Rubber Cement Dyed Easter Eggs

Drizzle your eggs with rubber cement before dyeing them to reveal a geometric pattern underneath the colors.

Rubber cement dyed easter eggs.

I loved the swirled look and you can make fun designs by making skinny lines and fat ones. Prop your already boiled egg up on something maybe an egg carton or one of these printable easter egg holders. The first step to creating these graphic easter eggs is drizzling rubber cement over them to create shapes on the egg which will resist the easter egg dye. Once again you will need to set the eggs on their racks to dry completely before moving on to the next stage of egg dying.

Drizzle your eggs with rubber cement. Get it good and drizzled. It will take the rubber cement approximately 15 20 minutes to dry. Leave it in for 30 seconds 1 minute then put it on a rack to dry.

With your other hand dip the wand into the rubber cement and then swirl the rubber cement around the egg in any design you desire. Dip the sponged egg into a prepared dye bath until it reaches the desired shade. How to dye easter eggs with rubber cement. I m not sure if either actually helped.

Pour a little rubber cement into a paper bowl and dab a natural sea sponge in the rubber cement to coat. I also recommend setting both your dye cups and egg drying racks on rimmed baking sheets to help catch any accidental. We used a hair dryer to speed things up. The next video is starting stop.

The eggs are pretty on their own but we also discovered a quick way to add an additional design element. Let the rubber cement solidify then dip the egg into a second cup of contrasting dye. Once the rubber cement is dry dye them. This easter egg coloring science experiment is so fun we ll be using it to decorate easter eggs well past the holiday.

As i mentioned dyeing eggs with food coloring and this rubber cement technique is really simple and easy. First things first you ll want to cover your work area to prevent stains. Take your rubber cement and let it drip on your egg anyway you like. Doing half and then waiting for it to dry and doing the other half.

Once the cement is completely dry it will still be sticky roll it in a cup of a darker dye. Rubber cement and easter eggs. Egg dye gold paint pretty dyed easter eggs. Pat the sponge on a hard boiled egg then set the egg aside for 10 minutes.

Use the brush in the rubber cement jar to. Leave the egg in the cup another 10 minutes or so to let the dye set.