Ellen Lindner: Art & Creativity

I saw instructions online for dying eggs with onion skins, and I just had to give it a try!

These are the supplies that are needed:  eggs (uncooked,) onion skins, little flowers and/or leaves, thread or string, and a cooking pot.

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The idea is to capture the flowers and leaves against the egg with the onion skins, and then to tie it all up with string.  A third hand would definitely have come in handy, but I managed.

Once wrapped, the eggs go into a pot of water, along with all the leftover onion skins.  (The novelty of wrapping eggs wore off after 5 eggs, but I added another one into the pot, just to see what would happen.)  Everything is boiled just as if you were making hard boiled eggs.  (My preference is 10 minutes after the boiling starts.)

Once the eggs have cooled a little, all the vegetation was peeled off and I got to see my results.  Pretty cool, right?

The reddish-brown egg was done with red onion skins.  It also got the best  flowers imprint.

Another 4 eggs were wrapped with the skins of yellow onions, and one more “control” egg was thrown in for good measure.  Isn’t it amazing how orange that egg got?

So now what?  Well, I’m enjoying looking at them in my refrigerator.  And, I think there are some deviled eggs in my future.

I know eating boiled eggs can get a little old at this time of year, but I had so much fun with these I want to do more!  The orange egg has got me inspired.  What other colors could I get with beets, tomatoes, spinach, etc.?  And what if I left them different amounts of time, to get different levels of color?  And, and what if I wrapped them in cheesecloth?  My mind is spinning with the possibilities!

In the meantime, wanna come over for deviled eggs?

Ellen Lindner

If you want to try this, you’ll find the instructions I used here.  There’s also a link to this tutorial and others on my Pinterest board about DIY projects.   Have fun!