We love to experiment with making our own dyes each year.
And playing with some of our long time favorites; curry, beets, blueberries, and onion peels.
We love to experiment with making our own dyes each year.
And playing with some of our long time favorites; curry, beets, blueberries, and onion peels.
This short post has given me new hope regarding dyeing eggs! I’d written the whole thing off as being artificial and creepy (with the little store-bought dye pellets my parents used to buy), and since I don’t have kids, I’ve just avoided the whole endeavor for years. But using food as dye sources sounds so much better! Can you provide a bit more detail? Thanks!
Love the way they came out.
Anne, it’s simple as can be, and fun too! There are websites all over with different ideas of what you can use to make different colors, but we just like to experiment. Boil up what ever you are using in a bit of water, strain it out (for things like beets, we just cook them for eating and keep the cooking water), add in a teaspoon or two of vinegar and start dying. One year we made absolutely gorgeous ones by taking bits of ferns and pressing them to the eggs, then wrapping them in onion skins, tied on with twine and boiling them all wrapped up that way. They were so pretty with the fern prints and many shades of orange.