When we first arrived here a year-and-a-half ago, our branch President asked us to be in charge of the "American parties" at English class. I am not all sorry to say that this Easter party was our last. Some "lasts" are and will be hard. This is not one of them. Hosting parties is not my forte. But, I think we've done okay with the assignment. The idea of the parties is to teach them a little bit about American culture and to have fun together. Japanese people know very little about Easter. Very little. We wanted them to experience coloring eggs. They are fascinated with anything colored (frosting, etc.) It is difficult to find food coloring and it only comes in a powdered form. The usual liquid way of dying eggs would be difficult in this type of setting, so I googled it and found you could do it with rice. You just put some rice in an enclosed container with the food coloring. Since ours was powder, we added some vinegar. It worked really well and the people really enjoyed doing it. 
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| This is actually the ball we made for the Sakata party- but the Tsuruoka one was just like it. |
4 comments:
I might have to try the rice method. Coloring eggs the traditional way is super stressful with toddlers around! Remind me next year to try the rice way.
I want to to come to your parties! They look so fun! But I understand but it is a crazy amount of work to get ready for them. They're lucky to have you.
The colored eggs are prettier with more intense color than with the liquid coloring - I believe you're onto something! Great ideas for games - they will really miss your parties!
You are the bomb party planner! The Easter party looks like so much fun and I think when you get back to the states you should start importing Easter egg dye to the Japanese people and make a million.
I'm with Michelle! The rice way of dyeing Easter eggs looks like far more fun, and way less messy! Oh! I dread coloring eggs because of all the spills and drips! What a great party.
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