no stripes. Nobody ever has managed stripes in my family, though we've *tried*, and I find it hard to believe that it's really possible, especially by children.

(I've got my doubts about batik eggs, too. I keep thinking there's a hen out there who makes beautiful eggs, and all these crafters are just passing them off as hard work. But I believe I'll keep that to myself.)

Comments

[abstract-design.livejournal.com]

Ever tried the onion skin eggs?

[conuly]

Probably.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

There was a children's book about a chicken that did something like that-- she would lay eggs that were colored like what she was looking at.

I saw it on Reading Rainbow when I was little. >_> They had the batik eggs too.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

When I was in Brownies we had one of the girl's aunt or grandma or someone come and show us how to do pysanky (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/pysanky/). THAT is impossible to teach 10 year olds, but we gave it our best shot. She brought the tools and everything, although we just used regular dye kits. We used blown-out eggs, too, so we could keep them. I think I still have mine, actually. :)

[abstract-design.livejournal.com]

Ever tried the onion skin eggs?

[conuly]

Probably.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

There was a children's book about a chicken that did something like that-- she would lay eggs that were colored like what she was looking at.

I saw it on Reading Rainbow when I was little. >_> They had the batik eggs too.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

When I was in Brownies we had one of the girl's aunt or grandma or someone come and show us how to do pysanky (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/pysanky/). THAT is impossible to teach 10 year olds, but we gave it our best shot. She brought the tools and everything, although we just used regular dye kits. We used blown-out eggs, too, so we could keep them. I think I still have mine, actually. :)