Our experience dying Easter Eggs with shaving cream
I've seen a lot of this trend around lately. It seemed pretty simple, and when I showed Cash he thought it was a super cool idea, so we decided to try it.
First we gathered all of our supplies and ingredients. Most of it I already had around the house:
Glass baking dish (9x13)
Shaving cream can (we only used maybe half of it)
Food coloring
Boiled Eggs
Plastic knife (a wooden skewer or something similar would work as well)
A spatula
I wanted to take a pic of just the ingredients, but Cash thought he should be in it as well. He's a bit of a ham.
Step One:
Spray the shaving cream into the baking dish. We went about halfway up the pan, so maybe two inches deep.
Step Two:
Smooth out the shaving cream. I underestimated how important this step was, and when we got to the next step the food coloring kinda ran down any little "mountains" that were left. So it doesn't have to be perfect, but the smoother the better.
Step Three:
Make drops of food coloring evenly spaced out over the shaving cream. Don't let them touch too much if you can help it. I also wouldn't do more than 3-4 colors, or it might run together too much and turn brown.
Step Four:
Take the knife and make little lines through the shaving cream, making sure to swirl the colors, but not actually mix them (or, again, it'll all turn into a brown mess). Try not to be too OCD as your eight year old is trying to do it all by himself.
Step Five:
Put the eggs into the shaving cream. We set them in gently, then I used the knife to cover them completely, like I was icing a cake. A very messy, colorful cake.
Step Six:
Break time! Let them sit for about 20 minutes. The longer they sit, the more colorful they will be.
Step Seven:
Remove the eggs and pat dry with a paper towel. We actually ended up rinsing them off in the sink, then drying them with the paper towel, because there was so much shaving cream. You're finished!!
Things we'll do differently next time:
Cash definitely felt like we didn't use enough blue. He thinks doing a few of them in separate containers with just one color might have been a good idea. I agree, and think you could use more food coloring that way.
I might have used more food coloring. This seems like a tricky balance, because you don't want your eggs turning brown, but I feel like we erred on the side of caution, and could have used more; there were still a lot of white spots.
Overall analysis:
We'd do this again! It was fun. A little messy, but not as nerve-racking as a bunch of bowls of dyed vinegar water. Cash was able to do almost all of it completely unassisted. And we ended up with some pretty unique eggs!
