In anticipation of the Easter holidays, many cares and household chores appear to prepare for the celebration of one of the main religious holidays of the year - Easter. The preparation process begins long before this day. On Pure Thursday it is customary to paint Easter eggs and bake Easter cakes. There are several ways to paint eggs at home.
Decorating eggs for Easter is a collective affair, as small family members will be happy to help create an original “Easter egg” or “Easter egg” from an ordinary chicken egg. But before you let the little artists to the eggs, you need to prepare a base for creativity.
First of all, it is necessary to boil the eggs so that they are smooth, with a flat surface, not burst. If eggs for dyes were stored in the refrigerator, before pouring cold water, you need to hold them for 15-20 minutes at room temperature. Eggs are boiled in well-salted water, wiped dry with a waffle towel and allowed to cool. Some methods of painting eggs require the eggs to be still warm. If you have not decided how to paint the eggs, study all the possible methods and choose the one that suits you best.
The most popular way to color them is onion peel. Almost every family in the post-Soviet space is familiar with this method. Throughout the winter, our grandmothers collected husks from onions to paint eggs in her broth for Easter. The color of the eggs depends on the saturation of the broth. Colors range from yellow to dark brown.
The basis for coloring eggs can be food colors, which can be purchased on the eve of the holiday at any store. Manufacturers attach instructions to the packaging, which describes how to paint eggs with their product. If you do not trust food coloring and you have free time, you can prepare a wonderful base for painting eggs yourself.
Natural coloring additives include beets, blueberries, onions, oranges, lemon, carrots, nettles, red cabbage, green apples and coffee. After adding a teaspoon of vinegar to a natural preparation, boil the eggs for 15-20 minutes.
There are many ways to decorate an Easter egg, but the originality and originality of the "Easter egg" depend only on your imagination. Children can be allowed to apply different patterns to already painted eggs using felt-tip pens or food-grade paint. You can also decorate eggs with all kinds of stickers - entrust the matter of choice to your little helpers. After such a busy day, they will have something to brag to their peers, and they will be able to share with them their recipes for how to paint eggs for Easter.
If you want to achieve an interesting ornament on "Easter eggs", before you dye the eggs, you can wrap them in gauze with rice prepared in advance, and then put them in a saucepan. Your Easter eggs will become puffy with this coloring method. Using tape and duct tape, eggs can be decorated with all kinds of geometric shapes. For this method, it is necessary to prepare several different dyes. A decorative pattern on the eggs can be obtained if you wrap the "Easter egg" with thread or a thin elastic band before cooking. To achieve the effect of “marble” eggs is simple: add a little vegetable oil to the food coloring and boil the eggs in this mixture.
Using the leaves of parsley, dill or another plant, you can get an original pattern on Easter eggs. To do this, carefully attach the leaf to the egg and wrap everything tightly together in a stocking or gauze, tightly fix it. Place the resulting design in a solution in which you will paint the eggs.
These are not all ways to decorate Easter eggs. As mentioned above, it all depends on your imagination!