There are so many techniques of decorating Easter eggs - from a classic staining special colors from the supermarket before pasting all sorts of patterns, beads, ribbons and wrapping thread!
We will dwell on how to paint Easter eggs with natural dyes!
stages of work
Getting to the color of Easter eggs, treat the surface of each egg with water and vinegar to remove fat (this is necessary in order to paint well stuck to the shell and lay evenly). Then cook the eggs, hard-boiled natural.
Once you've got the eggs out of the container in which they are cooked - drench them with cold water.
If you use an artificial dye for coloring eggs, bought in the store, just follow the instructions on the packaging. If you want to dye eggs with natural dyes - below you will find some interesting ideas. In any case, the dishes for the coloring of eggs is desirable to use an older, because sometimes the edge is rather difficult to wash.
In order to make natural dyes for Easter eggs, look at what products you have in the kitchen?
Orange color: chopped 75g. carrots, then soak it at 3 hours 1 liter of water. After that, cook the paint on low heat for 1 hour. In the end - protsedit.korichnevy Color: chopped 30 oz. onion peel, which then day to soak in a liter of water. Then hour simmer and protsedit.krasny or purple: 250 c. beetroot red cabbage leaves or chopped and simmer for 30 minutes (in 1 liter of water). Then strain.
Green color: 50 oz. spinach or chopped parsley and soaked in 1 liter of water for 3 hours. Then tincture cooking at low temperature 1 hour, then drain.
After the dye is prepared (or purchased) can proceed directly to decorating Easter eggs. If Easter eggs can be done not only in color, but also further decorate their pattern. To do this, before painting to put on such an egg parsley leaves or any other motive ready then very closely and carefully put the egg in an old stocking unneeded and again very tightly fasten stocking with both sides.
The pattern can also be applied to a white egg concentrated lemon juice with a brush or cotton swab. Locations where citric acid was applied, remained substantially uncolored.
Now you can put the eggs in the dye as long as the eggs will not be the right color. For drying eggs is better to spread on paper towels (preferably more, to paint is not soaked furniture).
At the end, when the eggs are painted and dry, you can rub their surface fat or vegetable oil. Then they will have a bright saturated color!