Hey everybody, Happy Good Friday to you! I sort of feel weird saying that, considering I’m not particularly religious, and all Easter really means for me is chocolate and bunny rabbits, but I digress.

A time-honoured tradition (in some places) of Easter is having the kiddies go on an Easter egg hunt. You know, they grab their little baskets, and look for the pretty coloured eggs, often hidden in a park or something. I’ve never done it in this way, per se; my mom would hide those little foil-wrapped chocolate eggs around the house for me to find Easter Sunday. She could get pretty clever, so clever that even she would forget where she hid them, and we’d often find eggs some six months later.

But if you want to be traditional, and go with real, hard-boiled eggs for your little ones to find, than this Serious Eats post is perfect for you. It describes (in great detail) just how to get the perfect hard-boiled egg.

Then the trick is painting them. This post, again, goes into great detail about the ways in which you can paint eggs. It also goes into how to blow out the yolks, which will make the eggs keep longer.

Good luck if you’re going to be painting real eggs this weekend! I’ll probably just buy the chocolate ones.