Meat dishes. And one of the most important treats for this day is, of course, eggs - a symbol of birth. And any hostess, in order to surprise everyone, painted testicles according to a non-standard solution - with imagination.
And how beautiful to paint eggs for Easter with your own hands? Here you will see how you can decorate Easter eggs in an unusual and original way at home - not like everyone there! Marble, iridescent, classic in onion peel, without dyes, using food and natural dyes, rice or cloth (decoupage).
Everyone treated each other with these symbols and said “Jesus is Risen!”, and heard in response - “Truly Risen!”. "Krashenki" (the so-called colored eggs) we fight. But before that, we admire them - how beautifully decorated they are!
How to beautifully paint eggs for Easter with your own hands: general rules
There are no clear rules on how to paint eggs for Easter, but there are still recommendations that must be followed. They are proven by experience - by trial and error. Therefore, I trust them and fulfill them. And I advise you!
- Eggs must be at least room temperature before boiling. Therefore, if the eggs are in the refrigerator, then you should get them in advance. This is necessary so that the shell does not crack during cooking.
- In order for the egg to color evenly, it is necessary to wash it. Do not just rinse with water, but with a dish sponge, and preferably with soapy water.
- After washing, degrease. You will need vodka or alcohol. Then wipe dry.
- In order for the egg to shine with a healthy look after painting, it must be coated with vegetable oil. Thus, a gloss will appear on the shell.
Now you are ready to decorate Easter eggs with your own hands. The material is ready, now it's time to start painting. Follow the clear instructions and you will get the most beautiful Easter eggs.
Onion peel is a traditional classic natural material for dyeing Easter eggs at home. Colors come in various shades. It depends on the volume of the main ingredient and how long the eggs stay in it - from light beige to dark brown.
Also, along with onion peel, various additives are used: brilliant green, dyes, lace, create patterns.
The classic version of painting eggs in onion skins
This method is the most popular. Because it has been used for decades. The more peel, the darker and richer the color.
Remove the eggs from the refrigerator and leave for 2 hours to bring the temperature up to room temperature.
At this time, pour onion peel into the pan, pour water and cook for at least half an hour. Let it brew for 30-40 minutes.
Then add a spoonful of salt to the broth and place the testicles there. Cook the dog of readiness. Remove carefully and cool in cold water. You can strain the onion broth, and only then cook in it.
If the eggs have not acquired the desired effect, then place them back and bring them to condition.
Be sure to wipe dry and lubricate with vegetable oil so that gloss appears.
To get a bright red and brown color, you need a couple of kilograms of onions for a dozen eggs.
How to dye eggs marbled with onion skins
For this method, you need to prepare the main material: cut the husk and paper randomly into small pieces.
Moisten the eggs with water and roll in the husk with paper.
Prepare gauze or nylon stocking. Cut them so that one testicle fits. Tighten tightly and tie with a thread. The denser, the sharper the pattern.
Place onion peel and eggs in a saucepan, salt and cook for 30-40 minutes.
When ready, cool in cold water and remove the gauze or stocking.
Dry and coat with vegetable oil.
Marble Easter eggs - a method in onion peel and greenery
Quite an original way and many people like it. It turns out an unusual marble color.
Dip the eggs soaked in water in the onion skins. And as in the previous version, we wrap it with gauze or nylon. We pull the ends with a thread.
Pour water into the pan and pour in a whole vial of brilliant green.
We place the eggs. They must be covered with water. Bring to a boil and cook for another 10 minutes.
Carefully take out and under the tap. Remove the gauze and rinse again.
Dry and polish with vegetable oil.
How to dye patterned eggs with onion skins and rice
With the help of rice, we can get the so-called "specks" - when the shell is painted as if in a speck.
Moisten eggs with water and roll in rice.
Wrap with gauze and tie the ends with thread.
Place in a prepared saucepan with water and husks and cook for a little more than half an hour.
After the time has elapsed, cool, remove the gauze, dry and grease with oil for a gloss effect.
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How to paint eggs for Easter with your own hands without dyes with a pattern
In order to get Easter eggs with a pattern, there are several options. The patterns come out lacy, iridescent and abstract.
For all methods, the main ingredients and recipe are the same. The difference is that as objects we will use improvised means found at home. With their help, paint the eggs in the desired pattern.
DIY Easter Egg Patterns: General Rules
We will need:
- onion peel
- Sprigs of dill, lettuce, basil, celery and others (any, at your discretion),
- Gauze or nylon tights,
- Threads, electrical tape, fabric and rubber bands,
- Various cereals (their seeds),
- Vegetable oil,
- Salt.
Cooking:
- We cook the coloring solution.
- We decorate Easter eggs.
- We fix the pattern with gauze or nylon.
- We cook in the mixture.
- Cool, remove fasteners and wash.
Coloring eggs with cereal grains
The painting technology lies in the fact that the testicles must be moistened and rolled in grains of cereals - either one variety or all in a row. It turns out here is such an uncomplicated pattern. Various cereals are suitable: sesame, buckwheat, rice (we have already said above how you can paint in the form of “specks” with the help of rice) and others.
Patterns with fabric
This is also an unusual way of coloring eggs. It consists in the fact that the product is tightly wrapped with a fabric pattern inside. Any fabric can be suitable, both old and new, specially purchased for this purpose.
Well, if you use lace instead of a fabric with a pattern, then a very beautiful lace pattern will remain on the shell.
Patterns on Easter eggs using stencils
This guys is a really easy way. Buy a stencil or cut yourself out of paper. Glue on a wet shell, wrap with gauze and boil with a coloring solution.
Uncomplicated ornaments are obtained. You can pick up drawings of animals and flowers, but whatever. Everything is in your hands and your imagination!
Patterns with greenery:
For this case, we need celery and basil leaves (maybe you have other types). Dill can also leave a nice pattern. We glue it to the testicle with the front side, wrap it around with nylon and tie the ends. We cook in dye.
Insulating tape, threads and rubber bands
It is also a suitable material for decorating Easter eggs. We wrap the thread in a chaotic or vice versa in a predictable way around the egg. The electrical tape should be cut into thin strips and also applied with a thread. Stationery rubber bands - they can be wrapped randomly crosswise.
These methods listed above must be applied to already boiled eggs. And also to get colorful. First you need to dip in one color, hold to dry and then in another color.
Now just before Easter, you can find a lot of tools for Easter decoration in shops and supermarkets. I have come across food coloring, shrink wrap, rice napkins for decoupage, and much more, no less interesting.
Today we will talk about natural dyes and their help in dyeing eggs at home. It is always more pleasant to do it with your own hands, especially if there are children nearby.
Natural dyes speak better than artificial ones. I would not say so and there is nothing chemical in them. They are as harmless as natural ones. And the color palette is richer. Another minus naturalki - time. To prepare a saturated coloring solution, it will take from 2 to 10 hours.
Consider several popular options for natural dyes for coloring Easter eggs. Let's figure it out.
Natural vegetable dyes for Easter eggs and how to dye them
- Onion peel. We already know about her, she sets the shell from light yellow to dark brown. I like the second shade. How to paint, we explained in detail and step by step above (you can return if you started from this point).
- Beet. Beetroot colors the eggs in various shades of red, pink and burgundy (purple in some cases). How to paint: grate the beets (you can do it whole, but it will take longer), boil the beetroot juice. Add a spoonful of salt and a spoonful of vinegar, place the eggs and boil hard.
- Red cabbage. This version is dominated by blue. How to color eggs: finely chop the cabbage, pour boiling water and vinegar (a couple of spoons) and leave for 8-10 hours. Then place the eggs and leave until the color is fully saturated.
- Turmeric. Love golden eggs. Here's the dye. The turmeric will color the eggs a sunny golden color. Pour 100 grams of ground turmeric into boiling water, add raw eggs and continue to cook until tender. Leave it like that until the morning.
How to dye eggs rainbow colors
You can also paint eggs for Easter with paints that are sold in the store in the form of food coloring. There are from 4 to 15 colors - a rich palette. So something beautiful will turn out! The main desire and patience!
How to paint - read the instructions, and you will not be mistaken.
When using several colors, eggs in iridescent color are obtained. Just dip the eggs in the beauty not to the end: not a third or half. And let it dry before painting with another paint.
Everyone will be surprised by this type of painting - very beautiful, unusual and original!
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Paint Easter eggs with varnish or vegetable oil
I don’t know about you, but this method is new to me and I really liked it. It is suggested to use vegetable oil as a working tool, along with dyes and colored nail polish.
It turns out not only rainbow and marble eggs, but also abstract and symmetrical. Due to the even distribution of paint in both cases, an unusual symmetry is created.
Coloring eggs marbled with nail polish
In this case, we need ordinary eggs with a white shell (although not necessary). Drip nail polish into a container of water in the center. You can alternate colors.
Right in the bowl with a toothpick, draw everything that comes to mind: abstraction, flowers, waves, cobwebs. Put on gloves and dip the egg in this colorful liquid, and then the other side.
If you don’t want to bother with gloves and dipping, then just draw directly on boiled eggs.
How to dye eggs for Easter without dye: DIY decoupage
Now in our time, people are increasingly trying to pursue their hobby. There are new masters of their craft, new directions. Decoupage in the general concept is one of the most popular areas of the crafts fair.
This is the art of creating something stunning out of nothing! They decorate everything that is possible, old furniture, clothes, photos, crafts, including eggs. And by the way, not only for Easter, but also for the sake of creativity. In addition, this is another way to dye eggs without dye!
Video - Decoupage eggs with napkins
Tip: choose wipes with a small pattern, as the surface of the testicles is small.
In order for the decoupage of eggs for Easter to turn out so neatly and beautifully, care, attentiveness, patience and a little bit of skill (experience) are needed. You can practice, you even need to! The video shows that the most common egg white was used as an adhesive.
In any case, if you really want something, you will definitely succeed!
Video - Decoupage eggs in gold color
And here is another video and a master class for you on how to paint an egg golden. This gilding technology is actually as safe as it is without dyes.
Why paint eggs for Easter?
Somehow I never thought about why eggs are painted for Easter. They paint and paint, give and give - so what? Became interesting.
It turns out there is a legend.
Saint Mary Magdalene gave an Easter egg to the Roman emperor. The egg was dyed red. And according to church tradition, the stones on Golgotha turned into red eggs on the day of the Resurrection of Christ.
According to another version, the emperor, having accepted an ordinary testicle and doubting that Jesus was Risen, said: “Just as an egg cannot turn red from white, so the dead do not rise!” And at that very moment, the egg turned red. Taken aback by what he saw, the emperor exclaimed: “Truly Risen!”
Since then, it has been customary to paint eggs for Easter and give them to say - "Christ is Risen!". And they answer - "Truly Risen!"
Here's a master class for you:
Creative and original solution. Call your kids and get started. There is nothing difficult in this.
You will need:
- beautiful with a pattern and patterns pieces of fabric,
- white cloth,
- vinegar,
- water pot,
- the eggs themselves
- desire and time (20 minutes).
1. Now we cut the fabric into shreds approximately along the side lengths of 18 centimeters, as in the video.
2. We wrap each egg first in a colored cloth, and then in a white one.
3. We put the original bags in a saucepan. Fill with water and add 3 tablespoons of vinegar. We cook for 15 minutes.
4. Let's cool and Vo-alya - the beauty is indescribable! Can it still be so beautiful somewhere?
Short video:
Easter eggs from beads video tutorials
Three very useful and simple, and most importantly without water, clear lessons and a master class from Shurochka:
Summing up, we can safely say that you now know and know how to paint eggs for Easter with your own hands at home. With such a variety of options, it is simply impossible that something will not work out.
My children have already decided to cook Easter eggs in golden color - it painfully reminded them of a fairy tale about the Ryaba chicken. And I think you need to try several options so that the festive table looks really fabulous with an abundance of various decorations.
Good to your home, mutual love, peaceful sky and well-being! So that there is no grief and sadness in your life, so that illness and failure pass by! Happy holiday to you, Happy Easter! Christ is risen!
Hello dear readers!
Ahead of a bright holiday - Easter. And according to tradition, Easter cakes are prepared in advance and eggs are painted. The two most important attributes of this holiday. I have an article on my blog where I describe the process. You can check it out.
But today we’ll talk about how you can paint eggs with your own hands at home.
Why paint eggs for Easter?
Easter eggs and Easter cakes are the main symbols of the holiday. The tradition of dyeing eggs originated with Mary Magdalene. In the Orthodox Church, she is revered as a saint and myrrh-bearer who preached about the risen Christ in Rome. Once she came to the Roman emperor Tiberius with a sermon.
And in ancient Rome, it was customary to come to the emperor with a petition only by bringing something to him as a gift. Wealthier people brought gold. And who could not afford it, they brought something from the household.
And so, when Mary came, she brought an egg. It was white, as usual. And she said to the emperor - "Christ is risen." The emperor, in turn, thought this was ridiculous. And he said that he would believe it only when the egg turned red. This is how it sounded like before: like an egg is white, not red, so the dead do not rise. And the egg immediately turned red.
The emperor was stunned and replied: - "Truly risen!". So there was another tradition, comes to the house with these words.
How to paint eggs for Easter with your own hands?
There is a wide variety of coloring methods. In the beginning, I will analyze the classic and most common. We will paint with husks from onions and beets. But we will improve it a little. We get them not only in red, but also with a pattern. This method is also good because we will use natural ingredients. In which chemistry will not be used.
To do this, we need onion peel, beets grated through a coarse grater, a couple of parsley leaves and boiled eggs.
Take white eggs. The paint shows up better on them!
Coloring process:
1. Let's start with beets. Take a small bowl and put the grated beetroot in it. We fill it with boiling water. Just a little bit.
2. Then we put the eggs. They should lie down for about 20 minutes. It all depends on the degree of coloring. If you want to be brighter, then hold a little more. We leave aside.
3. Now I will show you how to make patterns. Take a leaf like parsley. We put it on the egg. To make the sheet fit well, moisten it. Thus, we stick around the egg from all sides.
3. Now we need an old sock or stocking. Stockings are better. Naturally, it must be clean. In our case, I use a nylon stocking. Now you need to carefully put it on the egg with leaves. To keep the parsley leaves from falling off. And tie or tie with a thread. Put in a bowl with onion skins.
4. Now pour boiling water. We put on fire. We can also put just an egg, without a pattern.
The more you cook, the brighter the color will turn out.
5. We check the eggs that lie in the beets. They came out light red. Lay them out and pat dry with paper towels. And the sticky pieces of beets give a certain pattern.
To give the eggs a shine, you need to rub them with vegetable oil. To do this, wetting a paper towel with oil, rub a thin layer.
6. As we finished cooking in the husk, we take out the eggs. Cool down. They can also be wiped with vegetable oil for shine. This is how they turned out.
Colored eggs: a simple and original way
Easter is always associated with spring, flowers, sun and good mood. And it is not surprising, because there is something magical in this holiday. And you can decorate it with the help of originally painted eggs. Let's take a step-by-step look at the entire staining procedure.
First option
1. We prepare the paint in advance. We will use liquid dyes of three colors: red, yellow and blue. We breed, as described in the instructions.
2. In order for the paint to dry qualitatively and without divorce, you need to make a special stand. We make it simple. We need a sponge and needles. We stick the needles into the sponge around the circumference, as shown in the figure. The circle should be large enough so that the egg does not fall through.
3. After hard-boiling the egg, dry it with a paper towel.
An important condition for high-quality staining is the maximum possible temperature of the egg. Those. to keep it hot. This will better capture the color.
4. And blot the tip from the bottom with a paper towel to remove the resulting droplet. And then we put it on a stand so that the paint dries. It dries very quickly, because. the egg is still warm.
5. The next step is to repeat the absolutely tighter procedure, but only with yellow paint. We lower the egg also by 1/3, but on the other side.
At the intersection of red and yellow paint, an orange color is formed. We also put the egg on a stand,
6. And finally, the third stage. In exactly the same way, but with the second non-painted side, we lower it into blue exactly in the middle. And hold on for 1-2 minutes. As a result, blue combined with red gives purple. And in combination with yellow gives green. Thus, we get a rainbow egg, which consists of six colors with clear transitions.
Second option
Another easy way is to make original lines on the egg. To do this, you need ordinary electrical tape. We cut it into thin strips and gradually glue these strips tightly around.
Once pasted, you need to check again so that no air gets under the electrical tape. Otherwise, water will get in there and color the egg underneath.
Third option
I want to show another original and at the same time simple way. One of my favorite. It's called marble chips. To do this, we need onion peel, bandage and brilliant green.
1. First of all, with the help of scissors, finely and variously cut the husk. Or if it is dry, chop the pieces into various shapes with your hands straight.
The smaller the pieces, the smaller the pattern will be.
2. Cut the bandage into two wide strips. We lay it out so that the two strips are perpendicular to each other. How would you get a cross. In the center we put the strips, put the egg, rolled in the husk. In order for the husk to fix better, you need to moisten the egg. And carefully roll it up.
3. After rolled up, roll it tightly. At the base we twist with ordinary threads. We do all this in such a way that the bandage fits the egg as tightly as possible. To tightly pressed the husk.
5. Then add a full tube of brilliant green to boiling water. The more green you pour, the richer the color will be.
And you mean, a very important point! The pan must be made of stainless steel, so that it can be easily washed later.
6. At the end of this procedure, we take out the eggs. Carefully cut the bandage itself at the base. We wash. And the result is a very beautifully colored egg.
We make original Easter eggs with our own hands
Probably many will agree with me that painting eggs in solid colors is somehow boring. Therefore, we will analyze in several ways how to decorate and color in an unusual way. If you like to decorate something creatively for the holiday, then you should like it.
For all methods, we need dyes for eggs, which must be diluted according to the instructions.
polka dots
To paint with polka dots, we need regular candle wax. All we need to do is draw circles on the egg with wax using a cotton swab.
Then let the wax cool. By the way, you can draw any pattern you like. Next, dip the egg into a jar of paint. But be careful, it should not be hot. Once the paint dries, you can remove the wax from the egg.
You can use the paint dryer we discussed above: a sponge with needles.
Making with a rubber band
For the next method, we need stationery gum. Wrap the egg however you like. And then just dip in the paint for a while. After the paint dries, carefully remove the gum.
Stripe patterns
For the next option, you will need thin tape. Glue it to the surface of the egg. Can be used both dyed and unpainted. Dip it in the paint for about half a minute. Remove the tape from the dried egg.
unusual pattern
In order to make such a drawing, you just need to add vegetable oil to the paint. And lower the egg for a few seconds. Then we get it. As you can see, we got such divorces. Let dry completely.
Tricolor Rainbow
First, color the whole egg. Then we dip it on both sides. We have already discussed this method above.
Grain drawing
For the next method, we need fig. Pour it into a separate glass. Add a couple of drops of dye to it. And we mix. It is necessary that the rice is colored, but not wet. It is better to do this procedure in a plastic container. Since you will need to add the egg, close the lid and shake everything together.
But I suggest you apply one more color. In the same rice, add a different color. In this way, different colors can be combined. Again we throw an egg into the container, close and shake. Here's what we got in the end.
Bright multi-colored pattern "Wave"
Now I will show the coolest way and the most favorite. To color an egg in this way, simply wrap it in a paper towel.
Apply a small amount of paint on top. We combine colors according to your taste. We leave the egg in napkins for half a minute so that it is saturated with paint.
And then unfold the napkin. And we get a wonderful drawing as a result. This way you will definitely surprise your family and friends.
How to dye with natural dyes?
Jelly Easter eggs
Well, here together we dismantled more than 10 coloring methods. And I hope I answered the question - How to paint Easter eggs with your own hands? But the main idea of this article is that you can give free rein to your imagination. All methods do not limit, but only give a chance to create and create masterpieces.
It seems like a simple staining procedure, but how much unusual and beautiful can be done. Visual illustrations will help you with this.
Thank you for reading the article, for your attention. Put likes and classes article. Share information with friends. And I look forward to your comments below. Happy holiday, Happy Easter. Good luck and happiness to you!
Easter- a bright and clean holiday for all believers. On Easter, it is customary to bake Easter cakes, give Easter souvenirs to loved ones, and also paint eggs. Easter eggs and dyeing eggs for Easter, a traditional family-unifying tradition.
In this article, you will learn why eggs are dyed for Easter, how to dye eggs with natural dyes, how to decorate them beautifully with your own hands.
Why are eggs painted for Easter?
According to church canons, eggs are dyed on Maundy Thursday, on this day it is customary to clean the houses, wash yourself and cut your hair. Colored eggs at the festive table are eaten first. Also, colored eggs are usually given to each other, because they represent a talisman. By tradition, Easter eggs are distributed to the poor and brought to church.
How to paint eggs for Easter
Currently, on the eve of Easter, there are many food colorings, films, glitters, stickers and other items for decorating Easter eggs with your own hands on the shelves.
There are also the usual improvised means for these purposes, these are natural products: onion peel, beet juice, red cabbage juice. Let's discuss in more detail all the natural dyes option:
- Onion peel. Peel the husk from several onions, pour water over it, put it on low heat for 40 minutes. Strain the broth and boil eggs in it for 10 minutes after boiling water. The color of the eggshell will turn yellow-brown.
- Nettle or greenery. If you want green-colored eggs, boil them in a saucepan along with nettles. Nettles can be dried. Green eggs can be obtained by holding them, already boiled, in brilliant green.
- Turmeric and violet. If you want a beautiful golden hue of the shell, add turmeric seasoning to the water where the eggs will be boiled.
- Walnut shell. If you boil eggs together with walnut shells, they will turn out to be a beautiful beige color.
- Coffee. The brown color of the shell can be obtained if you brew coffee, and then hold an already boiled egg in the broth.
- Beet juice. you will get a glamorous pink egg with the help of these products. To do this, boil the beets and add vinegar. Then put the eggs in the broth and boil them.
- Cranberry. Rinse the berries, squeeze out the juice, and boil the eggs in the juice.
- Carrot juice. Peel the carrots, squeeze out the juice, boil the eggs in the juice.
- Hibiscus tea If you boil eggs with hibiscus tea, you will achieve a pink shell color.
- Mint. Eggs boiled with mint will have a pistachio hue.
Natural dyes are good because they are harmless to humans.
You can adjust the degree of brightness of the eggshell, if you want to get a brighter color, do not remove the eggs from the broth until the water has cooled.
Carefully remove the dyed eggs and water and put to cool on a plate. You can leave the eggs plain, or you can do their further decor.
If you use non-natural dyes, do not use the egg as food, it is better to pre-blow the egg out of the shell, so it will please your eye as a souvenir.
Tip: before painting the eggs, they need to be washed and degreased with alcohol, the paint will lie more evenly.
After dyeing the eggs, coat the shell with a cotton swab dipped in vegetable oil, the eggs will shine beautifully and become brighter.
Tip: To prevent the egg from cracking, add a teaspoon of salt to the solution.
The topic of our conversation today is how to paint eggs for Easter.
One of the main Christian holidays is approaching and Easter eggs are an integral part of this bright holiday.
Great Lent ends and the first meal always began with eggs.
They were painted on Maundy Thursday or Red Saturday (this year on April 13 and 15) and consecrated in the church at a festive service.
Several options for how to color eggs so that they are beautiful and original
Coloring eggs without dyes
Traditional dyeing of eggs in onion skins
- The most famous coloring recipe, which is very popular
2. We take fresh eggs, you can use both white and brown
3. Be sure to wash them well with soap
4. We take onion peel, put it in a saucepan, fill it with water, and put it on fire, keep in mind that the saucepan can be stained, so it's better to use a dark color, enameled.
5. After boiling, reduce the fire and leave the husk to languish for 1 - 1.5 hours
6. So that the eggs do not burst during cooking, add a tablespoon of salt
7. Carefully put them on a spoon into the pan and cook for 15 minutes
8. Remove from the pan, cool and rub with vegetable oil for shine
9. To get painted eggs with a pattern, use white
10. To get such beautiful specimens, you can use parsley leaves, dill
11. Moisten the surface of the shell with water from above and, straightening, carefully glue the parsley leaf
12. Put a nylon fabric on top of the egg, you can use old clean nylon stockings, cutting them into pieces
13. Tie the edges into a knot to make it fit into a tight-fitting pouch.
14. Also repeat with a sprig of dill
15. We prepare several eggs and send them carefully to the broth with onion peel
16. After 10 minutes, we take out the egg bags, let them cool and take them out of the nylon bags, wipe them with a napkin and remove the glued parsley leaves and dill sprigs
Coloring eggs with food coloring
First you need to boil them
Preliminary, be sure to rinse well with soap and a sponge
Boil water, salt it and boil them in it for 8-9 minutes
Drain the boiling water and blot the surface with a napkin
For more information on how to boil eggs, you can read in the article.
Eggs in rainbow colors (3 types)
We dilute food coloring according to the attached instructions.
To dry the eggs, we make coasters from a sponge and pins
1 way
We completely lower the boiled egg for 2 - 3 minutes into the solution and get multi-colored colors
2 way
- We take a hot boiled egg and lower it halfway into the first paint for 2 minutes
2. Blot the remaining drops with a napkin and put it on a stand to dry, the hot one dries very quickly
3. Dip partially in yellow paint, let dry
4. Then also in blue paint
5. The first rainbow egg is ready
3 way
- We add a little more dyes to our solutions so that the color is more concentrated, we collect solutions in medical syringes
2. In order not to get our hands dirty, we put on a rubber glove and tightly wrap the egg in a napkin
3. Apply paint to the surface of the napkin
4. After applying the paint, tightly squeeze the napkin with your hand
5. Leave the egg on the stand for 10 minutes, for better staining
6. Remove the napkin, the surface turned out to be iridescent in color with a marble pattern
Decorative drawing on the shell using sugar
- To obtain a multi-colored color on the surface of the eggs, dilute 2 tablespoons of turmeric in 1 liter of water and boil the egg for 10 minutes - you will get a bright yellow color
2. Dilute 5 tablespoons of hibiscus in 0.5 liters of water, boil the egg in the solution for 10 minutes - the egg will be blue
3. Squeeze out the beetroot juice, or grate the beetroot and pour boiling water over it and dip the boiled egg into it for 20 minutes, until a rich color is obtained
4. Dilute powdered sugar in a small amount of water in a ratio of 5: 1, if the solution turned out to be liquid, add a little starch, the consistency should be similar to sour cream
5. Pour a solution of powdered sugar into a medical syringe without a needle and carefully apply a pattern to a cooled, dry egg, let dry.
6. The drawing can also be made multi-colored if the powder is not diluted in water, but, for example, in juices with different colors.
We decorate Easter eggs - unusual ways of coloring on video
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Most importantly, you will be able to get drawings that no one will have, let's say - exclusive
- For this method, we take raw eggs, wash them with soap and wipe them with a napkin
2. For cooking, you will need small pieces of silk fabric of different colors, you can use old ties for this. In this case, I use 12 colors, if you do not have such an amount, you can take the available colors.
3. We put the egg on the front side of the silk fabric and wrap it tightly in a bag
4. Wrap the second layer in a piece of any white fabric
5. We fasten the ends of the fabric with an elastic band. We perform this procedure with all the available pieces of fabric.
6. Put the eggs in a saucepan, pour water
7. Add vinegar and put on the stove to cook
8. Cook in boiling water for 15 minutes, take out, put on a plate
9. After they have completely cooled down, unfold them from the fabric
10. Such beauty is obtained
Jelly Easter Eggs
These beautiful and delicious desserts turned out to the delight of children
- We take drinks of different colors, for example, orange juice, cherry juice, tarragon, Coca-Cola, tangerine juice.
2. Add and stir gelatin in each glass
3. In the washed eggs, on one side, we make small holes with the tip of the knife and carefully shake the contents out of them into a plate (you can then use this to cook other dishes)
4. We wash the shell inside to clean water
5. Put them in the oven, heated to 200 degrees for 10 minutes, so that they are calcined, disinfected
6. Using a small funnel or syringe, pour our drinks inside the shell
7. Put in the refrigerator until completely solidified
8. When the contents harden, carefully remove the shell, put it on a plate, your child will be very pleased and will eat them with great pleasure, especially if he himself took part in the manufacture of this miracle
Souvenir - Easter egg as a gift. Video master class
You can get such a beautiful and original egg color with a little effort and imagination, of course, it may take some time, but it's worth it.
They will decorate your festive table and cheer you up.
10positive psychology 28.03.2018
Dear readers, very soon we will celebrate the bright holiday of Easter. Let me remind you that in 2018 we will celebrate Orthodox Easter on April 8th. We will bake Easter cakes, pastries and, of course, paint eggs.
The tradition of coloring eggs goes back to ancient times. And if earlier eggs were painted mainly in red, symbolizing the blood of Jesus Christ, now the creativity and creative approach of people around the world are simply amazing. Find out how beautifully you can paint eggs for Easter, from the simplest to the most unusual!
Where did the custom come from
When to paint eggs for Easter
What day should eggs be dyed? According to church canons, eggs should be dyed on the eve of Easter on Maundy Thursday. On this day, it is customary to clean the house, wash and prepare Easter eggs, Easter eggs. If you did not have time to paint eggs on Maundy Thursday, then you can do it on Saturday. Thursday and Saturday are the best days for dyeing Easter eggs.
On which day you can not paint eggs
It is believed that on the day of the death of Jesus, that is, on Friday, one should not do household chores, including painting eggs. However, many priests say that even on Good Friday, you can start preparing krashenka. When and when is the best time to do this? - only after 15.00 hours.
Easter eggs have long ceased to be just ritual food. They are given to friends and relatives, decorate the festive table. Therefore, every year they try to decorate them as interesting as possible. This process is especially liked by young children, who are happy to join this creative game.
- Chicken eggs will not burst during cooking if you add a tablespoon of table salt to the pan. In addition, the eggs should be removed 1-2 hours before the start of cooking. This step will also protect the shell from damage;
- in order for the paint to evenly cover the shell, you need to wipe the boiled egg with alcohol;
- if you like the mirror shine of Easter eggs and Easter eggs, rub the eggs with a drop of vegetable oil;
- to fix the shade, place the eggs in a 9% vinegar solution based on the proportions of 1 tablespoon per 1.5 liters of water;
- the brightness of the shade depends on the concentration of the dye and the time spent by the egg in the liquid;
- You can paint not only chicken eggs. Try coloring quail eggs and you will see how beautiful it is!
If you have small children, then when staining it is better to abandon chemical dyes. The risk of dye penetrating into the egg is minimal, but still present, especially if the egg burst during cooking.
Therefore, it is better to give preference to traditional natural coloring components that will definitely not provoke allergies in our children. There are several ways to dye Easter eggs without store-bought dyes. The choice of staining tactics depends on the desired shade.
Informative shade chart
Dear readers, I offer you a list of products that will help you achieve the desired shade when coloring Easter eggs. This table can be printed and used as a guide.
How to dye eggs in onion skins. Classic way
Many people know how to dye eggs in onion skins, but let's remind once again about this method for beginners. This recipe is pretty easy to make. You just need to stock up onion peel in advance.
In order to get a crimson-red hue, take the husk from 8 onions and pour 400 ml of water. Bring the mixture to a boil and continue to simmer over medium heat for 30 minutes. As soon as the coloring solution has cooled, it must be filtered.
Now you can start coloring - immerse the eggs in water so that they are completely covered and boil them for 10 minutes. If at the end of cooking the shade is not saturated enough, you can put them back into the strained coloring broth and leave for another 10 minutes.
How to dye eggs in marbled onion skins
There is another way to color eggs in onion skins with a pattern. This recipe produces marbled eggs. To do this, in addition to onion peel, you will need:
- a jar of pharmacy greens;
- gauze or nylon stockings;
- gloves.
First, grind the onion husks into small crumbs. Moisten the eggs with water and roll them in the husk. Now you need to wrap each egg with gauze or nylon so that the husk is fixed, and dip into the water for cooking.
In a container with eggs, you need to add brilliant green at the rate of 10 ml per 1.5 liters of water. Now it remains only to boil the eggs in this coloring solution for 15 minutes. At the end of this simple manipulation, you need to cool the eggs by dousing them with cold water and free them from the onion peel.
I would like to emphasize that the use of food products when coloring eggs does not give such an intense color as chemical dyes. The final result also depends on the natural color of the shell. Therefore, to obtain a deep shade, it will take more time, up to 12 hours.
Turmeric for a golden hue
Did you know that you can get a yellow-golden color with spices? To do this, add 3 tablespoons of fragrant turmeric to a container with boiling water. Give the solution time to cool and infuse, and then dip the eggs into it and boil it. If the shade is too weak, then you can leave the eggs in the broth overnight.
Beetroot for a crimson hue
How to dye eggs with beets? Sugar beet gives the eggs an interesting crimson hue during dyeing. To do this, grate a medium-sized vegetable and squeeze the juice. Add beetroot juice to a container of water, bring to a boil and leave the liquid to infuse for half an hour.
Strain the coloring solution and add eggs to it. Cook them over medium heat for 15 minutes to get a light brown hue. Adjust the staining time depending on the intensity of the desired color.
Red cabbage for purple
There are a lot of ways to beautifully paint eggs for Easter. One of the most popular is the method using red cabbage, which gives the eggs a purple hue. To color this recipe, you need:
- Cut the cabbage and pour it with 1.5 liters of water.
- Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer over low heat for 60 minutes.
- After the solution has cooled, it must be filtered and allowed to brew for another 10-15 minutes.
- Add the eggs to the bowl with the broth and boil them for 10 minutes. During this time, they will acquire a light pink hue. To obtain a rich purple color, you need to leave the eggs in a container with natural dye for 4 hours.
Food coloring for eggs
Using purchased dyes is very simple and many resort to this method as the fastest. Before purchasing food coloring, pay attention to the instructions on how to color eggs for Easter. The thing is that different paint manufacturers present different ways of applying it. Sometimes you need to boil the eggs in water with dye, and in other cases, put the boiled eggs into the solution.
Most often in stores there are bags with water-soluble paint. For coloring in this way, you must first boil the eggs. Pour cold water, 1 teaspoon of vinegar and food coloring into a metal container. The mixture must be thoroughly stirred and wait for the complete dissolution of the grains of the dye.
Then you need to put eggs in a container and leave for 30-60 minutes. Ready-made krasnki are soaked with napkins and decorate the festive table with them.
I suggest watching a video on how to dye Easter eggs with food coloring in rainbow colors.
How to make a pattern on an Easter egg
Many families have preserved the tradition of dyeing eggs using sprigs of home flowers, leaves, and grass. If you want to make Easter eggs original, you should definitely try this coloring method.
Choose any dye with which you will get the base color of the eggs. It can be the usual onion peel, beetroot juice or purchased dyes. The choice is yours.
Pour water into a metal container, dilute the dye and bring to a boil. Then reduce the heat and boil the solution for 10 minutes. During this time, you will have time to prepare the eggs for coloring.
To get a picture, leaves of trees, plants, parsley are suitable. Moisten the egg with water and attach the leaf. Now wrap the shell in cheesecloth or nylon stocking, fixing the ends.
In a slightly cooled coloring solution, add a tablespoon of salt and carefully lower the eggs there. You need to cook them for 10-12 minutes, then pour cold water and free from capron. The result is original Easter eggs with a floral pattern.
Coloring eggs for Easter using the "speck" technique
In Ukrainian villages, the tradition of making rags, kraponkas or shkrabanks for Easter is still preserved. These are ordinary painted eggs, on which ornaments are then made.
If you want to try to make such Easter eggs, then dye them with natural dyes, because the purchased ones are very smeared when drawing a pattern. Experienced housewives share advice that it is better to use dark eggs for this decoration method, since they have thicker shells.
I suggest watching a master class on this technique from Olga Proyda, who participated in the competition with her 6-year-old son Dima.
We will need:
- boiled eggs;
- candle;
- dyes;
- rags.
Boil the eggs, dilute the dyes in a convenient container. It is better to make the solution sufficiently saturated.
When everything is ready, lay out the rags, light a candle and drip melted wax on the testicle. After each drop, you can lightly blow on the wax so that it hardens faster. After drying the egg with a cloth, then apply wax to the egg in other places. This can be repeated several times.
When all the drops you need are in place, dip the egg into the paint. It is convenient to do this with a spoon.
You can see everything in more detail
Easter engraving
For a floral or geometric pattern, use a thick gypsy needle, a sharpened orange stick. Sometimes in stores you can find a ready-made Easter engraving kit, which has all the necessary tools.
Decoupage Easter eggs
Experienced craftswomen recommend trying to decorate Easter eggs using an interesting decoupage technique. Using this method, you can translate any pattern. Coloring in this way is more time consuming, but the end result is worth the effort.
You will need beautiful napkins with a pattern that you would like to transfer to the shell. Previously, you can color the eggs in any way convenient for you, or simply boil them in water, leaving a natural shade.
You will also need gelatin glue, which is very easy to make yourself. To do this, soak the purchased gelatin according to the instructions on the package, drain the excess liquid. The resulting mixture must be heated in a saucepan, without bringing to a boil, until the fine particles are completely dissolved.
Now cut out a pattern or fragment from a napkin and separate the top layer, which you will use. Place the pattern on the boiled egg, and cover it with glue on top. Brush movements should be smooth from the center to the edges. Let the drawing dry and enjoy the beauty of Easter eggs.
Master class "Decorating an Easter egg"
To begin with, we take multi-layered paper napkins with a pattern and cut out patterns, in this case, these are flowers.
Never smear the first layer with plain water, otherwise the water will dry out and the pattern will fall off.
In any order you like, we attach our flowers to the eggs. Here's what happened in the end.
The master class is taken from the competition work "Easter Miracle" from Nina Kuzmenko
Stickers - thermal films
It is not always possible to devote enough time to dyeing Easter eggs. In this case, purchased thermal stickers come to the rescue. Perhaps this is the fastest and easiest way. Such stickers are made with a wide variety of patterns: Khokhloma or Gzhel, biblical motifs, butterflies, rabbits, cartoon characters, geometric patterns, holiday inscriptions.
Boil the eggs first, put a thermal base on them and place in boiling water for a few seconds. The sticker will instantly wrap around the shell and the Easter egg is ready!
How easy and fun it is to color eggs with little kids
All children love to participate in coloring eggs. Let them be creative. Children's fingers, whatman paper and dyes or paint - that's all you need.
Read more about this master class in the competition article from Anastasia and her wonderful sons.
As you can see, there are a huge number of ways to paint eggs for Easter. You can choose any option you like or try each for the sake of experiment.
I would like to add at the end that Easter is a family holiday. Color the Easter eggs together with your little children, relatives. It is not only easy to do, but also exciting. Touch a piece of beauty with the whole family!
And how do you paint Easter eggs: the old-fashioned way with onion skins or unusual ways? Be sure to share your experience.
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