You will need
- - hard-boiled eggs
- - food and natural dyes
- - felt-tip pens and wax pencils
- - improvised means (threads, tapes, tape)
Instructions
Painting in onion skins. This is the most famous method, using which you will get a brown color of varying intensities. To paint, you need to place raw eggs in a boiling broth and cook for 10-15 minutes. Then remove and cool.
One of the easiest ways to color eggs is to buy food coloring. The bag says in detail how to use them. But there are other ways to use them: dilute the dyes with water in different cups with 1 tbsp. vinegar. Dip hard-boiled eggs into any color and hold until they reach the desired shade. You can also make multi-colored eggs: first drop one half into a cup, and after drying, drop the other half in a different color.
You can get a little creative and come up with patterns for the eggs. To do this, cut out Easter-themed strips, circles, and silhouettes from self-adhesive paper, stick them on boiled eggs and paint them with dyes. Let it dry and only then remove the adhesive mask.
You can wrap the eggs with elastic bands, ribbons, lace (the latter can also be secured with elastic bands). After dyeing, let it dry and remove the elastic bands and lace. This produces nice striped eggs.
For a pattern in the form of streaks, wrap colored threads or floss around the egg. Boil it hard.
Marble eggs look beautiful and unusual. For this effect, add vegetable oil to the water with the dye and stir. After the first coloring, dry the eggs, then lower them one by one into the oil solution, collecting drops of oil on the surface of the egg. After taking them out, dip them in a napkin and dry them.
You don’t have to paint the eggs any color, but use markers and felt-tip pens. You can also paint eggs with wax pencils. To do this, draw on the eggs while they are still hot. Then the wax will melt a little and you will get beautiful patterns. While working, it is better to place the egg on a small stand so as not to spoil the pattern later. Let the eggs cool for an hour.
How to make the eggs in your Easter basket the most beautiful? We offer 20 methods - both time-tested and completely innovative.
1. Marble patterns
If you add vegetable oil to the paint, it will form beautiful streaks on the shell.
The marbled color of eggs is achieved using oil. Photo: shnyazhka.com
2. Splatter paint
Boil the eggs, cool. Take a toothbrush, dip it in the paint and spray the paint onto the shell. Don't forget to wear an apron and spray over the sink so you don't paint your entire kitchen speckled.
3. Lace and ribbons
It is necessary to boil the eggs and cool. To decorate the eggs you will need small pieces of ribbons and lace. You can tie it with one or more ribbons at your discretion. Your basket will contain the most fashionable vintage eggs!
An original and simple way is to decorate eggs with ribbons and lace. Photo news.online.ua
4. Colored stripes
Take bright wool threads that fade, or floss. Wrap them around the egg and so on, in threads, and cook. The dye from the threads will transfer to the shell and leave a striped pattern.
To make the eggs striped, you need wool threads that shed, or floss.
5. White stripes
To ensure that the stripes remain white and the egg itself becomes colored, first wrap the shell with thin rubber bands, and then dip it into the dyeing broth.
The eggs will be made like this using thin rubber bands. Photo aif.ua
6. Natural dyes
For those who do not want to use artificial dyes, you can use tea, which will give the hibiscus a purple color; black coffee - from beige to brown; beet juice - from pink to red; turmeric - yellow; blue cabbage juice - from blue to dark blue. To get green, you need to first dye the eggs yellow and then blue. For orange - first to red, then to yellow.
Soft tones will come from natural dyes. Photo lady.mail.ru
In order for the eggs to be evenly colored, the paint solution must be hot, and 4 tablespoons must be added to 1 liter of solution. vinegar and 1 tbsp. salt. The coloring time depends on the desired color intensity and can range from half an hour to overnight.
7. Multi-colored confetti circles
You can use ready-made confetti or make your own using a hole punch. You can glue the confetti using glue or paste. Your eggs will look bright and festive.
Eggs decorated with confetti circles. Photo: photobank.ua
8. Onion skins
The eggs may turn out yellow or dark brown, it all depends on the amount of husk.
One of the oldest methods is coloring eggs with onion skins. Photo supersadovnik.ru
Place the peels (calculation: peels from two onions per egg) in water (about 1 liter for 5 eggs) and cook for half an hour. Dip the eggs into the broth and cook for 10 minutes after they boil.
9. Herbs and leaves
Natural remedies for decoration include leaves and sprigs of parsley, dill, cilantro, thyme, rosemary and other spices and herbs. You need to put a leaf on the boiled egg and cover it with gauze, tie the ends with thread and cut off the excess. Next, paint the egg with paints or natural dyes. After the egg has dried, free it from gauze and leaves. The gauze will let the paint through and beautiful prints will remain on the eggs.
Decorate with leaves, herbs and twigs. Photo happy-giraffe.ru
10. Geometric designs with tape
Boiled eggs need to be covered with strips or squares of tape and dipped in the first dye. After removing, you need to let the egg dry, and then remove the tape (you can stick it to other places) and dip it in the second dye. Let it dry again and remove the tape.
Such geometric patterns can be created using adhesive tape. Photo lady.mail.ru
11. Decoupage technique
For this you will need beautiful table paper napkins. You need to cut out the pictures in small fragments. Dilute PVA glue in half with water (you can use paste*), apply it to the boiled eggs and glue pieces of napkins. Allow to dry completely.
Eggs made using decoupage technique. Photo igrushka.kz
12. Cereals, grains and legumes
In order to create stripes on an egg, you need to apply glue in a strip, dip it in cereal, and let it dry completely. Then make a second, third, and so on stripes from other cereals. You can lay out the flowers with tweezers, or you can simply roll the egg in colored rice.
Almost like Faberge - decoration with cereals and legumes. Photo kotikit.ru
13. Funny little animals
You can make funny faces out of eggs that kids will love. To do this, first boil and color the eggs. Cut out noses and ears from colored paper and glue to the eggs. Using a black felt-tip pen, draw in the details - eyes, mouth.
Kids will definitely be happy to have these eggs on the table. Photo lady.mail.ru
14. Sprinkles for Easter cakes
Eggs decorated with such colorful sweet toppings look very bright and attractive, and decoration takes just a few minutes. You need to apply glue to the boiled eggs and roll them in colored sugar.
Sweet sprinkles can be used to decorate not only Easter cakes, but also Easter eggs. Photo matrony.ru
15. Greenery
Throw a large bunch of herbs (dill, parsley, cilantro) into the water in which you boil the eggs, and the shells will acquire a delicate green color.
16. Muzzles and grimaces
One of the easiest ways to paint eggs. Here you don’t need to paint or glue anything, just use a felt-tip pen to draw faces on the eggs. Adhesive eyes can be purchased at a stationery store in the children's crafts section, but if you don't find any, you can simply draw the eyes with a felt-tip pen.
One of the simple and original ways to decorate eggs. Photo radiosibir.ru
17. Using silk
You will need an unnecessary piece of silk with a beautiful pattern or an old silk tie. Wrap the egg in a piece of paper (right side facing the shell). The top can be tightly tied with gauze or pulled into a nylon sock. Pour water into a saucepan, add a couple of tablespoons of vinegar, add eggs and cook for 15 minutes after they boil. Then pour cold water over the eggs. Cool and remove the cloth. The same pattern should remain on the shell as on the shred.
When cooked, the silk pattern will easily be printed onto your egg. Photo homester.com.ua
Add a little vinegar to any paint decoction, then the paint will lie smoothly. To make the eggs shine beautifully, after boiling, coat them with vegetable oil and then rub with a towel.
If you paint with watercolors or apply any other dye yourself with a brush, first wipe the shell with soapy water or vodka, then the paint will last a long time.
18. Speckled
Place rice on cheesecloth. Wrap the egg in cheesecloth with rice. Wrap tightly or place in a nylon sock and tie with thread. Now boil the egg in paint or a decoction of onion peels. Unfold it and you'll get a speckled pattern.
19. Foil
The easiest way to decorate eggs for Easter. We take foil, you can look for a multi-colored one, and wrap hard-boiled eggs in it.
Already boiled eggs can be wrapped in bright foil. Photo ikirov.ru
20. Powdered sugar
How to do it: take 1 cup of powdered sugar and stir it with a small amount of water until a thick, homogeneous mass is formed. Then, using a pastry syringe, we paint eggs boiled in onion peels or painted with any dye with this mixture, placing them in stands, and letting them dry.
Decorate with powdered sugar. Photo news.online.ua
- red - beet juice,
- orange - carrot juice,
- yellow - turmeric, citrus peel decoction,
- green - juices of parsley, dill, spinach, green pepper,
- blue - by soaking eggs in a decoction of red cabbage.
You can color an Easter egg with paints or a felt-tip pen. The main thing is that the egg stands on a stand. If you paint with paint, you don’t need to put a lot of paint on the brush. It is more convenient to color eggs with a felt-tip pen. You can put stickers on the egg. Here are ideas for coloring eggs.
You can paint eggs according to the old Soviet recipe - boil them in one pan with onion skins. The color appears burgundy, classic.
Nowadays, progress does not stand still. Food coloring is available at hardware stores and can be used to color eggs.
On May 1, Orthodox Christians will celebrate the Resurrection of Christ. And one of the main attributes of this holiday are pysanky and krashenki. and you don’t have to be an artist to draw a beautiful pattern on an Easter egg.
Some housewives use felt-tip pens or watercolors to color Easter eggs. In our family, we also painted them in this way - it turned out very beautifully, but the only drawback was that the paint, if you picked up the egg, left marks on them. And so we decided to prepare natural paint ourselves and such that it would be durable. To do this, we mixed two raw yolks and two tablespoons of water and added decoctions of plants and herbs to the resulting base to obtain different colors - this was the first method. In the second method, we added a few drops of iodine to strong decoctions of the color we needed, plus a little raw yolk - and the paint began to adhere better and dry faster.
The required color was given:
You can add a little raw yolk to watercolor paints and the paint will also be better and more durable.
We painted the eggs, placing them on stands - this is how they turned out.
Hello, friends! The bright holiday of Easter is approaching.
In this regard, I suggest you stock up on ideas for decorating Easter eggs in unusual ways. Involve children in this process, I’m sure they will be very interested.
I offer you 13 great ideas.
Decorating Easter eggs using decoupage technique
Decoupage works always fascinate with their unusual beauty. You can decorate eggs using this technique.
We will need:
Boiled eggs;
. beaten egg white to replace glue;
. beautiful napkins, the designs of which you will use;
. scissors;
. brush.
This video will help you learn how to decorate eggs using the decoupage technique.
Making such an egg is very simple.
We will need:
Boiled eggs;
. vinegar;
. bright food colors;
. paper napkins.
Place the egg on a napkin, wrap it in it and moisten it with vinegar. Then unfold and apply droplets of different paints to the egg. Don't overdo it, the colors shouldn't mix. Carefully wrap the egg in a napkin again and place it in a dry and warm place. After a few hours, unfold the napkin and get a wonderfully colorful egg.
Decorating Easter eggs using the permanent technique
In my opinion, this is the simplest, but very interesting way to decorate Easter eggs, which children should really like.
We just need white eggs and a permanent marker, or better yet, several different colors so that we can color the egg in all the shades of the rainbow.
Give free rein to your imagination, draw whatever you like.
Decorating Easter eggs with lace
Wrap the egg in lace fabric, collect the excess and tie it so that the lace fits tightly to the egg.
Dip the egg in food coloring for 10-12 minutes, then remove the egg and free it from the lace bag.
Ready! The result is a wonderful, delicate lace pattern!
Decorating Easter eggs with glitter
Color the eggs with food coloring, coat them with half-beaten egg yolk and sprinkle with matching glitter.
You can coat the eggs unevenly, with spots or some shapes.
Imagine with your child, perhaps he will want you to help him make some brilliant inscription on the testicle.
Decorating Easter eggs in color blocking style
You're probably familiar with color blocking, so why not use it to decorate eggs?
We need:
White boiled eggs;
. vinegar;
. bright food colors;
You need to color the eggs as follows. Dip 1/2 or 1/3 of the egg into the dye, wait for it to color, dry it and start coloring the untouched part. You can use multiple colors and color the eggs vertically, horizontally and even diagonally. In order not to hold the egg while it is being colored, you can use baby food jars; they allow you to color the egg by 1/4 or 1/3, depending on the diameter of the neck of the jar.
Decorating Easter eggs with silk
Want to get unusual eggs? Then dye them using silk.
Prepare scraps of silk with different patterns.
Wrap the finished, slightly moist eggs in scraps of silk and tie them with thread so that the fabric does not move. Afterwards, put them in a saucepan with warm water with vinegar added. Cook the eggs over low heat for 30 minutes. Then cool and remove from the fabric.
Decorating Easter eggs with cereals
One of the most troublesome, but very beautiful and original ways to decorate eggs.
We will need various cereals, flour paste, eggs and a brush.
You can easily make your own glue. Stir three tablespoons of flour in one glass of water and place the resulting mixture on the fire. Stirring continuously, bring the mixture to a boil. After cooling, the glue is ready.
Coat the egg with paste and begin decorating with cereals.
You can also use star pasta for decoration, which can be dyed any color using dyes. The result obtained depends only on your imagination.
Decorating Easter eggs with watercolors and pencils
This method is ideal for creativity with children and allows you to make each egg extraordinary.
Paint boiled eggs several times with watercolor paint and dry.
Then take colored pencils and draw whatever you want on the eggs. To fix the resulting beauty, you need to cover the eggs with wax.
And in this video you can see how to make real pysanka eggs
Decorating Easter eggs with stripes
Making a striped egg is quite simple.
Cover the eggs with electrical tape and start coloring.
Use dyes from lighter to brighter and more saturated.
After each painting, remove several strips of electrical tape.
Decorating Easter eggs with gold
To get such fabulous eggs, reminiscent of the fairy tale “The Ringed Hen,” you need to cover them with gold foil.
Wrap dry eggs, pre-coated with glue, in foil and wait until the glue dries. Then remove the excess with a soft cloth or sponge and repeat the procedure in those places where there is no foil.
You should get even golden eggs. For beauty, you can tie them with colored ribbons.
Decoration of Easter eggs - drapanki
In order to make original drapanki eggs, you need to boil them in onion peels and cool.
Afterwards, draw a design on the egg with a sharp pencil.
Using a utility knife or needle, scratch the egg exactly along the lines of the design, thereby removing the paint and leaving white marks.
Decorating Easter eggs using quilling technique
To make such miracle eggs we will need:
Regular eggs;
. special multi-colored strips for quilling, 3 mm wide;
. glue stick;
. a toothpick forked at the tip;
. tweezers.
We twist the strips, give them the desired shape and hold them with tweezers and glue them together. You can see how to do this in this article.
Usually, PVA and instant glue are used for quilling, but since we will be decorating eggs that we will eat later, I advise you to use regular glue with a pencil. It is quite viscous, and it seems to me that it will not have time to be absorbed into the shell before it dries.
I suggest watching the video - “Easter egg using quilling technique”
Happy holiday to you! Love, health, peace and prosperity to your families!
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The whole family gathers at the Easter table. This is a bright and joyful day. An integral part of the traditions and surroundings of this holiday are Easter eggs, all kinds of “painted eggs” and “pysanky”. Notes of a layman proposes to expand the horizons of imagination, and instead of the usual coloring, experiment with different materials and techniques. As a result, you will receive original decorative jewelry and a lot of positive emotions.
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Easter egg coloring: marble and silk patterns
"Marble" Easter eggs
A synthetic dye is more suitable for this coloring method, so it is better to clean the eggs from the inside. Pierce small holes in the top and bottom of the shell, then pierce the yolk and carefully remove the contents with a douche or syringe. Rinse well and dry. Such “paints” will serve you for many years.
— Dissolve the base dye in a deep bowl, add a couple of tablespoons of vinegar and color the eggs a uniform color. Place them on a napkin or wire rack and leave until completely dry.
- In another, shallow bowl (so that the egg is not completely submerged), dilute the dye in a darker tone or contrasting color. Pour in 1 tbsp. vegetable oil and stir it so that beautiful patterns form on the surface of the liquid. Dip the egg and roll around the circumference of the bowl. The oil and dye will settle on the shell, forming a fancy marble pattern. Pat with a paper towel and let dry.
Silk patterns
A very fun way to color Easter eggs that allows you to create intricate and varied patterns.
For work you will need: a variety of rags of 100% silk (enough to wrap an egg), elastic bands, raw white eggs, vinegar, an enamel or glass saucepan, paper towels, vegetable oil, an old cotton white sheet or tablecloth.
- Wrap the raw egg tightly with a piece of silk (right side facing the shell) and secure the fabric with an elastic band. Wrap a piece of undyed cotton over the top.
— Place the eggs in an enamel or glass pan, fill completely with water and add 3 tbsp. vinegar. Bring the water to a boil, continue to cook for 40 minutes over low heat.
- Remove the eggs from the water, let them cool, then remove the material. To add shine, dip a paper towel in the oil and wipe the shells.
Painting Easter eggs: wax, marker and paints
"Pysanki"
It is based on the Ukrainian pysanka technique - drawing wax patterns on hard-boiled eggs. Melted wax is applied to the egg, which is then dipped in dye. After dyeing, the wax melts and intricate patterns are revealed.
To create a more complex pattern, you can use wooden skewers, a pencil eraser, or a pin. However, this cannot be done without some skill. There is also a simple, no less interesting technique for which you will need: eggs, food coloring, wax, a container for melting wax, several bowls for different dyes, paper towels, a baking sheet.
— Color the eggs in a light tone (later you can make the dye more concentrated for stripes of a rich tone).
- Melt the wax in a water bath and dip both ends of the egg into it (the wax will prevent the covered area from turning into the next color).
-Dip the eggs into the next dye for a minute, remove and let dry completely. Then dip it again, only deeper, into the wax, leaving a wide strip in the middle for coloring. Now dip into the third dye.
— Place the fully colored Easter eggs on a baking sheet covered with wax paper and place in the preheated oven for 5 minutes. When the wax melts, remove it with a paper towel.
Watercolor and marker for coloring Easter eggs
If you have high-quality watercolors and watercolor pencils (they spread a little and form an interesting pattern when in contact with a wet surface), you can safely experiment and create original patterns on the shell. If you want to save the eggs until the next Easter holiday, clean them of their contents and cover the design with a fixing protective varnish-spray.
Even if you don't have watercolors, you can create creative Easter decorations using just a permanent marker.
Easter egg decoration: stencil, washi tape and decoupage
Funny ornaments from Japanese washi tape (Washi)
Those who do scrapbooking are very familiar with this decorative tape. A wide range of prints, sizes and shapes allows you to use Washi tape for any decor, including Easter egg decor. The material is very easy to use, you just need to carefully glue a strip of tape to the surface.
We create stencils from adhesive tape and double tape
To achieve a similar effect, adhesive stencils or strips of electrical tape are used.
— First, wrap the unpainted egg with a narrow strip of electrical tape or stick on stencils. Dip in first color, then dry with paper towel.
— Remove the film. Apply a second layer of tape in the opposite direction and dip into the second dye. Dry. Remove the stencil strip from the finished egg.
And such wonderful Easter eggs are decorated with double stationery tape and multi-colored glitter.
