For children who like to be a bit more creative, these fingerprinted Easter eggs allow for lots of options!

Materials:

• hard boiled egg(s)
• tempra paint
• Easter Egg dye:  store bought dye or home made

Instructions:

• Dye eggs a light base color (such as yellow or pink).
• Dip fingers in tempra paint and fingerprint on the eggs.
• You can make a fingerprint bunny (thumbprint head with two pinky print ears) or just cover the egg with fingerprint "jellybeans".
• A heart can also be fingerprinted by putting on one print and then slightly overlapping a second print

• A flower can be fingerprinted by printing a swirl of 6 pinkie prints in a circle for the flower and printing a heart below the flower (leaves).  The use a paint brush or the tip of your finger to draw a thin stem connecting the two.

Printable version of these instructions