Happy Easter!

A few weeks before Easter, my students were asking questions about the holiday. I started to describe what we do for the holiday- dying eggs, Easter egg hunts, church, brunch, bunnies. The more I talked about it, the less it made sense. I equated it somewhat to Christmas how it is a religious holiday but we have a non-religious element aka Santa Claus. I didn't even get in to Lent, fasting and giving something up for Catholics. That would have been another 90 minute class.

After explaining dying Easter eggs, I told them that the following week, we would dye them as well. They had carved pumpkins, but never taken part in this holiday. I was kind of excited though- I hadn't dyed eggs since I was a kid.

We mixed up all the colors and dyes. I even bought a glitter kit. Surprisingly, Keita and Hatsuki got pretty in to it! They were having fun doing an "experiment" as they called it. I guess with all the measuring and ingredients and different techniques, it was a little like a laboratory. I sent them home with a dozen colored and glittered eggs. There are only so many hard-boiled eggs that I can eat.

Stella wanted to join in on the fun as well. Sorry Stella, you need thumbs to hold on to the eggs. An update on Stella though, her wounds are all closed up and she is doing great. Now her hair just needs to grow back and she would be back to normal.