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By Cheri Sicard

Photo: Mitch Mandell

Posted July 31st, 2007

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Author Notes:

A few items from the stationary aisle of the local drug store can make decorating Easter Eggs easy. In the photo below, we used adhesive re-inforcements for 3 ring notebook paper. We've also had good luck with small star stickers, the kind that kids get pasted on their foreheads of they get an A on their spelling test and circular adhesive price tags.

Supplies:

hard boiled eggs
basic egg dyes in desired shades
masking tape or stickers in desired shapes

Instructions:

For the egg in the photo, we put the stickers on a plain white egg, then dyed it green. You could also put a base color on the egg, let it dry completely, then add stickers and re-color. Another idea is to have multi-colored designs. To accomplish this, peel off a few more stickers with each new color you add to the egg (I find that after 3 colors, it all starts to get muddy, however).

Some hints for using tape or stickers

make sure stickers are firmly attached, but don't press so hard you crack the egg -- I know this sounds obvious, but I managed to break one
make sure the eggs are COMPLETELY dry before removing stickers or the colors will run
the longer the egg soaks, the greater your chances of the sticker lifting, and if the sticker lifts during coloring, the finished egg won't look good

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