Paints from Nature

The Bushmen used nature to create the colours on their rock paintings which they got from the areas where they lived.
They took red oxide and yellow ochre from the soil and rocks, charcoal from the burnt wood of their fires and white was obtained from bird droppings.
With these simple colours, they painted their every day life on the rocks inside caves etc.

This got me thinking of the things we used to do as kids many years ago.

We used beetroot juice to dye things pink, yellow flower petals for yellow, cabbage leaves for green, tree bark for brown.
This was great fun to do.

Now we see natural things used in hair colouring, as well as in cakes.

I wonder if children do these things today - maybe they have kept silk worms and fed them on beetroot leaves so that they would spin pink silk.