Coloring Easter Eggs

For whatever reason I thought it would be a fun little project to make my own naturally dyed easter eggs this year. When I came across two articles recently that were about dying your own easter eggs naturally I was intrigued, I'm not really sure why though. I haven't colored easter eggs since I was a child, it's been years. The articles made it seem like a pretty easy project so I figured I'd give it a shot, how hard could it be.

All you need to make your own dye is some beets, a head of red cabbage (which makes blue interestingly enough) and some tumeric to make red, blue and yellow. So I bought my beets for $1.99, my cabbage for about $1.50 and I already had tumeric on hand, I figured for under $4 at least it wasn't an expensive project to try. You just have to cut up the beets, and cabbage, and add them to 4 quarts of water with a tablespoon of salt and a tablespoon of vinegar, let it come to a boil and then simmer it for a half hour, again nothing to complicated, although obviously more work than just buying the standard kit.

Once my dyes were done simmering, I strained them and I was ready to begin my coloring. By this point the house officially reeked liked red cabbage, beets and hard boiled eggs, not a pleasant smell but I pressed on. Let me just say coloring eggs as an adult by yourself is not very exciting. I just dropped my dozen eggs in the colors and left them to absorb the color, which took a pretty long time. The colors on mine did not turn out overly impressive and certainly didn't look as nice as the one in picture in the article, so that was slightly disappointing. Overall, it was a fun little 'experiment' I'll call it, I learned how to make my own natural dye but when the time comes to color easter eggs with my kids we will def be using the traditional kits that we used as kids, it's way more fun and much better results!