The brightest holiday for Orthodox Christians is coming. Easter is filled with kindness and love, and warm and sunny spring days give the celebration a special atmosphere. For the holiday, it is customary to bake cakes, make a cottage cheese delicacy - Easter, and of course, paint eggs, the tradition of exchanging them has been going on since ancient times.

All housewives know how to paint eggs with natural dyes, most of them prefer the most common method - with onion peels. However, there are many equally original and, most importantly, safe ways to color ordinary chicken eggs in all colors of the rainbow.

Secrets of coloring

When buying eggs, you need to look at the expiration date. Only the freshest are selected, because they are painted on Maundy Thursday, 3 days before they can be eaten, besides, they have to be stored for another 9 days - until the parent's day.

Why do you need to paint eggs at home on Thursday, why can't you do it, say, on Friday or Saturday? On this day, all preparations for Easter come to an end.

On Good Friday, it is forbidden to do anything, on Saturday you need to do charity work, adhere to fasting and decorate your home for the bright holiday. Therefore, by Thursday you need to stock up on everything you need: dyes, as well as decorative elements - rice, scraps of fabric, threads - it depends on your imagination.

Cook should be at least half an hour, so that the protein darkens. Long cooking is due to the subsequent storage of the product, otherwise it may simply not live up to the parent's day. In this case, a lot of water is required, moreover, you need to ensure that it does not boil away, and constantly add.

Before dyeing, the eggs can be wiped with vinegar, then the dye is better absorbed. Hands during the procedure must be dry and clean.

If the hostess wants the testicles to be evenly and beautifully colored, no matter what natural dye she chooses, she should not be thrown into the water, but put in a nylon sock, tied and lowered into a saucepan. Otherwise, the dye particles will stick to the shell, and it will become variegated.

Eggs can be painted not only on the outside, but also on the inside. To do this, they need to be boiled for 3 minutes, then take out and gently pierce the shell from several places with a thin sharp needle. After that, boil until tender.

Choosing a natural dye

The popular onion husk stains the shell in a rich red-brown, orange or yellow color, it all depends on its amount and the time during which the eggs will be in solution.

What else can you paint eggs at home:

1. Coffee and black tea give them a beautiful brown or natural beige color.
2. Elderberries or blueberries will make your Easter eggs pale lilac or blue.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

3. Red cabbage will act as a natural blue dye.
4. Carrots, oranges and lemons color the eggshells light yellow.
5. The beets will give the eggs a dramatic purple color.
6. Turmeric is bright yellow.
7. Spinach and nettle leaves are green.
8. Cranberry, raspberry and cherry juice - pink and bright red.
9. A beautiful muted yellow shade can be achieved with the help of walnut shells, chamomile flowers, saffron, St. John's wort.

So, if you have decided on natural dyes for Easter eggs, it's time to start the dyeing process.

Onion peel

This method was used by our grandmothers, but even now it is not has lost its relevance. In the process of dyeing, the eggs acquire a beautiful rich shade.

This will require the husk of at least 8 large bulbs, which is harvested in advance.

Stages of staining:

By the way, do not rush to pour the broth of onion peel after staining. You can use it for culinary purposes and bake the brisket in the husk. And women who strive to ensure that their hair always looks great know that you can rinse your hair with such a decoction. The husk not only strengthens them, but also gives a delightful reddish tint and shine to the hair.

How to paint eggs in onion peel broth - video recipe

Beet

An affordable root vegetable can give eggs both a hot pink and an intense burgundy color. There are several options for dyeing with beets. Let's consider each of them in detail.

Option number 1:

1. Grate 1 large beet and squeeze the juice out of it.
2. Place the boiled eggs in the solution.
3. Pink color will turn out if you hold them for one hour, burgundy - if you leave them overnight. It is important to ensure that the juice covers the eggs completely.

Option number 2:

1. Grate the beets.
2. Pour the mixture with water.
3. Add vinegar to the solution.
4. Put the juice on the fire and bring to a boil.
5. Put boiled eggs in the solution. Their color will also depend on how long they will be in the beet water.

Option number 3:

1. Grate the beets on a fine grater.
2. Grate the eggs with the resulting gruel. Keep in mind that they may become unevenly colored, and small specks will appear on the shell.

Coloring Easter eggs with any natural dyes, including beets, is best done with gloves, because your hands will also be stained, subsequently washing them will be problematic.

Option number 4:

1. Peel the beets, cut into chunks.
2. Pour cold water over the root vegetable and raw eggs.
3. Boil for the allotted time.

By the way, if you mix beet juice with turmeric and color the eggs in the resulting solution, they will turn out to be a beautiful green color.

Hibiscus

If you want to get something original and surprise your
loved ones with beautiful sky-blue Easter eggs, then try to paint them in an exotic hibiscus (tea made from Sudanese rose petals).

Stages of staining:

1. Boil 500 ml of hibiscus with boiling water in a large saucepan, cool.
2. Boil eggs (they should be white).
3. Dip boiled eggs into the hibiscus solution, hold them there for a few minutes, remove and dry.
4. Dip again in the broth. If the eggs are kept in the infuser for a long time, they will acquire an unaesthetic gray tint.

Spinach

The most common spinach will color Easter eggs in green.

Stages of staining:

1. Wash and dry the spinach.
2. Wrap each egg with a white shell in a spinach leaf.
3. Fasten the leaves with threads, rubber bands, or put eggs in a nylon sock.
4. Boil for the required amount of time.
5. Cool the solution and put eggs in it again to achieve the brightest, saturated color.

Important: if you use fresh spinach, the eggshell will be green, if frozen - beige, which also looks very impressive.

Turmeric

Turmeric staining is very popular. White eggs take on a pleasant light yellow hue, brown eggs - a rich orange.

Please note that turmeric is not completely soluble in water, so stir the water carefully so as not to touch or damage the shell. It is advisable to take the old saucepan, because the walls of the dishes will turn bright orange and it will be difficult to wash it. This can be done using the usual "Whiteness".

Turmeric is a highly dyeing substance, so it is better to carry out the procedure with gloves, and cover the table with oilcloth or newspapers.

Stages of staining:

Do not be alarmed if the protein also turns orange, this is just the effect of a natural dye. There is no threat to health.

Red cabbage

A blue tint can be obtained using more than just tea leaves hibiscus tea, but also red cabbage. There are two color options:

• The first is when boiled eggs are immersed in cabbage juice and left for several hours.
• The second is when they are boiled with cabbage juice.

In the first case, a sky blue color is obtained, in the second - a saturated azure shade. Let's consider each option in detail.

Option number 1:

Option number 2

1. Pour raw eggs with cabbage juice.
2. Cook as usual.
3. Take out the finished eggs, then put them back in the cooled solution.

Decoction of birch leaves

Easter eggs are delicious yellow
golden color, such an interesting shade can be achieved only with the help of natural coloring, not a single chemical dye is able to give such a spectacular shade. On the festive table, bright eggs will glow and play in the sun with a golden glitter.

Stages of staining:

1. Rinse birch leaves, place in a saucepan and cover with cold water.
2. Simmer for half an hour.
3. Infuse the broth for an hour.
4. Pour the products prepared for coloring with chilled broth, cook until tender.

Blueberry staining

With frozen berries, you can color the eggs in a deep blue.

Stages of staining:

1. Defrost the blueberries and grind them together with the liquid remaining after thawing in a blender.
2. Add a tablespoon of vinegar and half a glass of hot water to the berry mixture.
3. Put boiled eggs (the shell should be white) in the mixture and leave for 5-6 hours.

Original ways to decorate with your own hands

Everyone at home can be connected to the fascinating process, especially children love to do this.

Refined and unique designs on Easter eggs are obtained by dyeing them using fabrics, for example, pieces of an old silk tie or Pavlovo Paschans scarves. You can use any other fabrics you like and would like to reproduce.

• Powdered sugar patterns.

Beautiful dazzling white patterns with your own hands can be applied to painted eggs using powdered sugar. Extraordinary printed texture of the ingredient used will make Easter eggs unique, no matter what color they are painted, even in delicate pastel, even in bright, saturated.

1. Ready-made powdered sugar is used, but if it is not at hand, then ordinary granulated sugar (one glass is enough) must be crushed in a coffee grinder. Mix the powder with water so that a thick, viscous and homogeneous mass is obtained. The liquid mixture will flow over the egg.
2. Collect the resulting solution with a confectionery syringe and apply to colored and pre-cooled eggs.
3. To make it easier to paint eggs, they need to be placed in a glass or on a special stand. Brushes can be used instead of a syringe.

• Dryapanki.

This painting technique has been used since ancient times. On painted and chilled eggs, a layer of paint is scraped off with a knife or other sharp object, thus creating the desired pattern.

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A traditional Easter gift is a colored egg as a symbol of the birth of a new life. They eat it first at the Easter table, and give it to relatives, neighbors who come to congratulate, take it with them when they go to visit, be sure to give it to the poor and leave it in the church. There is also the custom of giving colored eggs, followed by christianity.

In this article, we'll show you how to paint eggs for Easter. Be sure to involve younger family members in this process. For them it will be a useful creative activity, and for you it will be an additional opportunity to spend time with children.

Plant leaves

Take a leaf from an indoor or wild plant, put it on an egg, put on a nylon stocking or gauze on top. Secure the ends of the fabric with an elastic band. Color the egg according to the instructions on the package.

Scotch tape, electrical tape, self-adhesive paper

Easter eggs, painted sequentially in two dyes of different colors using electrical tape, look interesting:

For example, the Easter egg in the series of photographs above was first pasted over with a strip of duct tape in one direction and painted yellow. After the paint had dried, pasted over with a strip of tape of the same width, but in a different direction, and painted blue. Blue and yellow when mixed gave green. It will be interesting for the child to experiment with mixing different colors. As a result of such entertaining experiments, he will not only learn how to paint eggs, but also learn how to get additional colors by mixing the main ones.

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Lace

One way to make marble eggs

You can first paint the eggs in one color in your usual way. Then prepare another dye, add it to the water along with vegetable oil, mix the liquid with a fork. Then, one by one, immerse the eggs in the dye solution, trying to collect as many oil patterns as possible on the surface of the liquid. Dip the eggs in a napkin and let them dry.

If you don't have egg dye, you can use a permanent marker to paint on the eggs.

Or with felt-tip pens

You can paint a hard-boiled and not cooled egg with wax crayons (crayons). In doing so, they will melt and create beautiful patterns on it. When painting an egg, put it on a stand, after completing the work, let it dry for an hour.

Easter eggs painted with silk shreds

Cut the fabric into pieces, wrap the eggs with the front side in, wrap the top with a rag, and tie tightly. Boil the eggs for 20 minutes.

Remove the shreds. In order for the eggs to acquire a beautiful shine, lubricate them, after they dry, with vegetable oil.

Speckled Easter eggs

To obtain the marbled effect of eggs painted with onion skins, you need to wrap the eggs in onion skins and tie them with some cotton material on top. Cook for 15-20 minutes.

Eggs dyed in turmeric broth

Add 2-3 tablespoons of turmeric to hot water. To make the color more saturated, the water must be boiled. During boiling, you need to be careful: if the water escapes, then there will be serious problems with cleaning the stove, because Turmeric is a fairly strong colorant. In the resulting broth, you can either boil the eggs (you get a more saturated color), or just soak the boiled ones.

Eggs dyed in beet juice

Eggs dyed in red cabbage infusion

Eggs dyed in black tea infusion

Painting eggs for Easter is an integral ritual of one of the main Christian holidays, symbolizing the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. This holiday is beautiful and solemn, with well-established centuries-old traditions. In addition to a deep religious meaning, Easter is associated with the cleansing of the soul and home, with delicious cakes and Easter dishes.

The egg is rightfully considered a symbol of the birth of life, and the painted Easter egg means the resurrection from the dead and eternal life. It turns out that painted eggs were found in Egyptian and Sumerian tombs, which were built in the 3rd millennium BC. NS. It is even difficult to imagine how long this tradition has existed.

Orthodox Christians paint eggs during Holy Week on Maundy Thursday or Red Saturday. In 2019, this is April 26 and 28, respectively. Painted eggs are consecrated in the church at a festive service, and the first meal after Lent begins with eggs.

Dyeing eggs for Easter with your own hands has become not only a family work, but also a kind of competition - whose dyes are the most beautiful. And there are a great many ways to paint eggs. You can, of course, paint eggs for Easter with paints, but this is still harmful chemicals, and food paints are not always on sale. Here are some natural ways to color your eggs at home.

Staining eggs with onion skins - the traditional way

This is my favorite and most reliable way to color eggs. With this method, eggs are always obtained with a beautiful color. I start harvesting onion husks a few months before Easter - I collect it in a separate bag. In order for the color of the eggs to turn out to be saturated, there should be a lot of onion peels.

Pour the onion peel into a saucepan and fill it with cold water. We put on the stove and bring to a boil.

Use a worse pan, as the husk will paint the sides of the pan so that it will be difficult to clean.

Pour the eggs in a separate bowl with cold water and leave for 10 minutes.

Water with onion husks boils at this time, we reduce the fire so that the eggs do not crack. Add 1 tablespoon of salt to the pan and carefully, one by one, lower the eggs. Cook over low heat for 15 minutes.

If you want a more intense color, remove the pan from the heat and leave the eggs in this solution for a while longer.

After taking them out of the pan, let the eggs cool slightly and rub with sunflower oil with a paper napkin to make them shine.

Now the eggs "played" with paint, you can put them in a basket and carry them to the church to consecrate. I try to bless eggs every time at Easter, and then treat my family, friends and neighbors.

How to paint eggs in patterned onion skins

If in the first recipe it was possible to use any eggs - white or brown, then when painting with onion peels with a pattern, white eggs are suitable.

For decorating eggs, we prepare plant leaves in advance. Before Easter, fresh leaves are not always there, because this holiday can be in March, when nature is still asleep. Therefore, you can use fresh herbs from the store - parsley, basil, dill, mint or lemon balm.

Birch leaves look beautiful. You can put a few branches in a vase of water in advance, and when the leaves bloom, use a few to decorate Easter eggs.

Lace, woolen threads are also suitable for coloring eggs with a pattern.

You will also need to prepare clean old stockings, tights or gauze in advance. You will also need threads.

So, we paint the eggs.

Pour onion husks with cold water and bring to a boil.

We wash the eggs, dry them with a paper towel and wipe each egg with a cloth with vinegar.

Put a leaf or other decor on the egg, press it tightly and wrap the egg in a piece of stocking fabric or gauze.

To make the leaf stick more tightly to the egg, you can moisten it a little with water.

We tie a nylon or gauze fabric with a thread.

You can paint eggs beautifully and in an original way with lace and onion peels. It's simple - we cut the lace to the required length and wrap the egg with it. We tie the ends with a thread and cut off all unnecessary.

You can also decorate the egg with woolen threads. Just wrap the egg randomly with string.

To prevent the eggs from cracking, pour 1 tbsp into the broth. l. salt. Gently dip the eggs into the broth with onion skins and cook for 10-15 minutes. Then gently immerse the eggs in cold water.

Remove the decor from the cooled eggs and wipe the eggs with vegetable oil.

Marble eggs with brilliant green

But this method is my favorite. The eggs turn out to be unusually beautiful, with marble stains. I will share one secret of this method - the more we chop the onion peel, the more beautiful the drawing will turn out. You can even try grinding the husks in a coffee grinder. I like to grind up the husks with scissors.

To make the husks stick well to the eggs, moisten them with water, then roll each egg in the onion husks. Put some more husk in a piece of gauze or stocking, place the egg inside and wrap it around. Tie the ends with a string. Put to cook in a saucepan, adding 1 tsp. salt. 5 minutes after boiling, pour in 2 tsp. brilliant green and cook for another 5 minutes. Then pour over the eggs with cold water and remove the cheesecloth, remove the husks. Rub the eggs with sunflower oil.

Beautiful marble eggs are ready!

How to color eggs with onion skins and rice

Another simple and wonderful option for dyeing eggs in natural ways. The rice sticks to the eggs and creates a pattern in the form of droplets. This method is very simple, try it. In addition to rice, you can also use peas.

Pour grains of rice or peas into a stocking, place an egg there, use your fingers to distribute the grain around the entire circumference of the egg. Tie the fabric, and dip the eggs into the prepared broth with onion peel. Cook for 10 minutes, rinse the eggs under running cold water and free them from stockings or gauze and grains. After the eggs have cooled slightly, rub them with vegetable oil.

Staining eggs with natural dyes

I already wrote that it is fundamentally against chemistry and coloring eggs with paints. Yes, beautiful and brighter, but health is more important. Moreover, there is a good substitute in the form of natural and harmless dyes from natural ingredients. Of course, these are all kinds of juices - beetroot, blueberry juice, red cabbage juice, spinach juice and others. From the juice of cranberries, raspberries and beets, you will get a pink color, from the juice of blueberries, pomegranates or black currants - purple, and if you want to get blue or blue, then use the juice of red cabbage. A rich yellow color gives turmeric, while black tea or coffee gives you browns. Boiling the bark and cherry branches, you get reddish - raspberry eggs. I want to warn you that bright colors are not always obtained this way. To make the color brighter, after boiling the eggs, you need to keep them in the broth for at least 4 hours, and it is better to leave them overnight.

Beet coloring of eggs

If you want to get the pink color of the eggs, then beet juice is suitable for this coloring method. You need to tinker a little more with dyeing eggs in a natural way than with ordinary paints, but if you care about your health, then this work will pay off handsomely.

Beets should be prepared in such a way that more juice is obtained. To do this, rub the beets on a grater, fill with water and cook for 5-7 minutes. You can boil eggs in the same broth. Then we rub the beets through a strainer, you get a rich burgundy juice. Pour eggs with this juice in a separate bowl, pour in 1 tbsp. l. vinegar and leave for 4-8 hours.

Staining eggs with red cabbage juice

Red cabbage will give the eggs a blue color.

The painting method is similar to the previous one. Cut the cabbage into large pieces, fill it with water, cook for 5-7 minutes with the eggs, strain the hot broth into a separate bowl. Add 1 tbsp there. l. vinegar and keep eggs in this broth for 4-8 hours.

How to dye eggs with turmeric

Turmeric provides perhaps the most intense color of all natural dyes. The eggs are beautiful, bright yellow.

For such a painting, pour a bag of turmeric (15 g) into boiling water, stir and add 1 tsp. salt. We put eggs in this solution and cook for about 10 minutes. To make the paint brighter, we leave the eggs in this solution for several hours. Rub with sunflower oil for shine.

Coloring eggs with coffee or tea

I want to warn you right away that with the help of coffee or tea, a not very rich, but delicate beige color of eggs is obtained.

You can use both natural and instant coffee or black tea. For coloring, prepare a solution - put 4-5 tbsp in boiling water. l. coffee in 0.5 liters of water. If you use tea, you will also need 4-5 tbsp. l. black tea for brewing. Cook for 5 minutes, add 1 tsp. salt and lower the eggs. Cook for another 7 minutes. And as always for natural dyes, it is advisable to hold it in the solution for a longer time, at least 5 hours.

How to color eggs with blueberry juice

The method of coloring with blueberries is similar to the previous ones. The eggs turn out to be a beautiful purple color.

For 1 liter of water, you will need 2.5-3 cups of frozen blueberries. The berries need to be boiled a little (5 minutes), add 1 tsp. salt and lower the eggs. After cooking, you can rub the blueberries through a strainer, get pure juice without berries. But I don't bother, I just boil eggs and berries. Cook for another 3-4 minutes, pour in 1 tbsp. l. vinegar to set the color. You can leave the eggs in a saucepan overnight.

Decoupage Easter eggs

I learned about this method of decorating eggs quite recently, a couple of years ago, and it became my favorite. After all, there are a lot of napkins with various beautiful designs in our stores now, you need to choose brighter, and then you will get very beautiful and original eggs.

1. Decoupage napkins should be chosen with a medium-sized pattern to fit on the egg.
2. We select eggs for decoupage in white.
3. It is better to choose napkins on a white background, then the drawing will not have to be cut very carefully with scissors.
4. The best way to stick napkins is with egg white.

To get beautiful and whole Easter eggs, you need to remember 7 basic rules:

1. Before boiling the eggs, take them out of the refrigerator a few hours before boiling. Eggs shouldn't be cold!
2. Boil eggs over low heat, avoiding cracking.
3. To prevent the eggs from bursting, you need to put 1 tbsp in the water with eggs. l. salt.
4. To fix the pigment in the paint, pour 1 tsp into the dye solution. vinegar, the paint will become brighter.
5. If you want a richer color when coloring eggs with natural dyes, leave the eggs in the broth overnight.
6. Gently wipe the dyed eggs with a paper towel.
7. For shine and beauty, wipe the cooled eggs with sunflower oil.

I wish you a beautiful and delicious holiday. After all, Easter personifies the resurrection of life, nature, light feelings. May this light come to every home and fill hearts with joy.

Environmental friendliness is in trend today, and this is not only following fashion, but also taking care of your health. Many have already tried to dye eggs for Easter with natural dyes: tea or coffee, especially since different types of raw materials produce interesting unusual shades. The age of synthetic dyes is a thing of the past, and despite the fact that they are written "food", there are many "E" in the composition, and some of them are not at all so safe.

Eggs dyed with natural dyes are absolutely harmless even for young children: they can be allowed to play with dyed eggs, eat them, and not be afraid that some of the chemical dye will pass to the protein. Completely environmentally friendly, and with the right painting and selection of ingredients, it is also very beautiful!

How to prepare eggs for tea or coffee dyeing

It is not so easy to handle natural dyes, and if you do the same as with synthetic food, the effect will be unstable and weak. Take advantage of these tips from eco-color professionals to make you happy the first time.

• For coloring with natural dyes, use only white eggs: the color on them will be pure, beautiful and bright enough. On brown - dyes fall weakly, and sometimes it is not even noticeable that they produced a color.
• After boiling the eggs, rinse them well in warm water using baking soda to remove the slightest plaque and dirt, and wipe with vinegar to degrease and improve the adhesion of the paint to the surface. The paint will cover evenly.
• If you plan to get a rich shade, you can skip the eggs for 1-2 minutes. Then you cook them in dye over low heat, so they cook well. However, if the future krashanki are already ready, it's okay, a couple of extra minutes of heating won't hurt them.

How to dye eggs with black and green tea, mate, hibiscus and coffee

Various natural ingredients are suitable for coloring eggs. There are many types of tea alone, and unique colors are obtained from different varieties. Try all the options available to you, and you will see that you can get a fairly large number of shades.

It is advisable to add 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar to all natural dyes to fix the color and make it brighter.

How much eggs should you keep in tea or coffee?

• To get pastel colors, 15-20 minutes in hot dye is enough (more precisely indicated in specific recipes).
• To make the color saturated, place the egg in a container with dye, and heat for 2-3 minutes over low heat, observing the color change.
• There are recipes in which it is advisable to leave the eggs in the infusion overnight, in which case you will get the maximum brightness of the color.

If you leave the eggs overnight in the infusion with the leaves, you will most likely get a “marbled” effect.

Coloring the eggs with black coffee

Usually they use instant coffee, in granules or powder, and in this case, the cheaper the better, since it will contain a lot of dyes, stabilizers and other chemicals that will give the eggs a bright coffee color.

Proportions - 1 rounded teaspoon for each egg. Color 5 eggs - take 5 spoons of coffee.

Pour coffee with water in a saucepan, boil over medium heat for about a minute.

Alternatively, put the eggs in the same container and boil for another 3-5 minutes for a delicate coffee shade.

Or fill the dye with a solution and leave for 3-5 hours for a bright chocolate color.

We paint eggs with black tea

Black tea is good because it gives a very bright color, and so you can dye even naturally brown eggs, and they will look fresh and interesting. However, it looks good and rich on white too.

Proportions - 2-4 tablespoons per 0.5 - 1 liter of hot water.

Brew strong tea, immerse future krashanki in it for about 15 minutes. If the shade is weak, you can boil the eggs in the leaves, or leave overnight.

An interesting idea: if you prepare a very strong tea (chifir) in a proportion of 8 teaspoons to 0.5 liters of boiling water, and pour eggs over them for an hour, you get a very rich color. If you paint white eggs, then you can scratch thin drawings or inscriptions, they will be white and contrasting on a dark background.

We paint hibiscus eggs

This is an interesting creative experiment. The fact is that, depending on the concentration, dyeing time, a specific brand and many other factors, the shade can turn out from pale lilac to gray-blue and even deep blue. Only white eggs can be dyed this way.

Proportions: 1-2 tablespoons per 0.5 liter of water. For a bright blue color - 100 grams of hibiscus per liter of water.

Brew hibiscus and let it brew for 5 minutes.

Dip the egg in the infusion for 2-3 minutes.

Take out with a spoon, dry and look at the color.

Repeat if necessary.

Do not leave eggs in hibiscus for a long time, as there is a risk of a gray color, which does not look very festive.

If hibiscus gives blue shades, and you want reddish ones, add a couple of drops of lemon juice or a couple of grains of citric acid to the infusion.

We paint eggs mate

Mate tea gives a very original delicate pistachio color, and if you hold the eggs longer, the shade will be quite green.

The proportion is 50 grams of tea per liter of water.

Brew the mate, let it brew for about 15 minutes.

Bring to a boil again.

Dip the eggs in the infusion and leave for 1 hour.

We paint eggs with green tea

Green tea is rarely used, since it does not give a rich shade, however, you can experiment with it, getting a yellow or pale green color.

Proportions - 2 tablespoons of large leaf tea in 0.5 liters of water.

Brew tea, cover, let it brew for 5 minutes.

Put the eggs in the solution for 15-20 minutes, remove and check.

If the color is weak, immerse it for another 15-20 minutes, boil it in the infusion or leave it in it overnight.

How do I get the color I want?

• Pink - hibiscus, most likely - with a couple of drops of lemon juice.
• Blue or blue - hibiscus, depending on concentration.
• Pale yellow and lemon green tea.
• Light green and pistachio green tea and mate.
• Chocolate and coffee - instant coffee.
• Dark brown, red-brown - black tea.

It is more convenient to dip the eggs into the infusion in a high container, by 0.5 - 1 liter, in this case, 4-6 eggs are usually placed there at once. But you can experiment with glasses, in this case, brew the leaves in a glass, and put 1-2 eggs there - this process is usually longer.

Rub dry eggs with sunflower or olive oil for a bright and beautiful color. Dip a tissue or cotton ball in the oil and apply a small amount to the egg, as if polishing it. If the dye is smeared and peeled off, it means that it has not yet been absorbed well enough, but usually the problem does not arise.

Conclusions:

• Natural eco-friendly dyes are much healthier and safer than synthetic food dyes. For children, it is better to choose natural paints.
• You can color eggs with instant coffee, black and green tea, mate, hibiscus.
• Submerge the eggs in the dye for 5-15 minutes, then remove and control the shade. For the most saturated color, you can leave the eggs in the dye overnight, or boil them in the paint for 2-3 minutes.
• If the egg cracks and the dye gets on the protein, it is absolutely safe to eat it.

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Paint the eggs green with spinach and nettles.

A delicate green tint for Easter eggs can be obtained by boiling them with herbal infusions. Frozen spinach is used to make the shell greens. A package of 500 grams is thrown into a liter of boiling water, after 5 minutes of cooking, eggs are placed, which are boiled for another 15-20 minutes.

In addition to spinach, green can be obtained from a decoction of dry nettle. For a liter of boiling water, a standard pharmacy package of nettles is used.

The green color palette is not very bright. Brown testicles should not be stained this way.

We paint the eggs brown with coffee.

Natural or instant coffee is also a known source of browns. For an intense color, use plenty of coffee grounds. If you have a coffee machine, then it is worth collecting 2-3 cups of coffee cake, which needs to be dried, as it quickly grows moldy. We steam the collected coffee in 1.5 liters of boiling water, you should get a thick jail, and cook prepared eggs there.

Then we completely cool the eggs under cold water so that they are easy to clean, and again place them in the coffee grounds to infuse for several hours. In this way, you can get eggs of the color of milk chocolate. If you use instant coffee or a less saturated infusion of natural coffee, then the shade will turn out to be pale and similar to the natural color of brown eggs.

We paint eggs with tea .

With the help of tea, white-shell eggs can be dyed in several different colors.

Ordinary black tea, when brewed with chefir, gives a dull brown color to a white shell, if the eggs are left to infuse overnight.

Mate tea will give a yellowish-greenish hue to the shell if you brew 8-10 tea bags or 3 heaped teaspoons of loose products per liter of water. Immerse boiled eggs in a hot infusion and leave to cool for 6 hours.

Hibiscus tea or hibiscus flowers with a rich broth will give a gentle, but bright enough pink color with a lilac tint to your Easter eggs. The broth should be thick, dark beetroot color. Likewise, to saturate with the dye, leave the eggs submerged for up to 6 hours.

If one-color Easter gifts seem less fun to you, then before dipping into natural dye, you can wrap each testicle with a synthetic lace ribbon. In places of contact with the shell, the color will be less intense, an openwork pattern will be noticeable.

Easter eggs, painted in such different colors, are bright and very stable in color, moreover, they are completely harmless, unlike those painted with synthetic, albeit food, paints. Each one gets its own version of staining both in color intensity and in uniformity of distribution. You can get not only a plain, smooth color, but also marble, spotted and speckled motifs, depending on the quality of the eggshell and the methods used.

Make your friends and loved ones happy every Easter with fancy gifts for the feast after Lent.