How to dye a 'Teddy bear' egg

Teddy Bear Easter egg for little ones taking a break next to a very hungry caterpillar!

       Use a coffee dye for the first part of this Easter egg craft and then secondly, paint and glue on the features of a teddy bear that any young child will delight in.
       To make the coffee dye simply boil several tablespoons of instant coffee and white vinegar on the stove with a cup full of water. Then soak the mixture along with either a hard-boiled egg or one that has been blown out in advance overnight. To get a rich chocolate brown color the egg must be left in this mixture for over twelve hours!
       Then hot glue on a few fuzzy pom-poms for the ears and nose and other facial features...

Left, a blew out the contents of my brown egg through two holes, one at each end of the egg.
Right, then I soaked the egg in a coffee dye over night in order to get the rich dark brown you
see above.

• Visit our Teddy Bear Index Page for more fun with this theme...
• Not a coffee drinker? Try making these eggs with onion dye, read here...