By Easter, eggs are being painted in almost every home. If you paint them in one color, for example, with the help of onion peels, you get “dyes”. If an egg is painted with multi-colored dots, with the help of drops of wax, it is "speck". Eggs of the same color, but with a pattern scratched on them - "drapani". The most beautiful, "Easter eggs", have a complex pattern, made with the help of a special tool - a scribbler.
Method one. Decoupage
To decorate an Easter egg with a picture, you don't have to go to the store for stickers. You can decorate the egg using decoupage technique.
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Materials (edit)
egg
gelatin
napkin
Instruments
scissors
tassel
heat-resistant container
Preparation:
1 Make glue from gelatin. To do this, soak the gelatin according to the instructions on the package. Strain the gelatin through a strainer or gently drain off excess water. Heat the swollen gelatin in a container until the granules are completely dissolved. If the gelatin hardens while decorating the eggs, reheat it.
2 Divide the multi-layer cloth into separate layers. Cut pictures from one color layer.
3 Attach the cutout picture to the shell. Apply gelatin glue directly to the picture.
4 Your decoupage Easter egg is ready.
by the way
Spread the gelatin glue evenly over the picture, from the center to the edges.
Method two. Marble
Today we will share the secret of creating a marble shell.
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Materials (edit)
eggs
sunflower oil
Instruments
paint dilution tanks
fork
Preparation:
1 Color the required number of eggs light colors. Let them dry completely.
2 Add a spoonful of sunflower oil to a container with a darker color. Stir gently with a stick (not shaking!) To break a single oil stain into small, pea-sized stains. Dip the egg in the dye and butter and remove immediately.
3 For a beautiful marble effect, the egg only needs to be dipped once.
Method three. We paint with a cloth
To dye eggs, you can use old silk ties, pieces of silk chiffon or satin, and, if not a pity, a Pavlovo Posad woolen scarf.
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Materials (edit)
finely patterned fabric with unstable dye, such as silk jersey
white cotton coarse calico - flaps 15x15 cm
vinegar
eggs
Preparation:
1 Wrap a raw egg with a cloth so that the front (brightly patterned) is snug against the shell.
2 Sew the fabric by hand over the office of the egg. Try to avoid creases and strong creases.
3 Wrap the embroidered egg in a piece of cotton fabric. Secure the eggs from the blunt end by wrapping them tightly with threads.
4 Pour 3 tablespoons of vinegar into the water. Place the eggs, wrapped in a cloth, and put on fire. After the water boils, cook the eggs for 10-12 minutes. Then remove the pan from heat and cover with cold water.
5 When the eggs are cool, remove all layers of the fabric. A beautiful, delicate pattern will be imprinted on the shell.
6 Only a professional artist can paint an egg this way.
Method four. We paint with scotch tape
Using a ruler or centimeter to draw stripes or cells on the egg is inconvenient. We suggest using masking tape
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Materials (edit)
eggs
colorful dyes for eggs
masking tape
Instruments
breadboard knife
Preparation:
1 Color the boiled egg light. Glue 2-3 strips of masking tape on it at a distance of 3 mm from each other. Since there is no thin masking tape on sale, make the strips of the required width yourself. Line a wide masking tape directly on the spool into strips 5-10 mm wide. Slide along the entire length of the line with a dummy paper cutter. The thin strips of tape can now be used.
2 Dip the whole egg into green or blue paint. When the egg is dry, remove the tape strips.
The fifth method. Eggs with lace pattern
Lace can be replaced with parsley or dill leaves. Then proceed in the same way.
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Materials (edit)
boiled eggs
lace
nylon scraps
threads
multicolored food colors
Instruments
scissors
glasses for diluting paints
Preparation:
1 Cut the lace motif you like out of the napkin. Soak a piece of lace in water and place on the boiled egg.
2 Pull the laced egg tightly into the nylon tights flap. Tie from the blunt end with threads.
3 Dip the egg into the tissue in food coloring.
4 After a few seconds, remove the egg and gently remove the cloth.
5 Leave the eggs to dry.
Sixth method. With wax crayons
Color the boiled eggs with children's drawing wax crayons. After the egg is painted, dip it in food coloring. The entire shell will be colored, and the drawings will show through and become brighter against the background of a contrasting color.
Method seven. Decorating with ribbons or braid
Eggs decorated with ribbons, lace or braid look very festive. First, boil the eggs, you can paint them with special dyes or leave their natural color. Tie a ribbon around each testicle. To prevent it from slipping off, glue it to the shell with hot gun glue. It is not necessary to buy a heat gun for these purposes - the glue stick can be heated over the candle.
Method eight. Craft egg
A craft egg is a decoration option that will spark children's enthusiasm. Color the boiled eggs with yellow dye. To make a cock and a hen, it is enough to cut a scallop and a beak out of paper. The eyes can be drawn with a pencil. Glue the elements with a thick gelatin solution or PVA glue.
Method nine. Eggs marble
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Materials (edit)
4 eggs
2 tablespoons of tea
1 tablespoon soy sauce
0.25 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 clove bud
Preparation:
1 Hard-boiled eggs - for 15 minutes, rinse with cold water. Put on a table surface and, gently tapping, crush the shell over the entire surface of the egg.
2 In a saucepan, boil water, add tea leaves, add soy sauce and spices. Place eggs directly in crushed shells and cook over low heat for 40 minutes. Allow to cool without removing from the broth.
by the way
This recipe can use not only nutmeg and cloves, but also any other spices - ginger, cinnamon, star anise. If you plan on serving marbled eggs for breakfast, boil them the day before and leave them in the broth overnight for an even more intense color and flavor.
Method ten. Decals
All mothers know that children love to paint whatever comes their way. Therefore, there is nothing better than entrusting them to paint chicken eggs for Easter.
WHAT DO YOU NEED?
Materials (edit)
chicken eggs
food colors in tubes
felt-tip pens with food colors
egg stickers
Instruments
scissors
glass of water
Preparation:
1 First, boil the eggs and cool. You can paint them in light colors or traditionally with onion peels.
For any Orthodox person, Easter is the most important holiday. Every year, most families in our country bake Easter cakes, prepare Easter and, of course, paint eggs. Everyone wants something new, and it's worth a lot to surprise relatives and neighbors with your creation.
Easter eggs
Interestingly, the tradition of giving each other colored eggs for Easter dates back to the time of the emperor. Tiberias. Naturally, over the past period, many dyes and original solutions have been found.
Eggs colored with onion peel solution
You can diversify this painting by wrapping the eggs with cloth or putting a leaf (parsley, dill, basil) in gauze, then an unusual pattern will be printed on the shell.
Patterned eggs painted with onion peels
The fashionable trend is marble coloring. To get this effect, you need to wrap the egg in cloth, put small pieces of newspaper or notebook in it, and twist it tightly. After dyeing the eggs in an intense solution, without unwrapping, transfer them to a solution of a less intense color or another dye (for example, red cabbage or nettles). In great detail about how to make beautiful "marble" eggs using onion peels and brilliant green is described in.
Egg dyes
Personally, I bought just such dyes for the upcoming holiday.
Gift option.
And such crafts can be created with children. They will not only be a wonderful festive decoration, but also become toys for kids.
You will find a detailed master class on decorating souvenir Easter eggs made of foam. And then these crafts can be used to decorate the house and the festive table for Easter; here are the ideas for such a decor: and in a vase.
Easter set for decor
Marble eggs with decorative stickers. Photo from the site fotki.yandex.ru by elena-bond13
Egg Transfer Kits
Easter cake and eggs in thermal stickers
Having wrapped the egg with multi-colored threads and welded it, we get a beautiful striped egg. Or you can simply wrap a colored or boiled egg with threads - we will get such an original creative decoration for an Easter composition.
Decoration with threads
What can you not imagine to surprise those around you with your creation on the eve of Easter. For dyeing with fabrics, choose bright shreds of natural silk, wrap the eggs in them, fixing well with threads, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vinegar and cook for 20 minutes. You can use silk fabric, for example, from an old men's tie.
You will receive works of art on the way out. I myself would not risk it, because I do not know how harmless it is for the child.
Since ancient times, people have exchanged eggs and cakes for the Easter holiday. The tradition has evolved over the years, as a result of which many ways of coloring and decorating paraphernalia have appeared. With the words "Christ is risen!" men and women, children and the older generation exchange eggs, later examining intricate patterns. Among other things, coloring eggs is a rather fascinating process that can rally households. There are basic methods, we will consider them in more detail.
As mentioned earlier, experienced housewives, through trial and error, have identified the main options for coloring eggs for Easter. However, regardless of the chosen method, they must be prepared in advance.
When you have prepared the "material", start painting. Choose the best option for yourself, then strictly follow the instructions.
Food colors are rightfully considered the most common type of coloring for Easter eggs. You can purchase ready-made colors or bring out your own shades. Pigments can be pearlescent, glossy or matte, it all depends on the manufacturer.
To properly prepare the composition, take care of so many containers in advance that there is a separate bowl for each color. Dilute the paint with water at room temperature, there should be a lot of liquid so that the eggs completely drown in it.
After diluting the paint, pour in 30 ml. 1 tablespoon vinegar solution, then add boiled or raw eggs to the bowl. The exposure time varies, it all depends on the intensity of the shade you want to get.
Stencil
Vegetable oil
Insulating tape
Stationery rubber bands
Plant leaves
The technique is similar to the stencil technique with only one clarification - plant leaves are used as a pattern, most often parsley and dill act in their role.
Turmeric
Use ground turmeric for a tempting golden hue.
Red cabbage
A cabbage-based broth will give the eggs a rich blue hue.
Beet
Beets will help color the eggs in a raspberry or pinkish hue, it all depends on the duration of exposure of the product in solution.
Onion husks
Onion skins will color the eggs in a reddish-brown shade with a bronze tint.
Regardless of the color you choose, you can create patterns on Easter eggs using scrap materials.
Silk fabric
Eggs can be dyed with fabrics; silk or cotton with existing patterns is ideal for these purposes.
First, prepare the eggs for painting: take them out of the refrigerator, leave them at room temperature, pierce a thin hole in the shell with a sewing needle. Consider staining with food or natural dyes. Use a stencil, parsley leaves, silk fabric, or scrap materials to create a unique design.
It's spring outside, which means that soon the whole country will celebrate one of the main Christian holidays - Easter. Both adults and children are looking forward to this bright day, preparing traditional food and treats with pleasure. On the eve of the bright holiday of Easter, we want to tell you about interesting and unusual, as well as all known methods of painting eggs.
Since ancient times, it has been customary to exchange colored eggs during the Easter holiday. Since childhood, in many families, relatives came to each other and even played some kind of battle with eggs. Two people chose their testicles, in their opinion the strongest, and hit them against each other, first with sharp tips, and then with blunt ones - whoever did not break an egg during the collision won, taking the opponent's egg. It was possible to continue this action as long as there are those willing to fight for victory.
According to memories from childhood, painting Easter eggs is a very entertaining activity. Children so enthusiastically and diligently immerse eggs in multi-colored solutions, stick stickers, tie them with threads and improvised materials to obtain spectacular lines and patterns.
All preparations for Easter begin at Maundy Thursday , the day when the soul and body are cleansed spiritually and physically. It's not for nothing that Thursday is called clean, according to Christian customs, on this day you need to wash yourself thoroughly, take a dip in running water, and even better go to the bathhouse. On Good Thursday, in addition to everything else, you need to thoroughly clean up, wash dirty clothes, clean everything, because on the following days before Easter it will be impossible to do household chores.
And, of course, on Maundy Thursday they bake cakes, make Easter, paint eggs.
Have you ever wondered why eggs are painted on Easter? And do you know what color should be painted according to tradition?
The most beautiful legend says that during the existence of the Roman Empire, in order to get an audience with the emperor, it was required to bring him something as a gift. The rich brought gold, and ordinary people carried everything that they had in their household. So, Mary Magdalene, intending to inform the ruler Tiberius about the resurrection of Christ, was able to bring as a gift just a white chicken egg with the words: "Christ is Risen!"
Seeing him, the emperor laughed and said that he would believe it, if only the egg turns red, and at the same moment the testicle acquired a bloody hue. Then the stunned Tiberius exclaimed: "In truth he was Risen!"
After that, the traditional color for coloring the testicles became red, purple, and the custom of christening is still known to both young and old.
Coloring eggs in onion skins is still considered one of the most popular methods. In order to make the testicles even more attractive and cute, you can press the dried leaves, blades of grass to them and tie them with threads, then lowering the husks into the dyeing solution. The color can vary from lighter to darker depending on the time the eggs are kept in the broth.
a light yellow color is obtained if you grate boiled eggs with lemon, orange or carrot juice;
In order for the testicles to be colored in the broth, you need to add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to it (in a small saucepan of the solution). Let the broth steep for about 30 minutes and start laying eggs. You need to cook the eggs for 15-30 minutes, depending on what color you want to get in saturation, in some cases you can leave the eggs in the solution overnight, for example, when stained with spinach or violet flowers.
You can make different patterns on Easter eggs by wrapping them with an elastic band for money, colored threads, cut out blanks, again tying them with threads. You can dip the egg in water, and then roll it in rice, or some other cereal, and after wrapping it in cheesecloth, boil it in a dye solution.
The testicles will acquire a marble effect if a little vegetable oil is added to the water a minute before the end of cooking, or you can spread it on already cooked dyes.
Probably the easiest way, for those who have no time to bother. As a rule, in small bags there are multi-colored powders that are diluted in boiling water with the addition of a spoonful of vinegar. Our testicles are laid in this solution for 5-15 minutes, depending on what color intensity you want to get.
An easy, fast and convenient way to decorate your eggs for Easter. You can apply the film on pre-boiled and painted eggs, or on regular white or brown eggs.
Very unusual testicles are obtained if they are pasted over with cereals, while still drawing various patterns. Try painting the egg with wax crayons and then painting it for an original design. Another idea is to wrap the eggs with insulating paper and paint in this form, the output will be beautiful straight lines, or any word or sign that you stick on.
First you need to prepare a gelatinous mass, a kind of glue. Then take a beautiful napkin with a picture or ornament you like, or a flower. Cut out a fragment and press it against our testicle, and apply a layer of gelatinous glue on top. Let it dry and enjoy the beauty of your creation.
Inventive and non-standard people can prepare such eggs for Easter.
And the kids will undoubtedly love the eggs in the form of their favorite characters. The guys themselves will be happy to paint them, dry them and admire their work.
Eggs painted with a variety of fabrics look very expensive and uncomplicated. In order for the pattern to move from the fabric to the egg, you need to tightly wrap the raw egg with a cloth (front side), and tie it with elastic bands, or just sew it, making a few stitches around the edges so that everything does not slip during the cooking process.
Then boil in water for about 10-15 minutes, with the addition of a spoonful of vinegar. Then put it in cold water, carefully remove the fabric and evaluate the resulting masterpiece.
These are the beautiful testicles obtained after dyeing with tissues.
An original way that requires only a little patience, skill and a marker. Place the egg on a special stand and display the most beautiful patterns either according to the scheme or to your taste.
Fashion does not stand still, now eggs are not only painted, but simply wrapped in colored foil, beads, sequins, confetti and other bells and whistles are glued on, and eggs are obtained - hand-made.
Nicely and not too hard to make the testicles fresher and more cheerful, you can use a variety of squiggles, flowers, sticks, specks, dots and other drawings. It all depends on the flight of your imagination. It is convenient to paint with a toothpick.
Choose from this variety of methods of decorating testicles the most suitable for you, experiment, because creating is always so pleasant and exciting.
Some kind of light feeling reigns in my soul when you are preparing for Easter, a feeling that everything will be fine. May there always be love and happiness, health and joy, comfort and prosperity in your home! Happy Easter to you!
For many, Easter is associated with eggs painted in different colors. Indeed, they are the main attributes of this bright holiday. The tradition of dyeing eggs came to us from the distant past. There are several versions of its origin.
One of the most widespread versions explaining why eggs are painted for Easter is associated with the legend of Mary Magdalene.
According to her, Mary, having learned about the resurrection of Jesus, decided to report this news to the Emperor Tiberius.
In those days, it was possible to visit the ruler only by presenting something to him as a gift. But the woman had nothing, then she decided to take the first thing that came to her hand - it was an ordinary chicken egg. Stretching out her gift to the emperor, she said - "Christ is risen!", To which Tiberius laughed and replied that he could only believe it if the egg turns red. At the same moment, the egg changed its color to bright red. Then the astonished ruler exclaimed - "Truly is risen!"
It was since then that people began to paint eggs red, and then presented them as a gift to each other. Over time, this tradition has changed somewhat, eggs began not only to be painted in different colors, but also
If you plan to eat eggs, dye them only with natural or food dyes. Before you start painting, the eggs need to be prepared, for this:
As a rule, packages with food colors sold in retail chains have detailed instructions. If there is none, you can proceed as follows:
Ready-made dyes, of course, are very convenient to use, but the safest and most "environmentally friendly" eggs come out that were dyed with natural dyes. To do this, you can use completely different products - berry juices, walnut shells, calendula flowers, birch leaves, beet juice, red cabbage, spinach, onion husks and much more. Consider the most affordable staining methods:
Boil the eggs, when they cool, glue the circles on the shell so that they fit as tightly as possible to the surface. Submerge the egg in the dye container for one or more minutes (the longer the egg is in the dye, the darker the color will be). After the dye is completely dry, remove the stickers.
They can be glued around the egg or in any order, made of the same or different thickness. Now immerse the egg in dark paint for five minutes. When it's dry, remove the tape.
In a similar way, you can create multi-colored stripes or any other ornaments, for this each time, dip the egg in paint darker than the previous one and stick and remove pieces of masking tape.
Wrap the egg several times with an elastic band for money, so that it stretches well and fits snugly to the surface. Then immerse the egg in the dye for a few minutes.
Attach a leaf of any plant to a boiled egg, then wrap it with a nylon sock or tights and tie it securely fixing the leaf. Then immerse the egg in the paint for ten minutes. When the dye is dry, remove the nylon and leaf from the egg.
Pick up a piece of fabric (a square with a side of 15 cm will be enough) with an unstable dye, usually chintz, natural silk, satin or muslin have such properties. It is desirable that it have a small and bright enough pattern, for example, old silk ties are well suited for dyeing.