I rarely like my favorite than a basket filled with colorful Easter eggs. Easter is one of our family and our favorite time. But I often find that I am annoyed by over -commercialization. I can also see the Easter’s snacks filled with sugar, food dyes and artificial ingredients, and the children (and ourselves) can be excessively indulged.
I am happy that children will enjoy snacks for a special day. But I choose to keep our favorite traditions to be healthy and natural.
I will explain why!
“Naturally dyed Easter eggs … Is it too extreme?
I will admit that I do not understand the Easter traditions of eggs and rabbits that deliver a basket with plastic candy. I think that giving our children giving junk food to Easter (and other holidays) set up a precedent to associate healthy foods and celebrations. I have a better way to develop good food habits for a lifetime.
This can sound extremely to some. Certainly, there is no problem in indulgence of less food than health. But I think most of the interested parents agree that children are getting these indulgence too often. There are plenty of opportunities for children to receive fun and celebration messages, from the birthdays of all children in school to Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and Easter.
(Maybe it’s just my pet?!)
But I’ll get off in my soap box… Easter egg!
How to dye Easter eggs without synthetic colors
Eggs are one of our favorite foods, so there is no problem with the egg itself. As you can guess, it is a version full of plastic, candy that I have a problem.)
The harmless color tablet used to dye Easter eggs contains harmful dyes that can affect some children. Even this year, the FDA banned certain red food dyes, but synthetic colors are still allowed for food. In fact, we do not eat the peel, but the egg peel can penetrate. Some children thought they were so sensitive to the influence of artificial food dyes and were worth exploring more natural dyes.
There are many ways to use natural ingredients to paint eggs. Even dye kits made with natural colors of food are provided in different shades!
Options 1: Natural egg dye purchased at the store
To dye Easter eggs naturally, use a safe and natural food coloring agent. Mix according to the following ratio and soak in the dye bath until the egg is the desired color. Or purchase Here in advance, maid natural dye tablets Follow the package instructions.
Option 2: Natural egg dye of fruits and vegetables
If there is no natural food pigment around (we often do not), you can also use the same thing using fruits, vegetables and herbs. We tried this a few years ago and will do it again this year.
The following is a food that can be added to boiling water while cooking eggs to make various colors. In addition, the ingredients can be used or boiled, cooled at room temperature, vinegar, and used as a natural Easter egg dye.
- Blue coloring: When boiling eggs, add a glass of purple cabbage in water.
- purple -Put blueberry cup in water. This is a very deep and purple shades!
- Brown color -The onion skin makes a wonderful and golden brown. Spinach leaves make yellow brown.
- Green: Add a spy luri or a tablespoon in boiling water. In addition, you can use it as a cool dye by juice green, mixed with vinegar, and then cook eggs.
- Red/pink coloring: Pomegranate or sugar beet juice is added to boiling water. You can also put some vinegars in pomegranate or sugar beet juice and use it as a cool dye for pre -cooked eggs.
- Purple coloring: Dip the eggs cooked in the grape juice/vinegar mix in the grape juice or soak the eggs you cooked in advance. This creates a mottled purple egg.
- Yellow/Orange coloring: Put tubing or saffron teaspoons in boiling water, or boil it in water, cool it, mix with vinegar to mix cool dyes.
Some memo: This natural deformation is more beautiful than the neon eggs made of pastel -colored eggs. But warning alone will not get fluorescent tones in this way!
DIY natural egg dye tutorial
This beautifully colored Easter egg is characterized by natural shades. A fun project with children!
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Each color requires 1-2 cups of plant ingredients for every 2 cup of water. Use 2 cups in more vivid colors. Turmeric is a dried powder, so you only need 1/4 cup to make yellow turmeric dyes.
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Put 1 fruit or 1-2 cups of vegetables in a pot with 2 cups of water and boil. Turn on the lid, reduce the heat and boil for 20-30 minutes. You can put raw eggs and vinegar in water and boil fruits/vegetarians, but if you do not reduce the boiling time to 15 minutes, you can cook too hard and excessively.
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The liquid is cooled at room temperature, then deforms fruits/vegetables and compost. Squeeze the plants to extract as many colors as possible. If the egg is boiled with a dye liquid, cool the expression and remove the egg from the liquid when it is completed.
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Put the unspecified hard boiled egg into a natural dye liquid and put 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Soak it in the refrigerator for hours or overnight.
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To get a stronger dye effect, dry the eggs after a few hours with a paper towel or fabric towel/clean old shirt and then put it back in the dye for several hours.
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After dyeing, the eggs are removed and dried from the liquid. If you rub the shell with some oil, make it shine if you want.
- You can dye brown eggs, but the colors are slightly different from white eggs and slightly mute.
- Make dye first and soak the hard boiled eggs in water to make the color more lively than boiling eggs in water.
- Before you die, you can use a white crayon to create a design on the eggs. It appears when the pattern is dyed!
Easter egg hunting strategy
I was not a passionate fan of EGG HUNTS, and I will give up completely. But the children really expect them. Unfortunately, they usually cause a big candy bag that disappears somehow when children are sleeping (Easter rabbits would have stole it!)
In the past, I also hid hard eggs to find them (dogs found what they missed!). Or we have a family day with many other activities. Last year, we had treasure hunting with clues and received a better prize (seeds that can be planted in a small corner of the garden).
Easter basket ideas without healthy candy
I have no problem in Easter’s pleasant celebration and time for a small gift. As mentioned earlier (maybe too many!), It’s a part filled with plastic and candy of this celebration. In other words, I like baskets and keep everything in it, so my children get a basket filled with cakes every year.
Here are some ideas that have been hit for several years!
Raise your own grass
Grow grass with wheat, alfalpa or clover seeds. Use this instead of the plastic resurrection turf found under the sofa in September. Children like the novelty of grass growing indoors. As a bonus, the grass is good at cleaning indoor air. You can also plant them outside with your children after Easter. If you do not grow your lawn, scrutinize the paper and use it instead. Recyclable when completed!
Give your child a pot instead of a basket
Put small gloves, gabo seed packs, small shovels in a pot and make your children grow their containers. There is even number Pre -designed tote for this. Herbs are one of the easy options and children can use it in the kitchen! This can provide longer fun than plastic toys and pixie sticks.
Check the used product shop
We have a budget and we are doing Easter baskets for each child. For interesting gifts for Easter baskets, check local used shops. For example, for a year, each child has a movie, a book and a shoe and has a total of less than $ 10.
Adopt a family pet
If you are brave, consider a small pet. This will strengthen the “new life” focus of Easter and be much more interesting than candy and toys. Just humanitarian ear! only After Easter, many baby chickens, ducks, and rabbits are thrown away, so I want to adopt and take care of pets.
Provide healthy foods instead of garbage
If your child is looking forward to food snacks, replace some snacks with healthy and fun foods. Consider beef jerky, fruit, nuts or handmade energy bars. Are you really brave? Create a handmade “PEEPS” with my probiotics marshmallow recipe.
Check out this post about other Easter basket ideas! Blessed Easter!
What is your favorite way to dye Easter eggs? Regarding candy, do you stick to a healthy version of a healthy version, or do children enjoy harmful versions for a day? I would like to hear the tips and tips below!
