My friend and I dyed Easter Eggs naturally, using the water from boiled fruits, vegetables, & spices. We added designs to our eggs by using plants from my butterfly garden as a stencil, attaching the plant to the egg with a piece of nylon before soaking it in the dye.
We used:
Onion skins
Red cabbage
Beets
Spinach
Turmeric
Blueberries
We used:
Onion skins
Red cabbage
Beets
Spinach
Turmeric
Blueberries
My favorite is the red cabbage - it turned out to be such a beautiful shade of blue! The beets made a lovely rose color, the onion skins turned a deep orange, turmeric a light & bright yellow, and the blueberries made a speckled gray/brown color that another friend said looked like a dinosaur egg! The spinach barely changed the egg to a pale grey, so I switched those eggs over to the turmeric instead. I think perhaps we didn't have a high enough spinach to water ratio.
Check out Two Men and a Little Farm for a beautiful chart of color options!
Sources:
Adventures in Cooking
Big Sis Lil Sis
A Storybook Life
Check out Two Men and a Little Farm for a beautiful chart of color options!
Sources:
Adventures in Cooking
Big Sis Lil Sis
A Storybook Life
