Dye Your Eggs The All-Natural Way

You've bought the organic eggs, but now you're going to dip them in processed chemical and dyes.  Not any more!  Thanks to Green Promise, we've found a fun and all-natural way to dye Easter eggs.

First, use stainless steel pots and bowls to dye your eggs in order to avoid staining your kitchenware.

Fun colors include:

• Terra Cotta: Easter eggs will turn a light orange to dark terra cotta using brown onion skins. Use around 3 cups of dried outter skins from onions and boil covered in water for 30 minutes. Add the eggs directly to the pot. Color will be
  darker if left in longer.
• Sky Blue: Surprisingly this color comes from red cabbage. Slice the red cabbage and boil for at least 30 minutes. Strain out the cabbage and allow to cool completely before dying.
• Pink: Soak your Easter eggs in cranberry juice or the juice from pickled beets.
• Lavender: Lavender Easter eggs can be made by soaking your eggs in grape juice.
• Ecru to Brown: Strong brewed coffee (dye eggs in cooled coffee)
  

To dye eggs while boiling, use this method: Place the eggs in a pan and cover with water. Add 1 teaspoon of vinegar and the chosen dye material. Bring the eggs to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer gently for 20 minutes. The color will be deepest if left in the dye overnight in the refrigerator.

• Pink/Blue: Beet or Grape Juice
• Blue: Canned Blueberries
• Moss Green: Carrot Tops
• Pale Red: Cranberries or Raspberries
• Pink with Grey highlights: Fresh Spinach
• Light Yellow: Orange Peels
• Red: Boil Red Onion Skin 1 1/2 hours, then add vinegar and eggs
• Golden Yellow: Tumeric
• Pale lavender flecked with soft rust: Golden Delicious apple peels