We had to change up the usual order of things this year and the children were not as flexible as I would have hoped. 🙂 Chris, without realizing what day it was, chose Easter Sunday to be Fast Sunday. I know, right!?! He felt really bad about it when he figured out what he had done, but it was too late to change it. This made our usual Easter morning breakfast of bunny buns and fruit bouquets impossible. To accommodate the change in eating schedule, we then had to change up when we usually decorate and hide the eggs. It wasn’t really that big of a deal, but the way the kids reacted, you’d have thought we were cancelling Christmas. (insert giant eyeroll here)
So we decorated eggs on Friday morning and had a great time doing it.
I had lots of dye, and we even tried out a few of Grandma Lasko’s fun tricks, like adding vegetable oil to the surface of the dye before adding the egg. 
This is one of those activities/traditions where having fewer of us would make it easier. I always have to balance boiling enough eggs so that each kid feels like they got to color “enough”, with keeping the total numbers of boiled eggs that must be eaten within a few days down to a slightly reasonable level. 
This year I decided on 30 eggs total, which was 6 per kid. Of course, a couple cracked in the water, totally throwing off my numbers, but fortunately some of the older ones were interested in quality not quantity so it worked out.
Sophie spent the most amount of time making each of her eggs masterpieces. They ended up so pretty, that I actually considered not eating them at all! But that would have gotten stinky in the end, so I just saved them for the very last.
These little egg holders they sell at the grocery store are such a huge help when little hands are trying to paint crushable, slippery eggs. 
The ones with white spots are the oil-dyed ones. We were really loving the super bright colors this year. I don’t remember past years being quite so vivid. Beautiful!
That green one with blue flowers in the right hand corner is one of Sophie’s. She just might have the patience and skill to make one of those pysanky eggs my mom loves so much. I will have to look at getting her some supplies before next year.
We were going to rub some of them with oil afterwards to make them nice and shiny, but the colors were so bright already, we decided it was an unnecessary step. Now we were all set for our family egg hunt the next day.