A Recipe for Blueberry Dyed Easter Eggs

Want to step away from chemicals and coloring this Easter? The super fruit can help with blueberry dyed Easter eggs. Blueberries make a fantastic natural ingredient for dying eggs.  It’s easy and fun for your entire family.  Just follow these recipes from the experts at Herb Companion for beautiful, nontoxic, festive Easter eggs.

RECIPE:

1. Hard boil eggs.
2. Bring each dye ingredient (listed below) to a boil with 2 cups of water; strain the dyes into cups and allow to cool.
3. Add 2 tablespoons of vinegar to each cup of dye.
4. Dip the eggs into the cups, submerging each egg completely until it reaches an appealing color. Leave eggs in the dye longer for deeper colors. If one color doesn’t darken as you’d like, set the cup with the dye and the egg in the refrigerator for a few hours. Try using two different dyes on one egg to create different colors, or dye half of each egg in a different color.

Natural Color 

Gold: Handful of yellow onion skins
Yellow: 2 tablespoons turmeric, 1/2 cup dried marigolds, goldenrod or cosmos, or a handful of carrot tops
Green: Handful of coltsfoot
Blue: Handful of woad or 2 cups chopped red cabbage*
Pink: 2 cups chopped beets
Purple: 1 cup frozen blueberries
Brown: 2 tablespoons coffee grounds or 4 black tea bags

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