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Easter Eggs - Coloring Easter Eggs - Easter Egg Coloring Contest
March 15 , 2008 by EditorEaster eggs are traditionally colored, dyed and sometimes decorated and either given out or hidden to be found by children on Easter Day morning. Chicken eggs are used most often for dyeing. Chocolate and candy eggs or plastic eggs with treats inside may also be given or hidden. Eggs are widely used as symbols of new life, especially in the Christian tradition.
Another tradition related to Easter Eggs is the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the lawn of the White House. The White House also gets decorated eggs from each state and the Easter Egg Collection continues the tradition that began in 1994 where each state sends a decorated egg to the White House for display. Artists from across the United States created the eggs, representing each state and the District of Columbia. The artists vote amongst themselves to select the artist to create the following year's commemorative egg which is presented to the President and First Lady.
Joyce Brown provided us with this color chart for mixing food coloring to make a wide variety of different colors.
If you get tired of the same old primary colors for your Easter eggs and want to get a bit creative here is a color chart to help you make a wide variety of colors to dye Easter eggs.
Following the instruction on the chart below to mix each color. Mix the number of drops of each food coloring with about 2 - 4 ounces of vinegar for dipping.
Lime - 24 yellow, 4 green
Purple - 15 blue, 5 red
Cantaloupe - 24 yellow, 2 red
Jade - 17 green, 3 blue
Plum - 10 red, 4 blue
Spearmint - 12 green, 6 yellow, 2 blue
Raspberry - 14 red, 6 blue
Maize - 24 yellow, 1 red
Watermelon - 25 red, 2 blue
Teal - 15 green, 5 blue
Grape - 17 blue, 3 red
Fuchsia - 18 red, 2 blue
Orange Sunset - 17 yellow, 3 red
Jungle Green - 14 green, 6 yellow
For larger volumes, keep the ratio the same - double or triple the amount of vinegar and the number of drops of each color.
Use this color chart to make your Easter egg coloring much more interesting and build some new family traditions around the age old tradition of coloring Easter Eggs.
Send us pictures of your most spectacular Easter egg creations and we will publish some of the best submissions at a later date. (Submission of pictures grants us a non-exclusive, perpetual right to publish the submitted photographs, and associated information.)
