All Natural Easter Egg Dyeing
This is a great way to dye your Easter eggs this year (by the way, Easter is in 18 days!) for whatever reason matters the most to you: it’s a fun science experiment, you stay away from commercial dyes, it is cheap AND its just something new and different!
All Natural Easter Egg Dyeing
Colors
1. To make a beautiful light blue dyed Easter egg, simply take 3/4 of a head of red cabbage, chop it and put it in a large pot. Add 2 T. of white vinegar, add the eggs and fill pot with water.
2. To make a green, add 2 cups of spinach (or a box of frozen spinach) to a pot. Add 2 T. of white vinegar, add the eggs and fill pot with water.
3. To make a red (and a hot pink for some of the eggs!), add 3 cups of cranberry juice and 3 chopped beets in a pot. Add 2 T. of white vinegar, add the eggs and fill pot with water.
4. To make a yellow, add 2 teaspoons of turmeric to your pot. Add 2 T. of white vinegar, add the eggs and fill pot with water.
5. I forgot to do this one BUT you can use chili powder (just like I used the turmeric above) to make a fun red/orange color.
Dyeing
1. Bring your mixture to a boil then reduce heat so it is simmering for 30 minutes. Don’t let it boil too long or the eggs will crack!
2. Let the eggs sit in the mixture for a couple of hours. Be sure to stir them around a few times so the color soaks in on all sides of the egg.
Note: In this pictures it looks like I combined mixtures. I did not. I was just trying out a weird color. So please boil and simmer all of your mixtures SEPERATE.
Check out our beautiful eggs! Don’t they look so rustic and natural? This was a lot of fun to do. The girls loved guessing what colors the vegetables or spices would turn the eggs and then waiting to see if they were right!
Another fun part of this “experiment” was that every single egg turned out a different shade (we did use brown and white eggs) and I just think they are beautiful.
But what to do with the veggies? Throw them in the compost pile! Your garden will be extra happy this year.
Tags: all natural easter egg dye, dying easter eggs with vegetables, easter, easter eggs, organic easter egg dye
The red cabbage egg is my favorite. What a beautiful color!
Too bad Easter doesn’t come while our gardens are growing! Beautiful eggs.
These are so pretty! What a lovely idea!
p.s. My mom got a crazy idea off of Martha Stewart that we use every year. We go and find old silk ties from D.I. and cut them up. Then we wrap the eggs in the ties and put a rubber band around them to hold it on. Then you boil them like normal and when you take off the tie, the color and pattern is stained onto the eggs. I’ll have to take some pics and show you; so fun & earth-friendly!
Absolutely beautiful eggs. I love them so much better than the store-bought dyes. I think we will be ding our eggs this way! Thanks for sharing.
Ooo, and I like Quinn’s idea, too. So fun!
I just LOVE that idea! Those eggs look so natural - plus you can eat them when you are done!
(although you shouldn’t really put the “cooked” left overs into the compost… well… I guess you can if you want too. Isn’t that the compost rule? Don’t put cooked food or meats into the compost - it attracts animals)
Anywho thanks for the GREAT idea. It is a wonderful idea!
I love these. I have been wanted to dye all my eggs with natural dyes. This year I am going to do it. I love the colors.
This is just wonderful! I hope you don’t mind if I link to your post, just a great idea!
GORGEOUS!!!
We finally made these today! Our spinach ones were kind of ugly, but the cabbage ones and the tumeric ones were beautiful. I’m wondering if asparagus would make a greener green…
This was a fun activity. Thanks, again, for sharing it. Happy Easter and Conference Weekend