A painted egg is one of the main characters of Easter. He is customary to be the first behind the Easter table and give a gift to the native, neighbors, guests, and also hand out the poor and leave in the church.
Getting ready for painting eggs for Easter
Before painting eggs for Easter, you must first prepare them. Here are some useful tips:
- Take fresh white eggs.
- Before cooking eggs, it is necessary to thoroughly wash and wipe with alcohol. Then the paint will go smoothly.
- Add two tablespoons of salt into the water or pinched the eggs with a thin sharp needle. Such a simple method will allow to avoid cracked eggs during cooking. Also, eggs must be room temperature.
- So that the scratched Easter eggs glisten, spread them with vegetable oil.
How to paint eggs for easter
You can paint eggs both special and natural dyes. But artificial dyes, in contrast to natural, not only expensive, but also harmful.
- Long husk is considered the most famous and advantageous natural means of staining. Clean 7- 8 bulbs from husks. Fill the husks with two glasses of water and boil. Boil on moderate heat for half an hour, remove from the fire and cool down. Clean the decoction from the husk and boil eggs in it.
- Green color give spinach and nettle. Cut the spinach on small pieces and fill with water so that the covered. Boil with eggs for 30 minutes. Boil the eggs to the infusion of dried nettle (per liter of water 3 tbsp. L. Crushed nettle).
- Yellow color can be accepted ticked eggs on the bark of birch leaves. Take dry birch leaves, boil a few minutes and let them stand in half an hour. After that, lower the raw eggs thoroughly into it. Boil for 10-15 minutes after boiling.
- Pink color can be achieved using a swamp. Clean the coat from the peel and soda on the fine grater. Squeeze the resulting boiled eggs before getting the right color. The longer keep the eggs in a swarm, the time and darker will turn out to be darker.
- Cranberry juice also gives pink color. To do this, just boil the eggs in the cranberry juice and leave overnight.
- In order to get blue-color eggs or with blue divorces, soda already boiled eggs with red cabbage leaves.
Decorating eggs for Easter
For decorating Easter eggs, it is not necessary to use special paints, stickers or thermal blinds. With the help of ordinary household items, it is also possible to achieve a beautiful drawing.
- The most popular way is to apply patterns with wax. Draw the molten wax on the boiled screwing eggs any pattern or inscription. If you do not have a special painting tool, use the usual needle or toothpick. It is not necessary to specifically melting the wax in the bowl, you can use the wax with melting candles. When the applied wax dries, dip the eggs in a pre-prepared dye. After the color, remove the wax, the places under the wax will remain not painted, creating a beautiful pattern on the egg.
- Another equally well-known way of painting - sugar powder. Mix the sugar powder with water until the formation of a homogeneous mass. Water needs to be added gradually so that no lumps formed. Type the cooked mass in the syringe and apply the pattern to the eggs painted in a monophonic color. Give the drawing well to frozen.
- With the help of lace tissue or napkin, you can apply a beautiful pattern. Cut from fabric or napkins any lace figure. Moisten it in water and attach to boiled eggs. Tighten the eggs tightly with the lace in the patchworks from the Kapron Tights. Secure up threads or rubber bands. Then plunge the eggs into the dye cooked in advance. After a few seconds, put the eggs on the paper towel. Leave eggs to dry. After a couple of hours, carefully remove the fabric from them.
- You can still depict patterns using ordinary scotch and fine gum. First, lean the eggs. Then get the scotch strips on them or wrap fine rubber bands. After that, place the eggs in the prepared dye. When the paint dries, carefully remove the tape or rubber band. Strips under scotchpiece (rubber band) will remain uncontracted.
You can also decorate eggs with various ribbons, beads, beads, braid, threads, foil, etc. Turn on the fantasy! And you will definitely get beautiful painted eggs for Easter.
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