April 2011

Easter Eggs:

I thought that dying Easter eggs with natural dyes was a great idea, but it wasn’t the best plan after all.  You need to have ample time planned out for this project because the dyed eggs need sit over night in the dye of the desired color you want.

We attempted onion peels, clover, beet powder, a pink tea, and yarrow.  We used homegrown eggs from my mom’s chickens; meaning we had all kinds of colors and sizes to chose from. This was a good test of natural dyes. We even tried attaching cloverleaves to the eggs using nylons as a griper for the eggs. It worked great. The only problem was the amount of time we had given to the project. It just wasn’t enough.

All the dyes work!