Being that Easter is the last break before the end of the year, you would be wise to take some time off and celebrate the festivities. What better way to do that then dyeing Easter eggs? Thanks to Pinterest and Instagram it is now more important than ever to make your eggs look picture-worthy. Luckily, there are tons of different ways you can color eggs; some easy, some a little more complicated, but all apretty darn cute.
1. Stick n’ Peel
Pretty self-explanatory and also super simple. Just stick any shape sticker on the egg before dipping it and voila! I personally like this heart idea. After pulling the egg out and peeling off the sticker you’ll be left with a nice white silhouette of the shape amidst whatever color you chose To make homemade stickers lay strips of masking tape together and cut out whatever shapes you want.
2. Washi Tape
A super easy way to add a little oomph to your eggs is just strapping on some washi tape, either as plain lines or small cut out shapes. You can find it in a variety of patterns and colors for whatever floats your boat. For a more glitzy version glitter washi tape should do the trick.
3. Natural Dye
If you want to tap into your inner hippie and have some extra time on your hands, you can try using natural ingredients for the dye. Some of the most common foods used are red onion, white onion, saffron, purple cabbage, carrot stems, blueberries and beets. Just add each ingredient to two cups of boiling water and boil it for 10-15 minutes. Then drop your eggs in and leave until they’re the desired hue, but know that these are pretty subtle shades. It takes 1-3 hours depending on how deep you want the color, so just drop them in and wait until you’re happy with the color. If you want to see what color each ingredient makes check out Lauren Conrad’s blog post.
4. Emojis
What could be cuter than a bunch of little emoji faces looking up? If you’re pretty good at drawing, these can be really cool. Basically just dye eggs yellow, then draw. If you want these to be edible I would recommend using fine-tipped royal icing, or edible markers. If you really don’t care about eating them, just go ahead and use colored sharpies.
5. Water Color
Make some water color by squeezing a few drops of food coloring into 2-3 tablespoons of water, then add a teaspoon of vinegar. After that just grab a paint-brush and tap into your artistic side.
6. Ombre
With a little finger strength and patience, this requires nothing more than dipping the egg in stages. After letting the first third soak, you dip it a third farther, then finally in the last step submerge the entire egg. Easy-peezy.
7. Rubber Bands
All you do for this is wrap rubber bands around the egg, then dip in the dye. This just creates a kind of artsy line design. I recommend this for all of the lazy peeps out there who want to make it look like they put some effort in the eggs.
8. Whipped Cream
Sounds weird, but it looks pretty sweet. You fill a dish with a tub of whipped cream (or separate dishes if you want different color patterns), then drop food coloring all over. With a toothpick swirl the colors into the whip cream, then submerge the egg and roll it over once so it’s covered entirely. Then you let them sit in the whipped cream for 10-30 minutes, depending on the desired boldness of the color, before removing them and rinsing them off under cool water. For more specific instructions and ways to vary the brightness of the color check out this blog post.
9. Blotted Eggs
You can quickly add texture to eggs by using paper towels to blot the color onto the eggs. Either reuse a paper towel you dried other eggs with, or dip the paper towel in the dyes, ring it out and dab on.
10. Gold foil
These eggs are classy AF. First, you buy little gold leaf foil squares, which are actually pretty cheap. Then you take your egg, dye it whatever color you want to be behind the gold, then apply some sort of adhesive, like Elmer’s glue. You can either wrap the foil around the egg and peel off the access, or dab the egg onto the foil, lifting the foil off of its back paper. Since this uses glue these probz should be for decoration and not eating. The lady on this Martha Stewart video did say you could, but every other website said no, soooo. If you want to eat them, I would try finding something sticky and edible, like the edible ashesive used for cakes.
Happy Coloring and Happy Easter from HCND!
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