Make Your Own Natural dyes for Easter eggs this year!

My favorite part of Easter, when I was little was the color of the eggs. E 'was more fun for me when hunting them. I liked how I could get creative with these five glasses of dye and wax crayon that one! As an adult, I like to color eggs with my children, and last year, I tried to watch or make a way, education as well. So when I discovered that instead of buying coloring Easter eggs you can do really well, I had to try! It 'was like a science and chemistryLesson at any of the vehicles rolled into a welcoming! And best of all, my children have it! This year we want to see what else we can in our yard and a refrigerator to be used as natural dye egg! And even if natural dyes egg is not as lively as artificial colors (not just the neon colors found in nature!) Are just as beautiful.

You can make your own natural dyes from an egg of a variety of foods, flowers and plants. The dye is the chicken or the egg when cooking or transmitted, as in normalDyes have, hard boiled eggs. be aware of the color when cooking with eggs, the number of colors that have at one time by the number of burning stove can do is limited (or the number of pots you have!)

Everything you do to dye the eggs during cooking, there is room enough water in the pot to cover the egg (or eggs). Just add the ingredients for coloring the water and turn the heat to a boil. You can add a teaspoon of vinegar for more intense colors.

If your childrenyoung, and prefer the color the eggs after they are baked, you can do that too. This method may take a little 'more, but it is safer for artists smallest egg. Just cook the eggs, and then, after cooling, add a cup with enough water to the eggs (you can use a bowl if you want to do one at a time.) Add a teaspoon of vinegar to the pan and add the ingredients dyeing. Leave the eggs in the dye to sit in the refrigerator until desiredColor.

Here are some suggested ingredients that can be used to produce the desired colors for naturally dyed eggs. Once you have mastered the process, feel free to experiment with other ingredients to the different colors!

Red - a large amount of red onion cooked with eggs. With the cold method, add the canned cherries in their juice, pomegranate juice, or raspberry.
Blue - blueberries or grape juice, purple box added in the water and put in fridgeRed cabbage leaves in water during cooking
Green - spinach cooked with eggs
Yellow - Each of these can be cooked with eggs, lemon or orange peels, carrot tops, celery seed, ground cumin or turmeric. About the same color with the cold process, add green tea or chamomile to the water.
Orange - yellow onion skins boiled, cooked carrots, chili powder, paprika and will result in the desired color in the process of cold.
violets and 2 teaspoons - LavenderLemon juice, Red Zinger tea or a small amount of purple grape juice
Violet Blue - Small amounts of red onion in the water during cooking, the purple flowers, hibiscus tea or red wine
Brown - black walnut shells cooked with eggs, or add strong coffee, instant coffee or black tea, the water in the refrigerator.
Pink - Use one of these, at sea and in the refrigerator overnight, beets, blueberries or blueberry juice, raspberry, red grape juice orPickled beet juice.

Once the eggs are the desired color, remove from water and place in a carton of eggs to dry. If you look at your shiny naturally dyed eggs, you can rub a little vegetable oil in eggshells. Their natural egg dyes really possible for a family of great tradition for your Easter. They are so surprised to see how beautiful colored eggs of course - you can never go back to commercial egg dye!