Easter is fast approaching, so it’s time to start thinking about Easter eggs. Most people only decorate them by coloring them or drawing on them with a marker. Check out these techniques that will make your Easter eggs the envy of everyone.
is already slowly but surely approaching. In a little while, the lamb will be baked, the pom-poms will be knitted, and of course the Easter egg must not be missing. Mostly, however, Easter eggs are made by coloring them or drawing them with markers. Of course, this is also a good choice, and it certainly won’t hurt anything, but if you want to be a little more original this year and have such beautiful Easter eggs that everyone will envy you, here are simple ways to dye and decorate Easter eggs. You don’t have to worry, you can easily find most of the necessities, whether at home, in a store, or in nature.
Techniques for decorating Easter eggs
If you want to have colorful Easter eggs, you don’t need to buy colors in the store. You can also use a natural dye, for example grated boiled beetroot if you want the eggs to be pink, 2 to 3 tablespoons of turmeric boiled in water with vinegar if you want the eggs to be yellow, boiled red cabbage for purple eggs and a strong decoction of spinach or nettle for green eggs. Thanks to this, you will have beautifully colored Easter eggs without having to spend on chemical dye.
If you want more, there are several techniques for doing so. One of the easiest and very popular is the use of leaves, flowers or grass. Before you “pickle” the egg in the dye, take a small pretty leaf, a few blades of grass, a straw or some small flower and stick it firmly on the egg. Then dye the egg, and when you pull it out, remove any natural decorations from the egg. You will be left with a beautiful white pattern on a richly colored egg.
Another option is to take a piece of lace or netting and wrap it tightly around the egg. Then you dye the egg, after dyeing you remove the lace or mesh and the result will be a beautiful and interesting egg with lace patterns, or with patterns left by the mesh. Batik eggs are definitely not a bad idea either. The process is a bit longer, but the result is definitely worth it. The trick is that you have to dye the eggs in sequence from the lightest to the darkest color, applying wax between each successive dyeing stageto keep the previous color.
Scratching and disappearing
Scratching out may take a bit of work, but if you want to awaken your artistic soul this Easter and care about the Easter eggs, definitely go for it. Eggs should be colored dark. Then you take a needle and carefully and precisely start scratching out patterns or pictures, in short anythingthere are no limits to imagination. If you want to draw and use your artistic spirit, but don’t want to go to the trouble of scraping with a needle, stenciling is an easier option. Eggs are colored in ink, and then different patterns are painted with a marker.
