Dyeing Easter Eggs Using Shaving Cream

If you are looking for a fun and messy way to dye eggs, then this method is for you. The kids will have a ball dyeing eggs like this because it is so messy. Luckily, the clean up is easy. This method also creates some really cool looking eggs. 

Here is what you will need: 

• food coloring
• hard boiled eggs
• a can of shaving cream (I used the smallest and cheapest can I could find.)
• an empty egg carton
• old rags 
• pie plates, cake pans, or some sort of shallow dish

Spray some of the shaving cream into the shallow dish. Next add drops of food coloring to the shaving cream. You can do two colors per dish or as many as 5. 

 

Next use a knife or a fork to swirl the food coloring a little.

Now take the hard boiled eggs and dip them into the shaving cream. Swirl the eggs a little, then place the eggs into the empty egg carton for a little while, so the colors will set. 

After a minute or two, wipe the shaving cream off of the egg and admire your creation. If you want to dip them again in different colors, feel free to do so. 

Clean up is easy. Just wash out the dishes and pans with the shaving cream in them in your kitchen sink. All the mess will go down the drain, well except for the mess on your table and your kids.

After dyeing eggs like this several times, I have learned a few tricks. 

1. Try to dip and swirl. Don't drag the eggs through the shaving cream. This will muddy up the colors to much to tell them apart. 
2. The green and yellow colors are harder to get the dye to stick. So you might want to not swirl those colors to much with the shaving cream. Try sticking them directly into the food coloring drops then swirl. 
3. A little Clorox Clean-Up sprayed on your hands and rubbed in will clean the food coloring off of your hands.  
4. Keep plenty of old rags on hand when doing this, because it will be messy. 

I hope you and your family will try this simple, yet, funny and messy way to dye eggs!