Art Project: Dying Eggs

I pretty much expected Jackson to be all about coloring the Easter eggs.  Usually his eye light up at anything that has potential to be messy - markers, ketchup, finger paints, Sharpies, lipstick, grape juice, etc.

 However, despite the bold colors, fizzing bubbly color tablets & the promise of stained fingers, Jackson gave the egg dying set-up a once over and went back to color his Grover coloring book.

The one aspect of egg dying in which Jackson wanted to participate was the messiest - of course!  He wanted to help get the eggs out of the colored water, using the dinkiest metal loop that barely even fit around the egg.  After multiple attempts, dropped eggs & cross-contamination, all eggs were safely drying out of reach of 2 little hands.

The final result -- a menagerie of speckled-dotty-textured-mottled-brightly colored eggs!