I promised you a photo intensive recipe for my posting this week, so here it goes!
This is family recipe. I love this activity as a craft project, but cannot find an excuse to make them any more than once a year. While the results are always beautiful, it is almost impossible to predict how any given egg will turn out. As a child, I wanted these dyed eggs to be solid colors and look like the painted eggs that I saw on TV and in advertising. As an adult, I love the unpredictability of this method. Every egg is a pleasant surprise.
Because I am going to give you a lot of photographs of both the method and the finished product, I am going to give you a text version ahead of the photographic version. Enjoy.
Crepe-Dyed Easter Eggs
- Gather as many colors of crepe paper as you can. Bold colors – red, blue, purple etc. – are going to give you the best results. You will need to fold it into several layers to get stronger colors.
- Stick the crepe paper to a plain white egg with water. You probably need to saturate the crepe paper.
- Wrap the eggs to hold the crepe paper to the egg and seal with rubber bands. As a child, we use newspaper and wool. I found this idea using t-shirt fabric and thought it would work. It does.
- Hard boil the eggs for 15 minutes.
- Cool under running water.
- Remove the wrap and crepe paper to reveal the finished dyed egg.
- Dry the egg with paper towel.
- Rub a little butter on the shell to produce a sheen.
Gather as many colors of crepe paper as you can.
Bold colors – red, blue, purple etc. – are going to give you the best results. You will need to fold it into several layers to get stronger colors.
Stick the crepe paper to a plain white egg with water.
You probably need to saturate the crepe paper.
Wrap the eggs to hold the crepe paper to the egg and seal with rubber bands. As a child, we use newspaper and wool. I found this idea using t-shirt fabric and thought it would work. It does.
Hard boil the eggs for 15 minutes.
Cool under running water.
Remove the wrap and crepe paper to reveal the finished dyed egg.
Dry the egg with paper towel and rub a little butter on the shell to produce a sheen.
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