Celebrate Easter with this "
Jesus!" display:
Coloring eggs for Easter to celebrate
new life in Jesus is a classic tradition. I thought it'd be fun to do a batch with my kids this weekend - to test an idea I had of using
letter stickers:
Coloring Easter Eggs: Natural Dye TutorialAfter
boiling 6 eggs, I
dried them and
adhered the letter stickers:
I tried
natural ingredients -
a first for me - to make my
dyes. I googled to find a list of options. I started with
blueberries. I heated a small handful of fresh blueberries with a bit of water and white vinegar. Then I strained it into about 1/2 cup hot water:
Next I tried cooking some
spinach for green. I learned you'd need
A LOT of spinach :-) to get a good green, as you can see mine looks more like pale yellow:
My third choice was to be red/pink using
cranberry juice ... but this ingredient ended up coloring the eggs brown. I took the one I had in the "green" and gave it a second bath in the blueberry to turn it aqua.
Here are our eggs
cooling and
drying:
I really liked the
mottled finish on my eggs, although you may try wiping them a bit for a more even finish. Lastly, I
removed the letter stickers to see if my technique worked:
Yeah!!!! It did! :-)
The kids thought this was pretty fun, so we'll color eggs again ... I think I'll do the kind where they
color on them with crayons first! :-) AND we'll try some other ingredients so my daughter can get her pink eggs!
Although she really liked the blueberry dye because it looked purple. http://jeannewinters.blogspot.com/2009/03/jesus-easter-eggs.html
Coloring eggs for Easter to celebrate new life in Jesus is a classic tradition. I thought it'd be fun to do a batch with my kids this weekend - to test an idea I had of using letter stickers:
Coloring Easter Eggs: Natural Dye TutorialAfter boiling 6 eggs, I dried them and adhered the letter stickers:
I tried natural ingredients - a first for me - to make my dyes. I googled to find a list of options. I started with blueberries. I heated a small handful of fresh blueberries with a bit of water and white vinegar. Then I strained it into about 1/2 cup hot water:
Next I tried cooking some spinach for green. I learned you'd need A LOT of spinach :-) to get a good green, as you can see mine looks more like pale yellow: 
My third choice was to be red/pink using cranberry juice ... but this ingredient ended up coloring the eggs brown. I took the one I had in the "green" and gave it a second bath in the blueberry to turn it aqua. 
Here are our eggs cooling and drying:
I really liked the mottled finish on my eggs, although you may try wiping them a bit for a more even finish. Lastly, I removed the letter stickers to see if my technique worked:
Yeah!!!! It did! :-) 
The kids thought this was pretty fun, so we'll color eggs again ... I think I'll do the kind where they color on them with crayons first! :-) AND we'll try some other ingredients so my daughter can get her pink eggs! Although she really liked the blueberry dye because it looked purple. http://jeannewinters.blogspot.com/2009/03/jesus-easter-eggs.html
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