Eggs? Why do you see eggs? I had boiled extra eggs for the kids to color when I was boiling up eggs for our deviled eggs last week and they did not get colored so we used the natural dyes and then we made egg salad.
Alaska living, home education, gardening, hunting, fishing, trapping and preserving the harvest
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Natural Dyes and How I Roll
We were reading about colonial clothing and natural dyes. Seeing as things here are not blooming yet, we were limited in our out of doors choices for natural dyes. The Blessings did go out and find some tree bark and old dead grasses. Other than those they chose from the vegetables and fruit in the house. They found onion skins, lemons, oranges, sweet potato and carrots. The onion skins gave the most color.
Eggs? Why do you see eggs? I had boiled extra eggs for the kids to color when I was boiling up eggs for our deviled eggs last week and they did not get colored so we used the natural dyes and then we made egg salad.
Eggs? Why do you see eggs? I had boiled extra eggs for the kids to color when I was boiling up eggs for our deviled eggs last week and they did not get colored so we used the natural dyes and then we made egg salad.
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I like the subtlety of the natural dyes, a lot! The living history museum near us uses all kinds of thing for dye. It's very interesting. What did you find to be the strongest one?
ReplyDeletewhat a fun lesson!
ReplyDeleteLooks like fun.
ReplyDeletewow! that looks cool!
ReplyDeleteI'm homeschooled. So it's cool seeing what other homeschoolers are doing.
- Angele @ The Making of a Woman
What a great experiment!
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