Naturally dyed eggs + an egg hunt!
Posted on | March 31, 2013 | 5 Comments
Happy Easter! We spent this amazing weekend outside on a continual basis - the weather was in the 70's (in March!). I finally got around to learning how to dye eggs naturally and I used beets, spirulina, chamomile, and red cabbage. It was such a fun, easy experiment and Hazel loved the outcome (as did her mama).
Interested in how I did it? I followed the reciple (sort of!) from this website by Dr. Momma. I used what we happened to have in the kitchen. If you're looking for a rich green I would not recommend spirulina - it turned my eggs a verrrry light green hue, as you can see above. Red cabbage was my favorite, turning the eggs the gorgeous blue and teal color (I used different shades of eggs, due to our different chicken breeds). I also let a majority of these soak overnight, except the light pink which simply sat in the beet dye for about 5 minutes this morning. The best part was we ate some of the ingredients and tea while making these!
Hazel also woke up amazed at the disturbance in our carpet below! She got down carpet level numerous times throughout the day, inspecting in depth what it was. My mother and grandmother used to do this every easter, and the memory makes me so happy just thinking about it.
I hope your easter was a blessed as ours!
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- April
- I am a RN & natural momma in the Pacific Northwest, married to a beautiful man I adore. Nature is my niche, animals get me. I read and I write, I hike and I love photography. Welcomed our daughter Hazel Annan earthside in February 2012 after three years of infertility & our second miracle daughter Juniper Louise in April 2014.
April 1, 2013 at 8:06 AM
Love all of this! Care to share some links for the egg dying?
April 1, 2013 at 8:59 AM
Wasn't the weather just amazing this weekend?!?
Your eggs look beautiful!
April 1, 2013 at 9:09 AM
@Melanie, I added a short paragraph and a link explaning how I dyed them! It was my original plan to include that but I wrote this quickly at the end of the night, verrrry tired. ;)
April 3, 2013 at 8:29 AM
I love the little footprints, how sweet!
April 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM
Love the bunny tracks! We'll have to do that next year. The kids would flip. :)