Sequoia and I were inspired by a website that calimed it was "so easy" to dye eggs using natural dyes. It made sense to us. Why rely on Red #40 and Yellow #5 when we had marigolds, lilacs, and beetroots in bloom. We gathered almost all of our ingredients from our very own yard.
Then we boiled them down and added a teaspoon of vinegar to each cup.
Even the most principled seven year old gets impatient waiting for natural dyes to work. Can't we just add food coloring to help them?
The beetroot was the only one that didn't need assistance. Although, I think if I had added about 3x as mauch of each ingredient it would have helped. Chili powder worked well to make a nice orange color. Broccoli and swiss chard leaves made yellow. Lavender petals made lavender. And we heard blueberries will make blue, although they are definitely not local or in season here, so we went without blue.
Here are our results. I'd be lying if I didn't tell you that most of the coloring came from the bottle. We'll try again next year.
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