You can easily use paints and stickers to design the Easter eggs. But you can also try something special for a change. How about surprising your family this year with the following interesting and original ideas for coloring Easter eggs?
1. Onion peels
This is an old trick for coloring eggs. Depending on how many peels you have available and how long you cook them, colors range from beige to dark brown. Before adding the eggs, cook the onion skins (meaning the dry ones) for about 30 minutes. Another interesting idea is to tie the onion peel around the egg with a string and cook it in water. This gives theNice patterns.
2. Colored string
Wrap colored string around the egg and cook as usual. If you remove the string afterwards, interesting patterns will remain on the shell. Since you cannot know for sure whether the colors used are harmful, make sure that the eggs do not burst during cooking and that no color can penetrate the egg.
3. Silk
Boil the eggs in water with baking soda. Then wrap them in colorful silk and secure the silk with a piece of string. Let the eggs boil again in the same water. When the eggs have cooled, remove the silk.
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4. Fruits and vegetables
You can use natural dyes found in fruits and vegetables. The eggs are first boiled. They are then rubbed with pieces of fruit or vegetables or placed in juice. The time it takes to color depends on the strength of the color and how dark you want the color to be.
Which fruit or vegetable for which color?
- Yellow – Turmeric (can be added while cooking eggs)
- Green – juice from spinach
- Violet – Juice of a beetroot
- Orange – juice of a carrot
- Pink – puree made from strawberries or cranberries
- Grey-blue – puree made from blueberries or elderberry
- Light blue – juice from red cabbage (the eggs have to be left in the juice overnight)
5.Birch leaves
Fresh or dried birch leaves boiled in water will give your eggs a yellow-gold color. The leaves must be left in water in a pot for half an hour, after which the eggs are added. Then the whole thing is brought to a boil. The eggs need to cook in the water for another 10 minutes.
