The Pink and Blue Eggs | Easter Stories For Kids

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The Pink and Blue Eggs is a humorous tale about curiosity and misunderstanding. When White Hen sees unusual pink and blue eggs on the farmer’s table, she spreads the news, causing great confusion among the other hens. None of them want to hatch such oddly colored eggs, fearing they might end up with strange-looking chicks. The farmyard is in an uproar until Towser the dog reveals the truth—White Hen had unknowingly laid the eggs herself, and they had simply been dyed for Easter. Embarrassed but quick to keep it a secret, White Hen learns that sometimes, things aren’t as strange as they seem! This story playfully introduces children to themes of curiosity, assumptions, and the fun tradition of Easter egg decorating.





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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I tell you I saw them with my own eyes,
said old white hen, standing on one foot with her
neck outstretched and her bill wide open. One was pink
and the other was blue. They were just like any
other egg as far as size, but the color. Think

(00:21):
of it, pink and blue eggs. Whoever could have laid them?
Old white hen looked from one to the other of
the group of hens and chickens as they stood around her. Well,
I know that I didn't, said speckled hand. You needn't
look at me, said brown hand. I lay large white eggs,

(00:46):
and you know it, every one of you. They are
the best eggs in the yard. If I do say it. Oh,
I would not say that, said white hand. You seem
to forget that the largest egg ever seen in this
yard was laid by me, and it was a little
on the brown color. White eggs are all well enough,

(01:08):
but give me a brown tone for quality. You never
laid such a large egg as that, but once, replied
brown hen, And everybody thought it was a freak egg.
So the least said about it, the better it seems
to me. It is plain to understand how you feel
about that egg, said white hen. But it does not

(01:32):
help us to find out who laid the blue and
pink eggs. Where did you see them, asked Beckle hen
On the table by the window of the farmhouse, said
old White Hen. I flew up on a barrel that
stood under the window, and then I stretched my neck
and looked in the window, and there on the table,

(01:55):
in a little basket, I saw those strange looking eggs.
Perhaps the Master had bought them for some one of
us to sit on and hatch out, said Brown Hen. Well,
I for one refuse to do it, said White Hen.
I think it would be an insult to put those

(02:15):
gaudy things into our nests. I am sure I will
not hatch them, said speckled Hen. I would look funny
hiking around here with a blue chick and a pink
chick beside me, and I a speckled hen. No, I
will not mother fancy colored chicks. The Master can find

(02:37):
another hen to do that. You do not think for
a minute that I would do such a thing, I hope,
said Brown Hen. I only mentioned the fact that the
Master might have such an idea. But as for mixing
up colors, I guess not. My little yellow darlings shall

(02:58):
not be disgraced by a blue and a pink chick
running with them. Perhaps White Hen is color blind, said
speckled Hen. The eggs she saw may be white after all.
If you doubt my word or my sight, go and
look for yourselves, said white Hen, holding her head high.

(03:21):
You will find a blue and a pink egg, just
as I told you, All friends, Speckled Hen and Brown Hen,
followed by many others and all the chicks in the yard.
One after another. They flew to the top of the
barrel and looked in the window at the eggs White
Hen had told them of. It was all too true.

(03:45):
The eggs were blue and pink. Pee beep, peep beep.
We want to see the blue and pink eggs too,
cried the chickens. We never saw any, and we want
to look at them. Oh dear, why did I talk
before them, said Brown Hen. They will not be quiet

(04:07):
unless they see. And how in the world shall I
get them up to that window? Did it ever occur
to you not to give them everything they cry for?
Said White Hen. Say no, once in a while, it
will save you a lot of trouble. I cannot bear
to deny the little darlings anything said brown Hen, clucking

(04:31):
her little brood and trying to quiet them. Well, you
better begin now, for this is one of the things
you will not be able to do, said White Hen,
strutting over to the dog house to tell the story
of the blue and pink eggs to Towser. Wouldn't it
be just too awful if the Master puts those eggs

(04:54):
in one of our nests, asked White Hen when she
had finished her story. Oh, laughed Tawser. That is a
good joke on. You don't know your own eggs when
you see them. Don't tell me I laid those fancy
colored eggs, said White Hen, looking around to see if

(05:16):
any of her companions were within hearing distance. I know
I never did, but you did, said Tawser, laughing again.
I heard the Master say to my little mistress, if
you want eggs to color for Easter, take the ones
that white Hen laid. They are not so large as

(05:36):
the others, and I cannot sell them so well. Tawser,
if you will never mention what you have just told me,
I will tell you where I saw a great big
bone this morning, said white Hen. I was saving it
for myself. I like to pick at one once in
a while, But you shall have it if you promise

(05:58):
to keep secret what you dous told me. Tawser promised,
and White Hen showed where it was hidden. A few
days after, Brown Hen said, I wonder when Master is
going to bring out those fancy eggs. If he leaves
them in the house much longer, no one will be
able to hatch them. Oh, I forgot to tell you

(06:21):
that those eggs were not real eggs after all, said
white Han. But only Easter eggs for the master's little
girl to play with. So we had all our worry
for nothing, Tawser told me. But don't say a word
to him, for I did not let on that we
were worried and didn't know they were only make believe eggs.

(06:46):
He thinks he is so wise, you know. It would
never do to let him know how we were fooled.