Eco-Friendly Easter Egg Dyeing With Flowers & Tea
Try dyeing your eggs with flowers or materials found right in your own backyard! You can create gorgeous naturally-dyed Easter eggs using fresh flowers, leaves, and tea. This simple process results in beautifully decorated eggs. Avoid artificial dye packets full of chemicals and embrace an eco-friendly, creative way to prepare your Easter eggs using stuff you likely already have around the house and yard.
In less than a half hour, you can let nature lend a hand in making festive, colorful eggs to fill baskets. With just a quick boil in tea water with some petals and leaves stuck on, you’ll yield stunning eggs that look almost too pretty to eat!
Materials:
- Fresh eggs
- Tea bag
- Flowers and leaves
- Small pan
- Tubular Gauze Bandages or thread.
What to do?
- Place flowers and leaves on the egg shell
- Attach with Tubular Gauze Bandages, or with thin thread.
- Boil water with a tea bag
- Add the eggs
- Cook for about 20 minutes
- Remove the eggs and peel off the flowers and leaves
- You will get beautifully decorated colored eggs