How to decorate eggs for Easter, step by step instruction with a photo
Easter eggs can not only be painted inbeautiful colors, but also decorated with various drawings. One of the natural ways of coloring and decorating Easter eggs is onion husks. For a beautiful drawing on the surface of the egg will need a variety of stickers and / or carved leaves of plants.
In addition, you need to prepare kapron stockings, which will be wrapped eggs. For this method of decoration, chicken eggs of all colors are suitable.
How to decorate eggs for Easter, step by step instruction
For the most coloring you will need:
2 tablespoons vinegar
Dry husks of 6 red bulbs or husk at the rate of 1 bulb per 1 egg
Water
Preliminary preparation for the coloring of Easter eggs
It is necessary to collect leaves with carved edges, they will fitany plants that have small leaves. Parsley, celery, clover, ivy - small leaves of these plants will do the best. Also useful are various small size stickers: asterisks, hearts, flowers, butterflies.
The way of the original decoration of Easter eggs
Rinse the eggs with soap to remove all dirt from thesurface. Wipe the eggs dry. Stick on the eggs stickers. To glue the leaves to the surface of the egg, the leaves need to be soaked. You can also use an adhesive pencil.
Cut the stockings into tubes of 10 centimeters. Each egg has one tube. One end of the pipe is tied in a knot.
Place the egg in the resulting pouch. Tighten the knot tightly on the other side. This will help to keep in place the stickers and leaves of the plants during the staining of eggs.
Method of painting
In a saucepan, combine the onion husks, pour in the vinegar,to fill with water. Let the boil. Cook over low heat for about 30 minutes. Gently lower the eggs into the liquid, they must be completely covered with water. Boil the eggs for 10-12 minutes. The longer the eggs are brewed, the darker the color will turn out. But do not cook eggs for more than 20 minutes, if they are planned, then there is.
Eggs should be removed from the water and allowed to cool. If you filter the water with the husks, it can be used to color the next portion of eggs. After the eggs have cooled, remove stockings from them, remove stickers and leaves. On a paper napkin, apply a little vegetable oil, polish the surface of the shell to shine.
Put eggs in the refrigerator. Do not eat eggs if they were decorated with inedible leaves. Also, do not eat them if they were cooked for more than 20 minutes. In addition to the husk of red onions, you can also use red cabbage (blue), spinach (green), black tea (light brown color). Beautiful for Easter eggs of deep color will be a worthy decoration of the festive table for the bright holiday of Orthodox Easter.
