Kaylin Avears, left, and Kyleah Giesege, students at Grace Land Preschool in Celina, dip their hard-boiled eggs in mashed berries and juice for a natural way to color eggs. A variety of fruits and vegetables can be used to dye eggs without chemicals. And if you get some on your hands, you can just lick it off.

A plain, hard-cooked egg often turns into an eye-catching decoration at Easter time - just add a little dye, paint, foil, wax, sequins, even gold trim and gems. Coloring Easter eggs is an ancient tradition. The egg - a symbol o . . .