Naturally Dyed Eggs With Blueberries

Lets dye eggs the natural way by using fruits or vegetables. Today I’m goin to show you how to make blueberry dyed eggs. They’re beautiful with their subtle color and natural occurring designs! 

Original post 2/2016 – updated 4/2022

How It Happened

For those of you who know me well, you know I hate cooking dinner. I have never been able to do it well, and reading a recipe is super stressful for me. My poor husband though, I make the same meals all the time!

It was time for me to try a new dish.  For this recipe, I had to cut up potatoes and try to squeeze out as much water as possible. I used a white flour sack towel and after all the squeezing, the towel had a giant brown stain on it. It wouldn’t come out in the wash at all! I remember thinking…too bad it wasn’t a prettier color like blue or purple. It might have looked like tie-dye! 

So, this year when I decided to try different ways of dying eggs, I remembered the potato stain. Ha! But this time I was going to try something with a prettier color. My plan was to use blueberries. And they did not disappoint!  Stick around to learn how to make these Blueberry Dyed Eggs.

Gather Egg Dying Supplies

-Hard Boiled Eggs

-2 cups of water

-1 1/4 cup of Blueberries ( I used frozen)

-1 tsp salt

-1 tbsp. white vinegar

-Towel (it will get stained)

-Strainer or cheese cloth

-Bowl or cup to dip eggs

-Spoon for grabbing eggs

Getting Started

1.  In a small saucepan place your blueberries, water, and salt.  Bring to a boil.  Boil for aprox. 10 min.
2. Strain the berries and keep the liquid.  Let cool.
3. Once the liquid has cooled add the vinegar.
4. Poor liquid into a bowl or cup.  It needs to be big enough for an egg to fit but not too big where the fluid won’t cover. (I made that mistake)
5. Place your egg into liquid and leave for desired time.  I did them between 5-20 min.
6. Pull egg out with spoon and gently place in towel. (You’ll see I used a paper towel.  Don’t use one unless you have to, it will leave paper towel impressions on the egg a bit) Dab it dry.  Don’t wipe it dry!
7. Let the dyed eggs sit for about an hour before handling them too much.

That’s it!  Each one of the eggs turned out so unique and beautiful. That was the best part of doing blueberry dyed eggs! I left the darkest one in for about 20 minutes. Once it was dried, the egg started sweating and it made these fun little turquoise colored speckles.  It was so cool! The eggs that spent 5 minutes in the dye bath made this super pretty powder blue color.

How sweet is this little hand?!  My oldest was so excited to get his hands on these eggs.  He kept saying “Is it time for egging mommy?”  Haha! Little does he know that “egging” will mean something totally different when he’s in high school. My poor parents had to scrape eggs off of the garage door a few times. But don’t worry, I got those eggers back!

Thank you so much for joining me today. I’m glad I was able to show you how to take plain old white eggs and turn them into something beautiful! Pin the picture below to your Easter board on Pinterest for quick access to this post when you’re ready. Happy Easter!