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Cranberry Dye
by Kathryn Martinez (Kathryn's bio)
[Note: If you'd like to read more from Kathryn, be sure to check out her web site.]
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Another natural dye that would make a great activity for the Thanksgiving holidays. Did you know that the Pilgrims actually didn't wear black all the time? They were quite frugal and used any natural dye that they could, rather than purchase special dyes that would have been so expensive and almost impossible to come by in the early days. Cranberries make a bright red dye.
Materials:
2 cups fresh cranberries
1 quarter water
stove or heating source
large enamel or stainless steel (not aluminum) pot
study wooden or plastic stirring utensil
sieve
container to collect dye
material to dye
Directions:
1. Combine cranberries and water in the pot.
2. Simmer for 15 minutes.
3. Crush berries and simmer for another 15 minutes.
4. Strain mixture and discard the berries.
5. Add the material to be colored to the dye.
6. Let the material soak in the dye until the desired color intensity is reached.
Copyright 2002, Kathryn Martinez. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
| About Kathryn Martinez: I'm a SAHM, home schooling mother of 4 children, 1 husband, and a neurotic cat. This is our sixth year of home schooling. I worked for over 10 years at USF in an education and training department. I hope that by sharing my experience with other home schoolers, both the new and the not-so-new and those just considering home schooling, I will pass along all the help that was given to me when I first started out. |