Decorating eggs for Easter is one of the favorite things to do in our family. Previously, the process was reduced to the following procedure: for several months we collected onion peels, threw them into the water for Easter, laid eggs and boiled them. It turned out dyed eggs of such a golden brown color.

They did not buy special paint, as our family considered it harmful.

But I always wanted not just to make the eggs monochromatic, but to somehow decorate them so that there were patterns.

And how wonderful that thermal labels for decoration were invented.

There are many drawings on such labels: churches, faces of saints, children's motives. I really like labels for different painting: Gzhel, Khokhloma and other folk motives.

The set is designed for seven eggs.

Cut the label before gluing.

The decorating process is as follows:

Bring water to a boil in a bowl,

We put a label on the egg,

We put the egg on a spoon or in a ladle (who adapted how),

We dip the egg in boiling water,

Hot water shrinks the label and wraps the egg tightly

There is a little secret here. In order for the label to lie flat, you need to put it on the egg not evenly, but slightly obliquely, so that the top is pushed a little higher and the bottom is slightly lower. Having gotten used to it, you can achieve a more or less even sticker.

It turns out beauty. The overall impression is that the eggs are painted.

But there is a significant drawback in these stickers. When you clean your eggs, it is very difficult to get rid of it. It breaks with difficulty, sometimes you even have to use a knife.

I cannot say how much such labels will cost now, but in the old years they cost very cheap: from 1 to 2 hryvnia for one set of seven stickers.

In general, despite the drawbacks, this is a very convenient way to quickly and easily decorate eggs for Easter.

There is one more stickers with which you can very beautifully decorate eggs, in this case, these are stickers from the Alt manufacturer, which we are talking about in this review.

If you do not like to draw, have forgotten what it is to hold a brush in your hands, and even more so you don’t want to deal with wax, which is necessary for complex techniques for painting eggs (Easter eggs), do not despair. After all, there are many other easier, but no less beautiful ways.

1. Painting with stickers
To create such a funny painting - glue stickers of different shapes on unpainted eggs and dip them in paint (read how to make natural paint). After the eggs are painted, let them dry and carefully remove the stickers.
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2. Wide elastic bands
Want to give your decor a modern look? Wrap the eggs with thick rubber bands and dip them in bright colors. After you remove the rubber bands, graphic stripes will remain on the eggs (the color of the stripes depends on the natural color of the egg).

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3. Application of flowers
Paint the eggs bright colors and stick solid little flowers on them.

4. Dot decor
Take some pencils with rubber bands. Dip your pencil into the paint and draw dots with it. The eraser can be rinsed with water before changing colors, or you can use each pencil for a different color.

5. A toothpick instead of a brush
Choose 2 colors to decorate each egg. Draw the middle of the flower with one color, and the petals with the other. Wear the paint with a toothpick (tilting it slightly towards the egg to make strokes)

6. Confetti
If you have any confetti left over from the New Year, use them to decorate the eggs! Flowers, stripes, circles - all these patterns can be reproduced using small circles.

7. Thin elastic bands
Wrap the eggs with thin rubber bands (so that the circles run parallel to each other). First, place the eggs in one of the colors (for example, yellow). Then use 4 rubber bands - and place in a new color (purple), then add 4 more rubber bands and dip the eggs in the main color (blue) again. Thus, the egg will have thin rings of different colors (in our case, this is a blue egg with yellow and purple stripes).
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8. Sequins
If you have glitters and love everything glittery, this easy way is for you. Dilute the glue with water, dip the egg completely in this mixture, then roll it in the sparkles. You can use both plain glitter for one egg, and multi-colored. We do not recommend eating such eggs (sparkles will fall on the protein), but you can safely decorate the interior with them.
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You can also glue only the part of the egg where the glitter should stick. Apply the patterns with a brush and glue, and then roll in glitter.

9. Thermal stickers
This method has been ranked first among housewives for several years. Thermo stickers are beautiful and very easy to decorate eggs with. True, it is very problematic to remove the shell from such an egg, so it is better to use it as a decoration. Buy special stickers (they are sold in any supermarket before Easter), place the egg inside the sticker, dip the egg in boiling water for a few seconds - and the sticker will glue the egg tightly.

In recent years, in preparation for the Easter holiday, many housewives have bought and wrapped Easter eggs with various stickers. It looks very beautiful and it takes much less time to make such an egg.

If you are a believer, it is better to paint the eggs the old fashioned way, or use stickers with various beautiful patterns. But priests urge not to use stickers with icons, since the icon on the egg will have to be ripped off and then thrown away, and this is an outrage against a Christian shrine.

It has become fashionable to stick stickers on eggs, thermal stickers are sold not only in stores, but also in churches. I think it's okay if there is an image from a biblical theme on a painted egg. In that there is no sin and no blasphemy. Discard after use with scissors if in doubt.

If there is even the slightest doubt, then it is better not to use such stickers, buy stickers with flowers and patterns.

They say you can't stick Easter stickers on eggs? Why?

In fact, these are stereotypes and artistic value or other sacred meaning of thermal stickers do not carry for an ordinary person. They are used to cover Easter eggs in order to decorate the table, and if it is not cut, it will be impossible to remove it without tears.

This method is easy to use and inexpensive. They make labels at the factory and all the paintings on them are art painting.

If you are a believer, then after removing them, wrap everything in a bag. You can grind everything beforehand if you have doubts about this.

It's another matter if the icon painter painted the egg, then the shells would have to be buried with prayer or burned.

Indeed, such questions about stickers did not arise before, because people painted eggs, which were later called dyes, or artistically painted them, which were called Easter eggs. In Ukraine and Belarus, such names are still in use. Then various stickers appeared, which are considered thermo.

If the question is not about the harmfulness of the sticker itself, but about the use of pictures with the faces of saints, with temples, or with some biblical subjects, then the church does not prohibit this either. The only stickers are not to be thrown out in the trash, as well as the shells. It is enough to collect all this in a bag, take it to a clean place on the street and burn it with prayer.

Therefore, what they say is that stickers cannot be used, this is nothing more than a conjecture invented by people. Allegedly, the shells after and the stickers are thrown into the trash, and there the saints are depicted. Believe it, glue abstract pictures, there are many different options.

If you do not like to draw, have forgotten what it is to hold a brush in your hands, and even more so you don’t want to deal with wax, which is necessary for complex techniques for painting eggs (Easter eggs), do not despair. After all, there are many other easier, but no less beautiful ways.

1. Painting with stickers

To create such a funny painting - glue stickers of different shapes on unpainted eggs and dip them in paint. After the eggs are painted, let them dry and carefully remove the stickers.

2. Wide elastic bands

Want to give your decor a modern look? Wrap the eggs with thick rubber bands and dip them in bright colors. After you remove the rubber bands, graphic stripes will remain on the eggs (the color of the stripes depends on the natural color of the egg).

3. Application of flowers

Paint the eggs bright colors and stick solid little flowers on them.

4. Dot decor

Take some pencils with rubber bands. Dip your pencil into the paint and draw dots with it. The eraser can be rinsed with water before changing colors, or you can use each pencil for a different color.

5. A toothpick instead of a brush

Choose 2 colors to decorate each egg. Draw the middle of the flower with one color, and the petals with the other. Wear the paint with a toothpick (tilting it slightly towards the egg to make strokes)

6. Confetti

If you have any confetti left over from the New Year, use them to decorate the eggs! Flowers, stripes, circles - all these patterns can be reproduced using small circles.

7. Thin elastic bands

Wrap the eggs with thin rubber bands (so that the circles run parallel to each other). First, place the eggs in one of the colors (for example, yellow). Then use 4 rubber bands - and place in a new color (purple), then add 4 more rubber bands and dip the eggs in the main color (blue) again. Thus, the egg will have thin rings of different colors (in our case, this is a blue egg with yellow and purple stripes).

8. Sequins

If you have sequins and love everything glittery, this easy way is for you. Dilute the glue with water, dip the egg completely in this mixture, then roll it in the sparkles. You can use both plain glitter for one egg, and multi-colored. We do not recommend eating such eggs (sparkles will fall on the protein), but you can safely decorate the interior with them.

You can also glue only the part of the egg where the glitter should stick. Apply the patterns with a brush and glue, and then roll in glitter.

9. Thermal stickers

This method has been ranked first among housewives for several years. Thermo stickers are beautiful and very easy to decorate eggs with. True, it is very problematic to remove the shell from such an egg, so it is better to use it as a decoration. Buy special stickers (they are sold in any supermarket before Easter), place the egg inside the sticker, dip the egg in boiling water for a few seconds - and the sticker will glue the egg tightly.

10 paper stickers

Cut flowers and other patterns out of paper and glue them onto the egg.

11. Stickers made of plastic, braid, sequins and beads

Take whatever you have left of creativity and create!

And a few more examples for creativity: