Colouring Easter eggs without artificial flavourants and colourants. For something a little different, when making and colouring your own eggs, try using natural colourants \u2013 you\u2019ll be surprised to find that many herbs and spices and other foodstuffs you might have handy can give quite surprising colour tints to your boiled Easter eggs. Here is what you do for a quick Easter egg colouring craft.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Put your eggs in a fairly large pot<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fill the pan with water enough to cover the eggs by about 1cm<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Add 2 tsp of white vinegar to the water<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Add your dye colour (see ideas below).<\/p>\n
Note<\/strong> that it may take quite a bit of dye material to get vivid colours, e.g. 2tbsp of Turmeric, 2 cups of onion skins, \u00bc cup hibiscus flowers etc. It could be great fun having the kids experiment with different amounts of dye material to see the effects.<\/p>\n 5. Boil your mixture and reduce to simmer for about 15 to 20 minutes<\/p>\n 6. Remove the eggs with a strainer onto a bowl covered with towel (or I simply used the egg carton they came in) and let dry<\/p>\n 7. If at this point you don\u2019t think your eggs are coloured enough, you can add them back to your colouring liquid and leave overnight.<\/p>\n 8. As a final touch, if you wish, gently rub cooking oil over your eggs to give them a shinier look<\/p>\n Red\/Pink – Fresh beets, canned\/frozen cherries **Pictured eggs made with Turmeric (gold) and variety of effects with Hibiscus tea (blue\/purple)<\/p>\n Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n All things sweet these days are saturated with artificial flavourants and colourants, and all the brightly coloured Easter egg candy on display is probably not any different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":353697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafts-for-festivals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Colouring options<\/h2>\n
\nOrange – Yellow onion skins \/ Paprika
\nLight yellow – Lemon peels \/ Orange peels \/ Ground cumin spice \/ Chamomile tea
\nGolden yellow – Ground Turmeric
\nBlue – Red Cabbage Leaves (preboiled for about 30 minutes) \/ Blueberries (crushed)
\nPurple – Grape juice
\nBrown\/Beige – Strong coffee \/ Black tea \/ Black walnuts shells
\nGolden brown – Dill seeds
\nOrange brown – Chili powder
\nLight green – Spinach leaves (boiled)
\nViolet \/ purple – Violet blossoms \/ Hibiscus tea \/ Red wine<\/p>\n\n