When learning how to dye easter eggs with natural ingredients recipe, you can play around with different spices and fruits or vegetables! See the coloring eggs color chart in the Notes section below for help.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Additional Time2 hourshrs
Total Time2 hourshrs30 minutesmins
Course: Crafts
Servings: 12
Author: LittleCooksReadingBooks.com
Ingredients
3cupsof watermore, as needed
Food items for natural dyesee Notes below
White vinegar
Boiled eggsat room temperature (brown or white)
Instructions
Add water to a saucepan. The amount of water (number of cups) will depend on how many eggs you will be coloring for that batch, so add more if needed.
Add the natural dye item (like red onion skins--see guide below) to the saucepan. Bring it to a boil.
Reduce heat to low and simmer (covered) for 20 minutes. Check the color of the water. Your eggs will be a few shades lighter than the dye in the pan, so continue to cook in 10 minute increments until you get the desired shades.
When you’ve reached the desired colors, remove the pan from heat and cool completely.
Strain the liquid.
Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar for every 1 cup of dye. Stir.
Add room temperature boiled eggs to a bowl, pour cooled dye over the eggs so that they are completely covered with the dye.
Place eggs (in the dye) in refrigerator until your eggs have reached the color you want. Remove from water and dry in egg carton or paper towels.
Repeat with each natural food item to get different colors.
Notes
DYES FOR EGGS COLOR GUIDE (Egg Color Mixing Chart):
Red, pink, or lavender dye: red onion skins or raspberries
Orange (white eggs) or rust red (brown eggs): yellow onion skins
Yellow: Turmeric spice
Blue (white eggs) and green (brown eggs): purple cabbage (also blueberries)
Pink (white eggs) or darker pink/maroon/red (brown eggs): beets or beet juice
Green: spinach
Purple: grape juice
Lavender: beet juice
Brown or Grey: black coffee or black tea
Turquoise: red cabbage mixed with a small amount of baking soda on brown eggs