Good day everyone! The approaching Easter holiday, Bright Sunday of Christ, is one of the most beloved Christian holidays. Solemn, bright and joyful, it symbolizes the salvation of the world and soul, the possibility of eternal life. Easter comes at the end of winter, when nature awakens. For Orthodox Russians, Easter is associated not only with the end of Lent and with the Easter festive church service, but also with a special Easter table. For experienced housewives, the preparation period is already in full swing. Recipes are collected and carefully copied, and egg dyes are selected.

Painted eggs are an invariable attribute of the approaching Easter. They decorate the table, they are given to each other with the words “Christ is Risen!”, and we can no longer imagine this bright spring holiday without colored eggs.

The tradition of painting eggs appeared in ancient times, long before the advent of Christianity, and carries a mythical and sacred meaning. Our distant ancestors believed that the world hatched from an egg. It was given sacred properties. It served as a talisman, helped in the treatment of infertility, and protected the home and family.

Previously, Easter eggs were painted exclusively red, as it symbolizes the blood shed on the cross, but then they moved away from strict canons. Nowadays, you can color and decorate eggs using a variety of paints, methods, and techniques. It all depends on people's tastes and preferences.

Have you already decided what and how you will decorate your Easter eggs? Today I want to invite you to consider some options for painting these holiday attributes and hope that you will find something new and interesting for yourself.

If you have children, be sure to involve them in this process. This is both useful and entertaining and educational at once.

How to paint eggs for Easter with your own hands?

On the eve of the great Easter celebrations, almost every home traditionally makes beautiful and symbolic attributes of this bright spring holiday - Easter eggs. Making them beautiful with your own hands is not as difficult as many might imagine. To color eggs, you can buy special food dyes, decorating kits, paints or markers for painting, stickers, iron-on adhesives, napkins, or use the recipes of our great-grandmothers, gifts of Mother Nature, that is, natural dyes.

The most common coloring method is using special food coloring. To do this, you just need to buy the dyes that are suitable for you, which are sold in any supermarket and, following the instructions, make everything come true.

When using this method, keep the following tips and cautions in mind:

• Be careful when dyeing eggs, as dyes are difficult to remove from clothing.
• The longer you keep the eggs in the food coloring solution, the brighter they will turn out. Start with a few minutes, then increase the coloring time. This will be a great experiment for the kids!
• To make it easier for you to dip the eggs into the dyes, use a kitchen whisk. This simple idea will help you and your children keep their hands and clothes cleaner.

There is another interesting way to color eggs using food coloring and wax. The idea is that you rub some part of the egg with wax, dip it in the dye and it is colored only in the part where there is no wax. This way you can create similar patterns.

For those who know how to draw well, you can make murals with food paints or permanent markers. Moreover, the painting will look great both on painted eggs and on simply boiled eggs.

The most basic and least labor-intensive way to decorate Easter eggs is using regular or thermal stickers. To do this, you just need to buy stickers, put them on boiled eggs and put them in boiling water for a few seconds.

The most common method, perhaps, remains painting with natural dyes. You can use the following cheat sheet as a basis.

We will discuss the methods of painting eggs in more detail below, but now I would like to give you some tips on preparing them for coloring.

• To prevent the eggs from bursting during cooking, they must be removed from the refrigerator an hour in advance so that they reach room temperature.
• Before painting, paints must be washed with soapy water or alcohol, then the paint will lie evenly.
• Add a spoonful of salt to the water or solution where the eggs will be boiled. This way, even from a cracked shell, the contents will not spill out.
• If you want your paints to have a shiny appearance, rub them with vegetable oil after painting.

Once you have prepared the material and chosen the most suitable method for yourself, you can begin to create a masterpiece.

Step-by-step painting in onion skins

The most traditional and time-tested method of coloring eggs is considered to be a decoction of onion peels. The more raw materials you can collect, the brighter the finished color will be. For a beautiful rich red-brown color of eggs, you need to collect the peels from 6 large onions. If you don't like such a rich color, you can collect less husks and then the finished product will be light yellow or light brown. It all depends on the variety and color of the onion peel. I will show you how to achieve a rich red-brown color.

1. Fill the husk with water and boil for 20 minutes, then strain - the solution for coloring is ready.

2. Add 2 tbsp to the cooled broth. l. vinegar, place the prepared eggs there and cook for 7-10 minutes. Please note that the egg must be completely immersed in the liquid and it must not boil.

3. Carefully remove the eggs with a spoon and place them on a paper towel to cool. Cooled and dry paints can be greased with vegetable oil.

4. If the resulting color seems insufficiently saturated to you, return the eggs to the broth and keep them there until you get the color you want.

In onion peel with patterns

This method is for those who want to get a little creative with their paints. We will use the same decoction of onion peels, but we will use flowers and herbs as stencils to create beautiful designs.

For a more golden color of the finished product, I recommend using red and yellow onion skins.

To create designs, you can use anything: from dill leaves, parsley, fern, to flower petals or flowers. The possibilities are endless.

To color eggs we will need:

• Red and yellow onion peels - from 6-7 onions
• Vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.
• Water - 2-3 tbsp.
• Herbs and flowers
• Nylon stocking

Stages of work:

1. Cut the nylon stocking into 15 x 15 cm squares.

2. Wet small sprigs of dill, parsley, blades of grass or flowers and attach them to the eggs. Then carefully place each egg in a separate nylon blank, wrap tightly and tie the ends with thread.

Before you start cooking the onion skins, soak them in cold water for a few hours or overnight. Thanks to this, the eggs will color faster, and the color will be more beautiful and vibrant.

3. Add vinegar to a container with pre-soaked onion peels and put on fire. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 10 minutes.

4. Add the prepared eggs to boiling water and boil for 8-10 minutes. After this time, the eggs can be placed on a napkin or you can leave them to cool in the onion broth overnight to obtain a richer color.

5. Once the eggs have cooled, you can cut the nylon bags, remove all twigs, leaves, flowers and wipe them with a paper towel. To add shine, you can rub them with sunflower oil.

Original marble eggs for Easter

There is an opinion that colored eggs in onion skins leave no options - there is only one color. But as practice shows, you can paint with onion skins with a twist. Now I want to show you this marble method.

1. To marbleize Easter eggs, you need to take several large onion scales, wet them with water and wrap them around each egg.

3. Carefully place our preparations in nylon bags, tighten them tightly and send them to cook.

As a result, the egg will be unevenly colored, and the folds of the onion peel will form a marble-like pattern.

Marble eggs in onion peels and brilliant green

Marble eggs according to this recipe are very beautiful, original in design and shiny. They are made easily and from affordable means. Most importantly, they turn out to be harmless, since onion peels and medicinal brilliant green are used. Such marble beauties will be a wonderful decoration for the festive Easter table.

In order to color the eggs, we will need:

• Onion peel
• Egg - 5 pcs.
• Bowl of cold water
• Salt - 1 tsp.
• Zelenka - 20 ml.
• Scissors
• Threads
• Nylon stocking or piece of gauze
• Sunflower oil

Stages of work:

1. First, we need to cut the onion skins into small pieces. This is very convenient to do with scissors.

3. Wrap the eggs tightly in gauze or nylon blanks and secure with thread. Place the prepared products in a pan with cold water so that they are completely covered with water. Add salt and send to simmer. From the moment it boils, cook for 5 minutes.

4. 5 minutes after boiling, add the green stuff and cook for another 10 minutes. Drain the water and rinse each egg with cold running water. Remove the gauze and husks from the cooled eggs. Lubricate dry, cooled eggs with sunflower oil using a cotton pad. This is how beautiful it should turn out.

How to color paints with natural dyes?

Every housewife always dyes eggs before Easter. This centuries-old tradition is currently taking on new forms, but more and more often we are returning to our grandmother’s old, environmentally friendly and safe methods of coloring. Natural dyes surround us and are present in the kitchen of every housewife. The main thing is not to be lazy and prepare the necessary paint given to us by nature. What can you use? At the beginning of the article I gave you a small cheat sheet, and now I suggest you take a closer look.

In the video, each proportion is for 3 eggs. I hope you liked these natural dyes and can easily recreate them.

We dye eggs with beets at home

Have you tried dying Easter eggs using natural products you have in your pantry or kitchen? If you are looking for a safe, easy and fun way to color eggs for your holiday table, I suggest you try this method in different interpretations.

1. Peel and cut the beets into small pieces. Pour in water, bring to a boil and simmer for 15-60 minutes until you get the desired color of the broth. Cool it to room temperature, strain through a sieve and add vinegar. Add vinegar at the rate of 1 tbsp. l. for 1 glass. Place the egg in a glass with dye and refrigerate until the desired color is achieved.

For this coloring method, it is best to use a white egg.

2. Peel fresh beets, pass through a juicer or grate on a coarse grater and squeeze through cheesecloth. After our juice is ready, add 1 tbsp. l. vinegar and dip a chicken egg in it for 4-5 hours. If after this time the color is not beautiful enough, you can leave it on for a few more hours.

3. Fill the chicken egg, brought to room temperature, with cool water, add 0.5 tbsp. l. salt and place grated beets on top. To maintain better color, you can add 1/3 tsp. vinegar. We send our broth to a small fire and cook for 1-2 hours.

4. Grate the peeled beets on a coarse grater, wrap hot boiled eggs in it and wrap in a paper napkin. We put it in the refrigerator overnight, and in the morning you will get this beauty.

Decoupage eggs for Easter with napkins

Decorating Easter eggs is one of my favorite pastimes, because here the flight of imagination is not limited. Currently, there are a huge variety of ways to color, decorate, decorate, and paint Easter eggs. Now I want to show you a very simple decoration method that takes no more than five minutes. Plus it requires zero artistic preparation and it always works!

To decorate Easter eggs with napkins we will need:

• Chicken boiled egg
• Paper napkins with a beautiful pattern
• Egg white
• Brush
• Scissors

Stages of work:

1. I tried different methods of decoupage with paper napkins and through trial and error I realized that it is best to cut out each picture separately. In this case, you will not have bubbles and folds when you glue them to the egg.

2. If you have multi-layer napkins, you only need to glue the top layer with the pattern. Attach the workpiece to the egg and coat the top with egg white using a brush. To ensure that the design lies evenly, smooth it out carefully with your fingers. Do not overdo it so as not to tear the part.

3. Once you have decorated all the eggs, leave them to dry. Now you have Easter paraphernalia with designs that look like they were painted directly on the egg!

Painted Easter eggs in fabric

Did you know that eggs can be dyed with silk or chiffon fabric with a bright pattern? I bring to your attention another quick and very beautiful way to decorate Easter eggs. They turn out so bright and unique that you can at least put them on display.

The finished product turns out better and more beautiful when the fabric patterns contain dark blue, purple and red colors.

The interesting thing is that you never know how much color and design will be imprinted on the egg during the dyeing process. Sometimes patterns that you may think are amazing will look ugly on the finished product and vice versa.

In order to create such masterpieces we will need:

• 100% silk fabric
• Scissors
• Cotton thread or elastic bands
• White cotton fabric
• Vinegar

Stages of work:

1. First of all, we need to prepare the fabric in which we will wrap the eggs. To do this, measure and cut silk and cotton fabrics into pieces measuring 18 x 18 cm. Tightly wrap a raw chicken egg in each piece and tie it. Make sure the front of the design is on the inside and not the outside!

2. After you have wrapped the eggs in silk fabric, they need to be wrapped in cotton fabric and tied.

3. Place these little beauties in a saucepan, fill with water, add 1 tbsp. l. vinegar and cook for 20-30 minutes. Vinegar promotes better coloring. The longer you cook the eggs, the brighter the designs will be.

4. After the eggs are boiled, they must be removed from the water and cooled naturally or under cold running water. You can remove the cloth from the cooled eggs.

If you have chosen light and dark patterns for coloring, then it is better to paint them separately. Otherwise, the finished crumbs will have the effect of a “dirty” pattern.

Look what beauty can be achieved using this simple method!

Original methods using improvised means

Every year we want to try some new ways of coloring Easter eggs in order to surprise our family and friends and delight the kids with an interesting coloring process. Let's look at some interesting decor options using available materials.

1. For this method we will need: boiled eggs, shaving foam, food coloring, wooden sticks and a cardboard box or other container to create the base. Squeeze the shaving foam into a container, spread it over the surface with a stick, drip dyes on top, spread it with a stick, creating a pattern, dip the egg in the foam, place it on a napkin and leave for 15 minutes.

Then we wipe the eggs with a paper napkin and get original marble attributes of the Easter feast.

2. This coloring option will appeal to children who love to draw and create crafts. For this we will need: boiled eggs, paper towels and colored wax crayons.

3. Older children can be asked to paint eggs with acrylic paints.

4. For fans of cartoon characters, you can create such funny minions. To do this, you will need appropriate food coloring, a black marker, black thread and eyes, which can be purchased at a craft store.

5. And for fans of ninja turtles, such wonderful crumbs would be an excellent option.

6. This simple and time-consuming method will help you create beautiful lines on Easter eggs. To do this, you need to prepare food coloring, rubber bands of different thicknesses and paper napkins. Wrap the egg with rubber bands as shown in the picture below and dip into the dye you want until completely colored. Place the egg on a napkin and leave to dry. When the paint is completely dry, the rubber bands can be removed. You should get paints like this.

7. Decorating Easter eggs with natural, ecological products, as opposed to artificial ones, guarantees that the product will be edible. In addition, the costs for this are minimal. Pour water into three saucepans, bring to a boil, put a bag of a different type of tea into each of them and steep them for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, remove the tea bags and add 1-2 tsp. vinegar into each container, drop one hard-boiled egg into it and put it in the refrigerator overnight. The next day you can admire the work done.

That's all for me today. I tried to select for you as many options for coloring Easter eggs at home as possible and I hope that this article will be useful to you. Having this basic knowledge in stock, you can always supplement it using your imagination.

And now I want to wish you good health, happiness and congratulate you on the upcoming holiday of Happy Easter!

Good afternoon, dear friends, the bright holiday of Easter will come very soon. And you will need to decorate the table with Easter cakes and eggs. If we have sorted out the Easter cakes a bit, we haven’t figured out the eggs yet. A note on how.
And so now let's talk about ways to paint eggs. Eggs have been painted, painted and decorated for Easter for a very long time, but the real dawn and flight of thought can only be realized today when a lot of different food dyes have appeared.

In this article, we will look at several sure-fire ways to beautifully color eggs for Easter. And of course you need to prepare in advance as you need to collect all the ingredients. For example, there is not always a box with onions in the apartment and collecting onion peels in the right quantity is not so easy. In general, we will analyze everything in detail further.

Once, while looking through my wall on VK, I came across this post about painting eggs with natural dyes. All dyes are natural without added chemicals. And the colors will pleasantly surprise you.
I’ll tell you a little more about the use of natural or natural dyes, but a little later, but for now let’s look at a small reminder about determining the freshness of eggs.
Well, we checked the eggs for freshness and left the results in the comments. And we move on to food coloring. Which are sold before Easter at every turn.
These are the four packages you will find inside the main package.
Small bags can contain either tablets or a ready-made liquid. It is, of course, better to wear gloves when working with these paints. No, not because the paint is harmful, but so as not to get dirty.

We select the first few beauties from the boiled eggs and dilute the paint according to the instructions. One can for each paint.
Most of the instructions are similar to those on my bags, the instructions stated that boiled eggs should be washed well in a soda solution (1 tablespoon of baking soda for half a liter of water). Dilute paints only in warm water. For 1 paint, half a glass of water is enough, but you will also need to pour in a tablespoon of 9% vinegar. Prepare the dye and dip the egg in it for 5-6 minutes. Carefully remove the field with a spoon and place on a plate to dry.

Just like you, I am a real creative person and it occurred to me to mix paints to get a new color. For example, if you mix blue and yellow you get a turquoise color. Try it, maybe you will succeed. Or maybe you want to mix other colors. Write in the comments below the article what happened for you.
After the paint dries, it will no longer get dirty so much. And you can try decorating the eggs with beautiful stickers. Thank God they are also not a problem to buy.

And if you want to make an egg not of one color, but of several. Try to dip the egg not completely into the paint, but only a small part of it.

You can use wax to color eggs halfway. We rub wax on the part of the egg that we will not paint. We dip it in paint and the shell does not change color under the wax. This will make it easier for you to make colorful eggs.

If you have children in your family, be sure to invite them to help with coloring the eggs. But don’t leave them to their own devices, after all, this is the kitchen.
And this is how you can paint eggs using a regular whisk.
Try putting (boiled) eggs in a colander, dropping a few dyes into the water and stirring with a spatula. The output is all intricate colors.
You can also wrap a boiled egg in a regular paper napkin and drip paint on several sides. Then leave the egg in a napkin for 5-10 minutes so that the paint is properly embedded in the shell.
This is what beauty can turn out. Almost a marble egg without much effort.
You can decorate an egg for Easter without dyes. It is enough to take a special thermal film, put it on a (boiled) egg and lower it for 5-7 seconds. In boiling water, the high temperature causes the film to narrow and take the shape of an egg.
As you can see, there is no particular difficulty here. Everything is easy and simple and you don’t need to get your hands dirty and you don’t need to dilute the paint with boiling water and that’s it.

Painting eggs in onion skins

This is the oldest and most popular traditional method or method of dyeing eggs. Our grandmothers painted peas like this even under the Tsar.
The colors come out natural and there are no chemicals. Despite the large abundance of dyes, everyone in every family dyed and will dye eggs in onions every year, as this is part of a tradition that no one wants to give up. But there is one drawback to painting eggs in onions, you will need to separate the pan as the dishes can also become stained.
For a good rich color, take 3-4 parts of husk to one part of water. Just painting eggs with onions is not our thing. You need to do this with creativity. So read on.

To creatively color eggs, take the following:

• 1 tablespoon salt.
  Nylon stocking.
  Green leaves (dill, parsley, dandelion, cilantro, etc.)
  A skein of thread.
  Vegetable oil.

Painting process.

We take raw eggs as they need to be boiled in their shells for at least 40 minutes.
We attach a leaf to the egg. Cut a piece from the stocking and carefully place the egg in the stocking. We press the leaf to the egg and wrap the stocking with threads. It should look something like this.

Fill the husk with water and place it on the stove.
Add salt and when the water begins to boil, lower the workpiece into the husk.
Cook for 30-40 minutes. Then we take it out and if there is a second batch, cook the second one, and let the first one cool.
As soon as the eggs have cooled a little, remove the stockings, remove the leaves and rub the eggs with vegetable oil. After which the testicles will acquire a beautiful shine.
You can also color eggs using food coloring using this method.

How to paint eggs so they look like marble

If you want to surprise old housewives or girlfriends with your painted eggs, then take a longer look. So, it’s very rare that anyone paints eggs; they do everything according to the classics and no one wants to bother further, but there’s practically no hassle here.
Required.

• Eggs.
• Onion peel.
• Zelenka.
• Water.
• Pot.

Painting process.

The method is similar to the classic one, but with minor additions.

Take a raw egg, dip it in water and roll it over the onion peel so that it sticks to the egg. Then wrap it in a stocking or bandage. Pour plain water into a saucepan, add a spoonful of salt and place on the stove. As soon as the water starts to boil, lower the eggs, pour in the brilliant greens and cook the eggs for 30-40 minutes. After draining the water, let it cool and remove everything unnecessary.
This is what happened for me, and the same should happen for you.
The drawing turns out to be simply unusual. And the most interesting thing is that no two eggs are the same, they are all different.

We dye eggs with natural products

Well, now let's turn to natural dyes. Which are found in food products.

It is important when using such paints to be sure to add a little vinegar. It will fix the paints and make the colors more saturated.

1. Color eggs using turmeric. She will give you yellow color. We will discuss how to color eggs with turmeric below.
2. If you want to paint eggs bright orange, then carrots will help you. Take carrot juice and drop an egg into it. The color saturation will depend on the time the egg has been in the carrot juice.
3. Have you ever colored eggs in beet juice? I recommend trying it. True, the process is too long. You need to keep the boiled egg in beet juice for at least 8-10 hours. But only you will have raspberry eggs.

4. Another long way to color red cabbage. We also squeeze out the juice and soak the boiled eggs in it for 8-10 hours.

5. Even tea and coffee will help us color the eggs. Brew the tea stronger and keep the egg in the brew for 2-3 hours. Then remove and get tea-colored eggs. By the way, you can dye not only in black tea.

You can make a beautiful green color; for this, take a bunch of spinach, cut it, put it in a pan with water. Place on the stove and cook the eggs in it until the desired color is obtained.
This is what you can achieve with patience. As an author, I will boast about my achievements.

Emerald eggs for Easter

Consider this option for coloring eggs. The video shows all the steps; it is possible that this particular method will be more understandable to you.

How to dye eggs without dyes using turmeric

It’s not for nothing that this painting method is gaining popularity. After all, the result is so good that you can’t even believe that it’s all a natural color.
Stir 1 tablespoon of turmeric into 250 ml of warm water, let the turmeric dissolve for 2-3 minutes and put on fire. Add eggs and cook for 30-40 minutes.
You can also use the method with stockings or husks before throwing in the eggs.

Dyed eggs in fabric

Let's continue to create and wonder, now we'll try to paint eggs using a tie. No, of course, we won’t completely spoil our husband’s favorite tie, we’ll just take it and cut off a small piece.))) For this method, any colorful silk fabric will do, you can also take colorful cotton.

We take a beautiful piece of fabric, wrap an egg in it and wrap it with thread. Next, put it in a saucepan with water and cook for 15-20 minutes. Don't forget to add 1 tablespoon of vinegar per 1 liter of water. The result surprised even me.

Instead of fabric, you can take any material with a mesh and wrap the egg in it. We cook such eggs in any dye and get unusual results.

Coloring eggs for Easter in a napkin

The technology is quite young and little known. To me, this looks more like a hand-made, full-fledged craft for the holiday, rather than jelly for painting an egg.

You will need the following set:

Eggs.
Napkins.
PVA glue
Brush.
Scissors.

Production process.

A pattern is cut out from a colorful napkin. The napkin is disassembled into layers.

Apply a layer of glue to the egg with a brush. Then the cut out design is carefully applied.
Coat the top of the drawing with a thin layer of glue. You can apply several designs on one egg. Afterwards you need to let the glue dry.
It turns out very beautiful. I remind you that we paint already boiled eggs.

We dye eggs using improvised materials at home

As you know, Easter cakes are decorated with icing and beautiful sprinkles, and why not decorate eggs with this sprinkle.
This is not a tricky thing, and the results will wonderfully surprise you. In order to glue the sprinkles onto the egg, you don’t even need special glue; the same eggs will help us.

Take the white, dip a boiled egg into it, grease it well on all sides, then roll it in the powder.
You can also use office glue, but there is no point in eating it since the glue will easily penetrate to the edible part of the egg through the pores in the shell. Of course, when using this technique, you can decorate eggs not only with powder, but also with various cereals.
For example, look at how funny an egg you get if you use cereal.

Well, since we are headed in this direction, you can also decorate eggs using nail polish. You really need to wear gloves to avoid getting your hands dirty. Take a glass of water, pour a little varnish of different colors, draw a small pattern and dip an egg in it. But I remind you once again that it is not recommended to eat such eggs.

Try coloring eggs with markers. Water-based markers are very suitable for these purposes. And if you show a little imagination and draw eyes on the eggs, you can create a whole army.

If you are interested in the idea of ​​eyes, look for them on store shelves.
You can buy ready-made eyes and use them to create minions like these. Look how cute they are, right?

So I think now you are completely ready to paint eggs for the Easter holidays. Congratulations on the upcoming Bright Sunday of Christ. Christ is Risen!!!

Meat dishes. And one of the most important treats for this day is, of course, eggs - a symbol of birth. And any housewife, in order to surprise everyone, painted the testicles using a non-standard solution - with imagination.

How to beautifully paint eggs for Easter with your own hands? Here you will see how you can decorate Easter eggs at home in an unusual and original way - unlike everyone else out there! Marble, rainbow, classic in onion skins, without dyes, using food and natural dyes, rice or fabric (decoupage).

Everyone treated each other to these symbols and said, “Jesus is Risen!”, and heard in response, “Truly He is Risen!” We fight with “painted eggs” (as they call colored eggs). But before that we admire them - how beautifully decorated they are!

How to beautifully paint eggs for Easter with your own hands: general rules

There are no clear rules on how to paint eggs for Easter, but there are still recommendations that must be followed. They have been tested empirically - through trial and error. That's why I trust them and follow them. And I advise you!

1. Before boiling eggs, they should be at least room temperature. Therefore, if the eggs are in the refrigerator, you should take them out in advance. This is necessary so that the shell does not crack during cooking.
2. In order for the egg to color evenly, it is necessary to wash it. Don’t just rinse with water, but with a dish sponge, and preferably with a soapy solution.
3. After washing it should be degreased. You will need vodka or alcohol. Then wipe dry.
4. To make the egg shine with a healthy look after painting, it needs to be coated with vegetable oil. This will create a glossy finish on the shell.

Now you are ready to decorate your Easter eggs with your own hands. The material is ready, now it's time to start painting. Follow the clear instructions and you will get the most beautiful Easter eggs.

Onion peels are a traditional classic natural material for dyeing Easter eggs at home. The colors come in various shades. It depends on the volume of the main ingredient and how long the eggs stay in it - from light beige to dark brown.

Also, along with onion peels, various additives are used: brilliant green, dyes, lace, and create patterns.

The classic version of painting eggs in onion skins

This method is the most popular. Because it has been used for decades. The more husk, the darker and more saturated the color.

Remove the eggs from the refrigerator and leave for 2 hours until the temperature reaches room temperature.

At this time, pour the onion peels into the pan, add water and cook for at least half an hour. Let it brew for 30-40 minutes.

Then add a spoonful of salt to the broth and place the eggs there. Cook the dog when ready. Remove carefully and cool in cold water. You can strain the onion broth and only then cook it in it.

If the eggs do not achieve the desired effect, then place them back and bring them to condition.

Be sure to wipe dry and lubricate with vegetable oil to create a glossy finish.

To get a bright red and brown color you will need a couple of kilograms of onions per dozen eggs.

How to Marble Eggs Using Onion Peels

For this method, you need to prepare the basic material: cut the husks and paper randomly into small pieces.

Moisten the eggs with water and roll in the husks and paper.

Prepare gauze or nylon stocking. Cut them so that one egg fits. Pull tightly and tie with thread. The denser, the clearer the pattern.

Place onion skins and eggs in a saucepan, add salt and cook for 30-40 minutes.

Once ready, cool in cold water and remove the gauze or stocking.

Dry and coat with vegetable oil.

Marble Easter eggs - method using onion skins and brilliant green

Quite an original way and many people like it. The result is an unusual marble color.

Roll eggs, moistened with water, in onion peels. And as in the previous version, we wrap it with gauze or nylon. We tie the ends with thread.

Pour water into a saucepan and pour in a whole bottle of brilliant green.

Place the eggs. They should be completely covered with water. Bring to a boil and cook for another 10 minutes.

Carefully take it out and under the tap. Remove the gauze and rinse again.

Dry and polish with vegetable oil.

How to paint patterned eggs in onion skins and rice

With the help of rice, we can get so-called “speckles” - when the shell is colored like a speck.

Moisten eggs with water and roll in rice.

Wrap with gauze and tie the ends with thread.

Place in a prepared saucepan with water and husks and cook for a little over half an hour.

After the time has passed, cool, remove the gauze, dry and coat with oil for a glossy effect.

You might also be interested in what delicious things to cook for Easter:

1. Juicy and tasty country-style potatoes

How to paint eggs for Easter with your own hands without dyes with a pattern

In order to get Easter eggs with a pattern, there are several options. The patterns come out lace, rainbow and abstract.

For all methods, the main ingredients and cooking recipe are the same. The difference is that as objects we will use improvised means found at home. With their help, we will paint the eggs in the desired pattern.

DIY Easter egg patterns: general rules

We will need:

• Onion peel
• Sprigs of dill, lettuce, basil, celery and others (any, at your discretion),
• Gauze or nylon tights,
• Threads, electrical tape, fabric and rubber bands,
• Various cereals (their seeds),
• Vegetable oil,
• Salt.

Preparation:

1. Prepare the coloring solution.
2. Decorating Easter eggs.
3. We secure the pattern with gauze or nylon.
4. Cook in the mixture.
5. Let it cool, remove the fasteners and rinse.

We paint eggs using cereal grains

The painting technology is that the eggs must be moistened and rolled in cereal grains - either one type or all of them. It turns out to be such a simple pattern. Various grains are suitable: sesame, buckwheat, rice (we already talked above about how you can use rice to paint in the form of “speckles”) and others.

Patterns using fabric

This is also an unusual way of coloring eggs. It consists of wrapping the product tightly in fabric with the pattern facing inward. Any fabric can be suitable, both old and new, purchased specifically for these purposes.

Well, if you use lace instead of fabric with a pattern, then a very beautiful lace pattern will remain on the shell.

Patterns on Easter eggs using stencils

This guys is a very simple way. Buy a stencil or cut it out yourself from paper. Glue it onto a wet shell, wrap it in gauze and boil it with a dye solution.

The result is simple ornaments. You can pick up drawings of animals and flowers, whatever. Everything is in your hands and up to your imagination!

Patterns using greenery:

For this case, we will need celery and basil leaves (you may have other types). Dill can also leave a nice pattern. Glue it to the testicle with the front side, wrap it with nylon and tie the ends. Cook in dye.

Electrical tape, thread and rubber bands

It is also a suitable material for decorating eggs for Easter. We wrap the thread in a chaotic or, on the contrary, in a predictable form around the egg. The electrical tape should be cut into thin strips and also applied as a thread. Stationery rubber bands - they can be wrapped randomly in a crisscross pattern.

These methods listed above must be applied to already boiled eggs. And also to get a variety of colors. First you need to dip in one color, hold it to dry and then in another color.

Now, just before Easter, you can find many tools for Easter decorations in stores and supermarkets. I came across food dyes, shrink film, rice napkins for decoupage, and much more, no less interesting.

Today we will talk about natural dyes and their help in coloring eggs at home. Doing it yourself is always more enjoyable, especially if there are children nearby.

Natural dyes speak better than artificial ones. I wouldn't say that and there is nothing chemical in them. They are as harmless as natural ones. And the color palette is richer. Another disadvantage of straight women is time. It will take from 2 to 10 hours to prepare a saturated coloring solution.

We are considering several popular options for natural dyes for coloring Easter eggs. Let's figure it out.

Natural vegetable dyes for Easter eggs and how to dye them

• Onion peel. We already know about it; it gives the shell a color from light yellow to dark brown. I like the second shade. We explained how to paint in detail and step by step above (you can come back if you started from this point).
• Beet. Beetroot colors eggs in various shades of red, pink and burgundy (in some cases purple). How to color: grate the beets (you can whole them, but it will take longer), boil the beet juice. Add a spoonful of salt and a spoonful of vinegar, place the eggs and hard boil.
• Red cabbage. The predominant color in this design is blue. How to color eggs: finely chop the cabbage, pour boiling water and vinegar (a couple of spoons) and leave for 8-10 hours. Then place the eggs and leave until the color is completely saturated.
• Turmeric. Love golden eggs. Here's the dye for you. Turmeric will color the eggs a sunny golden color. Pour 100 grams of ground turmeric into boiling water, add raw eggs and continue cooking until done. Leave it like this until the morning.

How to dye eggs with rainbow dyes

You can also color eggs for Easter with paints that are sold in the store in the form of food coloring. There are from 4 to 15 colors - a rich palette. So something beautiful will come out! The main thing is desire and patience!

How to paint - read the instructions, and you won’t go wrong.

Using multiple colors results in rainbow-colored eggs. Just don’t dip the eggs all the way into the sauce: not a third or half. And let it dry before painting with another paint.

Everyone will be surprised by this type of painting - very beautiful, unusual and original!

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Paint Easter eggs with varnish or vegetable oil

I don’t know about you, but this method is new to me and I really liked it. It is suggested to use vegetable oil sparingly with dyes and colored nail polish as a working tool.

The results are not only rainbow and marble eggs, but also abstract and symmetrical ones. Due to the even distribution of paint in both cases, extraordinary symmetry is created.

Marbling eggs using nail polishes

In this case, we will need regular eggs with white shells (although not necessary). Drop nail polish into a container of water in the center. You can alternate colors.

Directly in the bowl with a toothpick, draw whatever comes to mind: abstraction, flowers, waves, cobwebs. Put on gloves and dip the egg into this colorful liquid, and then the other side.

If you don’t want to bother with gloves and dipping, then just draw directly on the boiled eggs.

How to paint eggs for Easter without dye: DIY decoupage

Nowadays, people are increasingly trying to pursue their hobbies. New masters of their craft and new directions have appeared. Decoupage in general terms is one of the popular areas of the crafts fair.

This is the art of creating something stunning out of nothing! They decorate everything they can, old furniture, clothes, photos, crafts, including eggs. And by the way, not only for Easter, but also for the sake of creativity. Plus, this is another way to color eggs without dye!

Video - Decoupage eggs with napkins

Tip: choose napkins with a small pattern, since the surface of the testicles is small.

To make the decoupage of eggs for Easter so neat and beautiful, you need caution, attentiveness, patience and a little skill (experience). You can practice, you even need to! The video shows that the most common egg white was used as an adhesive.

In any case, if you really want something, you will definitely succeed!

Video – Decoupage eggs in gold color

Here's another video and master class on how to paint an egg gold. This gold plating technology is actually as safe as dye-free gold plating.

Why are eggs painted for Easter?

Somehow I never thought about why eggs are painted for Easter. They paint and paint, give and give – so what? Became interesting.

It turns out there is a legend.

Saint Mary Magdalene gave an Easter egg to the Roman emperor. The egg was painted red. And according to church tradition, the stones on Calvary turned into red eggs on the day of the Resurrection of Christ.

According to another version, the emperor, having accepted an ordinary egg and doubting that Jesus was Risen, said: “Just as an egg cannot turn from white to red, so the dead do not rise again!” And at that very moment the egg turned red. Taken aback by what he saw, the emperor exclaimed: “Truly He is Risen!”

Since then, it has been customary to paint eggs for Easter and, after giving them, say “Christ is Risen!” And they answer - “Truly He is Risen!”

Here's a master class for you:

Creative and original solution. Call your kids and get started. There is nothing complicated about it.

You will need:

• beautiful with patterns and pieces of fabric,
• white fabric,
• vinegar,
• a pot of water,
• the eggs themselves,
• desire and time (20 minutes).

1. Now we cut the fabric into shreds approximately along the lengths of the sides of 18 centimeters, as in the video.

2. Wrap each egg first in colored fabric and then in white.

3. Place the original bags in a pan. Fill with water and add 3 tablespoons of vinegar. Cook for 15 minutes.

4. Let it cool and Woo-ala - indescribable beauty! Is it possible to get this beautiful anywhere else?

Short video:

Easter eggs made from beads video tutorials

Three very useful and simple, and most importantly without water, understandable lessons and a master class from Shurochka:

Summing up, we can safely say that you now know and know how to paint eggs for Easter with your own hands at home. With such a variety of options, it is simply impossible that something will not work out.

My kids have already decided to make Easter eggs in gold color - it really reminded them of the fairy tale about the Ryaba chicken. But I think you need to try several options to make the holiday table look truly fabulous with an abundance of different decorations.

Good for your home, mutual love, peaceful skies and prosperity! So that there is no grief and sadness in your life, so that illness and failure pass by! Happy holiday to you, Happy Easter! Christ is risen!

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If you have saffron, you can use it to color the eggs orange. I tell you how to dye eggs with saffron.

If you want to put blue colored eggs on your Easter table, then read this recipe - I’ll tell you how to dye eggs with blue cabbage. Why use artificial colors if you have a natural product?

Learn how to dye eggs with turmeric and you won't have to worry about yellow Easter eggs anymore. Why use synthetic dyes when you can dye eggs naturally?

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Perhaps the most popular way to color Easter eggs. I’ll tell you how to paint eggs with onion skins correctly so that they acquire a beautiful shade and do not burst.

Among the many artificial dyes, I really want to find something natural that I could use for the holiday. I offer you one of these options - spinach colored eggs.

For those who are looking for ideas for Easter, but prefer only natural ingredients, I offer a fairly simple option - coffee-dyed eggs.

If you prefer to use only natural dyes for Easter, then I offer you a great option - blueberry-dyed eggs.

Surprisingly, sometimes absolutely unusual things can come in handy in the kitchen. I bring to your attention one of these options - eggs painted with brilliant green.

Today you can find a lot of ready-made decorations for Easter eggs, but let's not forget grandma's recipes. I show you how to paint eggs with onion skins - according to a traditional Russian recipe!

You probably have pieces of unnecessary fabric at home. If so, then I offer you a festive idea - colored eggs in patches.

I bring to your attention a very interesting and original option for the festive table for Easter - eggs painted with stains.

Do you want to make something bright and unusual for the holiday table? Then I bring to your attention one of these options - striped colored eggs.

If you don't have creative abilities, but have a great desire to do something original for Easter, then spray painted eggs are exactly what you need.

If you are passionate about creativity, then you should definitely try making eggs painted using the decoupage technique for Easter.