leaf print easter eggs

We had my folks over on Saturday for blueberry waffles and easter egg dying. I was looking for a new and clever method to color our eggs and found this idea on the family fun website (anyone else adore that magazine?) So I called my mom and told her to bring her old pantyhose.

We wrapped our hard boiled eggs tightly with the leaves in place with hair ties. My mom was quite skeptical, but I made her try it with me. She did the three little leaves and I wrapped the evergreen.

And when she unwrapped her egg she found a delightful little white print of her leaves! I couldn't stop slugging her in the arm yelling, "it worked! it really worked!"

And as it turns out, all of mom's eggs turned out awesome. She was a natural with the pantyhose.

As for my eggs, my red egg was awesome and my evergreen eggs failed. This is LEAF printing...so find actual leaves. Not evergreen branches. This makes sense now, but at the time it was all one grand experiment, and the evergreen pattern seemed so lovely to me.

Since Saturday I have thought of all sorts of grocery items we could try. This was a very warm year for a Minnesota Easter. Odds are we won't have so much green vegetation next year, but parsley, cilantro, celery leaves and all sorts of other herbs or tiny lettuce leaves all seem like they might print nicely.