Temporary Tattoo Easter Eggs - Uncommon Designs. How-To Dye Easter Eggs With Everyday Pantry Items. Don’t rush the process — allowing the eggs to sit in the solution overnight allows the colors to deepen.
Don’t get me wrong, I think brown eggs are about the most perfect thing. Ever. But, I’m in Easter mode and thought it would be interesting to experiment with coloring egg shells with a few items I had on hand in the kitchen. I mean, I am a foodie after all and I love the relationship between food and science. Just like spring, the humble egg has long been associated with rebirth and renewal — the circle of life. My friend Michelle wanted a safe and easy way to color eggs with her little one, Audrey. It’s really quite easy and there’s no set recipe. The addition of vinegar and salt helps to set the color so be sure to add those to the other ingredients of your choosing.Bring the water to a boil before adding your ingredients — I found this speeds up the process. The amounts listed below are just suggestions — there is no right or wrong!
1 small head red cabbage, roughly chopped. Recipe: Easter Egg Bath Bombs - Bulk Apothecary Blog. {go make me} blue dyed easter eggs using red cabbage - Go Make Me. {go make me} blue dyed easter eggs using red cabbage Dyeing Easter eggs naturally isn't something that I've really tried before but wanted to give a go.
As per my previous post, I've been experimenting with some beautiful results. My favourite recipe was to dye white shelled duck eggs blue using red cabbage. Interestingly, each egg resulted in a different colour and intensity; from light baby blue to dark emu egg blue/green to denim blue The recipe couldn't be easier....For 30 minutes, boil 2 litres of water with half a chopped red cabbage and two tablespoons of vinegar. The hardest obstacle for me was the smell of boiled cabbage (gag!).
Cate Holst on 22 March 2014 | Permalink. Temporary Tattoo Easter Eggs - Uncommon Designs. Easy Easter Egg Wreath for Kids. As a craft blogger and mother, I love it when I’m able to mix those two worlds into a fun project for my kids!
These Easy Easter Egg Wreaths are not only simple to make but are also full of great educational and developmental moments you can share with your children. I’ll highlight some of the benefits in each of the steps below. Also, I got all of my supplies at The Dollar Tree (scooooore!) But you can also find them at other local stores or online.
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For those of you who don’t know, Party Pieces is a party supply company in the UK, similar to Party City here in the US, except a bit fancier. What’s more surprising is that it’s owned by Kate Middleton’s parents. Today’s quick and easy Springtime Carrot Cutlery post is inspired by a glimpse of a photo that I caught on the Party Pieces site. Nothing too fancy, just a fun little idea for celebrating your upcoming Easter brunch or afternoon tea! One of the reasons I love afternoon tea is because it isn’t just about the food– it’s about the presentation and feeling of a meal that you are about to share with others. These utensil sets are very easy to make, and made even more special if you present them in the spirit of springtime harvesting. For a personal place setting, you can also sink the tip of each carrot into a small terra-cotta clay planting pot. Springtime Carrot Cutlery. Make Life Lovely: DIY Marbled Easter Egg Candles. Remember those pretty marbled Easter eggs I showed you yesterday?
And remember what half of them looked like when my little toddler dropped them on the floor and they broke? A sad shattered mess. Instead of sugar cubes, serve these cute Easter Chick Sugar Spoons. They'll melt your heart before melting in your coffee or tea. The snow has just melted in our yard and it's hard to believe Easter is tomorrow.
We may be hunting for eggs in winter coats. I figured everyone would be enjoying hot beverages at our Easter gathering, so I created these sweet little sugar coated spoons to serve alongside the tea and coffee. At first I was going to create these chick spoons using white chocolate, but I'd been making some sugar eggs for Easter and thought it would be fun to try to make tiny sugar eggs on a spoon. Sugar eggs, are made with a mixture of sugar and water and once hardened usually pop right out of the molds. I needed them to stick to the spoon, so I brushed the spoon with a small amount of corn syrup which did the trick.
Coloring Easter Eggs With Natural Dyes - Green Homes. Using herbs and food to dye Easter eggs gives them beautiful, earthy color—without scary chemicals.
And it’s surprisingly easy. How to Make Natural Easter Egg Dye 1. Hard-boil eggs. 2. 3. Marbleized Easter Eggs. Ever since coming across this DIY on Design Mom, I’ve been waiting for just the right opportunity to do some major marbling.
When I sat down to brainstorm projects for the upcoming Easter holiday, I thought about how the vivid shades of nail polish would be perfect for marbling Easter eggs… and didn’t they turn out pretty? Making these is rather addictive: I couldn’t stop playing around with different color combinations and dipping just about everything in sight into the swirly waters. Washcloth Bunny Kid’s Craft. With Easter hopping up on us early this year, I thought this Washcloth Bunny would be the perfect craft to make this month!
They are fun they are soft and they even have room for an ice cube to fit and they can double as a Boo Boo Bunny after the holiday is over! {{I am a huge fan of multi-tasking crafts!}} Here is what you will need to make these cute bunnies: Washcloths (I found a 3 pack at my dollar store)1/8” coordinating ribbonGoogly EyesPink and White Pom-PomsHot Glue Gun/Glue sticks Note: I found a 3 pack of washcloths, the googly eyes and the package of spring colored pom-poms all at my local dollar tree! How to make edible cupcake wrappers to make Carrot Top Cupcakes. Cakes are often completely covered in fondant but you don't see too many cupcakes decorated that way.
Why not? Probably because fondant is way too sweet or just plain awful tasting, but an alternative, modeling chocolate, tastes, well, like chocolate, and works almost exactly like fondant. What's not to like about that? These burning questions got me thinking about clever ways to make and use modeling chocolate cupcake wrappers for Easter and these Carrot Top Cupcakes were my first experiment.
It's always so wonderful when my first try at something works. Edible cupcake wrappers offer so many fun possibilities and I am sure you will be seeing more of them here at Hungry Happenings. This problem actually worked in my favor with this project. Each cupcake is wrapped in a strip of orange modeling chocolate, topped with orange frosting, and has a wisp of edible candy grass sticking up out of the top. Carrot Top Cupcakes. Dyeing Easter Eggs Naturally with Onion Skins.
It has been a VERY long time since I've dyed Easter eggs. Probably about fifteen years. However, I have always loved the look of the blood-red Easter eggs that are traditional in the Greek culture. I know they use special dyes for their eggs, but I had heard about an interesting method for using yellow onion skins that I thought would be easy to try. They didn't come out as red as the dye would have made them, more of a dark reddish-brown, but I'm still impressed with the outcome.
Check out the process below, plus an awesome tip involving pantyhose to make natural imprints on the shells. Cut about four inch sections of the pantyhose (enough to wrap around an egg and make a knot). Place whatever you would like to imprint (in my case, a mini fern) over the egg to your liking. Gently wrap the pantyhose over the fern and pull tight to keep it in place and allow dye to soak through. After the water reaches a rapid boil, decrease the heat to medium and boil for about 12-15 minutes.
Upcycled Grocery Bag Easter Basket. Welcome to my new blog! I am going to start my new post lineup with one of my favorite projects . . . with a twist. Literally. For The Love Of A Little Green At Easter » For the Love of... For the Love of… Easter is early this year, and so I thought I’d share this project with you here, since we’ve been doing this for a couple of years now and really enjoy the results. To get good healthy grass in time for Easter, you’ll want to plant these this weekend, or early next week at the latest. They’re really simple and fun for the kids to take part in, as well as take care of by watering and making sure they get enough light.
Once grown in, they make for very charming centerpieces, or like we’ve done for the last couple of years, as place card holders. Start by gathering your supplies, which are few. Just a dozen (more or less) eggs that have been gently cracked towards the top, emptied and washed out, some planting soil, and grass seeds. Easter Egg Dyeing & My Photography Fun.