Preschool Easter Science – Natural Dying of Easter Eggs

There are a lot of great ways to dye eggs for Easter and no they don’t all have to involve food coloring or those little tablets that dissolve in hot water. There are also natural dying techniques you can use to dye eggs for Easter. Do this fun preschool Easter science experiment with your preschooler to discover ways to create your own dye.

 

This is a great preschool science experiment for basic experimentation. What happens when you add a certain product to boiling water? Will it create a dye strong enough to dye eggs? There’s no limit with what you try. Have fun!

 

Natural Techniques for dying Easter eggs

That vegetable products have natural dyes that can transfer to objects (such as eggs)

Basic experimentation.

 

Eggs

Red onion skins

A large pot

Boiling water

 

Step one: Boil your water in your large pot.

 

Step two: Have an adult the eggs to the water.

 

Step three: Add the red onion skins to the water. Some people have better results if they wrap the eggs in the red onion skins with a rubber band and then add the eggs to the boiling water.

 

Step four: Wait about fifteen minutes.

 

Step five: Check the color of your eggs. Add some time if needs be. 

 

Do not add vinegar (unless you want to see what will happen) to your water if using red onion skins—it’ll change the color of your dye. 

 

A large pot

Boiling Water

White Vinegar

Natural dye products. Examples of popular ones include coffee grinds, cumin, boiled spinach leaves, boiled red cabbage leaves (this one’s great!), purple grape juice. 

 

Step one: Boil your water in your large pot.

 

Step two: Add a teaspoon or two of vinegar to your boiling water before adding the eggs. This will help the dye stick to the eggs

 

Step three: Add your dye product. 

 

Step four: Monitor the eggs. The color will be more intense the longer you boil the eggs. 

 

Step five: Have your preschooler note in their scientific journal about the products you used what the result was. Keep this journal so you can refer back next year. 

 

Be cautious about eating your eggs after dying them. While they won’t make you sick, the may taste bad depending on what you used to dye them.