These dinosaur eggs are a fun twist on hard boiled eggs that leaves your peeled eggs looking like dinosaur eggs! When my boys were little I was browsing recipes when my then 4 year old son walked into my office. He took one look at the computer screen and exclaimed, “Mom! Is that a dinosaur egg??!” What he had spied was actually a Chinese Tea Egg. When brined in a mix of tea, and spices the crackly designs look (to me) like something you’d see on a Halloween themed table, but I took a mental note to make these with fun colors when Easter came around and we could pretend they were Dinosaur eggs. My boys thought they were SO cool.
Ingredients Needed
- Hard boiled eggs
- Water
- Food coloring
How to Make Dinosaur Eggs
- This really couldn’t be easier! The first thing you need is a bunch of hard boiled eggs. After the eggs are cooked, cooled, and dry, gently tap them on the counter top. You want to create little cracks all over the egg. It’s okay if a few small pieces of shell fall off, but try to avoid breaking large chunks off. You should just have small tiny cracks all over. In fact after you make a few taps on the counter, you can even gently squeeze the egg in your hand to crack the shell.
- Use liquid food coloring to tint some water, and plop your eggs in. For some reason, my Ikea kids cups are always my egg-dying cups. We wanted a few different colors so we put a single egg in each cup. This part isn’t rocket science. No specific measurements, just, ya know…do it. I let my kids squeeze in the food coloring so I’m guessing there are about 847 drops in each cup. If you want to be exact.
- Let them sit in the fridge for several hours, or overnight. I’ve actually only let them sit overnight, so I can’t tell you how many hours will do it if you don’t leave them in all night. Somehow that makes it more fun too. My kids get all excited to wake up in the morning and crack their eggs open.
- Remove the eggs from the water, rinse them off (so you don’t color your hands, um, not that I’ve done that…) and gently remove the shells, revealing the dino designs inside!
Dinosaur Eggs
A fun twist on hard boiled eggs that leaves your peeled eggs looking like dinosaur eggs!
Ingredients
- hard boiled eggs
- food coloring
- water
Instructions
- Hard boil your eggs and allow to cool.
- When eggs are cool and dried, gently tap them on the counter top, enough to create cracks, but not enough to loose large chunks of egg shell. You can roll the egg on the counter or gently squeeze it in your hand to create more cracks.
- Fill cups with water and some food coloring-just eyeball it!
- Drop your eggs in the cups and store in the refrigerator overnight.
- The next day, rinse your eggs under cool water, peel, and reveal your dinosaur egg pattern!
Cost: $5
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Questions & Reviews
I just made these for a dinosaur birthday party, thanks for sharing! I linked back to you for your tutorial, hope that’s ok!
http://holidaysnobs.blogspot.com/2011/07/dinosaur-birthday-party-rawr-part-2.html
I tried these and failed miserably! The inside of the eggshell looked cool, but the “membrane” didn’t crack with the shell, so the egg didn’t dye 🙁
And then to add insult to injury, my hubby said I was too old for such shenanigans. phltt.
But it was fun anyway. Hadn’t dyed eggs for years!
Oh you’re never too old for such shenanigans! haha Bummer they didn’t work though, that’s so weird!
Hey, I did this with my 3 yr old son. He loved it. So did I. So I blogged about it and linked to your blog. http://eatnmess.blogspot.com/ Thanks for all the cool tips, activities and recipes. Love them.
Great idea. I teach Mom/Tot classes called Goof & Giggle and one of my Mom’s told me about these dino eggs because our theme this month is “Dizzy Dinosaurs”. Great job girls!
I remember seeing this done as a kid – except they used koolaid for flavored eggs! It seemed so cool then. Now? Ick. :o)
We tried out the dino eggs. I’m afraid we weren’t very successful. I guess we needed more cracks. We are going to give them another try and really go to town on the eggs this time.
I made these yesterday and they were so cute. The part I was looking forward to most was making the colorful egg salad. My girls loved it.
Okay, So I know it’s a little soon. But I made these yesterday afternoon. Just took them out of the fridge and they came out Auhhh-mazzing! I seriously can’t believe how awesome they came out! I did a blog post and told everyone on my facebook to make these awesome Dino Eggs! Ohh and I also made a bacon egg salad sandwich, best things EVER!!
Thanks OBB you ladies rock!
You could make dino dig cupcakes too for your little dino picnic http://jerisesh.blogspot.com/2010/10/book-week-17-dinosaur-romp.html
I saw this and 5 minutes later I had eggs boiling on the stove. These are completely awesome! Not sure the kids are going to be patient enough to wait for them to cool down! I’ve already been told to put them in the freezer lol.