Hello, dear readers. Easter is coming soon, and today we will talk about how to paint eggs in onion skins. It is one of the most widely used natural dyes. After all, with the help of husks you can achieve not only different shades, but also paint them with beautiful patterns. And for this you don’t need to buy anything, just collect the skins from the onion and pick different leaves that you like. You can also make eggs with cereals, such as rice, or use improvised means.

In my memory, our parents only colored eggs with food coloring once. The color was bright, of course, but so were the hands. And after cleaning, the eggs were also colored. Maybe the eggs, after peeling, look original, but eating them is not very pleasant. Even though the dye is food grade, chemistry is chemistry. That's why we dye eggs with natural dyes. And today I will tell you how to paint eggs for Easter with onion skins.

First, take onion skins. To ensure a rich color on the eggs, you must first boil the onion skins. You can do this in the evening, or on the same day as painting.

If you do it first, then just boil it over low heat for 15 minutes and leave our solution to infuse until the next day.

If you need to color today, then boil for 30-40 minutes, and then immerse the eggs for coloring. You need to cook for about 10 minutes.

If you want the eggs to be the same color, it is better to wash them first. This way the paint will apply evenly. Another tip: strain the onion skins and cook the eggs only in the broth. Look at the photo below.

The two rows on the far right are painted with husks. The one on the far right is with the strained husks, and the second one is with the husks. As you can see in the photo, the eggs are not the same color. Although it may be better for you, there will be some semblance of a pattern.

But you don’t control the drawing process, and you don’t know what it will turn out to be. This can be done by cutting onion peels and placing them in a stocking; the technology is written a little below.

And if you are interested in other colors of eggs from the photo, then these are also natural dyes. You can read how we painted them in the article on our blog “.”

Our mother likes to dye eggs in a stocking, with the first leaves added. Most often these were currant or parsley leaves. They were just the right size and looked very nice on the finished egg.

Mom always sent us to collect green leaves while she prepared everything else. She asked me to take only beautiful leaves. The results were always beautiful eggs painted in onion skins with a pattern.

The leaf should not be large, otherwise it will be difficult to press it evenly onto the egg, and then you will get a blurry pattern.

To apply the pattern we will need leaves or grass, old oversized nylon tights, and a tie.

Mom usually wet the leaves with water, glued them to the egg, and carefully lowered them into tights. I straightened the leaves, pulled on the tights and tied them. She didn't even cut up her tights, and she had garlands of up to 10 eggs. For convenience, we cut them into pieces so that there is only enough for one egg.

These are parsley leaves and rice. Instead of leaves, you can use regular rice, millet or pearl barley. We simply cover the egg with wet, uncooked rice and also cover it with fabric (nylon tights). It is better to take polished rice, you can even use chopped rice. Cook the same as in the first case, 10 minutes.

You can color eggs with patterns and other methods. For example, we take a regular bicycle inner tube and cut it into thin elastic bands. We put them on the egg and paint with them. You can also use rubber bands, but they often tear due to boiling.

You come up with the patterns yourself, and depend on your imagination and the number of elastic bands.

Or even use an elastic bandage to apply the pattern. It also turns out to be an interesting drawing.

You can use various lace fabrics. The pattern will look like on fabric.

Or even just scratching a design on the shell with a needle. If of course you have time for this.

Tips for painting with onion peels with and without a pattern

Precautions when painting with onion skins

Painting with onion skins is completely safe. But there are still points that are worth considering.

For example, a vessel in which onion skins will be cooked. The husk colors not only the shell, but also the pan.

Our mother used an old saucepan for these purposes. Because it was difficult to wash it off afterwards. Although many cleaning products have already been invented, we also use only one pan for painting, and not an enameled one.

And of course, don’t forget that we are working with fire and hot water.

We hope that we have helped you with the question of how to dye eggs in onion skins. And if you haven’t yet decided on the choice of Easter cakes for Easter, then we can help with that too. We have a wonderful selection of proven Easter cake recipes. You can take a look. Or check out our favorite recipe.

The tradition of painting eggs for Easter has come to us since ancient times; today there are many dyes and stickers that can be used to decorate Easter eggs. Previously, there were no artificial dyes; for this reason, housewives used more natural types of dyes for coloring. Today we’ll talk about how to paint eggs in onion skins with designs and patterns.

Since housewives have been painting eggs for several hundred years in a row, today there are several dozen ways to properly paint eggs with onion peels with designs and patterns, while doing it beautifully and unusually. It is not uncommon for fabric to be used to create a design; it can be lace or with a relief; thick threads can also be used to create a design. Below is a detailed process on how to dye eggs in onion skins to get the most beautiful Easter colored eggs.

I would like to immediately say that there is no difficulty at all in painting eggs with onion skins; every housewife can cope with this process on her own. If you paint eggs with onions, you can get a rich brown shade of the shell, but the design is created at the preparation stage, it takes no more than twenty minutes of free time. Eggs painted in husks will look very attractive; to be convinced of this, you should look at the photographs with ready-made Easter table decorations.

What needs to be done before the coloring stage?

To get a beautiful and even color, it is important to choose only white eggs for coloring, since brown ones will color much worse; it is also worth inspecting their integrity; there should be no chips or cracks on the surface of the shell.

It is very important that before starting coloring all the eggs lie in a warm place for several hours, and in order for the paint to sit better on the surface of the eggshell, it is worth wiping all the eggs with alcohol or vinegar. It is important to know how to boil eggs so that they do not burst; to do this, add a little table salt to the water.

What is the process of painting with onion skins only?

Coloring eggs with onion peels is not at all difficult, just take a lot of onion peels, you will need about three hundred grams of this product, and after that the peels are washed and placed in cold water. The decoction of the husk is boiled for at least one hour, during which time the product releases all its coloring matter into the water.

After this time, you can remove the remaining husks, as they will not be useful to us. Eggs are placed in the resulting broth and left until completely colored, but now it’s worth learning how to paint eggs in onion skins using fabric and other devices to get a beautiful design.

Coloring Easter eggs “Stripe”

Most often, to get a beautiful design, housewives select openwork fabric, but if you don’t have a piece of material at home, don’t worry, because you can make eggs painted with stripes, it turns out very original and simple. To make such a pattern, you can take rubber bands for money or ordinary thick threads, they can be used to wrap eggs, while using rubber bands will be more rational, the pattern will be clearer.

It is best to use a chaotic arrangement here, but if desired, you can create clear and even lines. As soon as the egg is prepared, it is sent into a decoction of the husks and boiled for another twenty-five minutes; after cooling, the rubber bands and strings are removed from the surface of the shell and the eggs can be coated with vegetable oil for shine.

Create a marble effect

It’s not difficult to boil eggs in onion peels with a pattern, and the marble pattern is becoming increasingly popular today at various holidays; such a marble shell should surprise guests at Easter in the hostess’s house. There are only two ways to dye eggs in this style; the first method is considered the simplest, but the second is used more often when it is necessary to get the best result. In the first method, the marble effect will not be clearly visible, but the second option will turn out to be truly ideal.

Method one

First, you just need to boil all the prepared Easter eggs in onion broth, when a persistent and rich brown tint forms on the surface of the shell, you can remove the product from the broth. Next, add a little water and greenery to the saucepan, and about two large spoons of vegetable oil are added there, so the already dried eggs are dipped into the resulting mass, turned a little and taken out on a clean sheet of paper to dry.

Method two

Eggs painted in this way will have the most pronounced pattern, which is similar to marble; for this, eggs with a white shell are prepared for cooking, and it is also necessary to finely chop the onion peel. The egg is slightly moistened and rolled in this husk, so that the husk does not come off during cooking, you need to take a piece of nylon fabric and put the egg in the resulting stocking.

It is very important that the fabric is tightly tied; this will prevent the husks from falling away from the surface of the shell during the cooking period. Well, then pour two liters of water and a bottle of green stuff into a saucepan, cook it all for at least twenty minutes.

It is allowed to remove husks and nylon from eggs only after the product has completely cooled.

How can you make a beautiful pattern on the surface of eggs?

If you want to make an unusual ornament, it is better to prepare plant leaves in advance, but when you have nothing at hand, you can use dill and parsley. To do this, each leaf is placed on the surface of the shell moistened with water, then the egg is moved into a nylon bag and tied tightly, and after that the eggs are dipped in a decoction of the husk and boiled for the required amount of time.

This method is also used with scraps of fabric; the dyed product turns out to be very unusual if the fabric has lace trim or a beautiful relief. You just need to wrap the lace flap around the entire egg, and then secure the ends of the fabric tightly so that the material does not move away from the shell during the cooking period. This preparation is moved to a saucepan where the broth is prepared, and the eggs are boiled for 20 to 25 minutes, it is necessary to achieve a rich brown hue.

Some housewives use other methods of applying a pattern to an egg; for this, the shell is moistened with water and the egg is rolled in rice, buckwheat or semolina, then the product is placed in a stocking and carefully tied. The resulting bundle is placed in a boiling broth for coloring for several minutes. If you don’t have an ordinary stocking at home, you should use gauze for your own purposes, but you can remove the fabric only after the surface of the painted shell has completely dried.

Now that a lot of different food dyes and specialized chemicals are sold, it’s worth thinking about the fact that eggs colored with natural substances are much more natural, beautiful and safer.

We will tell you how to color eggs with onion skins. This is the most accessible and uncomplicated method. In addition, for the entire existence of this tradition, a more environmentally friendly and beautiful method of coloring eggs, perhaps, has not yet been invented. Thanks to the husk, all sorts of shades of red are obtained, and if you take it from the Yalta onion, you will get a purple shell color.

Why are eggs painted, where does this tradition come from?

There is an Easter tradition of exchanging dyes with each other. The custom has ancient roots. The story goes that Mary Magdalene decided to bring the news of the resurrection of Christ to Emperor Tiberius.

It was not customary to go to visit empty-handed, so she took the most affordable gift - a chicken egg, considering that it was very symbolic: there was a shell on top, and life inside. Isn't this the personification of eternity?..

The emperor did not believe her words, saying that this could not be the same as the fact that this white egg would turn red. It immediately turned red. This is where this custom came from.

Making dyes using onion peels

We will paint eggs in onions (husks). Samples of white and brown colors will be useful.

Ingredients:

Preparation:

1. Pour water into the pre-collected onion peels.
2. Salt.
3. Boil for 50 minutes until a decoction is obtained.
4. Let it sit for two hours.
5. We filter.
6. Cook the eggs in the strained broth for ten minutes, turning them occasionally.
7. Place in cold water.
8. Let it cool.
9. Remove and wipe well with a dry towel.

Eggs must be completely covered with water when boiling. If the broth is not enough for this, then add water and stir.

Note:

If the broth is not strained from the husk, the color may turn out uneven.

Marble eggs using onion peels and chives

This recipe is for those who want an original decoration for the holiday table. It’s easy to paint eggs with onion skins and greenery. This is a short process, but the result will be beautiful: the shell will be marbled.

You need to take:

• eggs;
• brilliant green;
• threads;
• gauze or nylon;
• latex gloves.

Peel painting process:

1. Remember the husk, it will become smaller.
2. Wet the eggs.
3. Roll in the husks (or lay them down).
4. We put the egg in the nylon along with the stuck husk.
5. We tie it with a bag and secure it with threads.
6. We cut off the unnecessary end.
7. Let's cook.

Green dyeing process:

Note:

• Try grinding the husk with a coffee grinder, then the effect will be even more beautiful.
• Eggs dyed in this way are individual for everyone, depending on the amount of greenery spent and the fit of the husk.

How to make marble eggs - video

Several ways to create a pattern on the shell

You can diversify this Easter decoration by painting eggs with onions and applying original patterns. In these recipes we will tell you how to color eggs correctly so that the shells have patterns.

We will need:

Marble paints

Cooking option:

1. Mix the peels from different types of onions (red, yellow, orange).
2. Add small pieces of paper there.
3. Together with the wet egg, wrap it in nylon (gauze).
4. Cook for 30 minutes over low heat.
5. Rinse under cold water. All is ready!

Cooking method:

1. We wet the eggs.
2. Dip in rice (dry).
3. Wrap tightly in gauze (stocking).
4. Place in onion broth.
5. Cook for about ten minutes.
6. We take it out.
7. Rinse in cold water. Ready!

Note:

• You can take peas instead of rice, you will get round spots.
• A unique effect can be achieved if you add olives cut into rings to the eggs.

Be sure to make wonderful patterned paints!

Striped eggs

To obtain striped eggs, they must be wrapped with rubber bands or threads before boiling in their shells.

How to diversify:

1. Make several colors with horizontal stripes.
2. Several have vertical stripes.
3. On others, place the stripes randomly.
4. Make symbolic crosses on the remaining ones.

This Easter decoration will be even more beautiful if, after coloring, you rub it with cotton wool dipped in vegetable oil. It will turn out great!

Lace pattern

Fairy tales and magic are hidden in paints with such patterns! Amazing patterns, wonderful curls, ingenious loops are obtained thanks to lace. These delicious colors are easy to obtain.

The main thing is to choose the right lace material so that the pattern is not too small, but not large either.

Process:

Note:

In addition to lace, you can use other textured material for the same purposes, for example, plastic mesh, in which fruit is sold in stores.

Krashenki with a pattern (first method)

An incredibly beautiful shell is obtained if you attach the leaves of any plants to it. Some of them even add a tint, for example, a birch leaf turns the design yellow.

Cooking method:

1. Prepare leaves (from flowers or other plants).
2. Attach them to the egg and wrap them with gauze (tightly).
3. Cook in the husk broth as usual.

Enjoy the resulting beauty!

Easter eggs with leaves pattern - video

With a pattern (second method)

You can make unusual lines, surreal squiggles on the shell, draw snowflakes, trees, etc.

Performance:

1. We take electrical tape and cut out everything we want from it (hearts, snowflakes, droplets, etc.)
2. We stick them on the shell.
3. Let's cook.
4. Unhook the electrical tape.

We admire how beautiful it turned out!

Note:

• Adults usually do not have time for such applications. But who says adults should do this? Get the kids involved. Children will be very happy with this assignment.
• You may come across electrical tape that can only be peeled off with the shell, but a positive result is still obtained much more often.

Drawing with a needle

Let's create the magic ourselves! We take a needle and begin to scratch something on the egg, colored by the husk. Complex ornaments or some incredible designs are not for everyone. But you can scrawl inscriptions like “Christ is Risen!” or make a personalized egg as a keepsake. Believe me, this is quite an exciting activity.

Decorate with flowers

There is nothing complicated about this method.

Preparation:

1. Instead of leaves or rice, we tie flowers to the eggs (you can take shaggy ones, for example, daisies, etc.).
2. Wrap it in 2-3 layers of nylon (gauze).
3. Cook in onion broth.
4. Let's get it.
5. “We undress” by removing the nylon.

We enjoy the result. See for yourself that it is easy and beautiful!

Gradient paints

Thanks to this method, unusual, ceremonial colors are obtained. The manufacturing process will be a little more complicated than the previous ones, but the result will be worth it.

What should be done:

1. Choose a dish that allows you to set the required number of eggs in the desired position.
2. Place the eggs vertically.
3. Fill 1/3 full with the husk broth and cook for five minutes.
4. Add another 1/3 of the broth and boil for three minutes.
5. Pour the broth so that the eggs are completely covered with it.
6. Cook for five minutes.
7. Drain.

This method produces wonderful transitions from dark to light colors.

We make paints and paint with wax

This method is more labor-intensive, but the most mystical and magical. The eggs turn out incredibly soulful and warm.

Cooking process:

Painting beets

A rich burgundy shell will come out if the dyes are made in beet broth.

Very soon one of the biggest Christian holidays will come - Easter. On the eve of this holiday, many housewives are puzzled by the question of how to paint and decorate eggs at home without using harmful chemical dyes.

For many centuries, our ancestors successfully dyed eggs for Easter using ordinary onion skins.

Starting from Maslenitsa, housewives usually did not throw away onion peels, but dried them a little and put them in a linen bag. Before Easter, the amount needed to paint eggs just accumulated.

When painting eggs using onion peels, you can independently adjust their color from light yellow to rich red-brown. If you want to get a darker color of eggs, then you need to boil a large amount of onion peels in water for at least thirty minutes, and then just immerse the boiled eggs in the resulting broth.

To make the eggs lighter, you just need to use a smaller amount of husk for coloring and cook it for three to five minutes.

Also, the final color of eggs when painted with peel depends on the type of onion. Each variety of husk has its own color - purple, golden, deep orange, red, light yellow.

Here are several ways to beautifully and originally paint eggs using onion peels to achieve different effects.

Before painting, eggs must be removed from the refrigerator so that they warm up to room temperature and do not burst during cooking. Then, put the onion peels in a saucepan, pour boiling water over it and let it brew for two to three hours. Next, put the eggs in the onion infusion and put the pan on the fire. After boiling, reduce the heat to low and cook the eggs for ten minutes. After the water has cooled, remove the eggs from the infusion with a spoon and wipe them with a paper napkin.

Dyed eggs “speckled” or motley eggs.

Each egg must first be dipped in water and then rolled in dry semolina, rice or corn grits. Next, the egg must be tightly wrapped with a piece of gauze. To make the cereal adhere better to the egg, the ends of the gauze are tightly tied with thread. Next, the eggs are boiled in onion infusion, as in the first method.

Krashenki with a pattern.

In order to get nice patterns when painting with onion skins, you need to attach small leaves, flowers, blades of grass (can be dried or freshly picked) to the eggs. Next, as in the second method, wrap the eggs in gauze and boil them in onion peels.

You can decorate eggs with a design or pattern in other ways. If you don’t have leaves and flowers on hand, you can simply tie a piece of lace around the egg before boiling.

To obtain “marble” stains on a colored egg, you must wrap each egg in onion skins before boiling. Then, together with the husk, wrap the egg in a white cotton napkin, gauze or a piece of nylon stocking.

For a more pronounced marble effect, it is better to use onion peels of different colors (from different varieties of onions).

The second option on how to make marble eggs is slightly different from the first, but also very simple. Multi-colored (red, yellow, orange) husks need to be chopped into small pieces with your hands or scissors and a few small pieces of paper should be added to the husks. The egg must first be moistened with water so that the mixture of paper and husk sticks to it better. Then, we tie the eggs, rolled in a mixture of husks and pieces of paper, with gauze, pieces of stocking or linen. Next, water and onion peels are added to the pan and the eggs wrapped in peels are placed. You need to cook the eggs for thirty to forty minutes over low heat.

Video from user 365 TIPS on how to make marble eggs.

By coloring with onion skins you can get original striped eggs. To do this, before painting, each egg must be tightly wrapped with an elastic band or threads, which can be applied to the egg either symmetrically or asymmetrically. How to do it is only a matter of your inspiration and imagination.

Then, dip them in the infusion of onion peels and cook for half an hour.

To make Easter eggs, colored in the traditional way using a healthy natural dye, even more beautiful, shiny and look more impressive on the holiday table, after cooling, you need to carefully rub each egg with a cotton pad dipped in vegetable oil.

I described all the unusual ways of painting Easter eggs in onion skins that I know of here. I hope that the information will be useful to you when preparing for the holiday. If you paint eggs in onion skins somehow differently, write. I think it will be interesting for both me and the readers.

Each family decides differently how to paint eggs for Easter with their own hands. Some people like store-bought dyes because they give the eggs rich colors, while others prefer exclusively natural pigments. Today we will look at how to dye eggs in onion skins.

We will need:

• Eggs;
• Onion peels (a lot);
• Vegetable oil;
• Water;
• Salt.

How to properly color eggs in onion skins:

1. It’s clear that we will boil eggs in onion skins, but not everything is as simple as it seems. Wash the eggs well before boiling. To avoid getting eggs, leave them to stand at room temperature for at least an hour. And put a couple of tablespoons of salt into the water where we will boil the eggs.
2. Eggs of any color are suitable for this coloring. We put a lot of onion peels into the pan, fill it with water, but not to the edges of the pan, then put it on low heat. Cook the husks for 40-50 minutes to get a rich color. If you need a lighter shade, reduce the cooking time.
3. When the onion peel paint is ready, increase the heat and lower the eggs into it. During cooking, it is better to turn the eggs over so that the paint lays evenly. And the obligatory point is that the water must completely cover them. Cooking time is 15-20 minutes, then the eggs are well stored.
4. Place the finished colored eggs into a pan with cold water and set aside. When they have cooled, take them out and wipe them well. And so that the eggs are not matte, but shiny, rub them with vegetable oil. Here's a simple way dye eggs for Easter.
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