How to dye Easter eggs with homemade Easter egg dye. Dye Easter eggs naturally with food coloring and vinegar; includes a color chart of brilliant colors.
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Why use boiling water when dyeing Easter eggs?
When dyeing Easter eggs, it’s important to use boiling water, here’s why.
Better dye absorption: When you submerge an egg in boiling water, the heat causes the eggshell to expand slightly, which allows the dye to penetrate more deeply into the shell.
This results in more vibrant and even colors on the dyed eggs.
Why is vinegar added when dyeing Easter eggs?
When dyeing Easter eggs, vinegar is added to the dye solution to help the color adhere to the eggshell.
The acidity of the vinegar enhances the dye’s ability to penetrate and color the eggshell more effectively.
Without vinegar, the dye may not stick as well to the eggshell, resulting in a less vibrant and uneven color.
Ingredients
Directions
For each color, measure food color, water and vinegar into bowl about size of a cereal bowl. Mix well with spoon, use separate spoon for each color.
To make orange dye, mix equal amounts of red and yellow. To make purple dye, mix blue and red. To make green dye, mix blue and yellow.
Following each color listed below, you will find the number of drops of each food coloring to be added to about 2 to 4 ounces of vinegar for dipping.
Lime - 24 yellow, 4 green
Pretty Purple - 15 blue, 5 red
Cantaloupe - 24 yellow, 2 red
Jade - 17 green, 3 blue
Plum - 10 red, 4 blue
Spearmint - 12 green, 6 yellow, 2 blue
Raspberry - 14 red, 6 blue
Maize - 24 yellow, 1 red
Watermelon - 25 red, 2 blue
Teal - 15 green, 5 blue
Grape - 17 blue, 3 red
Fuchsia - 18 red, 2 blue
Orange Sunset - 17 yellow, 3 red
Jungle Mint Green - 14 green, 6 yellow
To make larger volumes, just keep the ratio the same (for example, Lime is 24 parts yellow to 4 parts green; a ratio of 6 to 1).
For more in-depth selection of colors refer to our Easter Food Coloring Chart Guide
It worked and the colors were great! A simple quick recipe to try.
Great Recipe! The colors on my Easter eggs are BEAUTIFUL! Thanks for the advice on the colors!!
it worked very well and easy enough for dad tol figure out and do, haha, lol
it works!!!!!!!!
This worked great and the colors are beautiful try so much for this I really enjoyed it and so did my family
Why boiling water?