Celebration with Crepe Colors

The celebration of our Lord's resurrection is here once again. We decided to try something a little different this year for coloring our eggs.

Rather than using a kit from the store or food coloring, we took several different colors of crepe paper, tore them into pieces and soaked them in separate cups of boiling water. The colors bled into the water leaving a white piece of crepe paper and several muted, very pretty dyes. We think the result was lovely on our Rhode Island Red brown eggs. Maybe next year we will try using natural dyes such as carrot and beet, grass and cedar. The wool that we dyed using onion skins, goldenrod, or cedar turned out lovely, and so might the eggs!