Pysanka or dye is the best Easter gift for friends and family. And it's time to pay maximum attention to the question of how to paint eggs. And to make the symbol of the upcoming holiday look really worthy, IA PrimaMedia has collected on the Internet some of the most interesting ways of dyeing eggs shared by experienced housewives.

Eggs with a print of live plants

This method is almost no different from the traditional "grandmother's" method, which requires onion broth. It is very simple to prepare it. Usually for two glasses of water there is enough husk from eight onions, although with the degree of concentration you can "play". The whole secret of this method is that some kind of drawing remains unpainted on the egg. All you need is stencils and old nylon stockings. Different flowers and leaves can serve as stencils. You can use fragments of living plants (indoor or wild), or cut from paper. The stencil must be placed on the egg, put on a nylon stocking or gauze on top. Fasten the ends of the resulting bag with an elastic band or thread. Now just leave the boiled eggs in a saucepan with broth for several hours, then remove the nylon and stencils from them.

This method of staining cannot be called complicated, but it also requires a certain skill. For it, we need the same onion peel, gauze and dye (preferably red). We take the onion peel, cut it into small plates with scissors. Next, we dip the egg in water, then roll it in the husk. It should stick to the egg. If it doesn't stick very well, we help with our hands. After that, we place the egg in cheesecloth and fix it securely together with the husk, lower it into a saucepan with tinted water. Cook the eggs for 5-7 minutes until cooked, after which we take them out, remove all excess.

Marble eggs. Photo: https://pixabay.com/ru

To achieve a marbled effect, you can use the dye with sunflower oil. To do this, first paint the boiled egg in a light tone and let it dry completely. Add a spoonful of vegetable oil to a container with a darker paint and gently stir the solution without shaking. After that, the large oil stain should break into small ones - the size of a pea. Dip the dried egg into the dye-oil solution and remove immediately.

To get eggs with a beautiful lace effect, you just need to wrap a boiled egg in lace or tulle, then dipped in a solution of paint for 10 minutes. Then we remove the fabric and get a sophisticated pattern on the surface of the egg. To make the ornament more traced, lace or tulle should fit as tightly as possible to the shell. Therefore, we use the same nylon, elastic bands or threads. Another important point - with this method of staining, you need to take only white eggs.

Lacy eggs. Photo: https://pixabay.com/ru

Pebbles or speckled eggs

You can use rice or other cereals to make the eggs speckled. Wet eggs are rolled in cereals, carefully wrapped in gauze or nylon, the ends of which are tied with a thread. The rice should be very snug against the egg. Then the eggs are dyed with onion skins. The bag is removed, and the places where the rice adhered to the surface remain unpainted, creating an interesting "speck". In addition to onion hulls, you can also use common food colors. In this case, fill the glass halfway with rice, drip liquid paint directly onto the rice (15-20 drops), close the lid and shake. Put the hot boiled egg on the rice. Close the lid and shake vigorously. Ready!

Sea pebbles. Photo: https://pixabay.com/ru

Decoupage egg

To decorate an Easter egg with a picture, you can also decorate it using the decoupage technique. Decoupage does not take much time, does not require large investments, and the result exceeds all expectations. To do this, first cook hard-boiled eggs. Choose a beautiful paper napkin, separate the top layer and cut out the fragment you like. We tightly apply the picture to the shell, apply gelatin glue or starch paste made from corn or potato starch with a brush over the drawing. The main thing is to smooth out all the folds and securely fix the thinnest paper web on the shell. We leave to dry and the sophisticated vintage gift is ready.

Decoupage egg. Photo: https://pixabay.com/ru

You can paint Easter eggs with all the colors of the rainbow using ordinary wax crayons. First, boil the eggs in salted water. The shell color can be any color, as it will be hidden under a layer of opaque wax. Dry the shells and place the eggs on the plastic bottle caps. While the eggs are hot, paint them with crayons. On contact with a hot surface, the wax melts and forms bizarre, bright patterns with color transitions on the shell. You can also finely grate the pencils and sprinkle them over the eggs you just boiled. Grains of wax will create an unusual cosmic pattern on them. You can also melt the wax crumbs in a water bath and dip the testicles in liquid dye, or apply the colored crumbs to the egg with a brush.

Rainbow eggs. Photo: https://pixabay.com/ru

In order to get fancy polka dot eggs, you only need to use white eggs. We also need ordinary food colors, electrical tape and a hole punch. Some people use double-sided tape, but it can let the dye pass through. So, boil hard-boiled eggs - about 15 minutes after boiling. While the eggs are cooling, use a hole punch to make circles out of ordinary blue electrical tape, then glue them tightly onto the egg. Smooth all the peas well with your finger to the egg. The more carefully you stick, the smoother and neater the peas will be. Next, we paint in the usual way and after the shell has dried, remove the circles. After the egg, you can rub it with sunflower oil until it shines.

Eggs with polka dots. Photo: https://pixabay.com/ru

Mistresses on a note

1. For coloring, it is better to take eggs that are about four or five days old, since fresh eggs are less cleaned.

2. Before cooking, eggs should be allowed to sit at room temperature for three to four hours (overnight).

3. It is best to wash eggs with baby soap and rub with alcohol before dyeing.

4. If you are dyeing eggs in a boiling broth, be sure to salt it.

5. After dyeing with natural dyes, the eggs should be dipped in ice water to make them easier to clean.

6. Finished eggs can be brushed with butter or confectionery mother-of-pearl to add shine.

7. For coloring, it is better to use white eggs of approximately the same size.

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Do it yourself in various techniques. Some of them are decorated for eating, while others are for admiring.

And when you know so many ways, then always before the onset of the holiday you want to do one, and the other, and the third ... But this is impossible! You need to choose one or two, well, a maximum of three options.

One of my favorite ways is to make marble dyes. And this is no coincidence. When you see such beauty for the first time, you are simply speechless. And you can’t even understand how it works like that ?! Then, having found a recipe, you start painting, and it’s your turn to marvel at the beauty of all your family, relatives and friends.

And if you look at it all, the method is quite simple. There is nothing complicated about it. In addition, a big plus is that you don't have to buy dyes in the store. For this, any house always has everything. Namely, nothing at all is needed: in one case, only onion peels, and in the other - also brilliant green.

Although there are, of course, alternative methods of staining. And we will try to consider all of them today.

Many of my girlfriends and friends, seeing marble dyes on my table, invariably ask for a recipe. When they find out what's what, they are always surprised that everything is so simple. So I decided to write recipes today so that everyone can paint like this. And so that everything was clearly visible, we also filmed a video.

Yes, we have an innovation. Now we are filming many recipes. For your comfort. So read the recipes and watch the video. And I will be glad if you subscribe to the channel.

We need:

• eggs - 6 pcs.
• brilliant green - 10 ml
• onion peel
• salt - 1 tbsp. spoon
• gauze, or nylon
• threads

Also, prepare gloves so that your hands do not get dirty during the cooking process. And also an old saucepan, in which we will paint.

Preparation:

1. Get eggs out of the refrigerator in advance. They should cool at room temperature so that the shell does not burst from a sudden change in temperature during cooking.

For all methods, use a white-shell staple product. In this case, the drawing will turn out to be clearer and more pronounced.

2. Prepare the onion skins. To get a richer color, it must have a different color. Use dry yellow and red onion skins. And in yellow, try to dial in different shades, up to dark brown.

Start preparing the husk ahead of time. When peeling onions, just put them in a bag. So a different color will be typed, and besides, it will also dry well. And as a result, it will give an even more saturated color.

3. Now our task is to grind it as small as possible. This usually takes a lot of time. There is one way to do this pretty quickly.

Simply put all the dry substance in a deep bowl and use the tips of scissors to cut it right in the bowl. Let me remind you that the finer you cut, the richer the marble pattern will be. The required size should ideally be 0.5 - 0.7 cm.

As you can see, we have got a fine mixture of different colors, which is very good.

4. Cut the gauze or nylon into squares in such a way as to put the workpiece in them and tie it with a knot. We need them just according to the number of the main ingredient.

If you take nylon, then the color will be more even and uniform. If you use gauze, then in addition to the main pattern, a fine mesh will also be printed from it. But it will not be superfluous, and vice versa, it will give an additional pattern and pattern.

5. Soak an egg in water. Then place in the husk and roll in it in such a way that it clings tightly to the shell.

6. Put it on cheesecloth. If, in your opinion, the husk was not enough, then you can sprinkle a little more on top.

7. Collect the ends of the gauze from above, rotating the bag to one side and forming a tourniquet. Pull it tightly and tie it with threads. You can simply wrap the cheesecloth with them in several turns so that it does not unwind during cooking.

The husk should fit snugly against the shell so that there is absolutely no movement. Otherwise, the drawing will be blurry.

8. Cut off the excess ends so that they do not take on the paint, and put our workpiece in a saucepan.

As for the pan. Take her old one so that you do not mind. Zelenka gives a fairly persistent coloration. Of course, you can wash it later, but not by all means. Therefore, it is better to play it safe.

9. Do the same with the rest of the eggs. Today I will paint 6 pieces. You can paint more at once. But if there are more than a dozen of them, then take two bottles of brilliant green, that is, 20 mg. And more onion skins. More water will be needed for such a quantity of dyes. This means that from one bottle of brilliant green the color will turn out not as bright as we would like.

10. Pour room temperature water into a saucepan. Cold - do not pour. Be aware of the temperature difference. And also add salt, it will protect the shell from cracking.

Pour enough water so that it only covers our workpieces. The less water, the brighter the coloration.

11. Put on fire, put on gloves and immediately pour out all the brilliant green. Set high heat to medium and bring water to a boil. Then cook for 7 to 8 minutes. This time is quite enough for our product to be cooked until cooked, as well as for the shell to acquire a marbled color.

12. Drain the water, then place the pan under running water and wait until it brightens.

13. Now for the "dirtiest" job. Be sure to wear gloves for her. It is necessary to cut off the tied end of the gauze and remove the husk from the shell. Then rinse each dye again under running water and put on a plate to dry.

You always unfold each of them with bated breath. After all, everywhere there is a different intricate pattern, unlike any other. And somewhere even a picture is drawn. In general, great! What to say.

14. When our dyes are dry, they must be wiped with oil. So they will become even more beautiful. They will shine, shine, become truly festive and beautiful.

At first, the oil will be visible on the shell, but over time, it will be absorbed and will no longer leave marks on your hands when you clean the shell.

Here is such a simple and at the same time beautiful way of staining. Looking at the result, I would like to say that "all ingenious is simple."

Video on how to paint eggs with brilliant green and husk

And here is the promised video. Everything is described in detail and shown in it. The whole process resembles some kind of alchemical magic. As a result, we get as many as 6 marble "philosophical" eggs. Well, isn't it a miracle!

I must also say that the whole process is very exciting, it is really creative. You don't notice how time flies.

That's the whole recipe.

And you see that in the headband on the central egg a horse figurine is imprinted, similar to an ancient rock carvings or petroglyphs. We saw this as a great sign. What do you think it can mean?

How to make marble eggs - the easiest way

If we figured out the first recipe, then coloring the main Easter symbol in this way will be even easier and easier. Essentially, the recipe is the same. But the ingredients do not contain only brilliant green. Therefore, I will not paint it in detail, but only dwell on the most basic points.

The method involves staining with onion peel.

We need:

• onion peel
• salt - 1 - 2 tbsp. spoons
• gauze or nylon
• threads

Preparation:

1. Cut the onion skins into small pieces. Let me remind you that the most effective coloration can be achieved when the dry onion shell has a varied color.

For added effect, you can add finely chopped paper to this mixture.

2. "Bathe" eggs at room temperature in water and roll in prepared onion clothing.

3. Put them in this form on gauze cut into squares, or nylon. Then wind the ends into a bundle and tie tightly with a thread, or simply wrap in several circles so that nothing falls apart.

4. Put them in a saucepan, cover with water at room temperature and add the remaining husk. And also do not forget to add salt so that the shell remains safe and sound.

5. Put on medium heat and bring to a boil. Simmer for 35-40 minutes.

6. Drain off hot water and place contents under cold running water. Then release the marble dyes from the gauze and husks, and rinse again.

7. Let the water drain and dry. Then brush with oil to further brighten our Easter treat.

Put on a plate and wait for the holiday.

Beautiful marble dyes with your own hands

This is another way to get marble coloring, but with a different pattern. We will use onion skins and rice for this.

We need:

• onion peel
• salt 1 - 2 tbsp. spoons
• nylon or gauze
• threads

Preparation:

1. Pour rice into a flat bowl. Depending on the shape of the rice you choose, such a picture will turn out.

2. Soak eggs at room temperature in water and roll in rice. He must stick his grains on a white shell.

3. Put the resulting workpiece on cheesecloth or nylon, pre-cut into squares of the desired size. And, having connected the ends, roll them into a bundle very tightly, wrap or tie them with threads.

4. Put all the pieces prepared in this way into a saucepan. Pour in onion peel. It is not necessary to cut it.

Cover with water at room temperature and put on medium heat. Yes, and don't forget to add salt. Thanks to her, the shell must remain intact.

5. Bring to a boil and cook thereafter for 35 - 40 minutes.

6. Then drain the water and rinse it under running water. Remove cheesecloth and rice and rinse again.

When the dyes are dry, they can be greased with oil.

The same method can be applied using smaller cereals such as millet. But in this case, you will no longer get marble dyes, and motley specks. But the method is also good!

If you want, you can paint in this way.

Moreover, for this you can use not only husks, but also food colors. However, the same as when dyeing with rice.

Either way you can get great results.

How to paint eggs for Easter without brilliant green

It is not difficult to guess that the methods proposed above can be used for staining with colored food dyes. You can cut very finely white paper and roll an egg soaked in water in it. Then place it in a nylon and tie. Then paint with dyes of different colors. Colored marble dyes will turn out.

But I want to propose one more way, which will differ from those suggested above in the way of execution and getting the result.

We need:

• food colors of light and dark colors
• vegetable oil

Preparation:

1. Color eggs at room temperature with food coloring in light shades of colors. This should be done in accordance with the instructions on the package. Colors like yellow, all light shades of pink, orange, pale blue and light green are ideal.

2. Rinse them with cold water and let dry.

3. Dilute dark colors with water. They should be in sharp contrast to light shades. These are purple, dark blue, dark green, burgundy and so on. One color must be diluted in each separate container.

4. Pour 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil into each dark color. Now the fun begins. We will paint different paths, curls and circles with a toothpick with oil on liquid. In creativity, you can not be shy. The more pattern you apply here, the more clearly it will appear on the paint.

5. Now you should definitely wear rubber gloves. We take a dyed light egg and in one clear motion we simply dip it into the chosen dark paint.

Put on a wire rack and let dry. Then rub with vegetable oil. You can use a cotton pad for this.

And here's another gorgeous design, where gold food paint is applied to the main background using the above method. The design turned out gorgeous.

This is how beautifully and effectively you can decorate a colorful treat for the holiday in one more way.

Beautiful Easter eggs - an original way

There is another way in which you can achieve the desired effect. But in this case, the marble effect will appear not on the shell, but on the squirrel itself.

It's pretty straightforward. Most likely, everyone is familiar with this picture: when you color the eggs in any of the ways, and it cracks, then a colored line remains on the squirrel. So you don't have to wait for it to crack. And to apply cracks in advance. But this must be done, of course, already on the cooked product.

And since the dye will penetrate inside and stain the protein, it means that it needs to be made more "tasty" than onion peel.

We need:

• boiled eggs
• black tea bags
• soy sauce
• cinnamon
• star anise, or anise

Preparation:

1. Make loose cracks on pre-cooked eggs. At the same time, try to ensure that the shell does not fall off, otherwise the effect will be lost. It should stick to the inner film.

2. Place them in a pot of room temperature water and bring to a boil.

3. In hot water, place 5 bags of black tea, two tablespoons of soy sauce, two cinnamon sticks and one star anise bud (or you can use another fragrant seasoning). This amount is given for about 6 - 7 eggs.

4. Bring to a boil and cook for 35 minutes. Then cool in cold water and dry.

Serve already shelled.

The same effect can be achieved by coloring the product with food or natural dyes.

As you can see from the photo, the effect is also great.

How to make marble staining without brilliant green and onion peel

This method differs from the previous ones in that a product of chemical origin is used in staining, namely nail varnish.

Although I do not welcome this method at all, since it exists, it means that it cannot be ignored. Therefore, I will describe it very briefly, which is called for information.

1. Boil white eggs and cool.

2. In a bowl, which is not a pity, but it is better to pour a little water into an unnecessary jar. Dip nail polish into it. You can use only one color, or you can use several different ones.

If you take several flowers, then drip them one by one to the center one on top of the other.

3. Then take a toothpick and draw streaks, paths, wavy lines and circles on the water. Give free rein to your imagination and do not really think about what you will get. The more lines and shapes the better.

4. Be sure to wear gloves for the following procedure. Take the egg by the two extremities, and carefully dip one of the sides into the resulting painting with varnish.

Then turn it over to the other side and repeat the procedure. Now he needs to dry up. And basically everything. The result is colorful marble stains.

And at the end of the article, I want to tell you where this tradition of painting eggs came from. They have been painted since ancient times and in different cultures. Because they believed that they are the basis of the foundations, and everything came from their depths.

And in Christian culture, there is a legend that tells that at the moment of the Resurrection of Christ the stones on Calvary mysteriously turned red. Therefore, eggs are considered a symbol of the Resurrection of the Lord. And therefore it is customary to paint them to this day on one of the main Christian holidays -.

I hope that today's selection will be useful for you for this holiday.

I congratulate you on the upcoming holiday! And I wish you all the best!

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The easiest way to dye eggs in a marbled color is to wrap the eggs in onion skins and tie some cotton on top.

Detailed instructions on how to paint eggs in marble color

1. We need a bowl of water, crushed husk, brilliant green, gauze squares measuring 15 x 15 cm, threads.
2. Grind the husk into small pieces the size of a nail.
3. Dip the egg in a bowl of water.
4. Roll the husk over the egg.
5. We spread the egg on cheesecloth and add some more husks.
6. We tie the gauze tightly. We distribute the husk carefully, if it has shifted in some place, we correct it.
7. Cut off the extra tail of gauze.
8. We put the eggs in a saucepan with cold water, the water should only cover the eggs a little, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of salt.
9. Add brilliant green to the water. We take Zelenka at the rate of 1 small vial of 10 eggs. (From the commentary. You can use a sparing option: lower the egg, already boiled in the husk, for 3-4 seconds in the green solution, the color will set perfectly, but will not pass through the shell).
10. After boiling, cook for 7 minutes.
11. Remove the boiled eggs from the pan and rinse under running water.
12. Remove the gauze and remove the husk.
13. Rinse with water again.
14. Dry the eggs and rub with vegetable oil to give them a festive shine.
15. Painted marble eggs are ready for Easter.

Below is a detailed video from Irina Moiseeva how to paint eggs marbled

There is also Martha Stewart's artistic way to paint marbled eggs, and you can experiment with colors. Try it! The effect is amazing. You can use a box for decoration. Create several small compartments in it using cardboard dividers. Make a small nest inside each square using dry grass.

So, for starters, just paint the eggs in the first color.

We are waiting for it to dry.

Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil to a bowl with a second, darker paint and mix well.

Important! It is advisable that the bowl with the second paint is flat enough, half an egg.

We need to stir the oil every time we are going to dip an egg into it (otherwise it will spread out in one big puddle on the surface, and the effect will not be the same).

We lower the egg into a container with the mixture, and roll it along the bottom. The sides of the egg in contact with the oil stains are not painted with a new color in these places. This will create a marbled pattern like this.

Excess color can be gently blotted with a napkin.

The result should be artistic stains.

This is the best way I know to dye Easter eggs (of course, not counting the classic one with onion peels). But if you want something more creative, then marble eggs are interesting and great. All you need is vegetable oil, vinegar, and food coloring. It's so easy - you just dip the eggs in dyed water to give them their base color, and then dip them again in the water with oil and new dyes to create a marbled effect. And now I will tell you a step-by-step recipe for how to make marbled eggs for Easter, and you can color them that way too.

Marble eggs for Easter: a step by step recipe

If you are making just decorative eggs, you can remove the contents through a small hole. But we will paint boiled eggs especially for Easter.

You will need:

• Boiled eggs,
• food coloring, preferably gel, but liquid can also be used. I think you can do all this with dry dyes, which are sold in stores for Easter.
• vinegar 6% or 9%,
• water

Step 1. Give the main color

Before creating the marbled effect, give the eggs a basic color. In a small glass, combine very hot water, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, and a few drops of food coloring (you can choose how much color you want). Just dip the egg in the dye and hold it with something so that it is completely hidden by the water for a few minutes. When you are happy with the resulting color, take out the egg and lay it to dry a little. For about 10 minutes. Best to dry on a wire rack. But you can just sit on the table. Even if the color becomes a little uneven where it touches the surface, this is not a big deal, we will still have speckled eggs. (In the photo, the egg in a glass is decorative, that is, holes are made in it, but just hold an ordinary boiled egg with a skewer or spoon without any holes).

Step 2. Paint the marble eggs

Pour some water into a glass and paint it a second color. It should be darker than the main color. Don't get greedy with dye. Then pour in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, preferably olive oil. Dip the egg into the glass and swirl. The longer you rotate, the more marbled the surface becomes.

Remove the eggs from the water and lay to dry.