Easter Eggs to Dye For: Easy Tips and Ideas for Easter Egg Dyeing

Ever get tired of that old way of coloring Easter eggs? We've all bought those cardboard packages for coloring Easter eggs. You get that lovely wire dipper and some goofy stickers and maybe a crayon? All for the bargain price of 5 bucks? Well here are some tips to help break you out of that Easter egg coloring rut and into some really neat and fun for the kids activities. Color your eggs in style this year with eggs that will make even the eater bunny jealous.

First of all you need to buy some dye for all those batches of eggs you've just boiled. While they cool in the fridge or in a bowl, now its the time to get some dyes. If you're not into a lot of work, than the old standby dyes you get in the package at the store will do. You can also buy food coloring to mix and match until you come up with some different colors. If your all out for the all natural colors and feel like being creative and making a mess, then these ideas for natural colorings are right up your alley.

Natural colors aren't as strong as the commercial kinds so you will have to let these eggs soak in the dye for much longer. To get some dyed, such as orange and yellow, you will need to boil about ¾ cups of water. For orange add 1 tablespoon or more of chili powder and soak eggs while mixture is still hot and add one teaspoon of vinegar. To make it more of a yellow color do the same as for orange but instead replace the chili powder with turmeric. Tan colors or brownish, boil the eggs in 1 cup of water with the brown skins of onions. Yellow green colors require you boil up a pound of asparagus to eat. Take ¾ of cup of the asparagus juice and a tablespoon of vinegar and soak the eggs in the solution. Dark brown colors can be made by using coffee. Use a leftover cup and add a tablespoon of vinegar to help the colors break into the shell. Soak in that solution for as long as you want the longer the darker the brown. To get pink and red colors, use 1 cup of beet juice and 1 teaspoon of vinegar and let it soak longer for darker colors.