Happy Easter - Natural Dye
Normally this would a day for another #squirrelsunday but today is Easter so we are dying eggs in a natural way.
They turned out perfectly and they are ready to be hidden for my daughter's first Easter egg hunt.
The daffodils are blooming and complement the colorful easter eggs.
The dying process was quite complex. This is something my wife found online. You crunch a bunch of onion skins up and mix them with dill and mint.
Then you pack the egg and the onion skins into a nylon socking.
Once they are all bundled up you can then dip them in strange natural color concoctions.
This yellow is of course tumeric.
This green is from an algae powder we add to our drinks.
This red is a combo of hibiscus tea and beets.
Here is what the algae one looks like when first removing them from the nylon stocking.
All the rest turned out interesting too. I thought the beets would be brighter but they ended up kind of orange and dull.
Now my daughter is getting the hang of finding them.
She really threw them back into the basket and most of them cracked lol. Time to make some deviled eggs now.
That's all for now, happy Easter!
wow, these Easter eggs looks amazing... it's that it difficult to find the hidden eggs...
Waiting for devil eggs...
Happy Easter 🐰🐣
Deviled eggs are quite tasty. I hope we can get them to turn out.
hahaha..
Very cool.👍
I'm surprised we had all the natural things to make the dye on hand. I thought the tumeric would be a bit brighter.
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Happy Easter!
The eggs turned out gorgeous 😍
She loved the sound they made as they cracked by throwing them in the basket.
Amazing!! you've provided a great fun and experience to your babygirl. Havent heard about such a tradition as Easter egg hunt! 🎈 Cool. 🥰
My wife didn't want to use any artificial ingredients. The easter egg hunts are quite a tradition around here, my work office even had one inside the building with plastic eggs and candy lol.
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Nice eggs, the colours are really cool and look like planets
Right when they came out of the wrap they sort of looked like a strange marble or granite color. Next year I'll have to wrap them with smaller maple leaves to see if they create an imprint.
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Haha your daughter threw the eggs in the basket. Afterwards if it was cooked it was fine it didn't suffer too much it should still be edible.
Thankfully they were hard boiled in the dying process. Each time she found one you could hear the cracking of eggs as they fell in the basket. She is still carrying around the basket and collecting various toys in it now that the eggs are gone.
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