It’s not hard to find directions to dye your Easter eggs using natural products such as onion skins, beets, and blueberries, but dying eggs this way often results in a lot of trial and error to get the strength of color you are looking for and can take a lot longer than you anticipate. While the easy to find store-bought kits are convenient, their artificial food colorings aren’t something we want to expose our families to. But finally, there is an all-natural egg dying kit on the market that combines the ease of a kit with the benefits of vegetable dyes, thanks to Eco-Kids.
The Eco-Eggs Coloring Kit comes with three primary color powder packets made from dehydrated fruits and vegetables including beets, blueberries, spinach, cabbage, carrots, and annatto seeds. A color chart is included with recipes for how to use the three primary colors to create six additional custom coloring options, and the kit comes with a crayon so that the kids can mark the eggs with their name or other decorations before dipping them in the dyes. The dyes are so saturated that just one second in the orange dye will give you a beautiful yellow egg. That’s certainly a lot better than soaking an egg for 30 minutes in onion skins to hopefully achieve the same result.
Some of the colors do take as long as 15 minutes to achieve, but Eco-Kids provides activities to help keep kids busy during that time. You can go to their website and download animal cut-outs to turn your newly dyed eggs into a peacock, frog, or bumble bee, and they also have Easter themed activity sheets including a word search, coloring page, and several dot-to-dot pictures.
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The Eco-Eggs Coloring Kit finally provides the opportunity to easily create naturally dyed eggs without having to turn your kitchen into an experiment lab or spend a fortune on fruits and vegetables you won’t be eating.
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