Coloring Easter Eggs

Tiaras. Yes, mine is from
St. Patrick's Day

This year, Ainsley and I made coloring Easter eggs a girls' thing!  Mostly because Xander was too small and Sean was watching soccer.

Ainsley decided that coloring eggs was way too boring for just plain old art shirts, so she added tiaras to the mix.

Sean helped us get the cups ready by cutting up some water bottles—recycling had just run, so we *just* had enough. I'm glad we went with clear containers, she enjoyed it much more.

Dropping in the eggs! Exciting!

As we colored the eggs, I spent some time explaining to Ainsley that we leave the eggs out for the Easter Bunny to see.  He can't hide them because they'd go yucky so he leaves other eggs hidden.  She didn't really care. She just wanted to color eggs.  It was with great enthusiasm that she put each egg in the container. She wanted to do pink first—she's been on this pink kick lately.

Eggs!

Once we got all the eggs in the cups, she was pretty bored.  I now understand why the Paas people put all that crap in their packages.  So, we spent some quality time looking at the stickers that came with the kit. Yes, another thing I used to think was useless.

Matching things is awesome!

The most awesome thing for Ainsley was the matching game.  Seriously, these Paas people know what they're doing.  In the time it took us to play one game, the eggs reached maximum color awesomeness!

One thing that struck her as odd—the cards didn't exactly match. The purple egg had an orange background on one card and a different color on the other.  That, Paas people, is not a match.  We got over it though.

Inspecting sticker placement

I really thought the coloring part of the eggs would have been Ainsley's favorite part; however, I neglected to remember that there were stickers.  Once she saw the glorious, glorious sheet of stickers, it was end game.  We stickered the hell out of every egg we colored. There was no rhyme or reason to the stickering.  It was an out and out sticker melee.

Sticker HEAVEN!

Ainsley insisted on putting almost one of every sticker on her egg. Toward the end, I just got sick of stickering, I just kept feeding her stickers. It was like crack; she was so happy!

A is for Ainsley!

She also insisted on a pink egg for her A egg.  Let's hope that this isn't a trend!

*side note* Yes, that's a sparkly New York shirt Ainsley is wearing as her art shirt. Yes, that's a Thundercats shirt I'm wearing for my art shirt. We like to be sparkly and 80s when we do art. WHAT?

Our hard work.

Ultimately, we made a crap ton of eggs. But that's ok, because Xander will push an old lady in front of a bus for a hard boiled egg!