Decorating Easter Eggs

Easter eggs most often begin with hard boiled eggs, so purchase a dozen or two for adorning. Place them in boiling water for about 10 minutes. The eggs will cook and become hard boiled. Now just let them dry.

The easiest way to color your Easter eggs is to purchase an Easter egg coloring kit. These kits usually include dyes to paint your Easter eggs various colors, templates or stickers to embellish and design them, and an Easter egg holder to conveniently allow them to dry. Most kits only cost a few dollars and are extremely practical.

You can also make your own colored dye. You can blend about 1 tbsp. of food coloring with a half teaspoon of vinegar, then add about a half cup to 1/3 cup of water. Now just plunge your Easter egg into the colored cup of water. The longer your egg sits in the water, usually the deeper and darker the color.

Moreover you can hand paint your Easter eggs. You can find many water color paints or other types of paints to design and decorate your eggs. Even undiluted food coloring usually works. It is important to note that you shouldn’t eat any eggs that you have used paint on.

Creating or coloring your egg is fun and simple as well. Once the eggs are hard boiled, you can adhere stickers to the egg, use a brush to finely paint a fantastic design, or paste construction paper cut outs to your egg. Some people even dress their Easter eggs up with doll or handmade garments made from yarn or other kinds of fabrics.