Design ideas for Easter eggs

Preparation for the Easter - this lesson is certainly interesting, and the decoration of Easter eggs is one of the most fascinating of its components. Let's see, how beautiful, and maybe even unusual and original, you can decorate eggs for Easter.

Along with baking a cake and cooking curd paschek, decorating eggs is one of the most important and exciting stages of preparation for the feast. To prepare eggs taken that day, which is closer to the holiday - Maundy Thursday or in the evening on Easter Saturday. By the way, did you get this amazing tradition, according to legend, back in biblical times: the first Easter egg to the Roman Emperor Tiberius gave Mary Magdalene, when she came to him and announced that Jesus Christ is risen " the Emperor replied, saying that it is as impossible as that of a chicken egg, which he held in his hand, turns red, and the egg immediately turns red.

Egg in ancient times was a symbol of the Universe itself, from which was born the world, and this attitude is reflected in the customs and beliefs of the Persians, Egyptians, Romans and Greeks, and Slavs believed that the egg symbolizes fertility of the earth and the spring rebirth of nature. It is known that until the early 20th century often painted eggs was done manually - in the people it was considered the most exciting event before Easter and painting eggs devoted a lot of time.

Today to decorate eggs for Easter in different ways, the easiest is to paint them with onion peel.

How to dye eggs with onion skins. Onion peels to put into a pot, pour water, bring to boil, carefully put the eggs and cook them in the broth for 10 minutes - the longer withstand the eggs in the husk, the darker will be the color (from light yellow to dark brown).

In any supermarket on the eve of the holiday, you can see special stickers and kits for coloring eggs food dyes, with which you can quickly and easily turn ordinary eggs in these artistic masterpieces. However, to make the testicles colored with scrap products:

• Orange - carrot juice;
• Pink or lilac shades - juice blueberries or cranberries, cranberry juice and crushed strawberries;
• Purple - beet juice, and if you add lemon juice beet water - will lavender shade;
• Gilded - 2-3 tbsp turmeric add hot water and bring to boil;
• Blue - boil in water with leaves of red cabbage in water to lay eggs and leave overnight;
• Blue - in a broth of red cabbage (2 heads - 500 ml of boiling water), add 6 tbsp. of vinegar, boil eggs or soak them overnight;
• Dark red or bright scarlet - red onion peel;
• Green - broth parsley or spinach (dried or frozen).

To get a very beautiful "marble" effect, you must do the following: wrap eggs any cotton material and tie then boil.

Also in stores today, you can buy various stickers, sequins, finished patterns on adhesive tape - with these simple devices Easter eggs can be done pretty quickly and without any effort. So, sticking stickers and dropping the eggs in the dye, and then the stickers off, you can get such a great result.

As in the old days, the most beautiful results, of course, hand painting eggs. Using a thin brush and watercolor or gouache, you can achieve amazing and very creative results - you only have to unleash the imagination, but not all hostesses will agree to the use of such inks.

Remember, painting and decoration of eggs for Easter - the rite of "magic", like it was in the old days, and that your magic would bring only positive emotions, follow these recommendations:

• Besirevic eggs before painting - then the paint will go smoothly, for this you need to wash the eggs with soap under warm water or wipe them with alcohol;
• Before lowering the eggs in boiling water with dye in it let them stand at room temperature for 30-60 minutes, when cooked add the water, 1 tablespoon salt;
• For brightness and color saturation in water with dye in it, you can add a small amount of vinegar;
• Ready painted eggs can be wiped with a cloth soaked in vegetable oil - they will become "glazed";
• If you want the color was not only the shell but also the testicles - boil them for 3 minutes, remove, pierce the shell with a needle in several places, then boil for 1-1,5 min in welding cinnamon, coriander and cloves;
• The eggs turned black, wet them and roll in dry rice, then wrap the gauze tightly tying her, and simmer in the dye in the usual way;
• To the eggs turned out colored stains, enough to boil them in threads of different colors.