8 Egg Dyeing Techniques With Natural and Simple Colours

Try beautiful dyeing methods using kitchen ingredients and things you already own.

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1. Red cabbage blue eggs

Simmer chopped red cabbage in water with a splash of vinegar, cool, and soak white eggs overnight. They turn a surprising sky blue, and it is a great little science lesson for kids.

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2. Turmeric golden eggs

Stir a few spoonfuls of turmeric into hot water with vinegar and soak boiled eggs for thirty minutes. The result is a warm, sunny yellow with no artificial dye at all.

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3. Onion-skin marbled eggs

Wrap eggs in yellow onion skins, tie in cheesecloth, and simmer. The finished eggs have rust-orange marbling that looks like antique stone.

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4. Beet-dyed pink eggs

Boil grated beets in water and soak eggs in the cooled liquid for a few hours. You get a deep, rosy pink that is more natural and richer than store-bought kits.

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5. Leaf-print silhouette eggs

Press a fern or parsley leaf against the shell, wrap it tightly in a piece of stocking, and dye as usual. Remove the leaf and a delicate white silhouette remains.

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6. Rubber-band stripe eggs

Wrap rubber bands around the egg at different angles before dipping. After drying and removing them, crisp pale stripes show against the colour.

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7. Wax-resist doodle eggs

Draw patterns with a white crayon on the shell first, then dye. The wax repels the colour and your hidden doodles appear like magic when the egg comes out.

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8. Shaving-cream swirl eggs

Spread foam in a tray, drip food colouring on top, swirl with a toothpick, and roll eggs through it. The eggs come out with a striking marbled, cloudy pattern.