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AskERIC Natural Dye Lesson
Lesson plans for K 1-6, using plant materials such as cherry roots, elderberries, pokeweed, dandelion, plantain, sumac, walnut and other barks and leaves.

Slave Quilts
An art activity for dyeing a quilt block using dyes such as onion skins, pond scum, pine tree needles, sunflower seeds, olives, weeds and wildflowers.

Natural Dyeing with Plants - Science
For Grades 5-7, a science experiment for dyeing wool with berries, goldenrod, cabbage, nut shells and onion skins.

Easter Egg Dye Project
How to dye some eggs and wool this Easter with natural dyes you can find in your kitchen.

More about Dyes and Colour

Natural Dye Plants
Natural dye plants that you can pick in the wild or grow in your garden, with recipes for making the dyes.

Natural Dyes
Information and dye recipes for using natural and vegetable dyes and mordants.

Dye Lessons
Dye lessons and projects for the classroom.

Mushroom Dyes
Information about dyeing with fungi.

Synthetic Dyes
Information about working with synthetic dyes.