Colored Eggs Craft
Dye ingredients “.‘ fresh beetroot (pinkish), yellow onion skins
(orange), ground turmeric (yellow), red cabbage leaves (light
blue), onion skins (brownish). Use white eggs where possible.
There are two methods of dying the eggs. Either by boiling the eggs
with the dye ingredients or by boiling the dye ingredients and eggs
separately and then cold dying the eggs until the desired shade is
reached.
For hollowed out eggs, the cold dye method is used.
For robin’s egg blue using red cabbage leaves, the cold dye
method is used. Do not add vinegar to the red cabbage leaf dye
or it will not work.
For any other ingredient, add 1 Tablespoon of vinegar per cup of
liquid to set the dye.
Dry eggs with paper towel once dyed and polish with vegetable oil
for a nice gloss if desired.
Eggs are edible for up to a week if you refrigerate them
immediately after boiling.
Do not eat hardboiled eggs that have gone for longer than 2 hours
unrefrigerated or are cracked.
To obtain interesting patterns on your eggs, draw patterns on the
egg with a white wax crayon before dying or cover parts of the egg
with tape or rubber bands for stripes, stars or round stickers for polka
dots etc.
Remove after dying to uncover patterns.
How to blow out an egg
http ://www.fabulousfoods.
com/holidays/easter/eggdesign/blowneggs. html
Egg Shell Mosaic
After you have finished with your colourful dyed eggs, break the
shells into small pieces. Draw a simple design onto your paper such
as a large egg shape. Spread glue over the inside of the design
area. Use the pieces of shell like mosaic tiles. Sprinkle the bits of
broken shell onto the glue and let dry.
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Dye ingredients “.‘ fresh beetroot (pinkish), yellow onion skins
(orange), ground turmeric (yellow), red cabbage leaves (light
blue), onion skins (brownish). Use white eggs where possible.
There are two methods of dying the eggs. Either by boiling the eggs
with the dye ingredients or by boiling the dye ingredients and eggs
separately and then cold dying the eggs until the desired shade is
reached.
For hollowed out eggs, the cold dye method is used.
For robin’s egg blue using red cabbage leaves, the cold dye
method is used. Do not add vinegar to the red cabbage leaf dye
or it will not work.
For any other ingredient, add 1 Tablespoon of vinegar per cup of
liquid to set the dye.
Dry eggs with paper towel once dyed and polish with vegetable oil
for a nice gloss if desired.
Eggs are edible for up to a week if you refrigerate them
immediately after boiling.
Do not eat hardboiled eggs that have gone for longer than 2 hours
unrefrigerated or are cracked.
To obtain interesting patterns on your eggs, draw patterns on the
egg with a white wax crayon before dying or cover parts of the egg
with tape or rubber bands for stripes, stars or round stickers for polka
dots etc.
Remove after dying to uncover patterns.
How to blow out an egg
http ://www.fabulousfoods.
com/holidays/easter/eggdesign/blowneggs. html
Egg Shell Mosaic
After you have finished with your colourful dyed eggs, break the
shells into small pieces. Draw a simple design onto your paper such
as a large egg shape. Spread glue over the inside of the design
area. Use the pieces of shell like mosaic tiles. Sprinkle the bits of
broken shell onto the glue and let dry.
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Back to Games & Activities
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