Decorating Eggs with Marksville

We haven't really decorated eggs all that much with the kids over the years. Not that I haven't had ideas, it is just we have gone more for the celebrating together on Easter day. I realized that even though it can get messy, they are fun to do. The girls had a blast. We went with marbleizing the eggs this year.


If you haven't heard about it you can do the same with either plain eggs, or lightly dyed eggs. Even though some of our eggs were on the darker side you can still see that the marbleizing went well. My kids still like to draw with white crayons so you can see what those kind of eggs looked like after marbleizing too.









So what you do is take your white eggs, or lightly dyed eggs making sure they are dry.
We took our dyed water from dying them the first time and just added more food coloring to the bowls to do the marbleizing. The trick is making sure that you only have about a half inch of dye in the bowl, and then you put in a tablespoon of cooking oil. Then you stir the oil, roll the eggs once through the mixture and then pat dry with a paper towel. We did a few with different colors of the marbleizing liquid and they came out really well too.

Here you can see Dorothy's and Deanna's before marbleizing, sorry about no faces we were having so much fun we had to stop to get the camera and Dennise ended up taking the pictures.

Here they are after marbleizing. The kids ended up eating 3 before they were done with them.











Dennise also made a Golden Egg but can't remember what colors she used to make it. This one she didn't marbleize.









That is all for this year. I noticed I didn't put up my post with the homemade baskets I did last year for the girls, but maybe next year if I get inspired to make our own again. I was cheap and bought the 1.00 baskets this year. I hope you enjoyed decorating eggs with our family. 

Sand Castle Contest

Bright and early this morning we set off for the Sand Castle Building Contest. It was at 9am on a Saturday morning so we were in for the fun. I would have loved for Dennis to go, but he got called into work so he made some extra money and we still got to have fun. What is better then that.









We had a warm welcome and scoped out a area.








They even provided a a umbrella to protect us from the sun.







Samantha even got down to play in the sand.






Here they are working hard.





They are starting to take shape.











Building Moats.






Adding flowers.





Here is Deanna's Castle.































Deanna won for "Most Flowery Sand Castle"






Here is Dorothy's Castle with a little help from Samantha.






Dorothy won for "Coolest Sand Castle"






Here is a look at everyone's. To the left you will see a Father, Son, Daughter team of a Prison Castle. there were two Pyramids near the rear, and another that didn't seem quite finnished to the right of ours. The kids had fun.




Deanna gathered flowers for her castle yesterday and kept them in a cup of water so she would have them for today. I think they all did great, and this is just one of the many fun things we have planned for this summer. Until my next post I hope you all have a great summer, and don't forget to take some time to play in the sand.

Dorothy's first Library Class

Many families like my own are looking for cheap or inexpensive ways to keep their kids busy this summer, that are fun, but have a bit of educational value as well. Dorothy loves being read to so the Library was the perfect place to start. You may be surprised to find out how many things you can do at your local Library. We are lucky and have a brand new Library. They are still working on the landscape but you will see that in another one of my posts soon.

We signed Dorothy up for




The very first animal they learned about was the Elephant. They read the book Elmer by David McKee.




They did a neat project. Do you see Elmer?






After the craft they read another book. Now I have to put in a side story here. As soon as I saw they were doing a elephant I wanted to go right home and read "Stand Back Said the Elephant I'm going to Sneeze" by Patricia Thomas. Well wouldn't you know it that was the book they had already selected to read to the kids. I think I was more excited then the kids were over it. LOL I was just tickled pink.


This cover looks exactly like mine except mine has my name written in red crayon on the front from when I was a little girl.





Here is Dorothy showing off her Elmer.





I really enjoyed this class and look forward to the next class. They didn't tell us what it would be, but she made a guess it would be Bears. I hope you enjoyed Dorothy's first class with Animal Antics, and maybe even take the time to read one or both of these books with your children, granchildren, or neighbors kids. You can never read too much to your child.