How to Make Tissue Paper Dyed Easter Eggs

These tissue paper dyed Easter eggs are so pretty! Have fun combining colours and shades of bleeding tissue paper to make these unique marbled eggs.

Active Time10

Drying Time8

Total Time8 10

Yield: tissue paper dyed egg

Author: Debbie Chapman

Cost: $1

To dye your eggs with tissue paper you'll need bleeding tissue paper, in at least 2 colours or shades. Cut the tissue paper to be about 6 inches square.
(Read more about bleeding tissue paper below the tutorial!)
Scrunch the tissue paper up in your hands to wrinkle it and then open it back up again.
This will allow the tissue paper to wrap around the egg more easily.
Place the egg in one piece of tissue paper and wrap it around the egg.
Then add the other piece of tissue paper on top, wrapping it from the opposite direction.

Next, place the tissue paper covered egg on a piece of paper towel.
The paper towel will allow a greater amount of water to stay in contact with the tissue paper, making it easier to transfer the colour.
Wrap the paper towel snugly around the egg, and secure it with a rubber band.
Then add a rubber band around the actual egg itself. This will push the tissue paper right up against the egg.

Place the wrapped egg in water, allowing the paper towel to fully absorb water. Remove from the water and allow to dry, as is, overnight.
The next day, unwrap the egg and remove it from the paper towel and tissue paper. You'll see that the colour has transferred from the tissue paper to the egg!
Your tissue paper dyed Easter egg is complete!

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