Kool-Aid Dyed Blown Egg Mobile!

 Today, my buglets and I repeated one of our favorite Easter/Ostara crafts: The Kool-Aid Dyed Blown Egg Mobile!

The first thing we do is get a huge flat of 18 eggs, and use something sharp to puncture holes in the top and bottom. Today, we used some random baking tools. After this, you blow the yolk out into the sink or a bowl. 

You'll see that some holes are bigger than others; we're not a very precise bunch. And for our intents and purposes, the roomier the better. 

To make the kool-aid dye, you need to obtain those teeny ten cent packets of sugar free kool-aid mix and gather up some small containers. Then, you pour in a tad bit of water, just enough to make liquid. Fun fact: this can also double as watercolor paint that looks gloriously glossy on watercolor paper and will smell just wonderful for years to come. 

Voila! Perfection achieved!

   The next thing I had to do was find two sticks to serve as the base of the mobile. I then used twine and yarn to bind them together, and I went ahead and suspended the contraption from a tree so our eggs could go right on it.

Like so.

Then, time for fun: dying the eggs! This process absolutely destroys your hands; but for me and the buglets, this is part of the process, bearing the evidence afterwards that we have been creating. 

Fun fact: any leftover dye can be used in one's hair for a semi-permanent situation. A few  years ago, the eldest buglet was in a Harley Quinn phase and gave herself perfect Harley Quinn pigtales. Then we went to church. She was sent home with a Bible. I think the congregants were a little disturbed by the allusion. Hee hee. Hee hee. 

YAY! Gloriousness! Joyeux!!!

By this time, the Buglets had wandered back inside to their xboxes. Mama Bliss went on ahead with the tedious part: using a skewer to push yard through the egg holes and tie a bit of broken skewer onto the end of the yarn to hold it in place. 

MOBILIZED! YAY! Yes. Hell yes!