Decorate your house, tree, or front door with colorful rice-filled Easter Eggs.
The process is easy (though it’s tricky to get the rice around those those little eyelets up top.)
Follow the same steps in our Split Pea Shamrocks Tutorial, only cut out small ovals to make eggs. You can easily create an oval in a Word doc or other computer program and print out the size you want.
The fun part of course is dyeing white rice to create all your beautiful Easter colors. Use whatever food coloring you’d like. I tried it with the cheap grocery store stuff and it works fine too. But I’ve had my eye on these for a while. And when you use a coupon from Jo-Ann’s, the whole box of Wilton’s Icing Colors only cost me $5:
Such pretty potential.
Take a dab of food coloring (or a few drops):
And mix it in a bowl with a bit of water. I tried putting drops of food coloring directly into the rice but it didn’t dye evenly; it was splotchy. Just add a bit of water:
Then pour in your white rice (brown rice would probably work too):
Then stir it all around:
Play with the water content and food coloring to find the best tone. If the color is too bright, add more water to the bowl and pour a little out into the sink. Or vice versa. Or add more rice. It’s not a precise science.
When you’re done, lay each rice color out to dry. If there was a lot of water in your mixture, pour off as much water as you can. This will help it dry faster and more evenly.
Then take pictures of your rice just because it looks pretty.
When the rice has dried (could be as soon as a hour or two, or overnight), fill your eggs up and sew them shut.
Then hang them up!
If you’d like to make a color-changing eggs, it’s a bit tedious. But here you go. Dye rice in varying shades of the same color family:
Sew about 1/2 way around the outside of your egg, then sew horizontal lines, equal distance apart. Leave the ends open for rice. With a pen, end of a spoon, etc. push the rice down into each section. When you’ve filled the egg, carefully sew it shut.
Lovely blues:
Happy Easter!
