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An Eggcellent Easter Eggstravaganza!

4/15/2019

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     Easter is almost here and in the vein of getting back to basics we decided to go the natural route this year and use onion skins to dye our eggs. It's surprisingly simple and a lot of fun! My three-year-old was quite thrilled with the entire experience and very pleased with the results.

     So, what do you need for this activity?
  • Onion skins (red work best)
  • Eggs
  • Bits of nature (such as leaves, flowers and so on to create patterns on the eggs)
  • Nylons (to wrap the eggs in)
  • A pot
  • Red wine vinegar
  • Water

     Before getting started we headed outside to collect some bits of nature to use for making patterns on our eggs. My daughter loved searching for different types of leaves and flowers around the yard. We brought our finds inside, placed them onto our just washed still damp eggs and wrapped them in the nylons. Then the eggs went into the pot with the onion skins, two tablespoons of red wine vinegar and water and boiled for 20 minutes! Voila! Beautiful, naturally dyed eggs!
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     While the eggs were simmering in the onion skins, we got out some Easter books and snuggled up for a brief storytime that led to an impromptu egg hunt throughout the house after my daughter decided to hide some plastic eggs we had handy. It was a delightful morning of bonding and memory making!
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     In our humble opinion, no Easter basket is complete without the addition of at least one or two books and, as mentioned above, reading Easter books is a great way to pass the time while you're waiting for your eggs to be done. Below is a list of a dozen of our favorite Easter books to read aloud!
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The Bunny Hop by Sarah Albee
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Llama Llama Easter Egg by Anna Dewdney
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Celebrate Easter by Deborah Heiligman
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Happy Easter, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff
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The Easter Egg by Jan Brett
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Happy Easter, Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen
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The Littlest Bunny: An Easter Adventure by Lily Jacobs
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Turkey's Eggcellent Easter by Wendi Silvano
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Easter Bugs: A Springtime Pop-up by David A. Carter
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How to Track an Easter Bunny by Sue Fliess
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Happy Easter, Little Critter by Mercer Mayer
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Here Comes the Easter Cat by Deborah Underwood
For even more egg-cellent Easter reads take a look at our previous blog Hop Into Reading This Easter! and our Holiday Books list.
Happy Easter!

-Kate @ BTBL

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We are three generations that seek a way to get back to basics. It’s not that we eschew technology, but sometimes simpler is better, especially in raising our children. Mom was a reading teacher, Amanda is an early childhood educator and Kate a children’s literature specialist and former school librarian along with the latest editions, a daughter for Kate (now 3) and a son for Amanda (now 1.) We advocate reading aloud, the simple toys that use imagination and encourage creativity and learning in the kitchen, which can be a fun mess but also teaches life skills. Join us in raising healthy, happy, inquisitive and intelligent children.

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11/29/2022 12:24:23 pm

Great read thanks for writing this

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    We are mom Sandra and daughters Amanda and Kate, all with backgrounds in literacy and education, who want to share our philosophy of taking the basics of life; books, simple toys that encourage play, imagination and creativity, and using cooking and baking to teach math and real life skills to raise happy, inquisitive children. Join us in exploring the old and the new and sifting through the myriad of research to consider what is best for our children.

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