The egg has always been regarded as a symbol of life. Hens also begin
resuming laying eggs when the Vernal Equinox occurs. Dyeing eggs is
an old pagan practice, said to have come about when the Goddess
Eostre presented colorful sacred eggs to a rabbit whose desire was
only to please Her. The rabbit, blessed by her joy, traveled near and
far delivering the colored eggs as symbols of Hope. Dyeing eggs can
also be accomplished with natural dyes:
Soft Orange - boil a single onion skin with a few eggs.
Deep Rust - use a handful of onion skins.
Bright Yellow - use one-half teaspoon of turmeric in a small amount
of water.
Pink - beet juice and vinegar or the juice of pickled beets.
Robin's Egg Blue - boil eggs with vinegar and several of the outer
leaves of red cabbage, allow the whole mixture to cool overnight.
However, be careful as this dye scratches off easily. (all above from
The Wheel of the Year)
Gray-Green - nettle leaves.
Blue - woad. Use a little for light blue, a lot for dark blue.
Yellow Green - elder leaves.
Russett-Red - madder root.
Yellow-Gold - chamomile or marigold petals.
Soft Pink - sorrel roots.
Useing the same rabbit pattern. Trace & Cut & cover with cotton balls for a furry rabbit book.You can even add pipe cleaners for some whisters if you want to do a little more too. Then let the kids write storys or draw pictures in it for either themselfs or to give away as a gift.
If you dont have cotton balls they are either colour the bunny Or you can glue pieces of white/brown/grey paper on it .
stickiness.
Ingredients:
Mixture 1:
1/4 cup cornstarch
4 oz. white glue
Mixture 2:
1/2 Borax
1/4 cup warm water
Liquid food coloring
Directions:
Sift the cornstarch into a bowl, then add the glue. Mix
well. In the second bowl, mix the water, food coloring and Borax until it's
dissolved. Pour mixture 2 into mixture 1. Stir constantly for two minutes even
after goop forms.
eat it (it's non-toxic, but won't taste good)!
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 tsp. cream of tartar
1 pkg. Kool-Aid (unsweetened)
2 cups water
1/4 cup oil
Directions:
Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and Kool-Aid
together in a large saucepan. Next, mix in the water and oil. Now have your mom,
dad or grownup cook it on the stove at medium heat, stirring constantly until it
forms a thick ball. Take it off the heat. After it has cooled off a bit, knead
it until smooth, then make fun things! Store in an airtight container to keep
fresh.
Materials:
Tissue paper
Wire or those fuzzy Chenielle stems
Tape or glue.
Sissors
Directions.
Cut out 4x4 squares or larger out of tissue paper. You will need 4 or more squares for each flower. Take middle of square and twist a little so ends go up forming a flower. Tape or glue to wire stems, Or you can use craft sticks, dowl rods. or stawls. Make a bunch and put into a vase.
You can cut around the edges of the squares to make them rounder and use diffrent colors in each flower to make the muliti colored. Cut green leaves out of green tissue or paper and tape or glue those to the stem.
