Dye Eggs with Rice

Skip the water and vinegar cups and make Dyed Eggs using Rice instead. Less messy and a nice little change to the traditional chaos of dying eggs.

Course Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword eggs

Prep Time 5

Dry Time 2

Total Time 2 5

Decide how many colors you’re going to make and have one bag for each color. If you’re using gloves, this will be the best time to put them on.
Place a cup of rice in each bag. It doesn’t have to be exact; you can just estimate it if you don’t feel like measuring. Just don’t put too much in the bag. About a ¼ full.
Place four drops of food coloring in each bag. Only one color per bag.
Remove air from the bag and seal it before squishing the rice all around until the dye is distributed.
Be sure the eggs are dry and not at all wet before choosing placing the egg in the one of the bags.
Remove the air and seal the bag before gently moving the egg around in the colored rice until you are satisfied with the color distribution.
Remove the colored egg.
Set the egg aside to dry or place it in a second color if you want to get more creative with it.

Tips:

The more rice you add to the bag, the more dye you’ll need.
If you get a few eggs in and the color isn’t adhering to the eggs as much as you would like, add a couple more drops of dye to the rice and try again.
I used gel dye, but I’ve had luck with water-based dyes as well. Avoid oil-based dyes as they tend to not grab onto the shell as well.
This works for farm fresh/brown eggs as well, the dye will just appear less saturated or in some cases, darker.
I’ve used minute rice and regular rice and both worked, although I liked the minute rice more.
Brown rice should work as well if that’s what you have on hand.
You can do multiple colors, one after another. Just give it a couple of minutes to dry in between colors for the best results.