Easter Eggs from Outer Space

This year my family decorated Easter Eggs a little differently. We decided to go with an outer space theme. So we divvied up the planets and other astrological bodies and used a combination of egg dye and paint to create the universe. All the pictures are below. Take special note of how nicely this blog post is laid out—it took me hours to do this. Sometimes Blogger is not very easy to work with. You can click on any picture to see it larger (and it's often worth it).

The complete solar system is shown here:


Here are the individual planets in the solar system and the person who created each:

The Sun William Krohn	Mercury Robyn Krohn	Venus Robyn Krohn
The Earth William Krohn	Mars Bill Krohn	The Asteroid Belt Sheri Krohn
Jupiter Bill Krohn	Saturn Robyn Krohn	Uranus Sheri Krohn
Neptune Bill Krohn	Pluto Bill Krohn	Planet X Robyn Krohn

Here's the earth and the moon together:


I think the Earth turned out really well. It took a long time to do:

North America	Western Europe	Asia
Pacific Ocean	North Pole	Antarctica

My mom did the moon:

Full Moon

Quarter Moon

New Moon

And here are the rest of the astrological bodies:

Nebula Robyn Krohn	Spiral Galaxy William Krohn	Big Dipper Robyn Krohn
Black Hole Robyn Krohn	Black Hole Robyn Krohn	Worm Hole Sheri Krohn
Blue Sun Robyn Krohn	Haley's Comet Sheri Krohn	The Northern Lights Bill Krohn

In light of this year's festivities, I now think just dying Easter Eggs is kind of boring. I still have this year's eggs, but they probably won't last much longer. Next year I think we'll blow out the eggs rather than hard boil them so that we can seal them and keep them longer.