First, hard-boil your white eggs. Second, allow them to cool. Third, follow the simple formulas below. Tip: If you're going to make the basket too, save the egg dyes - - they may be used over and over.

Materials

• Hard-boiled white eggs
• Large boiling pan
• Strainer
• White vinegar
• Bowls for dyes
• Canned beets

• Grape juice (purple)
• Yellow onion skins (the papery part)
• Red cabbage
• Turmeric
• Cellulose egg cartons to hold drying eggs (Styrofoam makes the dyes puddle too much)

Instructions

1. Cold Dyes - Pink:
   
   Mix 1 cup strained juice from canned beets,
   ½ teaspoon vinegar, and 3 cups water.
   Soak cooled eggs in the dye for ½ hour.
   

2. Purple:
   
   Mix 1 cup purple grape juice, ½ teaspoon
   vinegar, and 3 cups water. Soak
   cooled eggs in the dye for ½ hour.
   

3. Boiled Dyes - Orange:
   
   In a pot, mix 1 cup yellow onion skin (about 2 onions' worth), packed loosely, 1 teaspoon vinegar, and 3 cups water.
   
   Boil mixture for ½ hour, cool to room temperature, strain out the onion skins, then add cooled eggs and soak them in the dye for ½ hour.
   

4. Light Blue:
   
   In a pot, mix 1 cup red cabbage leaves, torn and loosely packed, 1 teaspoon vinegar, and 3 cups water.
   
   Boil mixture for ½ hour, cool to room temperature, strain out the cabbage leaves, then add cooled eggs and soak them in
   the dye for ½ hour.
   

5. Yellow:
   
   In a pot, mix 1 teaspoon turmeric, 1 teaspoon vinegar, and 3 cups water.
   
   Boil mixture for ½ hour, cool to room temperature, strain out stray turmeric grains, then add cooled eggs and soak them in the dye for ½ hour.
   
   
   

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