These marbled Easter eggs are an egg-cellent and safe way to dye Easter eggs with your baby or toddler. With this method, even the littlest first time egg hunters can participate in making memories and instilling family traditions.
Easter is one of my favorite holidays. The weather is warming up, we’re starting to get outside, and the Easter Bunny is coming to town! My birthday fell on Easter once when I was little and my mom invited my entire class over on the day before for a party. She bought cases upon cases of eggs from Costco so that each child would have at least a dozen eggs each to decorate. After a morning of dying Easter eggs we all helped her make the biggest batch of egg salad I’d ever seen to eat for lunch and send home with the parents. This is such a core memory for me and I never got too old to color Easter eggs, even inviting friends over on Easter well into high school and college. So when I had children of my own, I knew I had to start them on this most beloved family tradition early.
The first hurdle I encountered was logistical. Babies and small toddlers love to put things in their mouths, so all egg dying materials needed to be edible. This ruled out the shaving cream method that I’d seen before. And the idea of dying in little pails of food coloring with water and vinegar with the tiniest of little people filled me with dread. That would last an entire .02 seconds before catastrophe.
With a bit of brainstorming, I decided to try marbling eggs with food coloring and Cool Whip. It was definitely messy, but in the funnest way possible, I didn’t have to worry when the little guy shoved a fistful of colorful Cool Whip right into his mouth, and the eggs turned out absolutely beautiful!
How To Dye Easter Eggs With Babies and Toddlers
- Start by hard boiling your eggs. I did this in the Instant Pot because it is so easy and the shells just come right off in sheets when you’re ready to peel them.
To Hard Boil Eggs In Your Instant Pot:
- Pour 1 cup of water in the bottom of your Instant Pot. Place the trivet on top.
- Arrange however many eggs you need on the trivet.
- Set your Instant Pot to pressure cook on high pressure for 10 minutes. Quick release the pressure when your Instant Pot is done pressure cooking.
- After your Instant Pot releases all its steam, plunge your eggs into cold water to cool.
2. Add 8 oz of Cool Whip to a large bowl, casserole dish, or disposable sheet cake pan. Add drops of food coloring to the Cool Whip.
3. Swirl the food coloring in to the Cool Whip with a rubber spatula.
4. The first year that we did this Moose was still in a high chair, so I scooped the Cool Whip directly onto his high chair tray. You could also give them the Cool Whip in a non-breakable container like a disposable sheet cake pan or a shallow tupperware container. When Moose got a little older we let him color his eggs in a glass pyrex bowl.
4. Put a sleeved bib on your little artist to keep the food coloring off of their clothes. Show them how to roll the hard boiled eggs in the colored Cool Whip and let them go wild!
5. Put your marbled eggs back in the egg carton or some sort of egg holder while they are still fully covered in Cool Whip. Let them rest for 20 minutes while the color sets into the egg shells.
6. After 20 minutes, gently wipe the Cool Whip off each egg with a towel.
7. Your eggs will have a beautiful marbling, perfect for an Easter celebration!
What To Do With Dyed Eggs After Easter
Our family usually dyes Easter eggs the day before Easter. We then use the dyed hard boiled eggs to make Finnish Egg Butter for an easy Easter breakfast and deviled eggs for Easter dinner.
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Marbled Easter Eggs For Babies and Toddlers
These marbled Easter eggs are an egg-cellent and safe way to dye Easter eggs with your baby or toddler. With this method, even the littlest first time egg hunters can participate in making memories and instilling family traditions.
Materials
- Hard boiled eggs
- 8 oz Cool Whip
- Food coloring
Tools
- Sleeved bib
- Shallow bowl or high chair tray
- Egg carton or egg holder
- Paper towels
Instructions
- Start by hard boiling your eggs. I did this in the Instant Pot because it is so easy and the shells just come right off in sheets when you’re ready to peel them.
- Add 8 oz of Cool Whip to a high chair tray, a large bowl, casserole dish, or disposable sheet cake pan. Add drops of food coloring to the Cool Whip.
- Swirl the food coloring in to the Cool Whip with a rubber spatula.
- Put a sleeved bib on your little artist to keep the food coloring off of their clothes. Show them how to roll the hard boiled eggs in the colored Cool Whip and let them go wild!
- Put your marbled eggs back in the egg carton or some sort of egg holder while they are still fully covered in Cool Whip. Let them rest for 20 minutes while the color sets into the egg shells.
- After 20 minutes, gently wipe the Cool Whip off each egg with a towel.
- Your eggs will have a beautiful marbling, perfect for an Easter celebration!
Notes
To Hard Boil Eggs In Your Instant Pot:
- Pour 1 cup of water in the bottom of your Instant Pot. Place the trivet on top.
- Arrange however many eggs you need on the trivet.
- Set your Instant Pot to pressure cook on high pressure for 10 minutes. Quick release the pressure when your Instant Pot is done pressure cooking.
- After your Instant Pot releases all its steam, plunge your eggs into cold water to cool.
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