I honestly expected these all to be Pinterest fails.

(Cant say the same forthese natural dyes, though.)

These arent fussy procedures, either.

Theyre all easy and quick, and chances are you have most of the necessary ingredients on hand.

We also recommend a pair of gloves so you wont have rainbow fingers all weekend.

Paper Towel Tie Dye Eggs

What youll need: Food coloring and paper towels.

First, wipe the eggs with a mixture of half vinegar, half water.

Then hold an egg over a bowl and add a drop of food coloring.

Spoon a little water over it, to dilute the dye and carry it around the egg.

check that to turn the egg to get the colors all over.

Repeat with more colors, and more water, until you get the look you like.

Put about a quarter cup of rice in a baggie, and add food coloring.

For the eggs shown here, I used 6 drops of blue and 6 drops of purple.

Then just add an egg, and shake!

Experiment with different amounts of dye and see what you like.

Oil Marbled Eggs

What youll need: Food coloring, cups of water, and vegetable oil.

The oil keeps the food coloring from reaching the egg, leaving it undyed in places.

To be extra fancy, start with speckled eggs (from the recipe above) instead of plain ones.

(you could see them drying in the picture below.)

After a few minutes10 should be plentyjust wipe off the cream, and the swirly colors will remain.

That goes double if you have kids.

So just use whipped creamI bought a tub of Cool Whip and it worked perfectly.

Youll have to work fast, since the nail polish can form a skin as it begins to dry.

Dip the egg into the water, and the nail polish will stick.

This method was the most unpredictable.

I dont fully understand why the marbling sometimes failed, but I kept trying.

Stop by the thrift store and look for ugly, out-of-fashion silk ties with garish patterns.

)Ugly ties make pretty eggs, it turns out.

Secure the resulting bundle with a rubber band.

Boil the wrapped eggs for 20 minutes, and add a quarter cup of vinegar.

Remove them from the water and let them dry.

If you wrapped the fabric tight enough, the eggs will precisely duplicate the pattern on the fabric.

I didnt do this quite well enough, but they still look kind of amazing, dont they?