Easter Eggs to Dye For

By KELLY MILNER HALLS

When April arrives, families have an important choice to make—which dying kit will be best for coloring eggs?

It’s not an earthshattering decision, but we wanted to help, so we tested a few of the most popular options and these were our favorites.

TWO PAAS, WAY UP!

PAAS has been helping families celebrate since 1880 when New Jersey drug store owner William Townley sold packets of egg dye for a nickel.

Every year they launch new options, including PAAS Neon. The six dye tablets created soft neon eggshells, rather than bold colors. But the kit was everything it promised to be. The copper egg dipper worked beautifully, as always, and the eight, futuristic egg stands were clever and well-illustrated. Plus there were so many stickers! The sheet of 142 high-tech neon sticker meant there were plenty for our eggs with some left over for scrapbooks and homework papers. Color this an Easter neon win!

Our second PAAS kit was the Galactic Eggs. The space theme was perfect, considering telescopes are sending us pictures of galaxies far, far away. This kit came with the classic egg dipper, three dye tablets—blue, green and orange--plus three packets of liquid dye, a glitter packet and two plastic bags to turn colored eggs into egg-sized galaxies. Some of our eggs looked “far out,” but some were muddied. Call it human error and give this kit a shot. The six “spacy” egg stands, 69 color space stickers and 66 glow-in-the-dark stickers helped deliver an experience that was truly, out of this world!

TWO FROM THE CHALLENGER!

If PAAS is the Easter Egg master, Easter Unlimited is the challenger on its heels. So we tested two of their egg kits, with mixed results.

We wanted to love Glitter Eggs. The box art was simply “glitterrific.” Sadly, our kit had no glitter. It did have six dye tablets and six beautiful cardboard egg stands, a tube of non-toxic glue to make the glitter stick and a purple plastic egg dipper. But without the glitter, it was hard to maintain our level of excitement—at first. Then we dissolved the dye tablets and WOW! The deep, richly colored eggs sent the fun-factor soaring. Wish we’d had the glitter, but we couldn’t wait to try our second Easter Unlimited kit.

Opening 24K Easter Egg kit did make us anxious, but there was no need. This box amazed. Five dye tablets produced the same rich colored eggs the Glitter Egg kit produced, but that was only the beginning. Two sponges and a packet of gold “glaze” transformed the deeply colored eggs into metallic gold dappled colored eggs. More gold glaze would have been better, because we could only dazzle six eggs. But that glaze, plus six metallic colored egg stands made this kit a stand out!

DON’T MISS THESE PAAS KITS!

n PAAS Little Dragons n PAAS Dino Eggs n PAAS Pirates and Mermaids n PAAS Forest Friends n PAAS Rides (cars and airplanes) n PAAS Super Heroes n Easter Unlimited Unicorn Eggs n Easter Unlimited Speckled Eggs n Easter Unlimited Dinosaur Eggs n Easter Unlimited Ninja Bunnies n Easter Unlimited Candy Apple n Easter Unlimited Crazy Eggs

DON’T MISS THESE EASTER UNLIMITED KITS!