All Natural Dyed Eggs Made Easy!
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If you love doing dishes, spending 4 hours on something that you could do in 30 minutes, or wasting food- this is the perfect project for you!! And best of all, your Instagram feed will thank you.
All Natural dyed Easter Eggs… Read to the bottom for the easiest way to achieve this natural goodness
I remembered from last year the beautiful all-natural dyed eggs and everyone raving about how much fun they are to make and how beautiful they turned out. I felt like channeling my inner Laura Ingalls Wilder and looked up an “easy” recipe. After a trip to Safeway, then a separate trip to Target, two days later I had everything I needed. Basically, you boil water (8 cups for the head of lettuce, 4 cups each for turmeric, onion skins, and beets) and add 1/4 cup of vinegar to the pot. In each pot you put the water, vinegar and one of your ingredients, boil, then simmer for at least 30 minutes. I would recommend OMITTING the beets, as I used a ton and the water didn’t actually get dark… total waste.
Good luck trying to perfectly position flowers on an egg covered by a taught pantyhose square!! It’s almost as easy to do as getting shoes on a 2 year old.
If you want to add nature impressions, you place the flowers or leaves (I did little flowers and thyme sprigs) on the egg, then wrap them tightly in 4x4’ squares of pantyhose and use a twist tie (or I used tiny hair elastics). Be sure to wrap pretty tightly.
This craft is an easy way to get every single one of your drinking glasses dirty.
Pour the colored water in cups or jars and gently lower each egg (you can hard boil or leave raw and at the very end poke a hole on each end and blow out the insides to just have the shell). Leave until desired color achieved, I did each for around 30 minutes. Be sure to let completely dry on a metal rack before removing pantyhose, then make sure the nature bits are dry before removing those.
You should find a nice album to play while you do dishes for the next 45 minutes (might I recommend Sexy as Folk from Spotify?) and good luck with the onion/beet/cabbage smell! If you compost, you can use all the food waste to enrich your garden.
Admittedly, the yellow onion skins were the easiest to make, easiest to clean up after, and my favorite color (they turned out a mustardy-carmel color). If you want to do one color, I would recommend this one.
OR… you can purchase this kit on Amazon, have it delivered and follow the box recommendations (I would STRONGLY urge you to consider this option!!). It’s still natural, but you don’t waste a bag of groceries and save yourself ALLLLLLL the dishes.
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!