White Rice Speckled Easter Eggs

My four daughters and 3 grandsons got together for some Easter Egg coloring chaos fun today. 

I started out by hard boiling 18 eggs at 5:30 this morning so they would be ready for the fun.  

Well... they were not ready. 

Apparently you need to boil eggs for a little longer than I thought when you have all 18 in the pot. 

Luckily my daughter couldn't wait and cracked one open to find our soft boiled problem. 

I probably should have used the egg steamer (affiliate link) I bought a few weeks ago... would have made the job much easier! 

                                                                    

It was not a problem for long because I popped the eggs back in the pot and boiled them for a little longer. 

Next came the egg dying. 

Imagine if you will, the cooperation of four daughters, 1 crying baby, a toddler, and one 3 1/2 year old taking all of this very seriously. 

Add to that the soft boiled egg incident and we had nothing short of a loud busy kitchen!

This year we are trying a new way to dye the eggs using white rice. 

We filled sandwich bags with dry white rice then added about 6 drops of food coloring to the bag. 

We did this for five different colors. 

While our eggs were slightly wet, we dropped a hard boiled egg into the bag and gently shook the bag. 

The eggs came out with a beautiful speckled design. 

We did the same with the rest of the colors. 

They were so easy to make and came out amazing!!

And because our 3 1/2 year old grandson wanted to do it the "regular" way we also used the old vinegar and fizzy dye method. 

We had a fun time but due to our hard boiled egg debacle, we ended up with a lot fewer eggs than we started with. 

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