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    Home » Celebrate » Easter & Spring

    Egg dying techniques: part 1

    Published: Apr 1, 2010 · Modified: Jan 31, 2021 · By Jill · This post may contain affiliate links · 13 Comments

    rubber band egg dying
    wrap hard boiled eggs with elastic rubber bands then put it in the food-coloring dye. remove them and pat dry with paper towel and remove the rubber bands. to get more of a rainbow effect, dye the lightest color first and then then next lightest color, using the darkest color last. adding more rubber band per each color.  you can 
    also use thin painters tape in order to get the swirls around the end of the eggs.

    note: If you plan to eat your Easter eggs, decorate them only with food-grade dyes. click here for the USDA's tips on Easter and Passover egg safety.

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    1. AvatarStacy @ Huddlenet.com

      April 18, 2014 at 10:01 am

      Found your eggs over at A TIPical Day and I can't wait to do these!! I'm hosting 3 teenagers along with my own and I wanted something a little more spectacular besides the usual dipping. Love it ~Stacy

      Found at: http://tipicalday.blogspot.com/2014/04/amazing-easter-egg-roundup.html

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    2. AvatarMeredith@A TIPical Day

      April 16, 2014 at 1:13 pm

      I love the look of this rubber band dying technique! Just wanted you to know that I am featuring this post in a Easter Egg Round up this week! 🙂

      Reply
    3. AvatarEmma

      April 05, 2014 at 2:30 pm

      I can't see how you can get so many different colours on one egg if you just wrap the egg in rubber bands and then dip it in dye. Why would you not tell the truth about how this was done?

      Reply
    4. AvatarAnonymous

      April 09, 2012 at 5:26 am

      Agreed - there's no way that a rubber band will stay on the egg that perfectly. These had to have been hand painted or used some other method.

      If this really was done with rubber bands, I'd LOVE to see your method STEP BY STEP.

      Prove us skeptics wrong.

      Reply
    5. AvatarAnonymous

      April 07, 2012 at 7:35 pm

      My eggs did NOT turn out this nice! I was very disappointed! My rubber bands would move as I added?removed some to put them in a new color. Would love to see a video!

      Reply
    6. AvatarAnonymous

      April 02, 2012 at 5:08 pm

      There is NO WAY this is rubber bands. I did this today and there is no way a rubber band stays on that flat once you are much past the center inch of an egg. Upon further study and investigation, I think these are dyed a base color and then rings are painted in wax and then redyed or hand painted in several layers. I would love if someone would link up actually pulling this off with rubber bands. But do not be deceived...it is definitely NOT rubber bands.

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    7. AvatarLeighAnn

      March 22, 2012 at 9:42 am

      Thank you! I pinned this and blogged about it here -http://jamesandleighann.blogspot.com/2012/03/easters-fast-approaching.html

      Reply
    8. AvatarShirley W

      March 20, 2012 at 4:12 am

      How do you do the ends?

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    9. AvatarMamaMay

      March 19, 2012 at 1:28 pm

      Ok, I just would like to know how you got the rubber bands to stick to the tops sooo well. I can't get the tops and bottoms like you have yours. Thanks!

      Reply
    10. AvatarGianneCurry

      April 23, 2011 at 9:12 am

      Love this~!!!! I tried it with my girls. cowsgomooandducksgoquack.blogspot.com

      Thanks! BTW, following now...

      Gianne

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    11. Avatarthreeboogers

      April 02, 2010 at 9:10 pm

      These are cute. I wonder if anyone could ever get them to look like these pictures. We've done the tie dye, they are fun!

      Reply
    12. AvatarTherese

      April 01, 2010 at 10:37 pm

      Am going to try that! Thx Jill!

      Reply

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