Paint Eggs

Another idea I stumbled across that I knew I just had to do was paint filled eggs. So back when I was cooking for our last camping trip I made a whole mess of breakfast burritos, which entails scrambling 20 eggs. I kept all the egg shells and washed them all with nice hot water and soap. Since then I have been collecting more shell halves for "lids".

This morning I finally got enough to fill an 18 count egg carton.

I played around with the lids to see which fit better on what egg.

Instead of using store bought sidewalk paint, I decided to use another pin that has been hanging out on one of my boards for sometime now. All you need is some corn starch, cold water, and food coloring.

I made a double batch of each color, which just so happened to fill 3 eggs perfectly! So 8 tablespoons of cold water, 4 tablespoons of corn starch, and I used 20 drops of food coloring. For the orange I used 15 yellow and 5 red. For the purple I used 17 blue and 3 red. Mixed it up nice a slow (the corn starch takes a minute to dissolve so be careful not to splash it everywhere)

Then I filled up the eggs. The pour spout on my measuring cup made this step a breeze.

Next you want to glue on the lids, hot glue works best. Just put a nice ring of glue right around the opening of the egg and place the lid on. Be careful not to push the lid on to hard, the shells are pretty fragile after being empty for some time.

Here are my "Franken-Eggs"! You may notice a little extra glue on the outside of a few of the eggs. I wanted to make sure they had a good seal so they didn't leak before we had the chance to throw them.

His very first egg he dropped just pulling it out of the carton, so he pretty much just watched as all the paint dribbled out.

He soon got the hang of it!

"All my eggs are gone!"

Once all the new eggs were smashed he started picking up the ones that looked like they were still in one piece and decided that they needed to be thrown again!

He was pretty proud of his finished product.

And so am I! <3