This year, while scouting out egg decorating ideas, I came across the Egg Mazing Egg Decorator. I'm a sucker for holiday traditions so decorating eggs for Easter is a must. However, I'm also a neat-freak who loses interest in an activity if it could lead to a mess. The Egg Mazing Egg Decorator seemed like the perfect alternative to watching my kids attempt to lower their hard boiled eggs into a cup of colored vinegar using a wobbly wire spoon, that is better suited for bubble blowing, only to tip the cup over with their tiny little wrist and then cry about it for the next 17 minutes while I clean it up and cross my fingers that this dye will come out of my new dish towels.
So I'm obsessed with this machine. You simply put a hard boiled egg in the egg-shaped holder, turn on the machine which rotates the egg, and color your spinning egg with a marker. What I love most about this is that the colors are really bright and vibrant and there is virtually no mess. I thought the color might be wet when the boys pulled their eggs out of the machine, but it was dry in seconds.
The boys created really cute designs and learned how to do thick and thin stripes. They also experimented with running the marker along the egg slowly and quickly to see what happens. Jason and I even got into it this year.
The one downfall to this machine, is that the colors tend to rub off on the wheels that rotate the egg. It can leave a faint smudge on your eggs which is visible if you're trying to leave some white space in places. A quick wipe with rubbing alcohol will remove the leftover marker, but it's something you have to do repeatedly. If you're just making solid colored eggs you won't notice the faint streak.
