Happy Easter!

Like any holiday, my family has traditions for Easter. (For some more traditions, look at my friend Maddie's blog!) Usually we celebrate the Saturday before Easter with all of the chocolate, the easter baskets, the egg hunts, etc. On Sunday (Easter) we might have one Easter Egg hunt with our extended family, but besides that we try to think about Jesus Christ and his Resurrection and Atonement. We go to church and just have a great day!

As tomorrow is Saturday, we are decorating some easter eggs! We normally try and get creative by: 

• Tying rubber bands to make white lines on the eggs
• Dipping the eggs in multiple colors
• Drawing with a white crayon on the egg. Then when you dip it in the dye you can see your drawing!

These are all super fun to do but this Easter, my family is trying something different. We are going to make a marbled effect by using whip cream and food coloring. (We were going to use shaving cream but that is TOXIC. So we are going to use whip cream instead so that we can eat the eggs later!) Here is a blog that helped me know what to do.

Here's what you'll need:

Hard Boiled Eggs

Whipping Cream

3 bowls (this depends on how many colors you want and how many eggs you have. We had eight)

Food Coloring

Tooth Pick (Or just something you can use to stir the whip cream)

Drying Rack (Or a plate, something you can set the eggs on to dry)

Okay, so first you take your whipped cream and drop some drops of food color into the cream. You don't want too many drops because it'll get too messy. 

The whipping cream with food coloring. We used (from
right to left) Red & Blue, Yellow & Red, and Green & Blue. 

Once you've gotten the drops, you'll want to stir the whipped cream. It might look a little scary but that's okay! You don't want to mix the coloring too much because then it will not be as marbled.

Stirring the Whipped Cream

When you've gotten your whip cream ready, grab your egg! You are going to roll it around in the whip cream. It doesn't need much whip cream on it, just enough to cover all of the egg. 

Rolling the egg around so it is completely covered! Notice
how we didn't mix the whipped cream too much and our egg still
has lot's of color!

When you have rolled it around in the whipped cream, DO NOT WIPE OFF THE WHIP CREAM!!! You want to leave it on the egg. For a really bold color, the blog that gave instructions said to let the cream sit on it for eight hours in the refrigerator. After eight hours are up, just wipe off the whip cream and, voila! You have your very own marbled egg! 

Here's my little brother making an egg with some yellow
and red whipping cream! Photo Credit: My Mom

Here'e our beautiful eggs!

My little brother, mom, and I with our finished eggs!
Photo Credit: My dad

Well, I hope you all have a great Easter, and that you get to go on an easter egg hunt!

See ya!

PS! On the blog where I found instructions it said to put vinegar on the eggs before you do anything else but of course I over looked that....so when we went to wipe off the whipped cream it just stuck on the egg. So, put some vinegar on the eggs before you roll them around in whip cream! Good Luck!