How To Make Homemade All Natural Easter Egg Dye

Before heading to the store to buy Easter egg dye kits this year, why not stay home and make homemade all-natural Easter egg dyes this year?

Simply gather up some fruits and veggies from your kitchen and get ready to decorate hard-boiled eggs that will be safe to eat after the hunt is over!!

How To Make Safe Homemade Easter Egg Dyes Using Fruits and Vegetables

Place whichever fruits or vegetables in a saucepan with about 2 cups of water, and bring to a boil. Simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and strain through a fine-mesh sieve or colander, reserving the liquid.

Add 1/4 cup of white vinegar and stir until combined.

Then go ahead and place the hard-boiled eggs in the dye. Remeber the longer the eggs sit in the liquid, the brighter their colors will be.

If you are using fruit to make egg dye, try using  blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries and cranberries to make pretty shades of blues pinks and purples.

If you are using vegetables to make dye, use red cabbage, beets, yellow onion skins, and carrots to get blues, reds, orange and yellow.

How To Make Homemade Easter Egg Dye Using Spices

Place 4-5 Tbs. of spices and 2 cups of water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Simmer for 15 minutes.

Remove from the heat and strain through a fine-mesh sieve or colander, reserving the liquid.

Add 1/4 cup of white vinegar and stir until combined. Let the liquid cool to room temperature and dye your hard-boiled eggs. .

Coffee and other spices like ground turmeric and paprika can make wonderful brown earth tone colors for dying eggs.

How To Make Homemade Easter Egg Dyes Using Tea and Juice

Brew tea in 2 cups of water. Then add ¼ cup vinegar to your tea after it cools down. Now you have an easy-peasy safe Easter egg dye for kids to use.

Try using juices to make simple home-made egg dye too. 

Grape juice makes an awesome safe purple dye eggs - let the eggs soak in he liquid, dry and decorate!

Hopping Cute Bunny Finger Puppets!

I came across these amazingly cute bunny finger puppets at the equally amazing Purl Bee, and almost tripped over myself in my haste to get back here and share about them!

Want to learn how to make them?

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Before you head over there to get the step by step instructions (said to be very easy - even for a non-crafty person like me,) take a peek at these-

Handmade felt Easter Egg Hunt Bags!

If you love to sex, knit, crochet or do crafts of just about any kind, and you have not visited this site yet, you will owe me big time, want to thank me profusely for pointing you in the right direction, be so happy when you check it out!

Have fun!

Eight Easter Candies You May Want To Avoid

Who doesn't munch as they fill Easter baskets for their kids? How can you not? But before you start filling those baskets, you might want to take a look at Newsweek's List of the eight most fattening Easter candies.

I honestly can say that even after reading the list, I will probably still eat candy...in fact, I know I will. Except for those yellow and pink marshmellow bunny/ducky things..never have like those peeps, and I refuse to buy them for the baskets! But yes, the jelly beans and chocolate eggs will be all over our house and we will all be feeling the sugar on Sunday.

A surprising thing on the list for me is the fact that those creme filled Cadbury eggs actually have less calories than the hollow chocolate eggs. The hollow chocolate candy eggs will treat you with as much as three times the calories as the creme eggs!

How many calories does your favorite Easter candy have?