DIY Shaving Cream Dyed Marble Easter Eggs

I haven’t dyed eggs with my kids yet. It seems like Easter flew up on us this year. If we don’t make Kool-Eggs, then I think we are going to do Marbleized Dyed Easter Eggs. Inexpensive, fast, pretty, and very pretty!
NOTE: Dyeing your eggs with shaving cream is for decoration ONLY since egg shells are permeable and you shouldn’t eat shaving cream. If you like to eat your eggs after dyeing them, you can do marbleizing with whipped cream instead of shaving cream. Whipped cream is a lot more expensive than buying cheap shaving cream at a dollar store, so this is an optional switch.

What You’ll Need:

• Completely cooled hard boiled eggs
• Food coloring drops in different colors
• Medium to large baking sheet, baking pan, or other container with sides
• Cheap shaving cream (or whipped cream in an aerosol can)
• Spoon
• Toothpicks
• Paper towel
• Plastic gloves, sandwich baggies or plastic wrap
• Paper plate or cheap plastic storage container (that you don’t care will get dyed)

Instructions:

1. Spray shaving (or whipped) cream and spread out evenly on a cookie sheet (or other container) with a spoon.
2. Dribble food coloring across the surface. Neon food coloring makes cooler looking eggs.
3. Use toothpicks to swirl the colors around in the shaving cream. Do it totally randomly and be sure to pick up and restart lines into the cream. This will make the best designs.
4. Take a dried, cooled hard boiled egg, and roll it around in the cream. You can use plastic gloves, or use sandwich baggies or plastic wrap as gloves to help keep the dye consistent, keep finger prints off the eggs, and will protect your fingers from dye.
5. Add more cream and/or dye as needed throughout the dyeing process.
6. Sit colored eggs to the side on a paper plate or in a plastic storage container and allow them to dry for at least 2 hours, but best is overnight to 24 hours. DO NOT WIPE THEM OFF, leave them in the cream and dye. If you used whipped cream, be sure to put them in the refrigerator while they sit.
7. After allowing the eggs to sit, wipe the cream and dye off with paper towel. You can store in the original egg carton in the fridge or set them out as decorations.

Thanks to TotSchool for the picture!