
I tried a bunch of easter egg dyeing techniques and in this video i m sharing the ones that worked best.
Decorating easter eggs with dye. Pour a little rubber cement into a paper bowl and dab a natural sea sponge in the rubber cement to coat. Unfold a paper napkin and cut into inch wide strips. It only takes a few minutes and a couple of ingredients. Repeat steps 1 through 5 until all eggs are dyed in various colors.
Mix canola or other light cooking oil into another color of dye 1 teaspoon oil per cup of dye and quickly dunk eggs. Dyeing easter eggs is one of my favorite things to do with kids during the easter season. The oil will repel color in some places and the dye will adhere in others creating a marbled effect. 03 36 mister smiley eggs 04 03 newspaper eggs 04 28 cactus egg 04 58 eggplant literally 05 23 striped eggs 05 48 emoji eggs 06 14 hot glue egg 06 37 broken food coloring 07 04 color leak egg 07.
Pat the sponge on a hard boiled egg then set the egg aside for 10 minutes. You can buy easter egg dye in many craft stores and prepare it according to the package or make your own. To create the base color shown above add two drops of green food coloring to standard blue egg dye and then dye egg once dry dip a fine tipped paintbrush in a small bowl of brown liquid ink available at craft stores and splatter on the egg. Prepare easter egg dye.
Once you ve colored your eggs a solid green for instance you can make cactus easter eggs or dunk your eggs in a light pink dye as a base for extra festive unicorn easter eggs. Egg dye gold paint pretty dyed easter eggs. Easter is almost here and one of my favorite easter activities is dyeing easter eggs. Pour the dye into 3 4 of a cup of water.
Dyeing eggs with food coloring is the first step in several of our favorite easter egg decorating ideas. Use mod podge and a small paintbrush to adhere strips to the. Transfer to an upright position to finish drying. But just because you want to forgo the egg dyeing kits doesn t mean you have to forgo decorating eggs altogether.
Mix 1 teaspoon vinegar with 1 4 teaspoon of food colouring. Dip a hard boiled egg in dye with a wire egg dipper and let egg soak for about 5 minutes depending on desired color. Lift egg out of dye and place on paper towel to drain excess dye.