Understanding of the World and Art and Design

Egg-cellent Designs!

Pysanky is a traditional way of decorating eggs with designs using wax and dyes.

Can you help your child to create a design on a hard boiled egg using crayons?

What you need:

Mixture of white vinegar and food colouring

Wax crayons

Hard boiled eggs

What you do:

Draw a design on a hard boiled eggs with wax crayons. Then dip the eggs in a mixture of white vinegar and food colouring. Let the eggs dry before touching them. To make them last longer, store them in the fridge.