Homemade Natural Easter Egg Dyes: Recipes, Tips & Tips

Directions: Let all dyes come to room temp. strain and transfer into individual cups. Let hard-boiled eggs sit in dye for 15-20 minutes or leave in the fridge overnight for deeper hues.

How to make Yellow Dye

Ingredients: Dry mustard, orange peel, celery seed, and carrot.

Directions: Add the mixture to 2 cups boiling water.

Let steep until room temperature, strain.

Add 3 tsp. vinegar.

Homemade Lavender Easter Egg Dye

Ingredients: 100% grape juice. That's it.

Add 1 TB vinegar to juice.

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Greenish Yellow Egg Dye

Ingredients: Spinach leaves.

Directions: Add baby spinach to 2 cups boiling water.

Let steep until room temperature strain.

Add 1 TB vinegar.

Rust Orange Easter Egg Dye

Ingredients: Paprika

Directions: Add 2 TB of paprika to 1 cup boiling water.

Let steep.

Add 2 tsp vinegar.

Simple Blue Egg Dye

Ingredients: Frozen Blueberries

Directions: Add frozen blueberries to 2 cup boiling water.

Let steep until room temperature.

Add 3 tsp vinegar

Homemade Pink Egg Dye

Ingredients: Diced beats.

Directions: Add 1 beet (no leaves) diced in chunks to 2 cups boiling water.

Let steep until room temperature.

Add 1 TB vinegar.

Note: adding more vinegar may help speed up the egg dyeing process, and bring out deeper colors. Why? For the dyes you created above to be effective, they rely on hydrogen bonding which only works in an acidic environment--vinegar is acid... Mind blown.

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