{"id":3920,"date":"2012-04-07T23:01:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T03:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2012-04-28T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T03:17:10","slug":"kool-aid-dyed-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2012\/04\/kool-aid-dyed-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kool-Aid Dyed Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re not a kool-aid drinking family, but I’ve been collecting various flavors\u00a0<\/del>colors to use for homemade play-doh and (someday) yarn dyeing. And then I stumbled across an idea on Pinterest to use it to dye eggs!<\/p>\n

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Just don't *drink* the Kool-Aid!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We mixed each packet with 2\/3 cup of water. \u00a0I read somewhere that lemon didn’t really make a deep enough yellow, so we added a tiny bit of a packet of orange to the lemon. \u00a0I probably should have measured so we could duplicate it next year!<\/p>\n

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For as messy as this looks, clean-up was super easy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had some decent results – as good as or better than the egg dyeing kits – from most of the colors\/flavors:<\/p>\n

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Pretty colored eggs!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But we couldn’t quite manage purple. When we mixed tropical punch and berry blue, we just got a weird speckly brown. It’s quite possibly the ugliest dyed egg ever, honestly.<\/p>\n

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Reddish + blue = brown???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But other than the lack of purple, it was a pretty inexpensive and vibrant way to dye eggs, and I’d definitely do it again!<\/p>\n

Also, I tried baking the eggs instead of boiling them, which worked out better than I expected. \u00a0325\u00b0F for 30 minutes, then an ice cold bath. \u00a0There were a couple of brown spots under the shells after peeling, but they peel very easily. \u00a0They also crack very easily when being transferred to the ice water. \u00a0But 14 of the 18 survived the process intact, and the rest were yummy. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re not a kool-aid drinking family, but I’ve been collecting various flavors\u00a0colors to use for homemade play-doh and (someday) yarn dyeing. And then I stumbled across an idea on Pinterest to use it to dye eggs! We mixed each packet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}