How to paint eggs. Coloring eggs with onion skins - the traditional way
Easter is coming soon! Each housewife tries to make beautiful and unusual eggs on this bright holiday. The name of the resulting eggs depends on which method of staining to use.
1:850 1:860For example, eggs dyed the same color are called dyes.
1:977Eggs with multi-colored dots due to wax droplets are called specks.
1:1112Drapanka- This is a one-color egg with a scratched pattern.
1:1225Eggs with a pattern or pattern made using a special tool - a scribbler - these are pysanky. They are the most beautiful, they can even be called works of art.
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Preparing eggs for dyeing
There are many ways to paint eggs for Easter. However, regardless of the option chosen, the eggs must be properly prepared. Here are some tips:
2:889- an hour before dyeing, you should take the eggs out of the refrigerator so that they take room temperature. In this case, they will not burst during cooking. The same result can be achieved by piercing the egg with a thin, sharp needle;
- in order for the paint to lie more evenly, the eggs must be thoroughly washed. Color uniformity can also be achieved by wiping the eggs with soapy water or alcohol;
- colored eggs will acquire a shiny appearance if, after painting, wipe them dry and rub with vegetable oil.
Now you can go directly to painting the eggs. Here are a few ways, among which everyone can find the most suitable for themselves.
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The first way: a classic of the genre - onion peel
This is the way of our grandmothers, which is still relevant today. As a result, you can get red eggs, as well as yellow, brown or their shades - it all depends on the intensity of the paint and the duration of the staining procedure.
3:1050- Pour water into a saucepan and add onion skins. Red-brown color will turn out if you take the husk of eight onions and pour two glasses of water. Based on this, it is possible to calculate the amount of water and husk for a particular case.
- Water with husks should be brought to a boil and boiled for 30-40 minutes. Let the decoction stand.
- The broth should be filtered, freed from the husk, and boil the prepared eggs in it for 7-10 minutes.
- In order for the eggs to be well cleaned, they must be sharply cooled with ice water.
- To obtain a more intense color, the eggs can be returned to the broth and left until they have acquired the desired shade.
The second way: gifts of nature - natural dyes
Many natural components have a coloring effect. This allows you to get a variety of colors and shades.
10:1215Pink color gives beet juice,
10:1272Pale yellow - lemon, orange, carrot,
10:1355Yellow - birch leaves, calendula flowers.
10:1439Green color can be achieved with spinach or nettle,
10:1554Blue - through red cabbage.
10:91Beige color of eggs gives coffee,
10:154Violet - violet flowers.
10:213 10:223Some dyes are not very intense, for example, violet or spinach, so eggs can be left in such decoctions all night.
10:482- Pour water into a saucepan, add vinegar (1 tablespoon) and natural dye. Bring to a boil. Let the broth brew (»30 minutes).
- Boil prepared eggs in broth, depending on the desired shade - from 15 to 30 minutes. If necessary, you can leave the eggs in the broth and longer - for a day.
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The third way: decoupage technique
To decorate an Easter egg with a picture, it is not necessary to buy stickers. You can decorate it using decoupage technique.
11:294- Hard boil the eggs.
- Prepare gelatin glue. To do this, fill the gelatin with water in the proportions indicated on the specific package of gelatin, and soak. Strain it through a strainer and remove excess liquid. Heat the gelatin and wait for the granules to dissolve.
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- Choose napkins with beautiful color patterns. White eggs look better as a background, although it all depends on the color of the napkin.
- Separate the top layer of the napkin and cut out the piece you like.
- Attach the picture to the shell. On top of the drawing, apply gelatin glue from the center to the edges.
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The fourth way: the food industry presents - food coloring
One of the most trivial and easy ways is to color eggs with Easter dyes. There is always a recipe listed, but you can do it like this:
18:451- Hard boil the eggs.
- Dilute the dyes with water - each color in a separate bowl. There should be enough water to cover the eggs. Add vinegar (1 tablespoon).
- Keep the eggs in bowls until they take on color.
It turns out bright multi-colored eggs, pleasing to the eye.
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Fifth way: colorful palette - colored threads
To get intricate stains, paint the eggs with multi-colored floss threads:
21:781- Wrap the eggs with yarn.
- Weld hard.
Sixth way: marble effect
Marble eggs look unusually festive. For their execution, you will need food paint for eggs of different colors, vegetable oil and artistic flair.
22:1745- Color the eggs in bright bright colors, such as yellow, red, orange.
- Let the eggs dry.
- Dilute dark colors (blue, brown, purple) with water. Add vegetable oil (1 tsp) to each cup. Gently stir (do not shake) the oil so that there is a lot of oil "money", no larger than a pea.
- Dip each egg in the dark color and remove immediately. A beautiful marble pattern is obtained if you do this no more than once.
Seventh way: eggs in silks
Exquisite eggs with drawings are obtained by dyeing them with fabrics. You can use a silk tie or a Pavloposad woolen scarf.
23:1721- A raw egg should be wrapped in a patterned cloth. The front side should fit snugly against the shell.
- To prevent the fabric from slipping, sew the egg along the contour. Wrap it over the colored cotton fabric, securing it at the blunt end.
- Pour water into the pan, add vinegar (3 tablespoons). Place the cloth-wrapped eggs in the pan and cook for 10-12 minutes after boiling.
- Pour the cooked eggs with cold water. When they are completely cool, carefully remove the fabric. A thin pattern will remain on the egg, such as on fabric.
Eighth way: fantasies in patterns using improvised materials
Using the methods of dyeing eggs described above (for example, using onion skins), you can.
24:1750- chaotic specks can be achieved if wet eggs are rolled in rice or millet before coloring;
- a drawing in the form of a leaf can be obtained by attaching a parsley leaf to the egg before coloring and fixing it with gauze or stocking;
- in order for the egg to cross straight lines, you can stick masking tape on its shell or pull an elastic band over it for money;
- symbols or letters XB can be glued to the egg before painting, using a plaster or masking tape. After painting, they should be carefully removed;
- checkered eggs are obtained by boiling them wrapped in mesh stockings or in a fruit or vegetable net.
- a lace pattern will decorate an egg if, before painting, an interesting lace motif cut out of a napkin is fixed on it;
- paint the egg with wax crayons. The pattern will appear at the end of the staining procedure.
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The ninth way: to the delight of children - a craft egg
Easter is a family holiday, so you can decorate eggs with your children. You can make funny chickens from testicles.
25:337- We cook hard-boiled eggs.
- Painted bright yellow.
- Preparing gelatin glue.
- We decorate the eggs with details cut out of colored paper. These are wings, beak, scallop, paws, tail and others (bows, cilia, curls) - it all depends on the imagination. Eyes can be glued or just drawn.
Tenth way: saving time - thermal stickers
An indispensable method for busy people is to decorate eggs for Easter with thermal stickers. They are sold on the eve of the holiday in supermarkets, newsstands and other stores.
26:1809- Hard boil the eggs.
- Put a sticker on the egg. To avoid problems with size (the sticker may be small for the egg), it is better to choose medium-sized eggs.
- Dip the egg in boiling water so that the sticker hugs it and takes the desired shape.
These are such interesting and peculiar recipes that turned out to be how eggs are painted for Easter. Traditionally, housewives do this in Pure Thursday. Easter is a wonderful Christian holiday that gives wings and hope for a better life. Spend some time dyeing eggs and let a bright spring holiday into your life!
29:593Multi-colored eggs have long been an integral part of Easter. This bright, cheerful holiday was created to bring people together, give joy and fill everything around with comfort. Easter has an ancient history, many of its traditions are filled with special meaning. If you want to learn more about this and have fun, you should definitely figure out how to paint eggs for Easter with your own hands (you will find interesting and beautiful ideas in the article).
It would seem that what is special about how to paint eggs for Easter with your own hands, we will consider interesting and beautiful ideas in more detail in the article below. It is enough to boil a simple egg, then cool it and take paints. Choosing a pattern or just covering it completely in one color is also beautiful. And what is the deeper meaning here? Why are beautiful eggs so important for Easter? After all, their internal component will not change from the beauty of the shell, will there be the same boiled eggs? Traditions for many years, however, like Easter itself.
Why you should paint eggs
Here it is worth recalling the history of the holiday itself. What is Easter dedicated to? Interestingly, the Easter egg for Christianity is part of the symbols of the Holy Sepulcher, which conceals the secret of eternal life. Once in Palestine, people were buried in caves, closing the entrances with stone after the end of the funeral ceremonies. The stone was rolled off before being placed inside the deceased, then put back.
According to legend, the stone that closed the tomb of Jesus was somewhat reminiscent of an egg. Everyone knows that eggs hide new life under their shells, so eggs and dyed ones are an extra reminder of the miraculous, impossible Resurrection of Jesus, as the victory of life over a gloomy and sinister death. More often than not, eggs are dyed red, even scarlet.
Therefore, the most beautiful Easter eggs are considered to be with a red pattern or just red. Traditions say that Mary Magdalene, shortly after the resurrection of Christ, somehow appeared to Tiberius, the former emperor, to convey a wonderful message. Most likely, the emperor had already heard about miracles, but did not attach much importance. In ancient times, any visitor to the emperor had to bring gifts to him, Mary took the egg and held it out, saying: “Christ is Risen!” this is how people of relatives and acquaintances congratulate on Easter now. The emperor nodded at the color of the egg and replied that it was white and not red at all.
An egg can't change colors, and that's how the dead don't rise again. Suddenly, the egg turned red. It is interesting that painted eggs are mentioned for the first time on the scrolls of the tenth century, which means that the tradition is really many centuries old. In the past, the Romans considered the egg a symbol of new life.
Egg coloring, ancient methods
Previously, of course, there were no artificial dyes, people isolated the paint in a natural way, using improvised means. Painted eggs for Easter had several varieties.
For example, an egg dyed in one, any color without drawings was called krashanka or krashenka (also galunka). Onion skins were often used, giving a beautiful terracotta shade, also a shade of yellow.
Eggs with some kind of ornament were called pysanky, as painted. They had to be painted only raw and then you can’t eat it, as you boil it, without damaging the drawing. Pysanky, alas, were brought as a tribute to art, although the then paints for eggs were quite safe for use.
Now eggs for Easter can be dyed either with special food paints, or with ordinary watercolors (if it is not supposed to be eaten later), or take stickers.
Traditionally, girls or women prepared krashenki for Easter, taught girls. Everyone in the Balkans dyed eggs, even Muslims, they also willingly accepted gifts from neighbors - Christians, this was not considered shameful to them. Although Islam forbids celebrating "foreign" holidays.
The Church devotes the custom of coloring eggs to a special day, which consists of Holy Week - this is Thursday, also Good Friday, or maybe Saturday.
Catholics willingly paint eggs for Easter with their own hands, then give them or eat them themselves. Interestingly, they can give not only ordinary eggs, but also sweet chocolate ones.
In addition to the usual ones, eggs were made of wood, later porcelain or glass, painted with gold and beautiful precious stones. It's easier to keep them that way, as tradition dictates. You should not try so hard when decoupage eggs, so that you can quickly eat them later, though the usual ones cannot be saved for a long time.
gradient effect
It's a beautiful, gradual transition of colors. Interestingly, decoupage or, more simply, decorating eggs with food coloring is quite simple. Dilute the chosen dye in a small glass of water, then carefully place the egg there. Wait 10-20 minutes, you're done. The intensity of the color can be controlled by the concentration of the dye. How to decorate eggs for Easter more interesting? Add a gradient effect.
Take a small ladle or sieve. Gently immerse the egg in the diluted paint, hold for 3 minutes, while constantly lifting it slightly, lower it again lower. Then raise to about half, hold for about 5-6 minutes, lower again and for the remaining 10 minutes keep only the lower part of the egg immersed in the dye. You don't even need complicated decor!
striped eggs
Coloring Easter eggs without using a brush or pencil? Easily. Dilute several glasses of the selected color, just let the concentration become different. Then alternately submerge the eggs, each time to a different level.
The decor of the same color looks beautiful, just different concentrations.
painted eggs
Of course, monotony is good and looks beautiful, but painting Easter eggs, inventing your own decor, is much more interesting. Any pencil or gouache will do, the main thing is to take a soft lead.
Sometimes the outline of an egg is used to create a composition, but more often the drawings are quite simple. The church does not limit the imagination, you can draw any thing, more often these are spring motifs, flowers, eyes or leaves. Pictures look more beautiful on a colored, plain background.
Lace eggs
It is not necessary to draw the decor manually, many drawings can be made with improvised means, just remember about the holes! For example, how to make an exquisite lace pattern.
First, wrap your egg in a piece of lace fabric, then holding it by the tail, lower it completely into a glass with already diluted paint. Wait 10-11 minutes. Then carefully remove the cloth and let the egg dry. Ready.
Any stencils will give a similar effect for Easter, the main thing is to make sure that they fit snugly against the round surface of the egg, then the pattern will not be smeared.
sequins
The dye for eggs is also varied, it looks beautiful, you can supplement it with patterns or sparkles, why not? You can easily buy them at a cosmetic or hardware store. There are loose sequins used in makeup or manicure, there are larger sequins, they are taken to decorate fabrics, they are embroidered with them. Only painting eggs and Easter with similar loose material requires care. Make sure that the sparkles do not fall into the plate later, because they cannot be eaten.
However, such sparkles can be replaced with delicious small balls, such sweets are sold in confectionery departments. They are also beautiful and bright, though they do not shine.
To attach the selected material, use glue, and preferably protein, after smearing the egg. They look beautiful on a finished colored background, then painting the eggs should precede the sparkles.
They painted it, waited until it was completely dry, then covered the selected areas of the egg with glue or protein and gently dipped it in the sparkles scattered on the saucer. Shake off excess and put somewhere to dry. Ready.
sprinkles
Yes, the mentioned multi-colored balls. They are safe and can be eaten. They are more often used to decorate delicious Easter cakes, but they will also be used for Easter eggs. Decoupage of such eggs is a pleasure, because the coloring does not spend much time.
You can simply coat the egg with protein, then carefully roll it out in a bowl with sprinkles already scattered. Such beauty does not require separate drawings! And the colors are warm, bright, real spring hues.
Drawings
Of course, alas, not everyone can be an artist. Therefore, many people, thinking about how to beautifully paint an egg for Easter, do not trust their own skills too much. They are looking for ready-made stencils, remembering the technique of painting, for example, windows for the New Year or deriving a new dye for eggs, mixing different colors.
Curious drawings can give a simple tape or tape! First, dilute the selected paint, then arm yourself with tape or electrical tape. Stick it neatly on the egg, estimating the outlines of the future pattern. Then dip the eggs in your paint, hold for the desired 10-15 minutes. Everything, now you need to wait until it dries and carefully remove the electrical tape (adhesive tape). Coloring eggs is not difficult at all.
It is so easy to make some letter or several letters on the egg, in the husk. You will get cute themed eggs, which is how dyeing regular eggs for Easter has become a part of many cultures.
Threads
They create interesting color transitions, beautiful drawings, and do not spend a lot of effort. Of course, Easter uses such eggs only as an element of decor, because it is difficult to break them, sometimes it is too pitiful.
Take different threads (mulina is better, they are soft and fit well), coat the PVA egg, then wrap it carefully, avoiding gaps. An alternative to the usual coloring of eggs. However, you can partially wrap them, leaving gaps that you can then decorate with either drawings or glue glitter.
patterns
Of course, the eye involuntarily stops on the husk with patterns, and some are painted in such a way that they seem to be part of art. It's easy to achieve this. Arm yourself with a felt-tip pen and carefully, carefully redraw the pattern you like.
It is not necessary to alternate colors or take care of a colored background, painting with one black or blue, red marker on a natural, white background also looks spectacular.
Mosaic
It looks very beautiful, almost like marble eggs for Easter. Achieving the look like in the selected photo is easy: just beat your egg gently with a spoon first, then soak it inside the dye.
Speckled
Small points are also easy to provide. Take gauze, tightly wrap the egg with it, then boil it, only in the selected dye. Then carefully remove the gauze. Ready.
Yes, most of the ways to decorate eggs are easy and affordable, although some people prefer ready-made Easter stickers. There are beautiful, thematic drawings, and before use it is enough to peel off.
White patterns already on a painted egg can be easily and safely applied with powdered sugar. Dilute it with a drop of water so that the mixture comes out homogeneous, thick. Take a special confectionery syringe. That's it, paint the eggs, the main thing is to choose a dark colored background so that the white patterns look brighter.
If dishes are prepared for family and guests, then eggs are presented to all acquaintances and strangers. From children who bring the news of the Resurrection of Christ in the morning to work colleagues. "Christ is risen!" - they say at the same time. "In truth, he has risen!" - hear in response and get a testicle in return.
What are Easter eggs?
Interestingly, dyed Easter eggs have their own names, depending on how the eggs were dyed. Krashenki are plain eggs, krapanki are eggs covered with multi-colored spots, which are obtained with the help of droplets of wax. And if we paint the eggs and scratch out the drawing, then we get a drape. Separately, it is worth noting the Easter eggs. This is not just an Easter attribute, but a work of art! Drawings on eggs are made with a special tool - a scribbler.
The article contains both well-known methods of painting eggs, which everyone knows very well, but may have forgotten the nuances, as well as more interesting and “unbeaten” ones. In addition, we will talk about quick options for beautifully painting eggs with the least effort, about decorating methods that you can do with your child, and about such original ways where you can let your imagination go free swimming and expect great results! For convenience, all 20 methods are divided into thematic blocks.
Key to start - preparing eggs for painting
Whatever method you choose, it is very important to properly prepare for the process. The result will directly depend on this. Here are a few secrets that will help eliminate possible "pitfalls" that await those who do not know them. And you can order all the ingredients you need, including eggs, in the Instamart service, there is an application for android and iphone - the first delivery is free.
- First: never start boiling eggs without first taking them out of the refrigerator at least an hour or two before coloring. Eggs should be at least at room temperature so they don't burst during cooking. You can prevent the explosion of eggs in another way. They need to be pierced with a thin sharp needle. However, the first option is much easier and safer.
- Second: when cooking, add 1 tbsp. l. table salt per 1.5-2 liters of water. It is believed that this is done so that the shell does not burst. In fact, it is correct to say that salt will prevent the protein from leaking out and forming white “growths” if the shell suddenly cracks.
- Third: the eggs should be thoroughly washed, perhaps even using a dish sponge. This is done so that the paint lays evenly. You can also wipe the testicle with soapy water or alcohol.
- Fourth: you can paint eggs for Easter not only chicken, but also quail. It turns out very interesting and unusual! We also pre-keep them at room temperature, rinse and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Fifth: in order for the paint to hold better, vinegar (9%) is added during the dyeing process. On average, 1 tbsp. l. for 1.5 l. water.
- Well, one last piece of advice. how to give already dyed eggs a festive look. Rub them, after wiping dry, with vegetable oil.
How to dye eggs in onion skins
First: classics of the genre - onion peel and its variations
The traditional crimson, brown or dark yellow eggs are obtained by dyeing them with onion skins. In this case, both the husks of ordinary onions and red onions are used. When calculating the color, you can focus on such a hint. If you take the husks of 8 onions for 2 glasses of water, you get a red-brown color.
- Prepare the dye solution. To do this, pour onion peel into a pot of water.
- Bring to a boil and simmer for about half an hour.
- Let the broth cool down. During this time, he will insist.
- Strain the "paint", discarding the husk.
- Immerse the prepared eggs in the solution so that it completely covers them.
- Boil the eggs in onion broth over low heat "hard-boiled", that is, 12-15 minutes.
- Cool them quickly with cold water to make it easier to peel off the shell.
- If the eggs have not received the desired shade during this time, return them back to the coloring solution.
Second: a tandem of husk with brilliant green
A very interesting option is burgundy-green or brown-brilliant eggs. For their execution, you will need onion peel, brilliant green (standard vial, 10 ml per 1.5 l.), nylon stocking (or gauze), gloves (to protect the skin of the hands from brilliant green).
- Break the husk into small pieces. You can also grind it in a blender.
- Washed eggs, while they are still wet, roll in the husk so that its pieces stick to them.
- Firmly fix the husk on the eggs with a nylon stocking.
- Put them in the boiling water.
- Add brilliant green to the water.
- Boil the eggs until hard boiled (12-15 minutes).
- Douse them now with ice water and free them from capron.
Third: coloring in the husk with patterns
You can diversify the coloring with onion peel if you first apply a patterned figure to the egg and fix it with a piece of nylon. At the same time, to obtain a pattern, you can take what is at hand. For example, parsley leaves, parsnips, dill, peppermint, fresh or dried flowers. Dry material must first be soaked with hot water, and then applied to the egg.
The chosen motif - a leaf or flower, tightly fix with a nylon stocking (or bandage, gauze) and carry out standard staining with onion peel. Then remove the stocking, remove the stencil for the pattern, and an egg painted with onion peel, but with an imprint of a leaf or flower in the natural color of the shell, will appear.
By the same principle, you can decorate the dot with chaotic dots of the color of an unpainted shell. To do this, roll a wet egg before painting with onion peel in rice, crushed peas or millet, or attach a piece of lace to it. Fix the croup or lace patterned motif with stocking capron. 
You can get a variety of patterns without using a fixing material:
- for straight lines in the natural color of the shell on the egg, put rubber bands on it for money;
- any pattern can be made from masking tape, plaster, self-adhesive paper, or simply paint the egg with wax crayons;
- eggs in the "cell" will turn out if you put on them mesh stockings or a vegetable mesh.
Methods with dyes - natural and not very
Fourth: gifts from nature - natural dyes
- Pour water into a 1.5 liter saucepan and put a natural pigment - the source of color.
- Bring to a boil, let it boil a little and leave to infuse for half an hour.
- Strain the broth, pour in 1 tbsp. l. 9% vinegar and put eggs in a saucepan.
- Simmer over low heat until at least tender (12-15 minutes). If the color is taken poorly - up to half an hour.
- If the coloring is not successful even within half an hour, leave the eggs in a saucepan with a coloring solution overnight.
Fifth: a scientific alternative to natural dyes - food grade dyes
Multi-colored eggs on young grass, what could be fresher and more attractive for Easter? To make them quickly and without much hassle, you can buy a special Easter set in the store. When choosing it, please note that dyes are different according to the method of application.
One of the options is exactly the paint that needs to be applied directly to the boiled egg. The other is a powder or tablet for diluting a colored solution. Eggs are lowered into it and kept there until the paint is taken.
The staining method must be indicated on the dye packaging. There is nothing complicated in using ready-made liquid paint. It is applied to the prepared egg, evenly distributed and allowed to dry. The method of coloring with water-borne dyes in the general case looks like this:
1. Boil the eggs.
2. Pour 1 tsp into narrow deep containers (for example, glasses or tea cups) with cold water. vinegar (9%) and dilute the dye.
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3. Put eggs in them. The solution should cover them.
4. Keep them there until they are stained.
5. Dry the dyes.
Sixth: with the world on a string - a colorful egg
A riot of colors in one egg is a method of dyeing with floss threads. Very simple and beautiful:
- Wrap multi-colored floss threads on a raw, room temperature, pre-washed egg. Combine colors and arrangement of threads as your fantasy tells!
- 2. Boil them in the usual way until hard-boiled (12-15 minutes).
- 3. Remove threads.
Seventh: fabric translators
Transfer a beautiful pattern from fabric to an egg? It is quite possible. Just take the choice of fabric seriously. In our age of the extremely developed chemical industry and the desire to reduce the cost of things at any cost, you can run into a chemically dyed fabric. Despite the beauty of the drawing on it, it is better to refuse to use it. Examples of permitted material are a Pavloposad shawl or a silk tie with an interesting pattern.
- Place the selected fabric with the right side on the egg. Secure it by stitching along the contour.
- From above, you can additionally fix the matter by wrapping the egg with a nylon stocking or white cotton cloth.
- Add 9% vinegar (3 tablespoons per 1.5 liter saucepan) to the cooking water and boil the hard-boiled eggs (12-15 minutes).
- Drain the water, cool the eggs and free them from the tissue. The drawing should appear with gentle contours on the shell.
We paint with the children
Both adults and children look forward to Easter with the same impatience. Give the kids the opportunity to make a beautiful craft egg and give it to, for example, grandparents. Being engaged in such creativity, we encourage the children's desire to make beautiful things and give it to loved ones. Moreover, it is very interesting and fun!
Eighth: craft egg
From krashenka you can make a perky chicken:
- Color the egg yellow with food coloring. Although chickens can be of other colors: blue or pink, for example. Even a child from 3 years of age can cope with coloring with colored powders or tablets diluted in water. Of course, under the supervision and strict guidance of an adult.
- Cut out details for decorating a chicken from colored paper: eyes, wings, tail, beak, scallop. And also: a bow - if it's a girl or a bow tie, a tie - if it's a boy. You can also use decorative fluff from a needlework store. It turns out cool and very cute!
- Use gelatin glue to fix the prepared parts. To do this, soak the gelatin as indicated on the package. Drain excess liquid, and heat the granules until they dissolve. It is not necessary to bring to a boil.
- Apply gelatin glue with a brush on the details, the egg and gradually turn it into a chicken!
Ninth: funny faces
Show your children that you can draw on the egg in an unusual way. But since this is a product and it is then eaten, the paints must be natural. For example, it is very easy to make an edible "gouache" from cocoa powder. She can draw the face of an animal, the face of a funny weirdo, or even a portrait. Eyes can also be depicted, but it will be more interesting to glue ready-made ones from a needlework store. 
- Boil the eggs. If necessary, color with food coloring, for example, if you are making a lion's face - yellow.
- Slowly pour warm water into a tablespoon of cocoa until sour cream is thick.
- Plant the finished eggs on stands, such as plastic bottle caps, and draw.
- Let the chocolate gouache dry.
- Then glue the eyes with gelatin glue if they do not initially have an adhesive base.
Tenth: wax crayons (pencils)
This is a way for school children. Since you have to work with a hot, freshly boiled egg.
- Take them out of the pot, pat dry with a towel.
- Place the egg on a stand, such as a bottle cap.
- Start drawing with wax pencils. The wax will diverge from the heat and create bizarre transitions, overflows. Choose colors carefully!
- You can paint eggs in this way not only with pencils, but also with the help of sprinkling with wax crumbs. To obtain it, the crayons are rubbed on a fine grater. And then poured onto a hot, freshly boiled egg.
- And another way to decorate with wax crayons is to melt them and dip an egg into it.
Time saving
When a woman is not only a housewife, but also the main earner in the family, there is not so much time for home life. Moreover, Easter eggs are painted on Maundy Thursday. Until the weekend, this activity is not postponed. Therefore, in the absence of time, you can resort to "quick" ways to make Easter eggs.
Eleventh: thermal film stickers
Once and done - this is about one of the easiest ways to create an Easter mood using thermal stickers. How beautiful they are: with Gzhel-style painting, Khokhloma, with intricate patterns, butterflies, flowers, church plots, as well as rabbits, kittens and even children's cartoon characters! If you plan to use thermal stickers, choose smaller eggs. Otherwise, they simply will not enter the thermal basis. Stickers can be applied to unpainted boiled eggs, and you can also use them as a fallback option, if the shell cracked when painted with husks.
Please note: eggs in thermal stickers are stored less than, for example, dyed with husks or food coloring.
- Boil the eggs in the usual way.
- Put the thermal base on the egg and put it in a strainer.
- Dip the strainer in boiling water for a few seconds. As soon as the thermal sticker "hugs" it, pull it out.
Twelfth: holiday attire
Being one of the most important Easter symbols, the egg requires an appropriate outfit. So far, we have talked about its color, but you can do it differently. It is enough to wrap a boiled egg in bright foil. Voila! And it is in the spotlight. And in addition, it will be decorated with exquisite decoration. 
- Boil the eggs.
- Cut multi-colored foil (sold in stationery stores) into rectangular pieces of such a size that it is enough to wrap an egg.
- Prepare decor elements or just use confetti.
- Wrap cooled eggs in foil. Attach decor to them with glue.
flight of fantasy
If the standard traditional methods of dyeing eggs seem boring and monotonous, let your imagination fly and follow it like a white rabbit.
Thirteenth: the power of the rainbow
This method is a variation of food coloring. The combination of colors, the depth of staining, the number of layers ... All this is chosen individually. Therefore, such dyes are 100% original. However, in order for the eggs to turn out like in the picture, you need high-quality dyes that give rich colors. You need to breed them, following the instructions. Another tip: you need to start with light tones, gradually resorting to darker and darker ones, and finish with the darkest ones. 
- Boil the eggs.
- Take one and paint it completely in the lightest color.
- Dip the painted egg into the paint a tone darker, but not completely, but up to half.
- Wait for the paint to take. Then dry it.
- Then do the same, applying paint in layers.
Fourteenth: eggs "on style"
Easter, originally a religious holiday, has now become more secular. Therefore, eggs are not only traditionally painted red or a pattern corresponding to the holiday is applied, but they also approach this activity more simply and creatively. For example, eggs will be stylish if you apply a pattern to them with a permanent marker. You can come up with a coloring book yourself or get ideas from the Internet.
- Boil the eggs, be sure to hard boil.
- Set them on stands and apply the chosen pattern with a permanent marker.
- After finishing work, let it dry. This will take approximately an hour.
Fifteenth: stencil work
This method is relatively traditional. We find a stencil, apply it to the egg, paint it with natural or food coloring. A flight of fancy should manifest itself in the choice of a stencil. Here everyday experience, information from books, magazines, the Internet can come to the rescue. Or maybe you have family symbols. The main thing to remember is that the selected color and stencil should be in harmony with each other. 
- Choose a stencil pattern.
- Apply it to ultra-thin paper (tracing paper).
- Moisten the paper so that it becomes plastic and can be easily applied to the egg.
- Firmly fix the attached stencil on the egg with a nylon stocking or bandage (gauze).
- When the preparation for coloring the eggs is completed, do it in any way: onion peel, food coloring. Only if the eggs are dyed with onion skins, they do not need to be boiled first. And if the method of coloring with food coloring is chosen, then they must be pre-cooked “hard-boiled”.
- Remove the fixing material and stencils from the finished cooled eggs.
Sixteenth: marble effect
Artistic flair will be needed for those who decide to paint eggs in marble color. It is not difficult to do this. The main thing is to choose colors beautifully and purchase high-quality dyes. 
- Boil the eggs.
- Color them in a light-colored dye: yellow, orange, blue. Let dry.
- Dilute in a deep narrow container (in a glass, tea cup) a dark-colored dye: purple, brown, dark blue. Add 1 teaspoon to each cup of dark solution. vegetable oil. Stir so that a spoonful of oil disperses into many small oil droplets.
- Dip light dyes in dark dye. It's ideal to do it once.
- Let dry. Marble eggs are ready!
Options for decorating ready-made dyed eggs
If the simple coloring of eggs is not enough and the soul asks for an artistic continuation, choose one of the proposed options. Turn paint into a work of art!
Seventeenth: 3D decor
Quite laborious, but worth it. To decorate eggs, you will need a wax or paraffin candle, as well as a variety of cereals, small pasta, confectionery sprinkles and whatever else your heart desires. 
- Take the finished dye.
- Light a candle and use melted wax (paraffin) to apply a pattern on it. Do it very carefully. The flame should not touch the shell, otherwise a gray trace of soot may remain.
- Roll the egg in the material of your choice. You can also put decorative elements on the adhesive base with your hands.
- When the work dries, you can grease the decorated surface with vegetable oil for a more presentable look.
Eighteenth: sugar lace
Eggs in voluminous lace are very stylish, festive and go well with any traditional pattern on krashenka. To make them, you need powdered sugar (about a glass) and water. If powdered sugar is not at hand, you can make it yourself. To do this, you need granulated sugar and a coffee grinder. 
- Slowly pour water into the powdered sugar so that a white mass of thick consistency is obtained.
- Place the decorative sugar mass into a confectionery syringe.
- Take the finished dye.
- Put a pattern on it.
- Let dry.
Nineteenth: decoupage technique
In order for a picture to appear on the dye, it is not necessary to apply a thermal sticker on it or transfer the pattern from the fabric. You can remember about the decoupage technique. It is designed to decorate not only plates and furniture, but it can also be transferred to the plane of Easter decor. To do this, we will have to use beautiful napkins or their elements and gelatin glue. To prepare the glue, gelatin is soaked according to the instructions on the package. Then the excess moisture is drained and heated, without bringing to a boil, until the granules dissolve.
- Take a pretty napkin. Tear out with your hands (without using scissors) an interesting fragment. Remove the top layer - we will use it.
- Prepare gelatin glue.
- Apply the selected fragment to the dye.
- Apply gelatin glue over the napkin with a brush. You need to do this from the center to the edges.
- Let dry.
Twentieth: drapanki
Colored eggs with a white pattern can be made not only by applying a stencil. The pattern can be scratched on the surface of an egg painted with onion peel with a clerical knife or a thick, sharp needle. This method is laborious, but applicable when it is planned to make a thin, elegant pattern on the egg, which is difficult to achieve by applying a stencil. 
- Make dye with onion skins.
- Draw a pattern on it with a simple pencil. You can do without it if you feel confident or your hand is full.
- Walk along the line drawn with a pencil with a clerical knife, scratching the outline.
Easter is a family holiday that gives hope for the future and faith in a miracle. Touch and you a piece of beauty - choose the way you like and paint the eggs for the Easter table. There is only one minus in coloring eggs according to the described methods. It can turn out so beautiful that it will be a pity to eat!
It is not difficult to dye eggs at home without using long-term dyes, but using only natural products for coloring the shell. Many women have a whole book of recipes by which you can make Easter eggs for the holiday, as well as put an unusual pattern on them. Below we will cover the basic preparation of all eggs for coloring, as well as go into more detail about all the popular methods of coloring the shell.
Some rules for product preparation
There are a few basic rules that must be followed more strictly in order to get beautiful and well-colored eggs on, and on a properly prepared product, the pattern will look brighter and clearer. According to the first rule, housewives are advised to buy exclusively white eggs for coloring, since it is the light shell that can best absorb color pigments, which will allow you to get a rich shade of the shell. And in order to keep the paint better, it is recommended to wash the egg shells with soap before cooking, if there is no soap at home, then the surface is simply wiped with vinegar.
Before you start boiling eggs, you should leave them on the kitchen table for several hours, if you cook a product that has just been taken out of the refrigerator, then the shell will crack during cooking due to a sharp temperature drop. A cracked shell will not allow you to paint the surface of the eggs well, while the eggs themselves will also be painted.
When the product is prepared, it is worth preparing a decoction in which eggs will be painted, decoctions can be prepared according to a wide variety of recipes, we will write about this in the article below. One of the most popular and traditional is onion decoction, which is made from husks, the husks are simply washed and then boiled in clean water for about twenty minutes, when the solution is sufficiently concentrated, chicken eggs are sent into it and boiled for at least another half an hour. It is worth remembering that the solution before boiling the eggs must be slightly salted, this will help make the pigment brighter.
There are special ways of boiling and coloring eggs that allow you to make a beautiful pattern on the surface of eggs, below we will also talk about the most popular methods for decorating Easter eggs at home. If you don’t want to decorate eggs with the help of improvised means, you can simply purchase special Easter stickers, their cost is not high, and they look very attractive on painted eggs.
The best natural color options
Yellow-brown color. Probably this shade can be considered one of the most popular, since to obtain it it is necessary to use quite affordable onion peel. For one liter of pure water, you need to take about one hundred grams of such a husk, but if you want to get a more concentrated composition, then the amount of the product is doubled or doubled. The solution is boiled for about thirty minutes, and then it is filtered through cheesecloth and returned to the fire, prepared boiled eggs are lowered into the resulting composition and painted on fire for at least twenty minutes.
Red color. Probably many people know about the giving, described in church writings, which says that the chicken egg turned red when Jesus was reborn, since then it has been customary to paint eggs in a red hue. For such staining, ordinary beets are taken, this vegetable is grated or chopped with a blender, while it is necessary to take the product fresh. All the juice is squeezed out of the resulting mass and they start already in it, if this method is not suitable, it is worth using blueberry juice, it also gives a pleasant red tint.
Orange color. This shade is obtained by using a large amount of turmeric or ordinary onion staining, but in this case it is already necessary to take not one hundred grams of husk, but about fifty grams per liter of water. After dyeing, the eggs will acquire a light orange tint.
Yellow. This shade is obtained using a common seasoning called turmeric, the powder must be diluted in water to the shade that Easter eggs would like to get, the product is sent to the resulting composition and dyed to the desired shade. In addition, lemon or orange peel can give a yellow tint, young birch leaves and walnut shells have been used for many years to obtain a yellow color. In these solutions, eggs are boiled until fully cooked, and if it is necessary to color the shells of ready-made eggs, it is best to take fresh carrot juice.
Coloring Easter eggs in marble
To make such staining, it is necessary to prepare small gauze bags in advance, but it is best to take nylon socks, it will be much more convenient to use them. To begin with, all raw eggs are washed in soapy water and carefully brushed, then it is necessary to chop the onion peel and roll the wet egg in it. The resulting egg is placed in the prepared bag and tied tightly, it is very important that the husk fits snugly against the shell. If necessary, you can additionally pour husks into the bag so that the staining process goes more evenly and brightly. Such bags are transferred to a container with cold water, while the saucepan must be put on medium heat.
While the water is boiling, it is worth adding about one jar of brilliant greens to it, just one bottle will be needed for two liters, and two large spoons of coarse salt are also put in the solution. Eggs are boiled for at least ten minutes in boiled water with brilliant green, after which the water is carefully drained, and the finished eggs are taken out of the bags and moved to a dry surface to dry. The resulting eggs are very bright and unusual, it is worth trying out such a simple coloring method to surprise your family and guests.
spotted eggs
You can get unusual spots on the shell quite simply, ordinary cereals will help the hostess in this, it is best to use rice, but other types of cereals will do. To begin with, the egg is washed well in water, and then also rolled in prepared cereals and transferred to a bag, such a bag is placed in a solution with a dye and left for the required period of time. A decoction of onion peel is perfect, a decoction of coffee or strong tea is also used. You can use juice from carrots or beets, eggs are boiled in it for about fifteen minutes to get a bright shade.
Since the grits adhere tightly to the shell, after staining, the eggs have small undyed spots, for this reason the shell looks spotty and very unusual. This method can be used not only with natural, but also with food artificial dyes that are eaten in stores before Easter.
Other Interesting Decorating Techniques
If you really want to decorate the egg with interesting patterns, then the housewives came up with other original methods, for this they take a simple thread, lace or bandage, wrap the egg with it, and then dye it, thus getting chaotic or even stripes. You can take a special bandage mesh, if you wrap an egg in such a bandage and dip it into the coloring composition, you will get a beautiful pattern on the surface of the dye.
Today it is also popular to use various leaves, it can even be simple parsley and dill, the leaves are glued to the shell with water, and then placed in a nylon stocking and tied tightly. After cooking in the dye, a beautiful pattern from the leaves will remain on the surface of the egg. Some people prefer to use duct tape or regular rubber bands, they stick well to the egg when cooked, and leave good even traces.
If you want to get more interesting and beautiful patterns on the surface of the eggs, you just need to tie a lace ribbon on the egg, for example, from stockings, after dyeing you will get an unusual lace pattern.
Coloring eggs with nettles
If you want to use more interesting options for coloring eggs, then you can do this simply using ordinary nettles, the recipe is distinguished by its simplicity and minimal cost. To stain correctly, you need to take the eggs and rinse them in water, it is also worth collecting young nettles, which are also washed thoroughly, then fill a large saucepan with leaves and pour it all with water.
Such a decoction is boiled for at least twenty minutes, then the decoction is cooled until the required time and the already prepared eggs are lowered into it. It is necessary to cook krasnki from fifteen minutes to half an hour, it all depends on the concentration of the solution and the resulting shade. If it was not possible to find fresh nettles at home, you can also use a pack of dried pharmaceutical herbs, the effect will be almost the same.
Unusual staining methods
I would like to say that all of the listed options for coloring eggs are far from the last on the list, because today you can find other methods on how to make eggs bright and beautiful for the holiday. You can use a very strong cascade tea, it will give a light or very rich pink tint, it is equally popular to use brewed coffee, it gives the shell a rich brown color. If you want to get more interesting shades, then a couple of leaves of red cabbage should be added to the decoction of onion peel. Some housewives use lily of the valley and primrose leaves, as these plants have the property of staining.
Brilliant green coloring
Probably, many have already heard about the method of obtaining green color in any dyes, of course, this shade is better taken on white eggs, but the green is not bad for brown chicken products. This solution can be easily purchased at a pharmacy, and making a coloring composition out of it is even easier. To do this, a little water is taken so that it is enough to place several eggs, and then the required amount of greenery is poured into this water, you need to pour so much to get a sufficiently saturated solution, usually half a bottle is taken per liter. Boiled eggs are lowered into the resulting solution and left for a certain time until the dye is taken on the shell.
Zelenka is considered a completely harmless pharmacy product, but if the hostess wants to use only natural dyes, then spinach juice can be used instead of greens. It is prepared quite simply, you need to take the fresh greens of this plant and chop it, squeeze the juice from the resulting mass and use it like other types of juices to color boiled eggs green.
Coloring with red cabbage
To carry out staining, it will be necessary to take a kilogram of such cabbage and chop it well, they also prepare eggs, a couple of tablespoons of salt, half a liter of pure oxen and six large spoons of vinegar. Since we need to get juice from cabbage, it is worth grinding the product with a blender, in which case the coloring process will be much more successful. Next, you need to rinse the eggs well, this will allow the paint to lie on the surface of the shell more evenly, before painting, the chicken product must be boiled until fully cooked in clean water, to which a few tablespoons of salt are additionally added.
In the meantime, cabbage can be poured with half a liter of purified water, six tablespoons of vinegar are poured into the same place and everything is mixed, then put the saucepan on the fire and cook for at least ten minutes. As soon as the resulting broth cools down a bit, you can strain it and begin the staining process.
Ready and chilled eggs are sent to a large jar, into which the resulting broth is poured and the eggs are left in this state for the current night. The longer the eggs are in the broth, the more intense the resulting shade will be, while it should be understood that red cabbage does not give a pink, but a dark blue tint to the eggs.
It is worth additionally rubbing with any vegetable oil so that they are brighter and shiny, and then you can serve the krashenki to the table.
Dyeing eggs for Easter is an integral ritual of one of the main Christian holidays, symbolizing the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. This holiday is beautiful and solemn, with well-established centuries-old traditions. In addition to a deep religious meaning, Easter is associated with the purification of the soul and home, with delicious Easter cakes and Easter dishes.
The egg is rightfully considered a symbol of the birth of life, and the Easter painted egg means the resurrection from the dead and eternal life. It turns out that painted eggs were found in Egyptian and Sumerian tombs, which were built as early as the 3rd millennium BC. e. It is even difficult to imagine how many years such a tradition has existed.
Orthodox paint eggs during Holy Week on Maundy Thursday or Red Saturday. In 2019, these are April 26 and 28, respectively. Painted eggs are consecrated in the church at a festive service, and the first meal after Lent begins with eggs.
Do-it-yourself painting eggs for Easter has become not only a family art, but also a kind of competition - whose eggs are the most beautiful. And there are a lot of ways to paint eggs. You can, of course, paint eggs for Easter with paints, but this is still harmful chemistry, and food paints are not always on sale. I offer you natural ways to dye eggs at home.
Coloring eggs with onion skins - the traditional way
This is my favorite and most reliable way to color eggs. With this method, the eggs are always a beautiful color. I start harvesting onion peel a few months before Easter - I collect it in a separate bag. To make the color of the eggs saturated, there should be a lot of onion peel.
Pour the onion peel into a saucepan and cover with cold water. Put on the stove and bring to a boil.
Choose a worse pot, because the husk will paint the sides of the pot so that it will be difficult to clean.
Pour the eggs in a separate bowl with cold water and leave for 10 minutes.
Water with onion peel boils at this time, we reduce the fire so that the eggs do not crack. Add 1 tablespoon of salt to the pan and carefully drop the eggs one at a time. Cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
If you want a more intense color, remove the pan from the heat and leave the eggs in this solution for a while.
After removing from the pan, let the eggs cool slightly and rub them with sunflower oil with a paper towel to shine.
Now the eggs “played” with paint, you can put them in a basket and bring them to the church to consecrate. I try to bless the eggs every Easter, and then treat my family, friends and neighbors.
How to dye eggs in onion skins with a pattern
If in the first recipe it was possible to use any eggs - white or brown, then white eggs are suitable for painting with onion peel with a pattern.
To decorate the eggs, we prepare the leaves of the plants in advance. Before Easter, fresh leaves are not always there, because this holiday can be in March, when nature is still sleeping. Therefore, you can use fresh herbs from the store - parsley, basil, dill, mint or lemon balm.
Birch leaves look beautiful. You can put a few branches in a vase of water in advance, and when the leaves bloom, use a few to decorate Easter eggs.
Lace, woolen threads are also suitable for coloring eggs with a pattern.
Also, you will need to prepare clean old stockings, tights or gauze in advance. You will also need thread.
So let's color the eggs.
Pour onion peel with cold water and bring to a boil.
We wash the eggs, dry them with a paper towel and wipe each egg with a cloth with vinegar.
We put a leaf or other decor on the egg, press it tightly and wrap the egg in a piece of stocking fabric or gauze.
To make the leaf adhere more tightly to the egg, it can be slightly moistened with water.
We tie a nylon or gauze fabric with a thread.
You can beautifully and originally paint eggs with lace and onion peel. It's simple - cut off the lace of the desired length and wrap the egg around it. We tie the ends with a thread and cut off all the excess.
You can also decorate the egg with woolen threads. Just randomly wrap the egg with string.
So that the eggs do not crack, pour 1 tbsp into the broth. l. salt. Carefully lower the eggs into the broth with onion peel and cook for 10-15 minutes. After that, the eggs are carefully immersed in cold water.
We remove the decor from the cooled eggs and wipe the eggs with vegetable oil.
Marble eggs with greenery
And this is my favorite method. Eggs are unusually beautiful, with marble stains. I will share one secret of this method - the more we chop the onion peel, the more beautiful the drawing will turn out. You can even try to grind the husk in a coffee grinder. I like to grind the husk with scissors.
To make the husks stick well to the eggs, moisten them with water, then roll each egg in the onion skins. In a piece of gauze or stocking, put some more husks, place the egg inside and wrap around. Tie the ends with thread. Put to boil in a saucepan, adding 1 tsp. salt. 5 minutes after boiling, pour in 2 tsp. greens and cook for another 5 minutes. Then pour over the eggs with cold water and remove the gauze, remove the husk. Rub eggs with sunflower oil.
Beautiful marble eggs are ready!
How to dye eggs with onion skins and rice
Another simple and wonderful option for dyeing eggs in natural ways. The rice sticks to the eggs and the result is a pattern in the form of droplets. This method is very simple, try it. In addition to rice, you can also use peas.
Pour grains of rice or peas into a stocking, place an egg there, distribute the grain with your fingers around the entire circumference of the egg. We tie the fabric, and dip the eggs into the prepared broth with onion peel. Cook for 10 minutes, wash the eggs under running cold water and remove the stocking or gauze and grains. After the eggs have cooled down a bit, rub them with vegetable oil.
Coloring eggs with natural dyes
I already wrote that it is fundamentally against chemistry and coloring eggs with paints. Yes, it is beautiful and brighter, but health is more important. Moreover, there is a good replacement in the form of natural and harmless dyes from natural ingredients. Of course, these are all kinds of juices - beetroot, blueberry juice, red cabbage juice, spinach juice and others. From the juice of cranberries, raspberries and beets you get a pink color, from the juice of blueberries, pomegranate or blackcurrant - purple, and if you want to get blue or blue, then use the juice of red cabbage. Turmeric gives you a rich yellow color, while black tea or coffee gives you brown hues. After boiling the bark and branches of the cherry, you get reddish-raspberry eggs. I want to warn you that bright colors are not always obtained in this way. To make the color brighter, after boiling the eggs, you need to keep them in the broth for at least 4 hours, and it is better to leave them overnight.
Coloring eggs with beets
If you want to get the pink color of eggs, then beetroot juice is suitable for this coloring method. Dyeing eggs in a natural way takes a little more tinkering than regular paints, but if you care about your health, then this work will pay off handsomely.
Beets need to be prepared in such a way that more juice is obtained. To do this, grate the beets, pour water and cook for 5-7 minutes. You can boil eggs in the same broth. Then we wipe the beets through a strainer, we get a rich burgundy juice. Pour eggs with this juice in a separate bowl, pour 1 tbsp. l. vinegar and leave for 4-8 hours.
Coloring eggs with red cabbage juice
Red cabbage will give the eggs a blue color.
The coloring method is similar to the previous one. We cut the cabbage into large pieces, fill it with water, cook for 5-7 minutes together with the eggs, decant the hot broth into a separate bowl. Add 1 tbsp. l. vinegar and keep eggs in this broth for 4-8 hours.
How to dye eggs with turmeric
Turmeric gives perhaps the most intense color of all natural dyes. Eggs are beautiful, bright yellow.
For such painting, pour a bag of turmeric (15 gr.) into boiling water, stir and add 1 tsp. salt. We put eggs in this solution and cook for 10 minutes. In order for the paint to be brighter, leave the eggs in this solution for several hours. For shine, rub with sunflower oil.
Coloring eggs with coffee or tea
I want to warn you right away that with the help of coffee or tea, you get a not very saturated, but delicate beige color of eggs.
You can use both natural and instant coffee or black tea. For coloring, we prepare a solution - put 4-5 tbsp in boiling water. l. coffee in 0.5 liters of water. If you use tea, you will also need 4-5 tbsp. l. black tea for brewing. Cook for 5 minutes, add 1 tsp. salt and omit the eggs. Cook for another 7 minutes. And as always for natural dyes, it is advisable to keep it in the solution longer, at least 5 hours.
How to dye eggs with blueberry juice
The blueberry coloring method is similar to the previous ones. The eggs come out a beautiful purple color.
For 1 liter of water you will need 2.5-3 cups of frozen blueberries. Berries need to be boiled a little (5 minutes), pour 1 tsp. salt and omit the eggs. You can rub the blueberries through a strainer after cooking, get pure juice without berries. But I don’t bother, I just boil eggs with berries. Cook for another 3-4 minutes, pour 1 tbsp. l. vinegar to fix the color. You can leave the eggs in the pot overnight.
Decoupage Easter eggs
I learned about this method of decorating eggs quite recently, a couple of years ago, and it has become my favorite. After all, there are a lot of napkins with a variety of beautiful patterns in our stores now, you need to choose the brighter one, and then you get very beautiful and original eggs.
- Napkins for decoupage should be chosen with a medium-sized pattern to fit on the egg.
- We select white eggs for decoupage.
- It is better to choose napkins on a white background, then the pattern will not have to be cut very carefully with scissors.
- The best way to stick napkins is with egg white.
To get beautiful and whole Easter eggs, you need to remember 7 basic rules:
- Before boiling eggs, they need to be removed from the refrigerator a few hours in advance. Eggs should not be cold!
- Eggs should be boiled over low heat, avoiding cracking.
- So that the eggs do not burst, you need to put in water with eggs 1 tbsp. l. salt.
- To fix the pigment in the paint, pour 1 tsp into the coloring solution. vinegar, the color will become brighter.
- If you want a more intense color when coloring eggs with natural dyes, leave the eggs in the broth overnight.
- Wipe the dyed eggs gently with a paper towel.
- For shine and beauty, wipe the cooled eggs with sunflower oil.
I wish you a beautiful and delicious holiday. After all, Easter personifies the resurrection of life, nature, bright feelings. May this light come into every home and fill hearts with joy.
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