DIY Easter Egg Dye Kit for Dolls

Sophie shows the little ones how to dye Easter eggs. Below are the things you can make for
a doll's Easter egg dying activity.

       You can make an entire Easter egg dye, play set for your dolls just like ours! We purchased our finished eggs at a local hobby store. We also lined the inside of a tiny doll basket with white paper grass for display purposes. Don't forget to cover the doll's table with newsprint so they won't make a mess while their dying eggs!

Left, the tiny dye tablets are baked hard in the oven., Center, the tablets are wrapped individually inside
transparent packing tape. You can print a sleeve out below to seal the tablets in for your doll's shopping trip.
 Right, the tablets are painted the same color as the doll's pretend egg dye baths.

       I used Sculpey clay to make the tiny dye tablets and then sealed each one between transparent packing tape to make them look like they have yet to be opened. You could also use foam sheeting or paper for the same process if you do not have oven bake clay on hand. 

Left are the tiny butter containers we recycled from a breakfast in a
restaurant. You can use bottle caps if you do not have containers like
 these for the egg dying craft. Right, we matched the interior of our
 pretend bowls with the colors of our doll's plastic eggs.

       Above you can see how our dolls recycled four tiny butter containers into bowls for their egg dyes: blue, purple, yellow and hot pink. To make pretend dye that won't spill, simply paint the inside of each container with the color of paint to match your doll's dye tablets.

Left the egg dipper stems are made from pipe cleaners. Right, I twisted
and bent an egg for play in each color of dye. In order to get the 
egg to stay onto each dipper, a punched a tiny hole on the side of the
 plastic egg with a needle. Then I inserted a small portion of the wire 
inside the egg before twisting is around the plastic shell.

           Our egg dye dipping tools are bent from chenille stems/pipe cleaners. Don't forget to twist a tiny handle at each end for the doll to hold on to her eggs as she turns these in the pretend dye!    

Left, the unpainted crocus shaped egg cups for our doll's Easter egg presentation. Center, here you can see
how the tiny eggs will balance inside each egg cup. Right, the doll's egg cups are painted bright Spring colors
to match their dyed eggs.

       The tiny, doll-size egg cups were clipped from the inside of an egg carton into the shapes of crocus. Even the tiny plates are cut from the bottoms of paper egg cartons. We painted our doll egg cups using fast-drying acrylic paints. Then we glued the bulb shaped pieces on to the plates using white school glue.

3 Egg Dye Sleeves For Play Only, 2020. Cut on the outside lines.
 Fold in half and glue the lower and side edges together forming a pocket for
 the dye tablets to slip inside at the top. Tape shut and open when your
 dolls are ready to dye Easter eggs. Color in the tiny drawings of 
the Easter bunny, his egg and the hen and chicks if you like!

   
  The directions on the back of the Easter sleeves read:

1. Hard boil eggs on the stove top.
2. Dissolve one tablet per cup of hot water.
3. Add a teaspoon of vinegar to each.
4. Dip your boiled eggs into the dye baths and turn them slowly to achieve the desired colors.