Hunting the Edible Easter Eggs

Ritual makes celebrations personal. Every year I paint Easter eggs (and for other holidays too) with a companion. I had an eco-idea this year – food grade pain on hardboiled eggs my hone could later use of stuffed eggs and potato salad. Bonus we had a three-for activity; decorate the eggs together, hide the eggs for each other to seek, eat the evidence and compost the shells.

For paint I mixed 2 tablespoons flour and 2 tablespoons water into a paste and for color on a palette mixed food coloring or dyes made from fruits and herbs a spoon at a time. We used brushes and a regular dinner plate and the clean up was easy.

Warning: this product doesn’t paint like a regular pain; it splotches some and doesn’t spread well. All my eggs were patterned on fabric, the styles of tie-dye, paisley and polka dots. My honey painted reminiscent of grass, mosaic broken glass and a football.

The eggs dried quickly because we painted them while they were still hot. We could immediately use them to hide and I grew frustrated if my hone hid them too well. We refrigerated the eggs promptly after play using proper food safety.