Tie Dye Easter Eggs are bright, colorful eggs that are so easy to make, and fun! Brighten up your traditional Easter egg hunt with these fun dyed eggs. The easy way to color Easter eggs with no cups of dye that can be spilled. This is a creative method of dyeing eggs!
If you’ve been looking for a way to make your Easter egg hunt more memorable and festive this year, I highly suggest you try tie dyeing your eggs.
It’s an easy and fun way to add some colorful flair to the traditional Easter eggs. Your kids will love it! Plus, you only need a few items to get started.
Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about how to Tie Dye Easter Eggs.
You may have seen messy methods using shaving cream, or Cool Whip, and while those also yielded fun colored eggs, this way is less messy and still ends up with an awesome egg.
Why You'll Love This Egg Coloring Method
A different way of dying your Easter eggs!
• Easier and tends to be less messy. And no vinegar smell!
• The water-based food coloring doesn't dye your skin or clothes as bad as the kits.
• You only need a few household materials for this cool way to dye your eggs.
• It's a fun and easy way for the whole family to get together and dye eggs for Easter.
Gather Easter Egg Dyeing Materials
All you need are hard-boiled eggs, coffee filters, water-based food coloring, rubber bands, paper towels, and rubber gloves (optional). That's it, no cups of smelly white vinegar, nothing crazy needed to make these tie-dye eggs.
The first step is to gather all the materials you’ll need for making your tie dye eggs.
• Hard Boiled Eggs – Essential because they won’t crack in the dying process.
• Coffee Filters – used as the way to transfer color to the eggs. Toss them in the yard waste when done.
• Water-based Food Coloring – will create vibrant colors that won't harm your skin or clothes.
• Rubber Bands – holds the coffee filter in place over the egg.
• Paper Towels – great for wiping up any messes or spills.
• Rubber Gloves – If you don't want to get any food coloring on your hands then rubber gloves are a must!
How to Tie Dye Easter Eggs
1) Lay out a coffee filter and place an egg in the center.
2) Pull the edges up and wrap it tightly in the filter. Secure the coffee filter around the egg with a rubber band.
3) Put gloves on, if using. Pick your first food coloring color and put one drop at a time on the filter in random places.
Repeat with as many colors as you like, or until the filter around the egg is almost completely saturated with food coloring. You won't need much as it tends to spread.
Just remember, a few drops of food coloring will go a long way to make tie dyed Easter eggs.
4) Carefully let the eggs sit for 5 minutes on paper towels or in the egg carton.
5) Put gloves back on, if using, and carefully unwrap the eggs from the filter. Use the paper towel to pat the eggs dry.
6) Place them back in the carton to dry for another 5 minutes before admiring their beauty! See, simple and so much fun!
How Many Colors Should I Use?
I like to use 4 different colors. They're very basic– red, green, blue, and yellow and then they'll change and blend and make a really cool egg at the end. But you can use any color combo.
What Size Egg Should I Use?
It doesn't matter what size egg you have. We tried this method with eggs of all sizes and they all seemed to turn out with amazing colors and beautiful patterns.
Can I Use Farm Fresh Eggs?
• You bet! It doesn't matter if these are commercial eggs, farm fresh eggs, white eggs, brown eggs, blue or green eggs.
• This will work on any colored egg shells. The brown eggs tend to have a little darker colors as compared to the bright colors you tend to get with white eggs, but they're beautiful in their own way.
DIY Easter Eggs Tips and Variations
- It's important to know that the colors you add to the coffee filter will end up a little lighter on the fun Easter egg. The coffee filter will hold some of the color back. Oftentimes, you'll see red on the filter and end up with pink on the actual egg.
- If you don't have a rubber band to hold the egg in the coffee filter, you can use a twist tie. It just might not be as tight as the band would be, so be extra careful when handling, so the egg doesn't roll out of the coffee filter.
- Instead of using a coffee filter, you can use a paper towel. The paper towel transfer of color doesn't seem to be as easy or come through as strong, but it will still work and you'll still have pretty tie dye eggs.
Tie dyeing Easter eggs with family is a unique activity that brings together creativity and tradition!
The best part about tie dyeing is that there's no wrong way to do it – just grab some boiled eggs, coffee filters, water-based food coloring, rubber bands, paper towels, and optional rubber gloves, and let everyone's imagination run wild!
You'll have beautiful tie-dye Easter eggs in no time!
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Tie Dye Easter Eggs
Equipment
- Rubber Gloves
- Egg Carton or Basket
Ingredients
- Hard Boiled Eggs
- Coffee Filters
- Rubber Bands
- Food Coloring water based
- Paper Towels
Instructions
- Lay out a coffee filter and place an egg in the center.Pull the edges up and wrap it tightly in the filter. Secure the coffee filter around the egg with a rubber band.
- Put on rubber gloves, if using. Pick your first food coloring color and put one drop at a time on the filter in random places.Repeat with as many colors as you like, or until the filter around the egg is almost completely saturated with food coloring. You won't need much as it tends to spread.
- let the eggs sit for 5 minutes on paper towels or in the egg carton.
- Put gloves back on, if using, and carefully unwrap the eggs from the filter. Use the paper towel to pat the eggs dry.
- Place the colored eggs back in the carton (or on paper towels) to dry for about 5 minutes before handling.
Kelly says
So fun! I liked using the coffee filters because they are stronger than the paper towels.