1. Made some juice with beets. Daughter, who is a lover of all things pink, admires the color.
2. Man, beet juice is a potent dye. Daughter and I study my dyed hand.
3. Thought – we should dye something with beet juice. Daughter loves the thought. We make a beet juice puree in the Vita Mix, VERY CAREFULLY carry it outside, as I do not want pink carpet (and I swear my daughter who does want pink carpet tries to trip me). White cardstock paper is sacrificed to the beet juice.
4. You know how exciting it is to watch paint dry? This is even better.
5. Pink paper, drying in the hot humid Texas air breeze. Yes, we had hangers with paper hanging in our front bushes. Our neighbors love us.
what a great mom you are to roll with it.
Stopping to do these experiments.
Oh my gosh, love it. That is something we would have done at home.
Love it…little A and her mama have some great ideas : ).
I wonder how beet paper and blueberry paper would differ . . . ???
I know – I’m thinking of ways to do different colors: blueberries, red cabbage, collard greens. I need to google some natural dyes for our next project.
Cute idea for the kiddos! I might have to try when mine get a little bit older:)
We’d all be pink if I tried that one anytime soon, bit what a fun idea.
I know – it’s a little bit daunting with such a powerful dye. I’m halfway surprised that I didn’t spill… next time I may take the juicer or Vitamix outside and just do the whole process on the porch.
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