To make brilliant Easter Eggs using a tie dye egg coloring kit is an easy process even children can have doing. The Easter Unlimited™ Tie Dye Egg Coloring Kit comes with 5 “Super Bright Liquid Dyes”, 5 color droppers, coloring bags and palette, and 6 cardboard egg stands. The following will provide simple steps to follow for using the Tie Dye Egg Coloring kit. You will need about one dozen hard boiled eggs for this project.


Step 1: Prepare the work area by covering a table with newspaper.

Step 2: Set up an egg drying station with a baking rack and paper towels.

Step 3: Open the box and empty out the contents of the Tie Dye Egg coloring kit.

Step 4: Separate the dye packets from one another on the perforated lines.

Step 5: Cut open each dye packet one at a time and empty contents into coloring palette.

Step 6: Discard empty dye packets to prevent the spread of dye on unwanted surfaces.

Step 7: Prepare a coloring bag by shaping the bag like a nest to hold the egg.

NOTE: Plastic sandwich bags can be used as coloring bags. Reusing the bags will cause the colors to blend and look brown.

Step 8: Place a clean, cooled, hard boiled egg in the coloring bag shaped like a nest.

Step 9: Using the color droppers, suck up some of the dye by squeezing the dropper, inserting the tip slightly into the dye, and then releasing the squeeze.

Step 10: Apply a few drops of the color onto the egg.

NOTE: Only use a few drops (about 4) per egg of each color. More will result in too much dye for the egg.

Step 11: Pull the bag up around the egg to form a barrier between the egg and your hands.

Step 12: Using your fingers, smear the dye all over the egg making swirling motions to cover all parts of the shell.

Step 13: Carefully place the egg in the color palette drying area to dry.

Step 14: Repeat the process until all the eggs are colored.

NOTE: Only use a max of three colors per egg or the result will be a brown egg.

This product was a great deal of fun for the whole family. Using extra bags allowed us to switch colors and color more eggs than what was originally provided by the company. The dye can be easily cleaned with water.

Tip 1: Don’t put too much coloring on your eggs. Use about 6 to 8 total drops.

Tip 2: If you do end up with too much dye, allow your dye to dry slightly and then wipe of the excess with a DRY paper towel.

Tip 3: If you don’t like how the egg looks you can use a WET paper towel to wash most of the dye off and recolor the egg.

Pros of the Easter Unlimited™ Tie Dye Egg Coloring Kit

The colors were bright and the process was simple. The children liked this kit because of the amount of hands-on involvement from start to finish. There was very little down time with this kit and the results were very pretty eggs.

This kit could be combined with other egg coloring kits to create unique Easter Eggs. Simply dye the entire egg using another kit such as the PAAS® Classic Easter Egg Decorating kit, allow the egg to dry completely and then add a tie dye effect to the egg with the Easter Unlimited™ Tie Dye Egg Coloring Kit.

Eggs were easy to peal and had minimal dye soaking through to the eggs Albumen (whites)

Cons of the Easter Unlimited™ Tie Dye Egg Coloring Kit

The kit only came with a few bags. An attempt to conserve the bags by rinsing them and reusing them failed to provide immediate results since the dye is water soluble. The bags needed to be completely dry to perform as expected.

Dye easily transferred from the egg to other surfaces after being refrigerated.

NOTE: Before pealing the eggs to eat, rinse in cold water to remove some of the dye. This will help to reduce the amount of dye transferred from the egg to your hands.

Do you have any suggestions or comments concerning Tie Dye Egg Coloring Kits or Easter planning? What was your experience like? How does this type of kit compare to the ones you have used in the past? Feel free to post questions or comments.