Natural Dyes For Easter Eggs

Make your own natural dyes for Easter eggs! Create beet, blueberry and onion skin Easter eggs for a lovely spring decoration.

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Make your own natural dyes for Easter eggs! Create beet, blueberry and onion skin Easter eggs for a lovely spring decoration.

When Alex, my 10-year-old grandson, came to stay with me during spring break, he was eager to color Easter eggs. Also, I hadn’t seen Jody Main, my friend and an Easter egg maven, for far too long — what a perfect excuse for a visit!

When we entered Jody’s farmhouse kitchen, there was a table with teacups full of dyes and a big bowl of eggs ready to go. Alex and I had great fun, and we learned a lot that afternoon about colors and which combinations produce which colors. We went home with cartons full of unique eggs.

After years of dyeing eggs using a wide range of botanical sources, Jody had streamlined the dyeing procedure. She had narrowed the necessary ingredients down to three — fresh red beets, yellow onion skins, and frozen blueberries. That’s all she needed to produce the primary colors: red, yellow and blue. By combining the resulting natural dyes in varying amounts, she can create any color of the rainbow. You can do it, too!

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  • Updated on Jan 31, 2024
  • Originally Published on Dec 28, 2009
Tagged with: easter eggs, natural dyes
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