It's easy to create Easter Egg Dye
with natural ingredients from
your own kitchen.
Give the Easter bunny a run for his money by dyeing Easter eggs the natural way, using common foods and flowers. -
Start with hard-cooked (boiled) eggs and refrigerate until ready to use.
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The longer you soak the eggs in the following dye liquids (of your choice), the more intense the colors will be.
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If desired, before dyeing the eggs, draw shapes, pictures or inspiring words on them with crayons or a piece of wax. The wax won't absorb the color so the designs will show through. Using a crayon, simply draw a design onto your eggs and then dye as you would any other Easter egg. Your crayon design will be accentuated by your choice of dye!
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Rubber bands are all you need to make tie-dyed eggs. Use a collection of different sized rubber bands. Wrap the rubber bands, one at a time, around the eggs. Make sure to leave some of the egg shell exposed so it can be dyed.
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Once the eggs are dyed to the color you like, remove them from the water and let them dry. Once dried completely, pull the rubber bands off to reveal your banded design.
- How to make natural egg dyes:
Blue Canned Blueberries
Red Cabbage Leaves (boiled)
Purple Grape Juice
Brown or Beige Strong Coffee
Instant Coffee
Black Walnut Shells (boiled)
Black Tea
Brown Gold Dill Seeds
Brown Orange Chili Powder
Green Spinach Leaves (boiled)
Liquid Chlorophyll
Greenish Yellow Yellow Delicious Apple Peels (boiled)
Grey Purple or red grape juice or beet juice
Lavender Small Quantity of Purple Grape Juice
Violet Blossoms plus 2 tsp Lemon Juice
Red Zinger Tea
Orange Yellow Onion Skins (boiled)
Carrots
Paprika
Pink Beets
Cranberries or Juice
Raspberries
Red Grape Juice
Juice from Pickled Beets
Red Lots of Red Onions Skins (boiled)
Pomegranate juice
Canned Cherries (with syrup)
Raspberries
Violet or Purple Violet Blossoms
Hibiscus tea
Small Quantity of Red Onions Skins (boiled)
Red Wine
Yellow Orange or Lemon Peels (boiled)
Carrot Tops (boiled)
Chamomile Tea
Celery Seed (boiled)
Green tea
Ground Cumin (boiled)
Ground Turmeric (boiled) or Saffron
It's easy to create Easter Egg Dye
