MAKING EASTER EGG ART
Ok, you may not be the type that particularly enjoys dying Easter Eggs with colored sachets that can be bought from your supermarket. The truth is that in all those ready colours, we should also always read the small labels, since sometimes there may be chemicals in inside. There are of course natural dyes, usually from plants, that are certainly best for eating the eggs after cracking them ;-)!
Me again, I like to play with eggs. In Greece we have a rich tradition in Easter egg decorations. We die eggs with onions, with embroidery threads, with silk fabrics, with home-made egg-glue and paper and we make very impressive eggs, actually very arty eggs!
Below you can find some of the most traditional to the most alternative techniques for decorating your eggs! Get some good company and get creative!
EGGS WITH PAPER TOWELS OR ANY OTHER THIN PAPER
Tools
x a bowl to put the egg’s white
x a brush to place the egg-glue on the egg
Materials
x boiled eggs
x napkins / newspaper
Let’s DIY DoIT!
Cut out pieces of paper and have your eggs nearby. Take also an egg and separate in a bowl the yolk from the white. keep it handy with a brush near you!
Dip the pieces of paper into the bowl to make them egg-wet and then embraced the egg covering it – without letting gaps. The paper will stick to the egg as it will be drying 🙂
Leave them to dry for about 3 hours at room temperature and your EggyArtWork will be ready!
EGGS WITH EMBROIDERY THREADS
This is from the more traditional painting techniques in Greece! The threads must be embroidery threads!
Τοοls
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x embroidery cotton threads
Materials
x string or foil
x venigar for adding tin the boiling wather
x boiled eggs
Let’s do it!
There are two ways to put the thread around the eggs. Whether you twirl around the egg and secure it with string, or you put averything in aluminum foil. See both ways demostrated below ..
Cover the egg with the threads
Tie with your string securing the threads on the eggs
Ready for the pot with the boiling water
You can do the same with thinner threads…
And into the pot in boiling water with half a glass of vinegar in it! The vinegar helps for more intense results in colors
Take the eggs out after 20 minutes
Let them dry, un-wrap them and polish them with a cloth and some olive oil!
ALTERNATIVE METHOD – IN FOIL!
Cut the threads in small pieces
Put the egg on the thread pieces
Start wrapping the foil tightly around the egg
Ready for the pot. Do exaclty the same thing. Boil the water, place the eggs in, add half a glass of vinegar and let them boil for 20 minutes
Let them dry and un-wrap!
And here you go! This is the result from the two techniques we have just seen! All the colours of the Rainbow and many more shades on your Easter eggs 🙂
and an EXPRESS SOLUTION FOR THE EASTER EGGS
Grab one or more markers and start painting! You can write, draw, play … Boil your eggs -important factor lol 😉 – and start with your Easter artwork 🙂
Have a good Easter Holiday and a personal resurrection at all levels <3