How to Dye Easter Eggs with Natural Ingredients

Watch as Better Homes and Gardens shows you how to dye Easter eggs with natural ingredients! Dying Easter eggs just got a whole lot easier: the only ingredient you'll need to for this Easter egg dye is a pickled beet. Save the juice the next time you eat a pickled beet to use as a natural food coloring for your Easter eggs. For these Easter egg ideas, you'll need a hardboiled or raw egg, as well as electrical tape. Use the electrical tape to make checkerboard patterns for these Easter egg designs using little squares cut out of the tape. Choosing to use a raw egg for coloring Easter eggs using this technique might be easier, as the harder shell allows you to press the tape on a little harder than hardboiled eggs. Take a spoon or small knife and burnish, or push down, the edges of all the tape to secure them. After you have a few rows of tape down on your Easter egg, dip the egg into the beet juice for a small amount of time until a faint, pink color appears. Wipe the color off and cover the squares with a long strip of electrical tape going down and across for these Easter egg decorating ideas. After the second layer is intact, place the egg once again into the beet juice for a longer period of time. Once around ten minutes have passed, remove the egg and dry it off. These Easter egg designs are the perfect way to liven up a table centerpiece or even be used in your Easter egg hunt. And the natural dyes are simple and harmless!

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