Eco Easter - make your egg hunt environmentaly friendly
Eco Easter
- make your egg hunt environmentally friendly
This Easter, forget about the store bought baskets and super sweet candy eggs. With a little ingenuity and some family time together, you can have a great egg hunt.
Easter Eggs - natural dyes
What could be better, than colouring your own eggs with the kids. There are several natural dye materials to be found in the kitchen. Your kids will love coloring there own eggs and will get a kick out of the various ways to change the colours.
While you can dye the hard boiled eggs, using cold dyes, I prefer to add the dye materials to the boiling water at the same time that the eggs are hard boiling. Save the solution when finished with the first coloured eggs and use the solution at room temperature for lighter colours. You’ll need 3-4 cups of onion skins, beets or cabbage depending on the number of eggs you want to dye and the richness of the colour.
Deep Gold: Boil eggs in a turmeric solution (3 tablespoons), 30 minutes.
Sienna: Boil eggs with onion-skins, 30 minutes.
Dark, Rich Brown: Boil eggs in black coffee, 30 minutes.
Pale Yellow: Soak cooked eggs in room-temperature turmeric solution, 30 minutes.
Orange: Soak cooked eggs in room-temperature onion-skin solution, 30 minutes.
Light Brown: Soak cooked eggs in room-temperature black coffee, 30 minutes.
Pink: Boil eggs in beet solution, 30 minutes.
Blue: Boil eggs in cabbage solution, 30 minutes.
Royal Blue: Soak cooked eggs in room-temperature cabbage solution overnight.
Chartreuse: Soak cooked eggs in room-temperature turmeric solution, 30 minutes. Follow with room-temperature cabbage solution, 5 seconds.
Salmon: Soak cooked eggs in room-temperature turmeric solution, 30 minutes. Follow with room-temperature onion-skin solution, 30 minutes.
Easter Basket
Who says an Easter basket has to be made from reeds with fake green plastic grass? They are lots of items in your house from which to make a basket. Think about “cloth”. It doesn’t have to be fancy. Rolled handles pinned to a cloth bag work just fine. If you have plain material, let the kids hand decorate it. Cardboard boxes will work too. Most nests full of eggs that I’ve seen, had straw like materials in them, not green grass. Cut up paper (newspaper ink can get on your hands and eggs) and line your homemade basket. Scraps of cloth make a cosy basket also.
Eco Friendly Easter Gifts
Homemade gifts are always the nicest. But if you don’t have some jams or jellies lying around the house, think about potted plants or even seeds, this Easter. It’s time to start the veggies indoors, so seeds work out perfect.
Have a safe and happy “green” Easter.
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