Today was filled with color, from the egg designing and dyeing to the new purple sweet peas that started to bloom and smell so sweet. The eggs began with simple designs and colors until the yellow tipped over and ran down the blue edge of the table. “GREEN”, someone noticed.”Can we do that again?” We turned to our containers of egg dyeing colors to find what we could mix to make new colors. Right away the yellow and blue were mixed together- a wonderful emerald green was produced. Red with blue became our purple. An egg was forgotten in the cup for a awhile; when it came out, it was so dark red. “How did that happen?” More experimenting. Eggs were put back in for more color. Some starting turning brown so the children became  more selective as they picked their colors.

Our favorite Easter book that had eggs of many colors was The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by DuBois Heywood.

Once we ran out of eggs, we moved on to eye droppers and paper towels. We finally stopped for a snack of gorgeous hard boiled eggs. Outside, we found the sweet peas had opened to a beautiful deep purple. On either side of the sweet peas were snow peas and sugar snaps which suddenly had peas. We noticed that their color was just the same as the leaves. We wondered why they are camouflaged; we had talked about camouflage with the green caterpillars. We sampled  both peas and peas were requested for snack after our vacation. Spring is a delicious time of year.Tweet