What to do with Leftover Egg Dye? Make Cards!

We had leftover egg dye from dying our eggs a few days ago, and if you know anything about the Quirky household from reading this blog over the last few months, our preschoolers love to paint!   We used a wide variety of dripping/spraying tools from paintbrushes that we flicked, old toothbrushes that we sprayed, straws that we used as drippers,   and even a cotton ball that we used to smear the dye on our papers.   I loved the effect of the dye on the paper!   If you want to make the dye into fingerpaint you could add a couple tablespoons of cornstarch to the dye.   Warning, this activity does stain fingers/clothes.
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After we had made our papers and let them dry, we cut them in half length-wise, like a hotdog (makes a card more interesting).   We traced my youngest daughter’s hands (sorry no pictures, she fidgets a lot) and cut hand shapes out in bright colored papers.   Glue them together and viola!   You have some springy cards – and some really, really blue hands.