Pace Eggs

This year, for Easter, we decided to try a traditional egg dye, using onion skins.

We chose to use mostly red skins to symbolize the blood of Jesus shed on the cross. We talked about it and I reiterated why it is so important.

Here is what you need:

A Dozen Eggs (Brown eggs are best, but white eggs turn out pretty too.)

Onion Skins (You can use any color.)

Tin Foil (Some people use string.)

Boiling Water

Butter (optional)

We just grabbed a bunch of onion skins from the bottom of the crate at the fruit stand. They let us have them for free. (So did Ingles and WalMart.)

To start, just randomly cover the eggs with onion skins. Then cover with tinfoil. (This was hard for me because it didn't seem to tightly wrap the eggs. I just didn't know how it would work, but it does.)

Gently place in the eggs in the water. (The water will turn brown and it kind of stinks, but it is worth it!)

We boiled them for 15 minutes, let them cool, then took them out and unwrapped them. (The dye stained the plate we used, so you have to be careful what you put them on.)

You can dry them and rub butter on them to get a shiny finish. We did half and half. I like them both ways.

The eggs turned out Beautiful! And DD said she enjoyed dying eggs that way as opposed to using commercial dye. That made me happy to hear because I felt like the history and meaning behind it was a lesson in itself.

Now that we know what we are doing, we will try different foods next year . I know we can use beet root water and the skins to other foods. I have even heard flowers.