The Easter Egg

We can't celebrate Easter without the egg! They just go together.

Eggs are used to celebrate Easter or springtime. We hard boil eggs and fancy them up with a variety of coloring methods. The oldest tradition is to dye and paint chicken eggs. 

We also celebrate Easter with chocolate eggs or plastic eggs filled with jelly beans, malted milk eggs, marshmallow eggs, and other eggs shaped candies.

Now that I am the grandma, Easter celebrations are planned around the grand kids. Traditions of celebrating Easter have remained much the same, from days of my youth to now. We have had to adjust and change the way we do some things because of where we live. The closest thing we have to the desert is the Golden Spike. And not all our children get to be with us at Easter because of the distance. But one thing is certain...

We love to celebrate the Easter egg at our house!

It starts a couple of days before Easter. We get together, cook and color eggs.

My favorite way to color eggs is with good old reliable food coloring and vinegar. Writing the kids name on the hard boiled eggs with crayon creates a wax barrier and remains on the egg after coloring. The kids really like this.

Last year we tried a new way of coloring. It is messy, but the colors are lively and fun. I would suggest placing a plastic table cloth on the table before starting.

Squirt a pile of shaving cream onto a paper plate. 

Add a couple of drops each of different colors of food coloring.

Mix together.

Roll egg in shaving cream mixture.

Wipe off cream, using a paper towel. 

That's it!

What do we do with Easter eggs?

Hunt for them. 

Roll them down the hill.

Learn about the true meaning of Easter!

Teaching the kids about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, using plastic eggs, is a meaningful way to celebrate Easter. For "Resurrection Eggs" click here.

Although I love making and eating the traditional Easter egg, I love even more....

chocolate peanut m&m's, reese's peanut butter eggs, and malted robin eggs!

The case of the missing Easter egg

Easter eggs can be quite important in a child's life. I was talking to my daughter on the phone this morning about her plans for Easter. We got on the subject of Easter eggs. She told me a story that made me laugh. I don't know if I really never knew this or I just can't remember. But... it's a good story.

A story. Logan, 1991. Easter had come and gone. The Easter eggs were all eaten, or so I thought! Two of my daughters who are only 18 months apart, were joined together like twins. They could come up with the most concocted ways to play. Amie was 13. Shaniel was 12. They each kept their favorite Easter egg. Amie's was blue. Shaniel's was purple. They were beautiful! They couldn't think of eating these beautiful eggs they had created. They made a special place to keep them in their rooms. They were their children! They played with them after school. At night, they put them to bed, covering them with washcloths.

Other activities soon distracted the girls from taking care of their egg children. They were all too soon forgotten. A few weeks went by and Amie started smelling something very stinky in her room. It got worse and worse. She looked and looked to see what was causing all the stink. She found and uncovered the egg she once called her child. It was rotten! It was stinky! 

If you keep an egg after Easter.. it can have a rotten, stinky end! 

Another story. The grandkids came up one day and we colored Easter eggs. I put them in a bowl and placed them on the counter to be eaten. All got eaten, except one. We couldn't find it for the life of us. Buster was distraught over losing his blue egg. When he left, I promised him I would keep a look out for his egg. Several days went by and I decided it was time to clean up Easter. I started to take out the grass in the bowl and lo and behold, the case of missing blue egg was solved. It had been hiding in the grass all along.

If you want all your eggs to be eaten, don't put a colored egg in the same color grass!

Writing prompt #3: Write a blog post inspired by the word: Easter.

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