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Allegra
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This is mainly an informative post because I just learned something that I wished someone had told me before and I thought I’d share it in case anyone else is interested.
I went to buy a Paas egg dying kit for our annual family egg-dying fiasco-I mean tradition, and I found that Target had several different kinds of kits besides the teacup-full-of-vinegar-and-a-color-tablet one I grew up with. I don’t know how long this has been going on, but they have a color kit that you use with rice that is a complete game changer for us!
Basically, you pour a little uncooked rice into a plastic bag and mix it up with the dye until it’s all the right color. Then you put in the egg and shake/rub it with the colored rice. When it comes out, it has a really neat textured look. You can do multiple colors and use stickers to leave white shapes and patterns. But the best thing is that the kids never touch the dye. No more dangerous cups of potential tragedy inches away from crazy toddler hands! No more little kids crying, “When do I get to help?!” and the adults thinking, “Right after Hell freezes over!” You just hand your baby a closed bag of rice and let them go crazy! There’s literally no mess. The eggs are bright and pretty. And you have these neat little bags of colored rice left over that you can use for future crafts.
So, I called my mom and told her about this great new product and she said, “Allegra! That’s not new! People have been dying eggs that way for years!”
“What? What do you mean?”
“That technique has been around since Jesus rose from the dead.”
“HUH!? I’ve never seen an egg dying kit like this before in my life!”
“That’s because you don’t need a kit, Goofball! You just put some food coloring in a ziplock bag with some rice!”
Why didn’t anyone tell me about this!? They saw the photos of my family on facebook trying to wrench a teacup out of my son’s hands while purple dye spilled down his clothes and onto the upholstery! And the ones of my daughter, wearing her bunny ears, and crying hysterically because we wouldn’t let her dive bomb an egg into the blue dye and splash us all! No one was going to tell me that this was all completely unnecessary and there was a much easier way? I guess not. Thank you Paas for leveling with me, even though I probably won’t be buying one of your kits again next year!
I went to buy a Paas egg dying kit for our annual family egg-dying fiasco-I mean tradition, and I found that Target had several different kinds of kits besides the teacup-full-of-vinegar-and-a-color-tablet one I grew up with. I don’t know how long this has been going on, but they have a color kit that you use with rice that is a complete game changer for us!
Basically, you pour a little uncooked rice into a plastic bag and mix it up with the dye until it’s all the right color. Then you put in the egg and shake/rub it with the colored rice. When it comes out, it has a really neat textured look. You can do multiple colors and use stickers to leave white shapes and patterns. But the best thing is that the kids never touch the dye. No more dangerous cups of potential tragedy inches away from crazy toddler hands! No more little kids crying, “When do I get to help?!” and the adults thinking, “Right after Hell freezes over!” You just hand your baby a closed bag of rice and let them go crazy! There’s literally no mess. The eggs are bright and pretty. And you have these neat little bags of colored rice left over that you can use for future crafts.
So, I called my mom and told her about this great new product and she said, “Allegra! That’s not new! People have been dying eggs that way for years!”
“What? What do you mean?”
“That technique has been around since Jesus rose from the dead.”
“HUH!? I’ve never seen an egg dying kit like this before in my life!”
“That’s because you don’t need a kit, Goofball! You just put some food coloring in a ziplock bag with some rice!”
Why didn’t anyone tell me about this!? They saw the photos of my family on facebook trying to wrench a teacup out of my son’s hands while purple dye spilled down his clothes and onto the upholstery! And the ones of my daughter, wearing her bunny ears, and crying hysterically because we wouldn’t let her dive bomb an egg into the blue dye and splash us all! No one was going to tell me that this was all completely unnecessary and there was a much easier way? I guess not. Thank you Paas for leveling with me, even though I probably won’t be buying one of your kits again next year!
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