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How to Make Tie Dye Easter Eggs

March 18, 2019 by Alea Milham Leave a Comment

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Last week we showed you how to naturally dye Easter eggs. This week Maggie is showing us how to make Tie Dye Easter eggs.

How to tie-dye Easter eggs using food coloring and vinegar.

Making Tie Dyed Easter eggs is a fun alternative to traditionally dyed Easter eggs. You don’t need a special kit or supplies. In fact, you probably have everything you need in your pantry. It isn’t difficult to tie-dye Easter eggs, but you do have to work in small batches, so you can complete the process before they dry.

We used the basic liquid food coloring set: red, blue, yellow and green. However, you can get wild and use whatever colors of food dye that you have on hand.

How to Make Tie Dye Easter Eggs

Ingredients:

  • Vinegar
  • Liquid Food Coloring
  • Hard Boiled Eggs

Directions:

1. Hard boil your eggs. Allow eggs to cool in cold tap water, or chill in ice water for faster results.

The first step to making tie dye Easter eggs is to soak the boiled eggs in vinegar

2. In a cup or bowl pour enough white vinegar liquid so that when you place an egg into the vinegar it will be completely submerged.

3. Place wet, vinegar covered egg in a paper or cardboard style egg carton (not a Styrofoam carton or plastic carton) or in a sink strainer over your sink.

4. Take your food color and begin to drip one color over the vinegar wet eggs.

While the boiled eggs are still wet with vinegar, you will start dripping food coloring over the eggs to make tie dye Easter eggs.

6. Then repeat with the other colors of food dye that you wish to use.

Alternate dripping various colors of food coloring until you have achied the desired results for your tie dye Easter eggs

Be sure to work fast enough to drip all of the colors desired on to your egg before it becomes dry.  When the eggs are covered with the desired colors, allow all of the egg colors to completely dry before moving the egg.

NOTE: Work with 1 to a maximum of 6 eggs at a time. If your eggs become dry you will not get the tie-dye egg effect when dripping the food coloring onto the egg. If you decide to drip the food color onto your eggs in a sink strainer you can gently shake the strainer as to roll the eggs around in the color to get a swirl effect.

How to make tie-dye Easter eggs with food coloring and vinegar

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Maggie is a stay at home mom. She runs Family Frugal Fun with her best friend Beth. She’s addicted to savings, s’mores and ice cream! 

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Alea Milham is the owner of Premeditated Leftovers and the author of Prep-Ahead Meals from Scatch. She shares her tips for saving money and time while reducing waste in her home. Her favorite hobby, gardening, is a frugal source of organic produce for her recipes. She believes it is possible to live fully and eat well while spending less.

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On Premeditated Leftovers I share simple recipes made with whole foods, practical shopping tips, time saving techniques, and meal planning strategies. I also share tips for minimizing food waste, so more of the food that is purchased ends up on the table.

While volunteering as a budget counselor, I realized that food is the element of most people’s budgets where they have the greatest control. I set out to develop low-cost recipes from scratch to prove it’s possible to create delicious meals on a limited budget. Eating well while spending less is about more than just creating recipes using inexpensive ingredients; it’s about creatively combining ingredients so you don’t feel deprived and are inspired to stick to your budget.

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