Tattoo Eggs

I {LOVE} dyeing Easter eggs. My boys and I could easily dye a dozen a day during Easter time (luckily Sutton loves to eat eggs almost as much as I like to dye them!), so we've tried plenty of different techniques for making our eggs fun and fancy.

Today we tried decorating our eggs with a stash of temporary tattoos we had leftover from my nephew's birthday party. I saw this idea over at Country Living - they used gorgeous nature designs printed on tattoo paper and applied to blown eggs, but we went with the rock star tattoos we already had and some neon food coloring (our eggs were hard boiled). 

Apply your tattoo to a clean, dry and undyed egg. Use a lot of water and gentle pressure. It takes a little practice to get the tattoos to lay flat against the curve of the eggs. Let it dry completely before dyeing or else the tattoo won't stay stuck to the egg.  

We also like to add secret messages to our eggs using white crayon. The boys love watching their doodles appear like magic in the dye bath.

I alway dye my eggs in mugs...just like we did when I was a kid!

Love it! The tattoos worked great, but you do need to be careful not to stir them around in the dye too much. They need to be treated rather delicately any time the tattoo is wet so that they don't start to peel up at the edges, but they set up perfectly when they were dry!

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