{Image: Purple Cabbage Dye Easter Eggs at astorybooklife.com}
“This year, instead of purchasing a regular “same old, same old” egg dying kit, try using some of the food from your kitchen to color your eggs!
Spinach = Pale Green
Hibiscus tea = Green
Blackberries = Deep Purple
Red Cabbage = Robin’s egg Blue
Cranberries = Lavender
Beet Juice = Pale Pink
* The longer you leave the eggs in, the more the color changes”
~Easter Eggs – Elegant Ideas for your Easter Eggs!
We’ll be having the Easter long weekend at home this year (and I’ll have extra kids while helping friends move house) so I think I might try some of the boiled egg versions mentioned in this fab tutorial at A Storybook Life… not sure that eggshells would survive a three year old…