How to Dye Easter Eggs Using Natural Food Ingredients from Your Kitchen

Would you like to try coloring Easter Eggs without a coloring kit? You can do it with items which are found in many kitchens...hopefully you will have some of these ingredients in YOUR kitchen as well!

First off, here's a list of ingredients you can use to color your eggs. Following that is the more specific 'how to' guide.

Some of these foods will stain or dye fabric, counter tops, floors, and so on pretty well. If you are even a fraction as messy as I am in the kitchen, I heartily recommend that you put on a large apron, and similarly outfit the kids, if they are helping. You might even want to put newspaper down on the kitchen counters. Speaking from experience, I can assure you that things like turmeric, raspberry juice, blueberries and beet juice stain like crazy.

Pale red -can be obtained with fresh beets, cranberries or raspberries. You may have already found out that the juice from these foods is extremely difficult to get out of clothing and babies bibs!

Orange- comes from yellow onion skins. I haven't experimented with carrots, but if you've ever tried to get Gerber's baby carrots out of a bib, you know how stubborn those stains can be. If you want to try for a good orange with carrots, I'd suggest putting carrots in a Cuisinart and shredding them, then using them as the food source (see below). If you experiment with carrots, please write a comment and attach it to this article, to let the rest of us know how the carrot "dye" worked out.

Light yellow - comes from orange or lemon peels, carrot tops (funny, huh...the tops LOOK green!), celery seed or ground cumin.

Yellow- can be obtained from ground turmeric. It is REALLY, determinedly yellow! Another one of those colors which stains easily.

Pale green - comes from spinach leaves.

Green-gold - comes from yellow Delicious apple PEELS

Blue- comes from canned blueberries or red cabbage leaves. You might try some fresh, frozen blueberries if you have any in your freezer like I do. Smush them first, then apply to the water bath (as detailed below).

Beige to brown - comes from strongly brewed coffee.

Now, on to the Specific Instructions: