here’s a confession. i really don’t like dyeing easter eggs. i did it out of motherly duty for a few years, but the reality is that the kids think they want to dye easter eggs, but what they really want is for mom to do all the hard work of hard boiling and coloring the easter eggs, so that they can arrange them artfully in the easter egg baskets, which takes approximately .003% of the overall easter egg dyeing time expenditure. meanwhile, mother nature has been busy creating colors like the ones above, without dissolving any paas pastel tablets in lukewarm water. i can’t do any better than that, and no longer plan to try.
collection of found and gifted eggs:
goose, duck, pheasant, chicken, quail, partridge, blue bird, cardinal
I am with you about this, even wrapping them in onion skins before boiling cannot beat Mother Nature.
the children could make braided loaves of bread with beautiful natural eggs tucked in side them. That would be time well spent with a delicious result.
That is a beautiful display of the variety of natural egg colors that you can find. I agree that those natural colors are far more beautiful than the artificial ones you get in an egg dyeing kit. Although sometime I would like to try out some of the suggestions I’ve seen for how to dye eggs using natural ingredients (I think because that has an aspect of experimentation to it).