DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids Tissue Paper Dyed Easter Eggs by Leanne Guenther This is the perfect simple project for an Aunt with a fancy house who isn't used to visiting rugrats or a daycare full of eager toddlers.  It's much less risky (for clothes, furniture and rugs) than setting out bowls of dye *grin*. Bright, new tissue paper works the best.

photo of the egg after the paper has fallen off

Materials:

• hard boiled egg(s)
• squares of tissue paper in many different BRIGHT colors (1 1/2 inch squares are about right)
  • must be fresh tissue paper... not the old, ratty, recycled 200 times tissue paper I usually use for crafts *grin*
• Spritzer of water or bowl of water

Instructions:

• Spritz or dip egg in water (get it all wet).
• Pick up squares of tissue paper one at a time and lay around the egg.  Feel free to use different colors and to overlap them.
• Spritz with water again if the tissue paper didn't get completely wet.
• Set aside in a bowl or margarine container to dry.
• When the egg dries, the tissue paper will fall off, but the pretty colors will stay behind.  It gives something of a stained glass look to the eggs.