How to Go Natural This Easter

Painting Easter eggs with colors from a paint box is just as easy as it is passé. Why not try and go natural this Easter and use biological substances to paint Easter eggs? It will be a fun as well as an interesting experience. The raw materials for the paint can be collected without little or no difficulty from your own kitchen garden, your back yard or even from the refrigerator in your kitchen and the effect will be amazing for sure.

1. Gather all the required supplies and plants. Some plants known to give good coloring agents are petals of certain flowers like marigold, daffodil, dandelion, onion skins, and cabbage leaves. These can fill your palette with the yellows, oranges, and greens. For red, in particular, turn to berries like blueberries (this gives off a slightly purplish stain though), cranberries, and raspberries. Other easily available colors can be found in peels of oranges, yellow apples, strands of grass, and some spices like safflower, thyme, pine straw, and hulls of walnut. You can also try broccoli, tomatoes, spring onions, carrots-well, just about anything from your vegetable and fruit basket that you can possibly coax into giving you some color!
2. Make certain that your eggs are tidy and spotless. Don't use aluminum pots, because you will have to use vinegar later in the procedure. Hard boil them and keep aside.
3. Make square pieces out of your cheesecloth. It should be big enough to be wrapped around one egg at a time. Do that neatly and then fasten it in a bunch.
4. Take the flower petals, make small pieces of the peels or leaves, squash the berries, vegetables, and fruits, and keep them in separate cups with water, one cup for one color.
5. Combine some vinegar to the watered dye to make the color permanent so they won't run. Try to find out exactly what amount of plant substances should be used to procure your desired quantity of color. Usually, around half a cup of clippings or peelings with two cups of water with one tablespoon vinegar could be a moderate beginning. You would need relatively less amount of spices, berries, or hulls.
6. Bring the mixtures to a boil and let bubble for a little less than half an hour, and let the blend cool off.
7. Now is the perfect time to dunk the boiled eggs in your preferred color.
8. There are other ways to do the same thing too. Boil your Easter eggs with the plant substances in fastened bunches. Put the plant substances on the cloth and place the egg on it. Fasten the cloth around the egg with string or bands. Put this in a cool water pot such that the bunches are totally immersed and boil it for 10 minutes, after adding one tablespoon vinegar for every four cups of water. Later, take the bunches and let them cool off, before unpacking the eggs.