Easter Eggstravaganza – Cool Ways To Dye Eggs, Easter Crafts
I guarantee that there is some way to dye Easter eggs that you may not have tried yet. Presenting: a festival of colors! Lots of ways to do eggsyou could fill a carton with many unique egg styles. Have an egg contest at Girl Scouts. An egg fashion show, anyone? How egg-citing (groan!) All of these designs can be polished after drying with a small amount of vegetable oil and a soft cloth. You should not eat these eggs after dyeing unless you are using food coloring, these specific natural dyes listed here, or commercial non-toxic egg dye.
Materials You Will Need For All Dye Jobs:
Bowl for each color dye you are making Slotted spoon to remove eggs Cooking oil Soft cloth
Hippie Granola Eggs
Red cabbage (blue) Yes, I said blue! You will see! Onion skins (brownish) Spinach leaves (green) Carrots (orange) Fresh beets (pink)
Pour 1/2 cup water in each sauce pan. Add your natural ingredients and allow them to simmer for 30 minutes. Then go do something else until the dye is absolutely cool! This is very important! Place your hardboiled eggs in the dye until they are the color you want.
Its Like Junior Prom!
Different color crepe paper Hot water
This is kind of weird, but it works! Soak crepe paper in hot water in individual bowls for each color. Leave your eggs in the water until they are just the right hue. I dont recommend eating these eggs because I dont know what kind of chemicals are in crepe paper.
Boring But Effective Food Coloring Method
Food coloring Hot water White vinegar
For each color, measure 1/4 tsp. food coloring in your small bowl. Add 3/4 cup hot water and 1 tbsp. white vinegar to each color. Yes, it is stinky. So horribly stinky! But it is a great way to transfer color onto eggs! Add your eggs and allow them to sit until they are the desired color. Later, make deviled eggs. Mmm…devilish
Mystery Eggs
Wax crayons Paper towels Egg dyes in different colors Slotted spoon
Put your mystery design on a hard boiled egg with your white crayon. Dip your egg in the egg dye, preferably a dark color. Leave in the dye until desired color is reached. Where the white crayon was, there will be no dye, leaving your beautiful design! When you polish the egg, most of the wax will come off, but if you want it all gone, you need to put it in the oven at 200 degrees for a few minutes.
Striped Tiger (or Piet Mondrian*) Eggs
Masking tape Different color egg dye Slotted spoon
Cut up masking tape with craft knife to make very thin stripes. Place stripes on egg in various patterns. Dip egg in egg dye and leave until desired color is reached. Remove with slotted spoon and air dry. Remove masking tape when dry. Create another stripe pattern, this time covering up some areas that were dyed before. Dip egg in another color, preferably one that will make a new color when added to the old one (Blue/yellow, red/blue, red/yellow) Let dry again and remove all tape. If you did it right, you will have white areas and stripes in two different colors. If you use green and orange, your eggs will come out brown. Which may be what youre going for? I dont know.
*Piet Mondrian: famous Dutch Cubist painter whose most famous works included stripes and blocks of color.
Meredith Mooney
