Celebrate Spring!
Have fun creating beautiful eggs
using natural ingredients!

Materials:

• Eggs (use hard-boiled to avoid breakage)
• Mild soap and water
• Old towel
• Plastic sandwich bags
• Bag twists, rubber bands, or string
• Cooking pot
• Stove
• Natural materials to make egg dyes (see below)

1. Wash egg gently with mild soap and water and towel-dry.
2. Fill a plastic sandwich bag with any of the dye materials (see list
   below) and a small amount of water.
3. Place egg in sandwich bag. (Close the bag tightly with a bag twist,
   rubber band, or string.)
4. Place sandwich bag into cooking pot filled with water.
5. Gently boil 10 minutes, then cool.
6. Remove the bag from the cool water.
7. Untie the bag and remove the egg. Different colors will be left
   on the egg from the natural materials.

Experiment with a variety of natural materials to achieve a variety
of colors. Usually the more of the natural ingredient you use and the
longer an egg soaks (maybe even overnight in the refrigerator), the
darker the color will be.

Be CREATIVE! You can draw with white crayon on the eggs before dyeing or add extra color to your eggs with felt-tip pens. Experiment with double-dipping and mixing colors - nature is full of surprises!

Add these materials to the sandwich bag before cooking (step 4).

RED: Skins from red onions or chopped beets
BLUE: Chopped red cabbage
GREEN: Spinach leaves
GOLD: Tumeric spice
LAVENDER: Fresh or frozen blueberries
PINK: Cranberries

Or, soak your eggs in these ingredients after they are hardboiled.

PINK: Cranberry juice or juice from pickled eggs
LAVENDER: Grape juice

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