This year we used only things we had in the house to color our eggs. I had seen several blog posts about this and thought we should give it a try. I gave the kids some ideas of things that might work and then they (Evelyn) looked in the drawers, fridge and pantry to find other things. Here is our list of tried items:
purple cabbage
beet juice
spinach
turmeric
berries
paprika
I used 1/2 c. roughly of frozen berries, a couple of handfuls of spinach, some chopped purple cabbage, the juice from 2 cans of sliced beets and 2 teaspoons of both turmeric and paprika. We mixed the item with a cup of water and let it simmer for about 15 minutes, then added 1 tablespoon of white vinegar. I didn’t add any water to the beet juice, just let it simmer down a bit. Once the mixture was cooled we got started.
The berries, beet juice and turmeric were quick to color our eggs. The other 3 didn’t fair so well. Once we had 6 eggs left, we put one egg in each cup and put then in the fridge for about 5 hours. The beet juice and berries got much darker after that long, the turmeric was really about the same. The purple cabbage turned the egg a really pretty blue. The paprika and spinach didn’t do much at all. I think we will try this again next year with different things and see what else works.
