How to dye Easter eggs using homemade dyes.

Save money and have great fun dying your Easter eggs with homemade dye. These dyes are easy to make using ingredients that can already be found in your kitchen.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 1 dozen eggs
• large sauce pan
• water
• 1/4 teaspoon vinegar
• food additives

1. Add eggs and about a handful of your choice of food additives to sauce pan.
2. Add enough water to cover eggs. Boil.
3. Add vinegar.
4. Simmer for 20 minutes.
5. Remove eggs from water and drain.

Tips & Warnings

• For orange dye add onion skins.
• For yellow dye add yellow onion skins, Golden Delicious apple peels, orange peels, saffron, lemon peels, shredded carrot, celery seed or walnut shells.
• For red dye add beets, raspberries, grape juice, cranberries or red onions.
• For light blue dye add frozen blueberries (thawed).
• For pale green dye add spinach.