How to Dye Easter Eggs

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Deborah. I'm going to show you how to dye easter eggs using a natural material. In this case we're going to use blackberries and I've started my water in the pan, I have no eggs in it yet, I'm going to put just about half a cup of vinegar in the water. That's help set the natural dye. Now I've got some mushed up blackberries here that I picked and had in the freezer actually. I'm going to just put them in the water and stir the water around and get it boiling. So I just dump those in the water and I'm going to put in some eggs to boil. We'll see what color they come out. Should be kind of a pinkish purplish color. It might take a minute or two. Actually its going to take about 15 because you have to, these are raw eggs and you have to actually boil them in the dyed water for the period of time that you need to boil hard-boiled eggs for. So we'll take a look at them in about 15 minutes and see how they look. Alright, and now its been 15 minutes, I'm going to turn off my water, my blackberries have been boiling and some vinegar in with my eggs and natural looking dyed easter egg. It's kind of an eggplant color. Let's see here's another one, came out a little bit different. This one kind of came out a little more dyed on some parts sort of speckledy looking but it's definitely a purplish eggplant color. Very nice. Put them in the tray with our other ones. Woohoo, they're hot. So again, you can use any kind of product around your house that has color to it. I know coffee will make a beautiful brown color. So that's a good thing to do with your leftover coffee if you have any leftover. Anyway, naturally dyed eggs, they're the way to go."