I wanted to do something a little different for our Easter Eggs this year, and after searching for inspiration on Pinterest, I discovered how to make natural dyed leaf printed easter eggs using red onion skins and botnicals from our garden to create a beautiful leaf patina. These were really simple to make and the kids loved the whole process, from picking the leaves in our garden to designing pretty patterns and waiting with anticipation while the eggs sat in our dye pot.

This doesn’t have to be a craft saved only for easter – they would make beautiful boiled eggs for a summer picnic. The result was rich hues of pink and red and interesting relief tones from the botanicals. Whilst I appreciate next Easter is a long way off you can pin the recipe for later so it’s stored ready to be ...