Take the onion skin, red or brown. Wrap your eggs in the skins and secure the skin with elastics.

boil the wrapped eggs.

When you cool them, they have this interesting tye-dye look form the pressure of the elastic bands/string and the crinckle texture as well.

They are the best looking eggs I ahve ever made and it was made with the parts of the food I would otherwise throw away!

not fresh like so many of the nay-sayers commented against

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Friday Fun: DIY Easter egg dye…

Hoppity-hop, Easter bunnies! If Paas ain’t yo thang, the Get Rich Slowly blog offers a list of natural dyes you can make yourself from common household items to color your eggs. For example, use blueberries for blue eggs, onion……

I’ve dyed things using produce before. It’s a neat science experiment, but I wonder how much energy it takes to boil the water long enough.

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There are usually instructions on the back of the food coloring box. Costs pennies.

I did this last year with onion skins, turmeric, beets and red cabbage. I was happy with the results except for the turmeric, which left the eggs with a powdery residue.

However: it’s really cool!! Come on. You know you always wanted to know natural, environmentally-safe, “we could still use this method if we were sucked into a wormhole and stuck in the 3rd century forevermore” methods of dyeing.

Seriously, though, most of these ingredients are things we already have in our kitchen. Grabbing a pinch of this or a bit of that costs pennies and takes no time. And it’s fun.