These easy rice dyed Easter eggs are a fun activity for the whole family! Colored rice is used to dye hard-boiled eggs and is a great sensory activity for your kids to get involved in.
Fun and Colorful Rice Dyed Easter Eggs
These brightly colored eggs are so fun to make this Easter!
Wonderfully vibrant, these rice dyed eggs are super simple and fun to make with your little ones. Great for decorations, or make some colorful devilled eggs with them!
Why You’ll Love this Fun Easter Egg Idea:
- Great for kids: This is a great sensory activity for little hands! It helps them to develop their motor skills in a fun way!
- So bright and colorful! I’ve found that a lot of the times you dye eggs, the colors can be quite dull and often in pastel tones, but these come out so bold!
- Just eggs! A lot of egg dying techniques call for vinegar which can make the eggs pretty unpleasant to eat, but these eggs just need rice!
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How to Make Rice Dyed Easter Eggs
Be sure to see the recipe card below for full ingredients & instructions!
- Place a cup of rice into a Ziplock bag.
- Add in food coloring and shake well.
- Repeat with other colors.
- Place an egg into a bag, one at a time.
- Seal the bag and move the egg around in the rice.
- Place the colored eggs into an empty egg carton to allow them to dry.
How to Make Hard-Boiled Eggs
Your eggs need to be hard-boiled before they are dyed, the easiest way to make a lot at a time is on the stovetop.
Place the eggs in a pot of water, bring them up to a boil, then cover with a lid and turn off the heat. Allow the eggs to sit in hot water for 15 minutes.
You can run the eggs under cold running water to cool them so that they are easier to peel.
You can use either liquid or gel food coloring to dye the eggs. I prefer to use liquid, as it coats the grains of rice much easier, but gel will work fine if that’s what you have.
That is the win-win with this craft! Once you have dyed your eggs, you pour the rice into a large bin together, and your child will have a sensory bin. You need to allow the rice to dry, then add some fun toys.
Once the eggs have dried, store them in your fridge and they will keep well for up to 1 week.
Recipe Tips and Tricks
- The hard-boiled eggs are pretty tough, but be careful not to squeeze them too hard. Gently massage or shake them away from any hard surfaces.
- Make these dyed eggs for decorations by making them with ceramic eggs that can be left out.
- Use any colors you like!
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I hope you have as much fun making these rice dyed Easter eggs as we did! They are such a fun activity and a great way to add some color to your Easter break!
If you make this recipe be sure to leave us a comment or rating. Enjoy!
Rice Dyed Easter Eggs (How To)
Materials
- 6 cups white rice uncooked
- 6 sandwich-sized Ziplock baggies
- Food coloring
- 24 eggs hard-boiled
Instructions
- Place one cup of rice into each Ziplock baggie.
- In each bag, add 10-15 drops of food coloring to the rice, so you end up with a different color in each bag. Shake them up so the rice is well coated with the food coloring. Every few eggs, you will need to add a few more drops of food coloring to the rice to keep it wet.
- Allow your kids to put the eggs, one at a time, into the bags, Seal the bags and allow them to shake or smush the rice around the egg. You can even let them move the eggs into different colors to get the eggs a fun multi-tone.
- Using tongs, have them place the eggs into the empty egg carton or a plate lined with paper towels. Allow the eggs to dry and store them in the fridge.
Notes
- The hard-boiled eggs are pretty tough, but be careful not to squeeze them too hard. Gently massage or shake them away from any hard surfaces.
- Make these dyed eggs for decorations by making them with ceramic eggs that can be left out.
- Use any colors you like!
Normally hard-boiled eggs are still in the shell when dyed. I can’t tell from this recipe if they are already peeled before you put them in the rice. Other than that, this recipe looks like it would be lots of fun for kids.
Hi Audrey- Yes the eggs are still in the shells. They’re just normal hard boiled eggs that you’d typically decorate, this is just a different option for decorating 🙂