Adult supervision required.
Easter is close and everyone is busy with the usual Easter crafts. Coloured eggs is one of the most popular but very predictable!
Today we made our own dyes by boiling onion skins. We used red skins and predicted that the egg shells would be red. They came out more purple but maybe they would have been red if we had used eggs with white shells. That’s something you can find out!
We cracked the shells of some of the eggs before putting them in the dye to make ‘spider man’ eggs. Again our prediction was that we would have a network of spidery red lines but that wasn’t the case!
There was dye left over so we used it to tie dye a white handkerchief.
Then we tried dying pieces of other material to see which took up the dye, always predicting first what we thought would happen.
Last but not least we looked at some pieces of onion skin through a magnifying glass.
Some very interesting discussion arose from the questions asked during all this work with eggs.
Why do chickens come out of some eggs but not others?
Why do we give eggs at Easter?
Why are eggs and chicks symbolic of springtime?
Why do eggs have shells shells?
Why don’t we lay eggs?
It’s fun trying something new!
Creative Learning for Young Children 
