How to paint eggs for Easter and what you can make for this holiday crafts
Bright holiday of Easter like everyone. Especially interesting are the holidays, filled with the cares of preparing for the celebration. “Krashenki” and “Easter eggs” - colorful eggs - the most important symbol of this Orthodox holiday. How to paint eggs for Easter, what can be made crafts for this day to decorate the table and as a gift to loved ones, described in this article.
"Krashenki" and "pysanki"
After a long fast, Easter makes people happy.an abundance of holiday dinner. On this day, it is customary to put “Krashenki” and “pysanky” at the head of the table, to give them to each other, to put relatives on the graves. Since it is possible to paint eggs for Easter in different ways, you should choose the most suitable method for yourself. “Krashenki” are completely painted eggs, and “pysanky” - painted with paints, with an ornament or a plot drawing. Today, there are a lot of food paints of various colors, glitter, stickers to create real masterpieces of boiled eggs. But you can do the old and old-fashioned way - onion peel.
We paint eggs with onion peel
It is not interesting that even in this case there are optionssince it is possible to paint eggs for Easter in one even red-brown color, or you can do it with a pattern. For example, it is proposed to stick parsley leaves or paper patterns on the egg before cooking. Place under the template will remain white, and the rest of the area will acquire a bright color. You can also apply wax on a raw egg, which is washed after boiling it in onion peel, poured into water. To draw a pattern or a leaf of parsley did not move, you should use an old sock or piece of gauze. And if you put a dry peel into the sock, before painting the eggs for Easter, tightly tie it up and then lower it into the boiling water, you can achieve an interesting marble effect. And some even after cooking in such a way suggest applying dotted patterns with different colors to a wet sock - color spots will add originality and brightness.
Easter Salt Egg Stands
Today it has become extremely fashionable to makefor the “krashenok” and “easter eggs” there are special stands in the form of glasses on a leg, an Easter bunny holding a bowl in its paws, or chickens with a notch on the back of the egg. These souvenirs are most often molded from salt dough, roasted in an oven or microwave oven and brightly painted. Such crafts for Easter with their own hands can be made with the participation of children - they will surely enjoy both the process of modeling and drawing the picture. It will be quite easy if you remember that salt dough is made from flour and salt, which are taken in a 2: 1 volume ratio. And you can add water "by eye", that is, so much that the dough was slightly steeper than the dumplings.
Holiday Gifts
Crafts for Easter can be made like this: sew or embroider on napkins, apron or oven mitts. Who would not like to receive as a gift a cool checkered rabbit with a huge pocket on the stomach, where it is very convenient to put a comb or keys to an apartment? And it is even a pity to use a cheerful towel with hens and chickens to wipe your hands - it will hang on the wall for a long time as an ornament. Kids, helping adults prepare Easter souvenirs, can happily stick paper ears and scallops, tails and piglets on boiled eggs, turning them into amazing funny little animals. And you can use for the manufacture of souvenirs eggshell, the contents of which should be carefully blown out in advance through the holes in the opposite ends of the egg. Making Easter baskets for guests is also a fascinating activity for kids. They can be either glued together or woven from paper or newspaper tubes.
