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How to Dye Easter Eggs Naturally

Posted on April 8th, 2009 by Carmelia
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The best Easter eggs are always the ones you have time to decorate, made from real eggs. It’s also typical that people make hard boiled egg salad or other hard boiled egg recipes. For that reason, many concerned parents would rather have natural dyes to minimize the accidental ingestion of artificial colors or paints. Here’s how to dye Easter eggs naturally.

Materials

  • Deep pot
  • Stove
  • Water
  • 1 teaspoon of vinegar

Procedure

  1. Place the eggs in the pot. The eggs should have wide berth from each other to avoid bumping to each other (which causes cracks) when the water is boiling

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  2. You have the option of washing the eggs first with a little mild detergent to remove the oils that will make the dye difficult to stick on the eggs.
  3. Add water until the eggs are covered.
  4. Add a teaspoon of vinegar. This will prevent the eggs from cracking further.
  5. Add the material you will need for the dye color. The materials for each particular color will be listed below.
  6. Turn on the stove, and bring the water to boil. Once boiling, reduce heat and let simmer for five minutes.
  7. For more intense color, remove the eggs temporarily from the water. You can add more of the natural dyeing material, strain the dyeing material through a coffee filter or tie the material directly around the eggs using a rubber band, if possible.
  8. For more intense color, strain all the dyeing material out until only the dyed water remains. Leave the eggs in the water and refrigerate overnight.
  9. Crushing berries and applying them directly on eggs is another way to dye Easter eggs naturally.

Colors

  1. Blue: Blueberry juice or canned blueberries, bigger quantity of purple grape juice
  2. Lavender: Small quantity of purple grape juice, violet blossoms with two teaspoons lemon juice, red cabbage leaves.
  3. Green: Chopped spinach leaves, liquid chlorophyll, many green apple peels.
  4. Light Green: Yellow Delicious Apple peels
  5. Yellow: Ground cumin, ground turmeric, celery seeds, saffron, carrot tops, orange or yellow peels
  6. Brown: Strong coffee, instant coffee grounds, black walnut seeds
  7. Orange: Yellow onion skins
  8. Pink: Crushed cranberries or cranberry juice, beets, red currants, red onion peels, dried hibiscus flowers, raspberries, pickled beet juice
  9. Red: Many red onion peels.

Once you’ve died your eggs, you can add them to an Easter basket or hide them for an egg hunt as part of your Easter celebrations!

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