This week at club wild we dyed eggs using only natural materials. What an amazing result!
Here is how we did it.. First we went outside to collect leaves and flowers, looking for interesting leaf patterns or shapes.
Back inside we arranged the plant material on the eggs and wrapped them tightly with dried onion skins (either brown or red onion skins). We then wrapped the egg in a bit of muslin and tied it with string. Then we placed them in a pan of water which was boiled for 5 minutes and left overnight to cool and soak up the dye.
We carefully peeled the wrapping off and saw beautiful plant shapes transferred to the bright red eggs.
We had lots of fun rolling the eggs down the orchard hill. Erin, Kristina, Oscar and Kyle had indestructible eggs but after roll upon roll Kyle’s egg won. It was still complete with the amazing colour and plant impressions all from nature.
