Today was the first time I ever tried blowing an egg. It was a fun & grubby experience.

Firstly, I gently stuck a pin in the top and bottom of a fresh egg.

Then I blew, and blew & blew

Until all the white & the yolk had come out of the egg.

I wanted to dye my egg naturally, so I chopped half a red cabbage & boiled, then drained off the liquid.

Then, I put a sticker onto the egg shell to identify where the dye had taken more easily. After trying this, it is obvious that this could work making any kind of pattern you wanted on your egg.

How to get the dye to cover all of the egg? :-        Well, an empty egg shell floats doesn’t it.

So…….. I put the cooled down red cabbage water into an empty jam jar, filled to the very top, put the egg in and screwed the top on. This was left for a couple of hours.

When I took the egg out of the jar, I was happy to see how well the dye had taken.  I peeled of the sticker to reveal the true colour of the egg in it’s original form , pre dye.

If you use a sticker to keep some of the egg undyed, you can write on the space that is not dyed & use these for place settings at a dinner party. If it is a drunken party, you can always have a fun food fight after by throwing these at each other!

All in all, I was happy with this experiment. And no explosions or accidents.

My blue eggs turned out o.k 1st attempt.

The red cabbage was not wasted either. Some was mixed into cous cous & the rest went on top of my compost bin.

HAVE A VERY HAPPY, NESTLE FREE EASTER. X