I first became vegan around Eastertime. (I gave up dairy products for Lent that year) As someone who enjoys being creative, I very much missed the tradition of dyeing Easter eggs. Therefore, when Easter came around the next year, I was determined to find a way in which I, too, could partake in the Easter festivities.
For those of you who miss Easter egg-dyeing like I did, or if you just want to have some extra fun this year, here’s a list of some great Easter activities that are cruelty-free:
Alternatives to Dyeing Eggs:
- Make sugar cookies, such as my Healthy Sugar Cookies, and decorate them instead of decorating eggs. Sugar cookies taste better than eggs anyway!
- Make Easter greeting cards, and bring them to a local nursing home. I’ve done this for two years in a row now, and the residents really appreciate it.
- Bake and decorate a cake—or cupcakes.
- Use plastic “eggs” and create a scavenger hunt for a little kid, putting clues in the eggs. Or, persuade someone to make a scavenger hunt for you!
- Hide plastic eggs around the house (or, if you don’t like the symbolism of eggs, use something else—I found plastic carrots this year!). Set up a contest for children to see who can find the most “eggs”. Or, have someone else hide the eggs, so you can participate in the contest. The best part about this idea? If an “egg” is never found and the “hider” forgets where it was hidden, it won’t rot and release a foul odor days later! (And you won’t have to worry that it’ll be found by a household member of the canine variety.)
And the best alternative?
Make these: Copycat Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs.
You won’t be sorry! 😉
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What awesome ideas! We are totally making sugar cookies today, I can’t wait!
And that bunny cake is fabulous!!!
aww adorable! i’m hosting a ladies easter tea party in a park!
what we do every year is buy wooden, foam, or paper mache eggs from the craft store and paint them! It’s tons of fun for the kids and we get to save them and use them as decoration year after year. sometimes we even make egg shaped cupcakes and decorate them. The kids don’t feel like they are missing out at all. 😉
great ideas I love the plastic carrots soo cute!
You could always pain wooden eggs instead of dying real eggs. That way you still get the fun (and the eggs will be a great present or decoration year after year after year!
Also, in case anyone’s interested, last year with my son (we’re vegan), we dyed wooden eggs! They hold the color, and you can color them with crayons etc first to make pics jst like on real eggs… and this year – to change it up a bit – I got little paper mache’ eggs at the craft store and we’re just going to paint them! I DO have the little plastic carrots though, so Jr has always gotten a carrot hunt at home.. and there’s lil treats for him inside 🙂
Just curious . . . you say these are “cruelty-free” alternatives to dyeing eggs. Why not say “vegan” rather than “cruelty-free”? I don’t understand how using eggs is cruel, seeing as no chicks need to be killed to obtain eggs. Or potential chicks, even, as the eggs aren’t even fertilized.
Keep in mind I’ve never done research into veganism so I apologize if this question seems a silly one with an obvious answer!
love all these ideas even though its not around easter time right now. and you look so cute in the photo as always! your dogs adorable 🙂