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Hi,

I couldn't link to the original site.  It doesn't seem to exist
anymore but there are a ton of great sites out there.  Just do a
Google search for "natural easter egg dyes".

The ones my old site suggested were:

Pale red:  fresh beets, cranberries or frozen raspberries

Orange: yellow onion skins

Light yellow: lemon or orange peels, celery seed or ground cumin

Yellow: tumeric

Green gold: Yellow Delicious apples

Blue: canned blueberries or red cabbage

brown: strong brewed coffee

Follow any dying directions!



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>Signe,
>
>I didn't write the original message, but would be interested in your
>natural dye receipes.
>
>Do you have it in digital form and e-mailable?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ben Randell
>Science City @ Union Station
>Kansas City, MO
>
>Signe Pereira wrote:
>
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>>Hi Alissa,
>>
>>Every last Sunday at the MIT Museum, we do something called Family
>>Adventures in Science and Technology.  One month last year it fell on
>>Easter Sunday.  So off we went to a local distributor and got 30
>>dozen eggs.  Here's what we did:
>>
>>Egg in a bottle (by the way you can get the egg out with vinegar and
>>baking soda but it does make a mess!)
>>
>>We had an egg drop competition.
>>
>>Egg throwing.  Throw an egg as hard as you can at a bed sheet or
>>large piece of cloth, that is hung very loosely.  The egg won't break
>>
>>We had kids separate hard boiled from raw eggs by spinning them.
>>
>>We put several eggs in vinegar so people could see and feel an egg
>>with no shell.
>>
>>Lastly at each station we gave science explanations for each and as
>>something fun we gave out recipes for natural egg dyes so kids could
>>color eggs.
>>
>>We still had a lot of eggs left over.  Needless to say the museum
>>staff was pretty sick of egg salad for a while!!  If you want any
>>more details you can contact me directly.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Signe Pereira, M.Ed.
>>Education Coordinator
>>MIT Museum
>>265 Massachusetts Ave.
>>Cambridge, MA  02139
>>Tel: 617-253-9607
>>Fax: 617-253-8994
>>http://web.mit.edu/museum/
>>
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>>>What's your favorite cool science activity that involves eggs? I'm
>>>trying to
>>>get a bunch together (not for Easter, but for National Egg Month,
>>>which is
>>>May!)
>>>
>>>I admit I have never tried the classic "egg on the mouth of a jar,
>>>drop in a
>>>match, egg gets sucked in." And I've never tried it because no one
>>>has ever
>>>been able to satisfactorily answer the question "And how do you get
>>>the egg
>>>out?" So I'd love answers to that, and also other suggestions for some
>>>egg-sellent fun!
>>>
>>>Thanks for you sugg-egg-stions.
>>>--Alissa
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MIT Museum
(617) 253-9607

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