TIE-dye Eggs

Today in between sessions of conference we experimented with a new method for decorating eggs that we saw online. We used old silk ties from the thrift store to TIE-dye our eggs. Reed must have told me 20 times, "We are using ties to dye, so it's tie dyed. Get it? Tie-dye. I love it when he thinks he's come up with a good joke. He laughs at himself and is so proud. Both of my boys (actually all three of my boys) think it's pretty important to be funny. We hear a lot of jokes in this house--some over and over again, but they still almost always get a laugh (or an eye roll at the very least).


This project was a little more time consuming than we would have hoped, but the eggs turned out pretty neat and the boys had fun. Picking out and cutting up the ties may have been their favorite part of the process.









Tie "guts"


Sam looks happy that I am taking pictures instead of helping.


This is how Max helped to wrap up the eggs.


With some persistence and patience all of the eggs were finally wrapped up and ready to go.


Once they were all bundled up, the eggs were ready to be boiled. While we waited, the boys...actually, looking at these pictures, I'm not really sure what they were doing. I love these silly boys and I love that they love each other.






Finally our eggs were ready. It was so much fun to unwrap each one and see how they turned out.


I tried to get the boys to pick a favorite, but they decided all of them were their favorites.