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 food.
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 the pan and pour 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 for decoration. 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 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 ready!
How to dye eggs with onion skins and rice
Another simple and wonderful option coloring eggs in a natural way. 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 water cold water and free from 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 it is suitable for this method of coloring. beetroot juice. 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. Cabbage cut into large pieces, fill it with water, cook for 5-7 minutes together with 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.
Can be used 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.
- Most good way sticking napkins - using 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 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.
Greetings, dear friends! The calendar spring will come very soon, leaving behind frosts and noisy winter holidays, which means it's time to think about the most important Christian holiday - Easter. Today I bring to your attention a thematic master class on how to dye eggs with food coloring.
Of course, nothing is difficult, and most packages with food coloring for eggs have instructions, but still I would like to dwell on such points in more detail: how to properly dilute dry food coloring and whether it is possible to color eggs with cream dyes.
The whole process of painting eggs with food coloring is very popular with children, so even if you are not going to paint eggs for Easter, it is very difficult to refuse such an interesting and exciting activity for children. And in order not to stain the entire kitchen and all the dishes with food coloring, my master class "How to color eggs with food coloring" step by step with a photo is at your service!
We will need:
- Food coloring in different colors
- Half-liter jars (as many as dye colors)
- Warm water (250 ml. in one jar)
- Eggs (hard boiled)
- Thin gloves
How to dye eggs with food coloring:
So, to paint eggs for Easter (no matter how), we need the eggs themselves. For painting, I recommend using medium-sized white eggs marked "C1", one egg weighs about 50 grams. Wash the eggs thoroughly with a brush, and then boil them hard-boiled (8-10 minutes after boiling water). Next, the eggs need to be completely cooled.
Now let's prepare half-liter jars: each color will need a separate jar. Pour about 250 ml into each jar. warm water.
Next up is food coloring. You can use special food coloring for eggs, which is sold in stores before the holiday, or you can use professional food coloring for cake and pastry cream, as in my case.
Gel coloring is rightfully considered the most convenient food coloring: somehow you don’t need to dilute it especially, and the result is always excellent. But due to the relatively high cost, it is not advisable to use gel dye when painting eggs. Therefore, I paint eggs with cake and cream powder dyes that I have available.
How to dilute dry food coloring:
All powder dyes have different color intensities, so we start with half a teaspoon per 250 ml. water. To color the eggs, we need to achieve a fairly intense color, so more dye may be needed.
Thoroughly mix the dyes with warm water, and leave for five minutes so that the dye dissolves properly. Don't forget to wear gloves before you start working with food coloring.
Then carefully, using a tablespoon, lower the eggs into a jar of diluted dye, and leave for 5 minutes. Two eggs are freely placed in one half-liter jar. Eggs must be completely covered with colored water.
After the specified time, we take out the eggs from the colored water with a tablespoon and put the colored eggs on separate plates.
Now you need to wait until the colored eggs are completely dry, and you can collect the Easter basket!
Now you know how to dye eggs with dyes from the store. I really hope that my master class will be useful to you while preparing for the holiday. Happy Easter. Or maybe you have your interesting ideas how to beautifully paint eggs for Easter with your own hands? Please write in the comments, or in social networks. As always, I look forward to your feedback and comments.
Hello dear readers. The event of the Resurrection of Christ is one of the most significant celebrations in the Christian world, celebrated annually. It is also called Easter. On this day, the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus is honored, which is considered a solemn and extremely significant victory of life, which was able to overcome death. Easter belongs to the category of the oldest and most important holidays of the liturgical year. And soon she will come. In 2017, this bright holiday will be celebrated on April 16. One of the traditional attributes and, at the same time, dishes on Easter table are boiled eggs, which are customary to paint (pysanky, painted Easter eggs). Many rituals are associated with them, in which both adults and children take part with pleasure.
But, no less entertaining is the painting of eggs itself. In order to complete it, you need incredible perseverance, concentration and, of course, a certain talent. Not everyone can boast of this.
Yes, not everyone needs the classic ones on the table or in Easter basket. For most people, simply beautifully decorated (or simply dyed) eggs are enough.
They really create a special atmosphere, mood and perfectly replace Easter eggs. However, there is a potential danger hidden in these Easter decorations/treats that many are not even aware of.
And this is not at all about the dangers of eggs as a product, not about their freshness and so on. Talk about synthetic, very common today, dyes that have an extremely negative impact on the health of those they enter into the body.
And now, attention: there is a more affordable, safer and smarter alternative to the way you color eggs with commercial products of the chemical "food" industry! These are natural dyes for Easter eggs.
How and how to paint eggs for Easter?
On the eve of Easter, many housewives are wondering: how and what is better to paint the testicles. The answer is obvious: what is practically at your fingertips, but what you do not pay attention to because of your ignorance in these matters.
But, today we will correct the situation by telling you: what kind of natural (natural) dyes can you use to quickly and easily color Easter eggs, getting a tasty, healthy, safe for health and very aesthetic product.
Most of these dyes are either already at your disposal or available for purchase at the nearest vegetable store, almost any grocery store.
So, for the purpose of coloring, with brilliant success can be used:
✔ Onion peel.
✔ Turmeric (powder).
✔ Nettle or spinach.
✔ Red cabbage.
✔ Cranberries or beets.
✔ Grape juice.
✔ Strongly brewed black or green tea.
✔ Coffee.
✔ Blueberries.
And other products that are quite familiar to us, but have never been used for such purposes before. Well, if you worry and care about your health, as well as the health of your loved ones, then the time has come!
TOP 10 natural dyes for eggs: what to choose, how to use
1. Yellow, brown colors
Onion peel. She, by right, can head this list, as she is almost the most common and affordable ingredient for making excellent natural paint.
Eggs from it are obtained in a color spectrum from light yellow to dark brown. The shade depends on how concentrated the broth will turn out, and also how long you keep the eggs in it.
Yes, it is a decoction of onion peel that is needed for staining.
All this is done as follows: dry onion peel is taken (an arbitrary amount), poured with clean drinking water, placed on a stove (electric or gas), brought to a boil, simmered for about 10-13 minutes, after which the stove is turned off, and the broth is infused for another 15-18 minutes.
The eggs themselves, both with onion broth and other natural dyes, are best treated with hot coloring liquid.
That is, the eggs (which were previously boiled) must be placed for 2-4 minutes in onion broth. That is how long it will take for them to get their color.
In chemical dyes, this is done much faster. But who needs blue, red, green fingers and the same tongues?
It is better to spend a little more time, getting a higher quality result by several levels.
Please note: eggs that can be dyed should also preferably be warm (but not hot), however, this is not fundamentally important: they can also be dyed cold. We recommend that you collect the husks to prepare the paint in advance, as this is not a very fast process.
How much husk is needed: you will understand this already on an intuitive level when you color the eggs next year - the second time. For the first time, take 1-2 handfuls of dry husks per 1 liter of water. It is not necessary to crush it.
2. Bright yellow, golden tints
Turmeric (powder). A rich, excellent golden yellow color can be obtained from its concentrated decoction.
If you want to get a light yellow color - take one teaspoon of turmeric, if it is more saturated, dark, concentrated - plus two or three more spoons.
This dose is calculated on the volume of drinking water in 1 liter.
How to prepare the paint: boil a liter of water in an enamel bowl, stir the turmeric in the water, let it stand for 4-5 minutes, dip the eggs in the solution for the same time.
Eggs can also be boiled in turmeric, but be prepared for the fact that egg white, in some places, can also be colored yellow, since the eggshell, during the cooking process, can skip the paint.
3. Green color
Nettle will let you get it. You can achieve it with the help of the use of spinach. But, since nettle is one of the most common plants, especially on the eve of Easter, it was she who was mentioned first.
So, how do you make eggs green? A decoction should be prepared. It is prepared in an enamel bowl.
In general, all the paints that we are talking about today must be prepared in such a dish. For 1 liter of water you need to take an arbitrary amount coloring matter(V this case- nettle or spinach), pour them with water, boil, leave for about 10 minutes.
Everything, you can paint eggs in a known way. And you can boil a little egg along with nettles or spinach. This will make the color darker.
4. Blue, cyan colors
Cabbage gives them. But, not more familiar to us - white, but red. Ready - boiled, the eggs acquire this color when soaked in the infusion of this cabbage.
The more concentrated the infusion, as usual, the richer the color.
You can also adjust the color by soaking the eggs.
Here the principle works: the longer - the darker. So, you need to take a ripe, poured head of red cabbage, finely chop it, sprinkle with four to five tablespoons of ordinary kitchen 9% vinegar, pour water so that the cabbage is completely covered with it, and another 3-4 centimeters from above.
5. Red color
It can be obtained from: beets, onion skins (red onions!), cranberries, raspberries, cherry bark. As already known, the concentration of the color itself will directly proportionally depend on the concentration of the paint and the staining time.
So - in all cases, when using any of the above paints. Beet Dye: I use a juicer, you can get natural juice(only red table beets are needed!). Juice, in the right proportions, is diluted with boiled heated water.
The paint is ready. The red onion husk dye recipe is the same as the white onion husk dye recipe. Only the result will be visually different.
The berries can be used identically to red beets, or simply crushed and mixed with water. But the bark of the cherry needs to be cooked.
It is necessary to take an approximate amount of fresh cherry bark, put it in a bowl, add water by 5-6 centimeters, cook, bringing to a boil, for about 40 minutes.
Color eggs - only in a hot broth. Therefore, if necessary, it will need to be reheated.
6. Lavender shade
It is achieved through the use of juice from red grapes.
At the same time, you can use not only fresh grape juice, and canned. In order for the eggs to color as they should, they need to be completely soaked in juice for 5 minutes.
The juice must be warm, for this it is heated. To get a barely noticeable delicate shade, the juice can be diluted with boiled water, taking a small amount of it.
7. Brown color with a characteristic reflection
Strongly brewed black tea gives this effect. For lovers of this drink, most likely, everything is clear.
For those who are only remotely familiar with him, the following information will be useful. We make a concentrated (strong) brew.
To do this, for 1 liter of water we take 100 grams of black loose tea. We boil water, pour tea leaves with it, using a special teapot(or glass enamelware if the kettle of the required volume is not available).
We insist 15 minutes. Everything, the paint is ready for use as intended. Dip the eggs in it for 5 minutes.
8. Turquoise shade
Gives color to eggs in weakly concentrated loose green tea brews.
The method of preparing natural paint for Easter eggs, as well as the principle of dyeing them, are identical to the previous one - using black tea.
But already with the receipt of a different color - turquoise. Please note: for this purpose, green loose tea should be chosen, and not its varieties - yellow or white.
9. Chocolate shade
It is given by coffee, any: both natural, in grains, and soluble, for example, sublimated.
How to paint: a strong brew is made, of course - sugar is not needed, already boiled testicles are lowered into this brew (hot) for 2-3 minutes. Everything, the result will please you.
10. Orange color
Differs in special originality and brightness. A brighter orange color gives carrot juice, the shade is a little dimmer, but also very good looking, will help to get the juice of sea buckthorn (its fresh berries).
Carrot juice, like sea buckthorn juice, does not need to be diluted with water. They must be used immediately after pressing. For carrots, you can use a juicer.
For sea buckthorn - the same device (pay attention to the presence of seeds in the berries), or manual way. Dye the eggs should be about 2-4 minutes.
Easter egg stickers
Sometimes the method of "gluing" the eggs is used, rather than dyeing them. With it, you can also get good results. How aesthetically pleasing it looks - each individual person can judge subjectively. WITH
actually, as well as appearance eggs dyed with natural dyes, which are discussed today.
Special stickers for Easter eggs can be purchased at the store, supermarket, market and so on.
The advantage of this method of “decoration” is the quick finishing of eggs. Minus - stickers, very often, do not lag behind the shell when you need to clean the eggs.
In addition, it is not always known what their composition is and whether it is safe, in terms of use, applicable to food products.
Exclusive recipe - original gray color
This recipe is not known to many. It just needs to be tried, as the color turns out to be unusual, unusual and even unique, like for Easter eggs.
Result - grey colour with a bluish tint.
To achieve this effect, fresh berries blueberries from which juice is extracted. Sometimes blueberry jam is used, but, let's face it, the effect, although it exists, is not so bright.
Jam just needs to be diluted with boiling water (one tablespoon per glass of water). If you paint eggs in fresh juice, then you need to squeeze it out in any convenient way and soak boiled eggs in them for 1-1.5 minutes, or use a paint brush.
Useful tips for dyeing eggs with natural dyes
They will help to achieve the best effect, applying a minimum of effort to this process. So, attention.
✔ In order for the natural paint to lay on the egg as evenly as possible and better “stick” to the shell, wipe them with cotton wool, kitchen vinegar (9%), or water in which a small amount of soda is dissolved.
✔ To prevent eggs from cracking in water during cooking, do not put them in boiling water. Put them immediately in a bowl, pour cold water and only then put them on fire.
✔ Eggs will cook faster if before the process of boiling them, 1 hour before it, you hold them at room temperature air.
✔ Eggs will be much better cleaned if, after boiling them, pour boiling water and pour them with cold water, holding them in it for about 10 minutes.
✔ Do eggs burst in boiling water? This will not happen if the water is salted. And even if a small crack forms, the contents will not leak out.
✔ Chic shine to already painted eggs is ensured if, after the paint has completely dried, they are lightly rubbed with olive or sunflower oil.
At Easter, we often wonder how to dye eggs for the holiday at home, what safe dyes to use so that eggs are not dyed in different colors, they are safe for both children and adults. I hope you got an answer to this question.
Here are some simple, but very simple and effective recipes and tips. Use and meet Easter with joy, pleasure and peace. All the best to you!
Traditionally, eggs need to be dyed on Maundy Thursday, in addition, on this day you need to do the cleaning, take a bath and cut your hair. Here are some coloring tips.
Helpful tips you need to know
- To get a more even layer of paint, you need to rub the eggs with alcohol before cooking;
- Eggs will not burst when boiled if sprinkled with water a small amount salt;
- If children live in the house, you need to refuse chemical dyes. You should stop the choice on natural ones - from beet juice, onion husks and the like. Since dyes can get inside the egg and then into the baby's body;
- To add shine, the eggs are rubbed with sunflower oil.
Top 20 Unusual and Interesting Easter Egg Dyeing Techniques
№1. Coloring with onion skins is the most common method. To prepare the paint, you need to boil a lot of husks for 30 minutes and wait a while for the broth to settle. Then put the eggs in the paint and boil. To get a darker shade, you need to add more husks, and for a lighter shade, less.
№2. If you add spinach or nettle when boiling eggs, then greenish eggs come out.
№3. Eggs will turn yellowish when boiled in turmeric. And eggplant with the addition of violets. The latter must be filled hot water and insist a certain time, leave the eggs in the mixture until the morning. And when you add lemon juice, you get a lavender shade.
№4. shell from walnut allows you to achieve a bed or dark brown shade.
№5. A pinkish hue is obtained using cranberry juice. It is important to squeeze the juice, boil the eggs in it and leave until the morning.
№6. Blue eggs come out when rubbed with leaves red cabbage.
№7. Eggs boiled in ground coffee turn brown or pastel tones.
№8. Speckled testicles can be made if they are made wet and dipped in rice, buckwheat, and so on. Carefully wrap in cheesecloth and tie, and then boil in paint. It turns out an interesting and attractive testicle.
№9. For getting unusual pattern, you need to wrap the testicles in onion peel and put them in gauze, cook in it. That's the whole secret.
№10. If you put some rubber bands on the egg and boil it in the dye, it will become striped.
№11. Leaves from parsley and dill, in which the egg is wrapped and put in a stocking, and then boiled in onion peel, make a beautiful pattern on it.
№12. Silk coloring is very fashionable today. But there are opinions about its harmfulness. For coloring you need to take raw eggs, wrap them in pieces of silk (unnecessary ties are suitable for this). After fixing with the use of threads and cook with the addition of vinegar. It is very important that the silk is natural, otherwise nothing will come of it.
№13. Many people like to use this method to get a letter. But in this case, you need to make some effort to work with wax. Have to take boiled egg and a hot candle. With the help of a match (in reality, they use an interesting device - a scribbler, it is sold at exhibitions or in museums) we perform an image. During the initial work, they draw something light and easy, for example, specks or stripes. After that, the egg is placed in the paint, but it should not be hot, otherwise the wax may melt. Those places where there is no wax become colored, and the wax makes a pattern on the egg. After that, the wax is carefully removed, it can be scratched or slightly heated on candles and erased.
№14. Scratched testicles come out when a pattern is applied to the krashanka with a needle or other sharp object.
№15. White patterns can be made using powdered sugar. The execution is as follows: a cup of powder is diluted with a small amount of water to obtain a thick mixture. Take a confectionery syringe and perform images on boiled and colored eggs.
Easter eggs can also be decorated
№16. You can also use decoration details. For example, using double-sided tape, you can make an egg-boy or a girl.
№17. It is easy to make a dove from an egg, all that remains is to glue the beak, wings and tail. Egg decoration has huge options because you can do whatever you want with it. You just need to turn on your imagination and work a little.
№18. Creation of a team of scuba diving eggs. In this case, you will have to make every effort. Put a rubber band on the boiled egg, fix the water stopper and the cut cocktail tube to it. The scuba diver will need legs - this will be a base made of thick cardboard, as well as plastic, which is attached with adhesive tape or glue.
№19. Egg coloring can be done using harmless water-based markers. Or using similar colors. You just need to prepare the paint and a thin brush. To get the most contrasting pattern, first draw a draft version with a pencil on a boiled egg.
№20. Acrylic paints will help to make a speck on the egg. It remains only to take the paints, dilute them to a liquid state and, using toothpaste, sprinkle the paint on the boiled testicles, which are previously placed on the base or water plugs. Wait for some time for the paint to dry and you're done. Thus, colored eggs come out using a small amount of harmful dye.
Use these tips, and every year for the holiday you will get special testicles that are not found in any home.
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Every Easter, many people paint eggs, but some of us do not even think why and what is it for? It looks interesting, unusual and just beautiful.
Why are eggs painted for Easter?
Tradition says that after the resurrection of Christ, as a gift that symbolized this miracle, Mary Magdalena decided to present an egg to the Roman emperor Tiberius.
But the emperor did not believe her, and said that a person cannot be resurrected, just like white egg cannot turn red. At that very moment, the egg turned red.
Despite the fact that today Easter eggs are dyed in all sorts of colors, it is red that is the main, traditional color that personifies life and victory.
According to the icon-painting tradition, the risen Christ is depicted surrounded by radiance in the form of an oval. As you can already guess, the shape of the egg is similar to this figure.
The tradition of dyeing eggs
If you delve deeper into history, you can find out that for a long time it was bird eggs that were a symbol of rebirth, life. The tradition of dyeing eggs is very ancient, and came to Europe from Ancient Egypt and China.
It is also worth mentioning that, according to the legend, Christ resurrected after the Jewish Passover, and it, in turn, was established in honor of the liberation of the Israeli people from Egyptian slavery.
On this holiday, believers give each other eggs painted in different colors, as a symbol of the Resurrection.
From the very beginning, it is worth noting that before starting to color the eggs, it would not be superfluous to degrease them. To do this, you just need to thoroughly wash the eggs in a solution of baking soda.
So that when boiling the eggs do not crack and spread, you need to follow a few simple rules:
* Do not boil eggs immediately after taking them out of the refrigerator. First you need to leave them to "warm up" at room temperature for 30 minutes.
* In the water in which you will boil the eggs, it is advisable to add a generous pinch of salt, which will not allow the eggs to leak out, even if they crack.
* In order for the food coloring to evenly cover the egg, you need to wipe the eggs soapy water or alcohol before staining. In case you are using special paints, try adding to water a small amount vinegar to avoid streaks.
* To give the eggs a bright color, place them in a coloring solution and refrigerate overnight.
How to color eggs
Method 1. Onion peel
You will need:
onion peel
Boiling water
1. Wash the onion skins.
2. Put the husk in hot water and cook for 30 minutes.
3. Now you need to strain the broth and put boiled eggs in it.
4. Hold the eggs in this broth until they are colored.
5. Take out the dyed eggs and rub them with vegetable oil, which will give them a shine.
The color depends on the amount of husk used - from light yellow to red-brown. If you use red onion husks, you can color the eggs purple.
Method 2. Coloring with shreds
You will need:
Colored faded threads (can be replaced with shreds)
Gauze (can be replaced with a nylon stocking)
1. Wrap each egg with thread or pieces of cloth and secure everything by wrapping it in gauze.
2. Pour warm water over the eggs and bring the water to a boil.
Method 3. Drawing on the egg
You will need:
parsley leaves
Pieces of cloth
1. Moisten a few parsley leaves plain water and wrap them around the egg.
2. Wrap a shedding piece of fabric over the parsley.
3. Secure everything with gauze.
4. Boil for about 10-15 minutes.
5. Cool the eggs and remove the cloth. You should have an imprint of a parsley leaf.
Method 4. Color with fruit / vegetable juice
You can try dyeing Easter eggs with regular fruit or vegetable juices (carrots, beets, etc.).
You will need:
boiled eggs
Vegetables or fruits
Just rub the egg with beet or carrot juice. It doesn't get easier.
Method 5. Paint with birch leaves
You will need:
Birch leaves (regular or dry)
1. From birch leaves you need to make a decoction. You need to insist about 30 minutes.
2. Place the eggs in the broth and boil them for 10 minutes, after which they must be removed and cooled.
After this method of staining, the eggs may acquire a yellow or golden color.
If you want to eat, you can, before placing the eggs in the broth, tie a birch leaf to each, then tie it with nylon and then cook for the specified time.
Method 6. Color with food coloring
You will need:
food coloring
Read the instructions on the package carefully food coloring. Following it, prepare the paint and place the eggs in it for the specified time.
When you start to take the eggs out, blot them with a paper towel.
Method 7. How to color an egg in 2 colors
You will need:
Food colorings
1. Following the instructions, dilute the paints you need.
2. First, try to evenly color the eggs with a light shade of paint.
3. Take out the dyed eggs and dry them on a paper towel.
4. Next, using a special holder (or fingers, but very carefully), dip each egg halfway into another diluted paint, a brighter (or contrasting) shade. Hold the egg in this paint until it is colored.
5. It remains only to dry on a towel.
Method 8. Paint with ink
You will need:
Ink
Pipette
1. Wash the egg, wrap it with a rag and tie it with a thread.
2. Prepare the ink and pour a few drops over the top using a dropper. Dip the eggs in a pot of warm water and boil them for 10 minutes after boiling.
3. Take out the eggs and leave them to dry and cool. Next, remove the rag.
Method 9. We paint with food paints
You will need:
tassel
You can use white eggs, or you can paint them in any color, after which, using a brush and food paints, apply any pattern or pattern.
Do not forget after the paint has dried, grease the egg with vegetable oil.
Method 10. Decorate with rice
You will need:
1. Wet the eggs.
2. Roll them in dry rice and wrap in cheesecloth.
3. Now you need to boil the eggs in onion skins.
4. Remove and dry the eggs, removing all the rice from them. You should end up with a dotted pattern.
Method 11. Marble eggs
You will need:
onion peel
Zelenka
1. Dip the egg in a bowl of water.
2. Prepare the husk and roll the egg in it, in some places you can force it to "glue".
3. Put the egg on the cheesecloth and sprinkle some more husk on it.
4. Wrap the egg in cheesecloth and tie tightly.
5. You can get rid of excess.
6. Put the workpieces into the water, adding salt to the container.
7. Now add brilliant green.
8. When the water boils, cook for another 7 minutes.
9. After boiling, rinse the eggs under running water.
10. Remove gauze and peel.
11. Rinse again.
12. Dry and, if desired, rub the egg with vegetable oil to add shine.
How else can you dye eggs
* For golden color you need to add 2-3 tablespoons of turmeric to hot water and boil until an intense color is obtained.
* For pink color you need to soak the eggs in cranberry or beetroot juice.
* For purple color you need to put in the water where the eggs are boiled, a few violets, the husks of sunflower seeds (not fried) or elderberries and blueberries.
* For blue color prepare 2 heads of red cabbage, which must first be finely chopped. In the head also add 500 ml of water and 6 tablespoons white vinegar. Then just leave it overnight.
* For green color when boiling eggs, add spinach, nettle leaves, lily of the valley, ash or buckthorn bark.
* For red color dip peeled beets, blueberries or bird cherry berries in boiling water.
* For dark brown eggs need to be boiled in 250 ml of coffee.
* For yellow color dip the eggs with the bark of a young wild apple tree, walnut shell, chamomile or saffron flowers into hot water.
How to paint eggs for Easter (video)
How to decorate Easter eggs. Thermal labels.
To use special thermal labels for decorating Easter eggs, you must first cut them in half.
Put the egg on a spoon and dip in boiling water for 1-2 minutes. Due to the high temperature, the label will wrap around the egg neatly over its entire surface, except for the bottom and top, which you can freely, if you wish, decorate with various small Easter-themed stickers.
How to decorate eggs for Easter. Let's draw a picture.
* To apply a beautiful drawing, you can use stencils, such as leaves cut out of paper, or some figures.
Just attach the stencil to the egg and tie tightly with gauze, after which, place it in the dye.
* You can also attach the cut out pictures to the egg using a starch paste.
* If you want to make a striped egg, put some rubber bands, thick fabric ribbons, or tape on it.
How to decorate eggs for Easter (video)
Here are some helpful tips for the colors you are going to paint your eggs with.
* Black color symbolizes grief. Can black egg decorate with a bright pattern symbolizing the diversity of life.
* White color symbolizes destiny being built in heaven.
* The image of a pine tree means health.
* Drawing in the form of a grid means fate.
* The image of a dove is a symbol of the soul.
* The image of an oak symbolizes strength.
* The dots on the egg, as well as the image of the berry, are a symbol of fertility.
