Coloring Easter Eggs is a great tradition to share with your children even if you are not very religious. Welcoming Spring and the rebirth of the world around us is exciting and new for young children. Many products can be purchased to color eggs, although they are not all created equally. The following will review a few products easily found at Meijer, Walmart, or Walgreens along with other local grocery stores. Each product provided a myriad of colors and  an enjoyable activity for the season.

Easter Unlimited™ Tie Dye Egg Coloring Kit

The Tie Dye kit provided a fun way to color the eggs. The kit included 5 bright colors to interchange to make more colors. The basic colors were yellow, blue, red, green, and purple. By using a different combination of drops on the eggs the colors would blend and make additional colors. For example an egg with red and yellow would also include orange on the final product, a red and blue egg would include purple on the finished product, and green and yellow would include lime green on the final tie dyed egg. The process was easy and not as messy as expected. Children liked the direct involvement with the egg coloring rather than simply waiting on the eggs to finish being colored in the solution.

Easter Unlimited™ Bright & Shiny Egg Decorating Kit

The Bright & Shiny kit made a very different look to the eggs. This kit involved dying the eggs, allowing them to dry, then placing a special glue (included in package) on the exterior of the egg, allowing it time to become sticky, then using an “accent” sheet to transfer the foil like shiny colors to the exterior of the egg. The eggs came out really pretty with this product, but the process was slower than the children liked and very messy.

Easter Unlimited™ Pearlescent Easter Eggs

The Pearlescent kit came with 5 colors to choose from. The colors included purple, blue, yellow and green, but the final outcome was not quite as brilliant as the colors displayed on the box. The dye was really shiny and made the eggs very pretty, but more pastel in final color even when applied several times to the eggs. Not as messy as expected, but the children were more impressed with blending the colors rather than keeping the eggs solid peralescent colors.

Dudley’s® Egg Decoating Kit Glitter Magic

This kit was nice and provided variety to simply coloring the eggs. The glitter applied to the eggs was messy as glitter always is, but the kit allowed the children to be creative and involved in the process of decorating. The kit comes with five dyes and three colors of glitter.

PAAS®Classic Easter Egg Decorating Kit

Keeping the tradition simple with the Classic Egg coloring kit is the easiest way to color eggs. The kit comes with nine dyes providing the most variety of all the kits. Simple to follow instructions with very few drawbacks. Keeping young children interested in the coloring may need to be accomplished with rules for one egg at a time where the child must keep close watch over their egg to ensure the proper color is attained.

Finding the right kit will come down to personal choice. What is your favorite Easter Egg coloring memory? What is your favorite color? Feel free to post a message or comment on how you plan for Easter; we would love to hear from you.