Easter eggs coloring. Nettle and spinach will give a light green color

With spring warmth and sun, the bright holiday of Easter comes to us. Tall stately Easter cakes, tender cottage cheese Easter, a variety of pastries in the form of chickens, rabbits and, of course, colored eggs. 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!" - they hear in response and receive 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.
In the article, we have collected both the well-known ways of painting eggs, which everyone knows very well, but may have forgotten the nuances, as well as the more interesting and “unhackneyed” 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

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).

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:

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 on using 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!

Decorating eggs for Easter is a very old tradition, which has now received a lot of ideas for creativity in this direction. In addition to the hassle of baking for Easter, everyone is very friendly - adults and children - decorate eggshells.

In this article, you will find many original ideas and interesting ways to create an exclusive holiday attribute for Easter from an ordinary egg.

For the manufacture of Easter eggs, a boiled chicken egg, a whole eggshell without protein and yolk, or wooden, porcelain or plastic egg-shaped blanks can be used.

History calls for dyeing eggs red. Giving red-dyed eggs at Easter is an ancient custom, rooted in the life of Mary Magdalene and Emperor Tiberius.

In Christianity, the egg symbolizes the tomb and resurrection, and the red color means for Christians the blood of the crucified Christ. Under the red shell of the egg is a white protein, which serves as a symbol of the Resurrection and the life of Christ.

It has long been a tradition to keep the donated symbols all year - until the next Holy Sunday. But it was not easy to observe it - they are fragile and perishable.

Easter eggs came to the rescue - wooden blanks, beautifully painted and decorated with Christian symbols. Painted eggs were called eggs.

30 DIY Easter Egg Decorating Ideas

There are a lot of ways and ideas for coloring, because there are a large number of various materials at hand - paper, paints and fabrics.

In addition, there are a lot of interesting and beautiful ideas that have already been invented by someone, you just have to choose and implement your plans. Perhaps you will come up with your own way of decorating - unique and original!

It is important to boil the eggs correctly so that the shell remains intact without chips and cracks, because there is still work to be done with it, and therefore damage is unacceptable here. Carefully place the eggs in a bowl, pour warm water 35-38 degrees so that it completely covers them, let them stand for a couple of hours. Next, add 1-2 tablespoons of salt to the water, put the dishes on a large fire, immediately after boiling, reduce the heat and cook for another 10 minutes.

Coloring eggs with natural dyes

Do not bypass the dyeing of eggs with natural dyes in the old fashioned way, as our beloved mothers and grandmothers traditionally dyed the shells. After all, now everything natural is in fashion, and therefore we will pay special attention to this method.

Of course, it is better to use eggs in a white shell for coloring - the color will be bright and intense.

Even for convenience, you will need a homemade stand, which you can do yourself. To make it, you will need toothpicks and a piece of foam or dense foam rubber.

Irreplaceable onion peel is a familiar component in coloring. Everyone knows that the intensity of the color of the shell depends on the time the boiled eggs stay in boiling water with the husk.

For brown, you can also use coffee or tea, as they are always available on the farm, and you don’t have to grind anything. You will get a very beautiful dark brown shade.

Beetroot is a great helper in coloring eggs, giving us a pink or crimson color. It all depends on the soak time. It is recommended to soak an egg in a white shell for 7-8 hours, overnight, for example

Bright holiday color will give you carrots, which you will need to squeeze the juice from, and then boil the eggs in the resulting solution, leaving it in it for a while for an intense color.

As an option for coloring blueberry or natural grape juice. As a result, you will also get interesting shades of blue and lilac.

Spinach, of course, is a somewhat unexpected vegetable green for our latitudes, but if you wish, you can find it if you want to get a delicate green shell color.

Red cabbage gives egg shells a beautiful blue color. Take a couple of heads of red cabbage, finely chop and mix with 500 ml of hot water. Leave the eggs in the same bowl with cabbage for 8 hours, covering with a film on top

But turmeric will give a gorgeous sunny yellow. Grind the turmeric root first (you should get 2-3 tablespoons) and cook until boiling, then cool and place the eggs there. You can use ready-made turmeric powder

If you want to additionally decorate eggs after natural coloring, then just grease the surface with vegetable oil - this will add shine and gloss to the painted shell!

To decorate eggs when stained with natural dyes, you can use many interesting tricks.

Decoration with plant prints

For example, glue a flower, a sprig or leaf of parsley, dill to the surface of a white egg, then tighten it into a nylon mesh, lower the workpiece into a paint solution

Stripes on the surface of the shell

To get a pattern of stripes on the egg after dyeing, you need to wrap the surface of the eggs with rubber bands before dyeing

To decorate the surface, before painting in the dye, you can stick strips, paper figures or stickers (hearts, circles, triangles, diamonds, etc.)

Strips of paper tape will do or you can use electrical tape

Coloring Easter eggs in a napkin

The method is not complicated. You will need different colors. A dry egg is wrapped in half a napkin, and with the help of cotton swabs, soak it with paints over the napkin with small spots, leaving no white spots. Let the napkin dry and carefully remove it - very elegant and colored eggs are obtained.

Coloring eggs with thread

With the same success, you can use threads impregnated with different colors. They leave mysterious patterns and stripes

Gradually wind the threads on a white egg, alternating colors and waiting for complete drying after each wrapping

Foiling under gold leaf

Gold leaf foil is also used - a very effective and inexpensive way to decorate Easter eggs.

Easter eggs with degraded effect

For painting, you will need multi-colored spray paints and a home-made plasticine stand. Blow out the contents of raw eggs by making two holes on both sides of the egg.

One color is first applied to the surface of the shell. Then, after drying, a second coat of paint is applied. It's okay if white spots remain in some places, this will only add lightness and transparency.

You can make a specific pattern using rubber bands or thin strips of paper tape

Easter eggs in colorful threads

You will need eggs and multi-colored threads. It can be floss, cotton or fine wool. At one end of the egg, a thread is attached with adhesive tape, glue is applied to the shell, on which the thread is wound, melange will look better in this decoration technique. Having wound the thread to the middle of the egg, the thread is cut off and fixed, and they start all over again from the other end.

Easter eggs in lace

The eggs are dyed according to the instructions with food coloring, the lace is cut into cuts of the required size and attached with PVA glue to the painted shell

For smart needlewomen, eggs can be crocheted - a difficult and time-consuming job, but the final result is simply amazing

Easter eggs in beads, buttons and sequins

You will need wooden blanks for eggs, wax or paraffin, medium-sized beads. The workpiece is lowered into melted wax or paraffin several times until a flat surface is formed, each layer must be completely dry.

The beads are heated in the flame of a candle and laid out in patterns according to patterns of your choice - an amazing result.

The base is also made - the base surface is tightened with fabric, lace or ribbons, then beadwork is performed

Weaving with beads according to patterns is, without a doubt, a laborious process, but the result is amazing. Elegant, beautiful and very effective!

Unexpectedly and originally decorate the surface of the egg with buttons. There are two ways to attach them to the surface of the shell - tighten the workpiece with a cloth, then sew each button or stick the buttons on silicone glue to the surface

Pretty and shiny! Of course, sequins! Why not?

Decoupage from napkins

One of the easiest ways to decorate eggs is decoupage. A beautiful pattern is selected on a napkin, cut out and glued with PVA glue to the surface of the shell, after which a second layer of glue is applied on top. We are waiting for the eggs to dry completely.

In specialized stores for creativity, decoupage napkins are sold to choose from with a variety of patterns and on any topic.

Quilling for decorating Easter eggs

From thin ribbons of colored paper, blanks are made using the quilling technique and, using PVA glue, they are glued to the surface of the eggs in the order that you have enough imagination for

As a variation of quilling, Easter eggs can be decorated with strips of paper.

Easter eggs with mosaic

Eggs are painted in different colors, the shell of some of them breaks into pieces of different sizes. They are attached with PVA glue to the surface of whole eggs.

Easter eggs in cereals and pasta

The house always has a supply of various cereals, legumes and seeds. They will be a wonderful material for creativity.

like small pasta

floral patterns

To make Easter eggs in floral patterns, in addition to food coloring, vinegar, acrylic paints, you will also need the ability to draw. If you have such a talent, then feel free to take on the job. Remember that you can always take schemes and stencils to help.

It is very easy and simple to apply the pattern with the help of bubble wrap. You will need acrylic paint or ordinary thick gouache. We are waiting for the complete drying of the paint of each color

as well as corrugated wrapping paper

Crumpled foil in paint to help you!

Cotton thread in the paint, folded in several layers, leaves original stripes and streaks

Kanzashi technique as an idea for decorating Easter eggs

Such elegant and original Easter masterpieces are made on an empty shell, the protein and yolk from which are removed in advance, or foam blanks. A thin tape is securely fixed on one of the edges of the egg with tape or a needle with an eye, then your imagination will help

Egg decoration using artichoke technique

This technique is distinguished by a special angular folding of tapes of different colors and their fastening in a certain order with the help of needles on a foam blank. There are also different ways to fold the ribbons.

Easter eggs in the technique of kinusaiga

Easter eggs made using the kinusaiga technique look especially beautiful and homely thanks to the effect of “patchwork” sewing from cotton or knitwear according to patterns. The colors of the patches are selected in a single color palette that combines the cover into a single composition

The secret is that such crafts are performed without a needle.

On a foam base, shallow cuts are made, pieces of fabric are prepared according to patterns

The fabric is superimposed on the selected area, and its edges are tucked into the cuts

At the same time, the joints of the seams are hidden by braid or tape in tone, masking the joints of the flaps

Decorating eggs for Easter with icing sugar

See what a miracle you can create by drawing sugar icing on the surface of the shell. A very concentrated mixture is diluted: 1 protein per 150-200 g of fine powdered sugar

Dyeing with natural silk

Easter eggs can be beautifully dyed with natural silk. Perhaps at home there are unnecessary things made of silk - scarves, ties or leftovers from sewing. Natural silk will willingly share a pattern and paint in boiling water with the egg shell. You will need to tightly wrap the egg in a piece of natural fabric, tie it tightly with threads and dip it in boiling water for a long time

Animal Theme in Easter Eggs

Easter eggs in the form of various animals look very cute and charming. On sale in stores you can buy ready-made sets for decorating eggs for Easter Day, the idea of which, as a rule, is to combine decoration with an Easter egg stand - practical and convenient

Decorations with dried flowers or sprigs of living plants

Easter eggs decorated with dried flowers and sprigs of living plants will look great at Easter. Sprigs of plants in the decoration of Easter eggs are like spring itself - fresh and original! Your guests and loved ones will be pleasantly surprised

The use of dyes is excluded here - naturalness and environmental friendliness are in an uptrend today!

More options for decorating eggs for Easter

Black and white are always in fashion. Stylish and tasteful!

Easter bunnies using a stencil and colored sparkles

Feathers - lightness and grace! You will need pens and glue

Emoticons in the Easter theme - very stylish and modern in the spirit of the ubiquitous instant messengers

Group in striped swimsuits with mustaches

dragon eggs

The starry sky is a real space!

Glitter is always bright and spectacular!

White provence with gold

Decorating Easter eggs with colored sand

Black profiles on white - very elegant

Blue and gold - an excellent and elegant combination of colors when coloring eggs

Video. Four Easy Ways to Color Eggs for Easter

We make Easter baskets for the holiday with our own hands

Many housewives find time to make chic Easter baskets. Just what you need for Easter! The main advantage of such an Easter accessory is the practical storage of Easter eggs and Easter cakes, besides this, it is very beautiful and elegant. You can make one large basket for general storage of holiday items for the whole family

And you can make small baskets for friends and relatives, designed for one Easter cake and several eggs for congratulations

Believe me, your loved ones will be extremely pleased to receive such a product as a gift from you with congratulations on the Great Easter. A truly thoughtful and sweet gift for Easter Sunday.

Easter baskets and baskets can be made from ordinary wicker baskets of different sizes. The bottom from the inside can be draped with burlap, cotton fabric, chiffon or lined with dry grass or hay. You can keep the brown shade of the vine, or you can paint the braid in the color of your choice. General colors are selected light pastels, decorated with bright flowers and leaves. The basket should be the personification of spring and warmth. Artificial flowers, bows, ribbon flowers, beads and rhinestones, lace and braid will help you.

Also, Easter baskets can be made of felt - this is an excellent material for working with similar products. It is moderately bright, keeps its shape well, does not crumble and is very interesting in finished products.

These unusual Easter baskets can be made from pasta - very creative and not difficult. This form is achieved by gluing the fragments on an inflated balloon, then the finished workpiece is opened with paint until it dries completely.

Of course, baskets made of stuffed fabric with soft toys look very cute and beautiful.

Options for beautiful and original Easter baskets

Good afternoon, dear friends, the bright holiday of Easter will come very soon. And you will need to decorate the table with Easter cakes and eggs. If we figured out a little with Easter cakes, then we don’t have eggs yet. A note on how.
And so now let's talk about how to paint eggs. Eggs have been painted, painted and decorated for Easter for a very long time, but the real dawn and the flight of thought can only be realized today, when a lot of all kinds of food colorings have appeared.

In this article, we will analyze several surefire ways to beautifully paint eggs for Easter. And of course, you need to prepare early, as you need to collect all the ingredients. For example, in an apartment there is not always a box with onions and it is not so easy to collect onion peels in the right amount. In general, we will analyze everything in detail later.

Once, while looking through my wall in VK, I came across such a post about painting eggs with natural dyes. All dyes are natural with no added chemicals. And the colors will pleasantly surprise you.
I’ll tell you a little more about the use of natural or natural dyes, but a little later, but for now we’ll analyze a small reminder about determining the freshness of eggs.
Well, we checked the eggs for freshness, what did you get, leave the results in the comments. And we move on to food coloring. Which are sold before Easter at every turn.
These are the four packages you will find inside the main package.
Small sachets can contain either tablets or liquid. Of course, it is better to wear gloves when working with these paints. No, not because the paint is harmful, but so as not to get dirty.

We select the first few beauties from boiled eggs, dilute the paint according to the instructions. One can for each paint.
Most of the instructions are similar on my bags, the instructions said that boiled eggs should be washed well in a soda solution (1 tablespoon of baking soda for half a liter of water). Dilute paints only in warm water. Half a glass of water is enough for 1 paint, but you will also need to pour in a tablespoon of 9% vinegar. Prepare the dye and dip the egg into it for 5-6 minutes. Carefully remove the field with a spoon and put it on a plate to dry.

Just like you, I am a real creative person and it occurred to me to mix paints to get a new color. For example, if you mix blue and yellow, you get a turquoise color. Try it and you might succeed. Or maybe you want to mix other colors. Write in the comments under the article what happened to you.
After the paint dries, it will no longer get so dirty. And you can try to decorate the eggs with beautiful stickers. Thank God they are also not a problem to buy.

And if you want to make an egg not of one color, but of several. Try to dip the egg into the paint not completely, but only a small part of it.

Wax can be used to paint half eggs. We wax the part of the egg that we will not paint. We dip into the paint and under the wax the shell does not change color. This will make it easier for you to make colorful eggs.

If there are children in your family, be sure to invite them to help with painting the eggs. But do not leave them all the same, this is the kitchen.
And this is how you can paint eggs with a regular whisk.
Try putting eggs (boiled) in a colander, and drop it into the water with a few dyes and mix with a spatula. The output is all intricate colors.
You can also wrap a boiled egg in a regular paper napkin and drip paint from several sides. Then leave the egg in a napkin for 5-10 minutes so that the paint is properly eaten into the shell.
This is what beauty can be. Almost a marble egg without much effort.
You can decorate an egg for Easter without dyes. It is enough to take a special thermal film, put it on an egg (boiled) and lower it for 5-7 seconds. in boiling water from high temperature, the film narrows and takes the shape of an egg.
As you can see, there is no particular difficulty here. Everything is easy and simple, and you don’t need to dirty your hands, and you also need to dilute the paint with a film of boiling water and that’s it.

Dyeing eggs in onion skins

This is the oldest and most insatiable traditional method or way of dyeing eggs. Our grandmothers used to paint like this even under the king of peas.
The colors are natural and no chemicals. Despite the large abundance of dyes, everyone in every family dyed and will dye eggs in onions every year, as this is part of a tradition that no one wants to give up. But there is one minus for painting eggs in onions, you will need to select a pan, since the dishes can also be stained.
For a good saturated color, we take 3-4 parts of the husk to one part of the water. Just coloring eggs in onions is not about us. You need to do it creatively. So read on.

For creative coloring of eggs, take the following:

1 tablespoon of salt.
Nylon stocking.
Greenery leaves (dill, parsley, dandelion, cilantro, etc.)
Skein of thread.
Vegetable oil.

Painting process.

We take raw eggs, since you need to cook in the husk for at least 40 minutes.
Attach a leaf to the egg. Cut off a piece from the stocking and carefully place the egg into the stocking. We press the leaf to the egg and wrap the stocking with threads. It should turn out something like this.

We fill the husk with water and put it on the stove.
Add salt and when the water starts to boil, lower the blanks into the husk.
Cook for 30-40 minutes. Then we take it out and if there is a second batch, cook the second one, and let the first one cool down for now.
Once the eggs have cooled slightly, remove the stockings, remove the leaves and rub the eggs with vegetable oil. After that, the testicles will acquire a beautiful shine.
You can also use this method to dye eggs in food coloring.

How to paint eggs so that they are marble

If you want to surprise old housewives or girlfriends with your painted eggs, then we look longer. So eggs are very rarely painted by anyone, everything is done according to the classics and no one wants to bother further, but there is practically no trouble here.
Would need.

Eggs.
Onion peel.
Zelenka.
Water.
Pot.

Painting process.

The method is similar to the classic, but with a few additions.

We take a raw egg, dip it in water and roll it over the onion peel so that it sticks to the egg. Then wrap it in a stocking or bandage. Pour plain water into a saucepan, add a spoonful of salt and put on the stove. As soon as the water starts to boil, lower the eggs, pour in the brilliant green and cook the eggs for 30-40 minutes. After we drain the water, cool and remove everything that is not needed.
This is what I did, and it should be the same for you.
The drawing is just extraordinary. And what is most interesting, there are no 2 identical eggs, all are different.

Coloring eggs with natural products

Well, now let's turn to natural dyes. which are found in food.

It is important when using such paints to add a little vinegar. It will fix the colors and make the colors more saturated.

1. Color eggs with turmeric. She will give you yellow. How to dye eggs with turmeric will be discussed below.
2. If you want to dye eggs bright orange, then carrots will help you. We take carrot juice and dip an egg into it. The saturation of the color will depend on the time that the egg has lain in the carrot juice.
3. Have you ever dyed eggs in beetroot juice? I recommend to try. True, the process is too long. You need to keep the boiled egg in beetroot juice for at least 8-10 hours. But only you will have raspberry eggs.

4. Another long way to dye in red cabbage. We also squeeze the juice and keep boiled eggs in it for 8-10 hours.

5. Doge tea and coffee will help us color the eggs. Brew the tea stronger and hold the egg in the brew for 2-3 hours. Then take out and get tea-colored eggs. By the way, you can paint not only in black tea.

You can make a beautiful green color for this, take a bunch of spinach, cut it, put it in a pot of water. We put on the stove and cook the eggs in it until the desired color is obtained.
That's what you can achieve with patience. As an author, I boast of my achievements.

Emerald eggs for Easter

Consider this option for coloring eggs. The video shows all the steps, it is possible that this particular method will be more understandable to you.

How to dye eggs without dyes using turmeric

No wonder this method of coloring is gaining popularity. After all, the result is so good that you can’t even believe that this is all a natural color.
For 250 ml of warm water, stir 1 tablespoon of turmeric, let the turmeric dissolve for 2-3 minutes and put on fire. Throw in the eggs and cook for 30-40 minutes.
Also, before throwing eggs, you can apply the technique with stockings or husks.

Dyed eggs in fabric

We continue to create and continue to be weird, now we will try to paint eggs with a tie. No, of course, we won’t spoil the whole husband’s favorite tie, just take and cut off a small piece.))) For this method, any colorful silk fabric can also be used, you can also take colorful cotton.

We take a beautiful piece of fabric, wrap an egg in it and wrap it with threads. Next, lower it into a pot of water and cook for 15-20 minutes. Do not forget to add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to 1 liter of water. The result surprised even me.

Instead of fabric, you can take any material with a mesh and wrap an egg in it. We cook such eggs in any dye and get unusual results.

Painting eggs for Easter in a napkin

The technique is quite young and little known. For me, it looks more like a hand-made full-fledged craft for the holiday, not jelly for painting an egg.

You will need the following set:

Eggs.
Napkins.
PVA glue
Tassel.
Scissors.

Production process.

A pattern is cut out of a colorful napkin. The napkin is disassembled into layers.

Apply a layer of glue to the egg with a brush. Then the cut out pattern is carefully applied.
Top the drawing with a thin layer of glue. You can put several patterns on one egg. After you need to let the glue dry.
It turns out very beautiful. I remind you that we paint boiled eggs.

We paint eggs from improvised means at home

As you know, Easter cakes are decorated with icing and beautiful topping, and why not decorate eggs with this topping.
This is not tricky, and the results will surprise you perfectly. In order to glue the topping on the egg, you don’t even need special glue, all the same eggs will help us.

We take the protein, dip the boiled egg into it, grease it well from all sides, then dump it in the powder.
You can also use clerical glue, but you should not eat it anymore, since the glue will easily penetrate to the edible part of the egg through the pores in the shell. Of course, when using this technique, you can decorate eggs not only with powder, but also with various cereals.
For example, look at what a fun egg you get if you use cereal.

Well, if we were carried in this direction, then eggs can also be decorated using nail polish. True, you need to work with gloves so as not to get your hands dirty. Take a glass of water, pour some varnish of different colors, draw a small pattern and dip an egg into it. But I remind you once again to eat such eggs is not recommended.

Try coloring the eggs with markers. Water-based markers work very well for this purpose. And if you show a little imagination and draw eyes on the eggs, you can create a whole army.

If you are interested in the idea with eyes, look for them on store shelves.
You can buy ready-made eyes and use them to create these minions. Look how cute they are right?

So I think now you are completely ready to paint eggs for the Easter holidays. Congratulations on the upcoming Bright Sunday of Christ. 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!