Comments on: Natural Egg Dyeing

By: katy

katy — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:53:23 +0000

When we picked up the boys from their grandparents’ house, they had been dyeing eggs with onion skins and I thought, “that is something I’d read about but never, ever, ever, do.” Meanwhile all of you good parents have been doing it all along.

By: maïa

maïa — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:32:51 +0000

For onions, we used red ones: they gave a rich, dark color to the eggs. We’d wrapped thin rubber bands around the eggs, so the end result was purplish eggs with white twirls around the shell.
Fun ideas to be found in the simplest things!
Also, it’s doubly great to use red beets, b/c then you can make hard boiled egg + red beet salad the following day! … and since it’s spring, throw in some chives from the garden

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:12:53 +0000

This is great! We did tumeric, beets, and blueberries for ours this year and they worked well.