On the eve of Easter we have so many worries! But the main miraculous ritual is the painting of Easter eggs. We (and especially our children) approach it with special trembling in our hearts and generous joy! We want to make Easter eggs incredibly beautiful, original, unique! And at the same time, we want their production to be simple and fast.
All these wishes come true! We are pleased to present to you the simplest and incredibly effective decoupage technique, which, according to Internet users, is the most popular! Don't believe me? Read on!
How to make pysanka with your own hands?
The optimal way to make Easter eggs is decoupage. Behind this complex word there is a very interesting technology, which is a favorite (and accessible) for both adults and children. Decoupage is the art of decorating various objects through appliqué: cutting and gluing images onto a surface.
To decorate Easter eggs we will use ordinary three-layer napkins. And instead of glue - egg white, which is an environmentally friendly and harmless material, and available to everyone!
DIY Easter eggs for children: easy and safe!
You won't find better technology! Its advantages are obvious and undeniable!
This is extremely easy way do Easter eggs! Even a five-year-old child can cope!
Fully used safe means! No burning wax or toxic paints!
Pysanky are not scary to eat even small children! After all, natural “glue” is used for decoration: egg white.
Extraordinary showiness! The designs, created by talented professional artists, are miraculously transferred to the shell.
DIY pysanka: tools and materials
Before you make your own pysanka for children, you need to prepare simple tools and materials.
Colorful three-layer napkins. Choose a clear and bright design or a pattern that will fit on the area of the testicle. Too much big flowers(or other images) will not look very attractive, since the egg has a small area for decoration. Ordinary napkins are not so “pliable” to work with. And here thin material Colorful three-layer napkins take the shape of an egg when wet.
- Scissors(small or large) with which you are comfortable cutting.
- Brush for applying protein to pysanka.
And of course, eggs, from which a masterpiece will be made. Plus a small bowl (or glass) for protein.
How to make pysanka: instructions with photos
Introducing clear instructions making Easter eggs step by step. We support all stages with photographs.
1. Boil hard-boiled or soft-boiled eggs in water, depending on how you (and your kids) like them. After this, cool them in cold water, dry them or blot them with a thin towel.
2. Separate the egg yolk from the white. Place it in a separate small bowl (or glass). For work we only need protein.
3. Carefully separate the top colored layer from the napkin. This is what will be used for decoration. 
4. Select the most beautiful element of the design and cut it out with scissors. Keep in mind that you need to compare the size of the image and the area of the egg. Try on whether the drawing will fit on the Easter egg. Choose colorful napkins with clear images. 
5. Apply the cut out element to the egg and spread the egg white on top of the entire surface of the image using a brush. The napkin will get wet, taking on the shape of an egg and firmly stick to the shell. 
6. Let the pysanka dry for 20-30 minutes. While the napkin on the pysanka is wet, it can be accidentally damaged or dislodged by your fingers. Therefore, try to hold the egg carefully, in places where the pattern has not yet been applied. Once dry, it will hold very tightly!
All! Our masterpieces are ready! Our simple Easter eggs are extremely impressive and simply amazing! All guests will definitely like them and give everyone a feeling of a real holiday! You will be surprised how the children will be captivated by the process of decorating Easter eggs, and how pleased they will be with the result of their labors!
Easter eggs: decoupage was a success!
We have several secrets of decoupage that the masters have discovered.
Choose napkins with designs on a white or pale yellow background. If the pattern is complex, you will have a hard time cutting it out. If the base of the napkin is close to the natural color of the egg, then the edges of the paper will merge with the shell. The borders of the patterns will not be visible. You don’t have to be too zealous when cutting out designs and smoothing out the contours.
Some craftsmen recommend tearing off the selected elements on a thin napkin with your hands. They explain this by saying that this way the borders of the paper will be less noticeable. This rule only applies to napkins with a white or yellow base.
You can do decoupage in another way: by completely wrapping the egg with a thin napkin. Choose a beautiful pattern on a napkin, cut out a rectangle approximately the size of a pysanka, wrap it completely and cover it generously with egg white. True, in some places folds will be created on the paper, which will need to be covered again with adhesive protein. But, in general, these folds do not spoil too much general form Easter eggs, because they are very thin! Look at the photo.
If your original Pysanka egg darkens over time, how can you make it shine again? Lightly grease it with vegetable oil. The surface will become shiny! Again we only use natural ingredients so that the egg can be eaten by children!
The site team wishes you a happy Easter, peace in your family, good luck in all your endeavors and the fulfillment of your dreams! Glad to be of service to you!
Already read: 7243 timesEaster is coming soon and all housewives are buying Easter kits with food coloring for coloring eggs in stores. Of course, they make our lives easier and give Easter eggs beautiful shades, but they are just pure chemistry.
Once saturated with such paint, the egg will no longer be so safe and useful. If you do not want to risk the health of your loved ones, then I recommend reading this article to the end. How to give Easter eggs colorful colors, make a real Easter egg, as well as Easter signs, read on.
Easter eggs / How to decorate eggs and make Easter eggs with your own hands
To paint Easter eggs safe and beautiful you will need:
- natural dye
- 1 tbsp. l. vinegar to fix color
- boiling utensils
- small jars
- white eggs
- vegetable oil for polishing
If you have the entire set, then you can start coloring the eggs. But first, I’ll tell you more about natural dyes, or rather natural ones.
Natural natural dyes and colors obtained from them
Yellow, bright yellow and gold color, eggs are given a solution of 2 tbsp. water for 2-4 tbsp. l. turmeric, celery seeds, chamomile, orange or lemon zest, ground cumin, grated carrots or green tea. These products are used each separately. And the colors of the eggs they produce are different.
Pink color eggs will be given a solution of 2 tbsp. water and 1.5 tbsp. finely grated red beets, cranberry puree, raspberries and dark grapes. These dyes make eggs white pink, lilac, soft crimson and light red. And brown eggs get dark shades, from bright red to dark burgundy.
Orange color white eggs will be given an infusion of 1.5 tbsp. onion peels per 4 tbsp. water.
Purple on white eggs it turns out if you prepare a decoction of 200 grams. finely shredded red cabbage and water. The eggs are turning brown bright lilac. You can also use lilac leaves and sprigs of basil for this color.
Red, bright color obtained from a solution of 200-250 g. rose hips or pomegranate juice. Darker shades are obtained from an infusion of red onion puree, along with the peel.
ADVICE: Use ½ to ¾ cup prepared natural coloring per cup of water. Water should be poured 1 cm above the dye.How to dye eggs with natural dyes?
Bring the dye and water to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer the mixture, covered, for some time until it reaches desired color. On average, boiling takes from 15 minutes to one hour. Keep in mind that the egg will turn out several shades lighter, so I recommend making the mixture richer. Remove the solution from the heat and let it cool until room temperature.
Strain the natural paint through a sieve into glass jars, preferably not large ones, with a capacity of no more than 500 g. Add 3 tsp to the solutions. vinegar for every 200 gr. liquid dye.
Dip hard-boiled eggs into the dye and refrigerate for 12 hours to achieve the desired color. Sometimes you can keep eggs longer, up to 18-24 hours.
If you use juice as a dye, then eliminate the boiling step. Simply pour vinegar into the juice and color the eggs.
Colored eggs are obtained with matte surface. Vegetable oil will help give them gloss and shine. Drop the oil onto a paper napkin or towel and polish each egg until shiny.
Painted eggs are boring, I want to decorate them with something and make them unique. Maybe paint them like a pysanka?
What is pysanka? / How to decorate eggs and make Easter eggs with your own hands
Even the ancient pagan Slavs painted eggs, which they revered as a symbol of life and the sun. This was before Christianity, and the eggs were already painted and decorated. The tradition of making various designs and decorations on eggs came to us from the Slavs. What types of Easter eggs are still known?
From ancient times the following names and methods of decorating eggs have come down to us:
Krashenka, the egg is one color. Painted with onion skins or dyes in one color.
Krapanka, egg with a plain background. The egg is painted one color, and then specks, spots, dots and stripes are applied to it.
Rubbish, the egg is painted one color and then the pattern is applied with a metal point.
Malevanka, The egg is painted with its own special pattern.
Pysanka, an egg painted with a traditional ornamental or plot pattern. Patterns for Easter eggs have been known for many centuries and are passed down from generation to generation. The eggs are boiled hard, cooled, and patterns are drawn on the cold egg with hot wax. Then the eggs are colored in liquid dyes. Then a new pattern is applied with wax and dipped in another paint, and so on. After applying all the patterns and painting with dyes, the wax is removed with a special wooden scraper.
Eggs, eggs carved from wood, cast from metal, porcelain, clay, beads, etc.
How to make a pysanka?
The easiest way is to boil eggs, melt wax or paraffin, take the wax with a sharp toothpick and draw patterns. Patterns can be easily found in children's books with fairy tales, on the Internet, or you can come up with them yourself. Then dip the eggs in the dye, etc.
There have always been many signs and beliefs about Easter in Rus'.
Easter signs:
A child born on Easter week (Bright Week), and even more so on Easter, will be especially lucky and extremely healthy, and will reach high ranks.
Death on Easter is a special sign. A person who died on this day is marked by God. His soul immediately rushes to heaven. This deceased is buried with a red testicle in his right hand.
Precursors of rain during Holy Week good harvest.
It was believed that on Easter week it was necessary to take the child wooden floor. Children develop better, get sick less, and their teeth erupt faster, and they can walk on their own and speak sooner.
Don’t forget to bring home water from a well or from a tap on Easter night. Spray all the rooms with it. Sprinkle the nursery especially carefully. In this way, sins, evil eyes, bad thoughts, evil slander and gossip are expelled.
Easter eggs painted in one color, without a pattern, were called krashenka (or galunka). Typically, natural dyes were used to prepare dyes, primarily onion skins, which made it possible to obtain a rich dark red color, symbolizing the suffering of Christ and the rebirth of new life.
Coloring Easter eggs with herbal decoctions
To obtain other flowers, you can use strong herbal decoctions. To prevent eggs from cracking during cooking, add salt to the water, about 1 tbsp. for 2 l. Before coloring, it is advisable to degrease eggs by wiping the shells with vinegar.
- yellow paint: a weak decoction of onion peels; chamomile; caraway seeds; saffron; turmeric; bark of a young wild apple tree; poplar shoots; a weak decoction of birch leaves; nettle root; flowers of wild elderberry, milkweed, adonis, kupavok, St. John's wort;
- blue, cyan or violet: the husk of black sunflower seeds; poplar catkins; mallow flowers, snowdrops; blueberries and elderberries; grape juice;
- green: a combination of yellow and blue colors; moss; buckthorn, ash bark; leaves of lily of the valley, primrose, nettle, spinach, parsley, ivy; rye and wheat greens;
- red: sandalwood chips; bird cherry berries; St. John's wort flowers and seeds; madder, beet juice; red mallow flowers; a strong decoction of red cabbage or red onion peel;
- pale pink: flowers of fireweed angustifolia; lingonberries;
- brown: apple, oak, buckthorn bark; fir cones; onion peel; leaves walnut, birch, horse chestnut; Black tea.
The roots are best harvested in early spring or late autumn, bark in early spring, flowers at the beginning of flowering, and leaves when very young. Raw materials should be dried only in the shade, and stored in a tightly closed container in a dry, dark place. Coloring berries can be frozen. To prepare the paint, the raw materials are poured cold water, leave for 5-6 hours, and then boil over low heat: bark - 3 hours, leaves - 40 minutes, flowers - half an hour. For 100 g of dry raw materials, take 1 liter of water. The broth is filtered and a teaspoon of potassium alum is added (vinegar can be used instead). Coloring Easter eggs with natural dyes lasts from 10 minutes to 14 hours. Juices for coloring are heated in a saucepan and maintained high temperature without bringing to a boil. It should be noted that coloring eggs with natural dyes is a painstaking task and may not work out the first time. For those who do not want to take risks or cannot devote a lot of time to this activity, food dyes are available for sale, mixing which you can get many different color shades.
You can apply all sorts of stripes, spots, specks or other patterns that are not drawn by hand onto a colored background, and you can also scratch the design with a metal rod on a dried, dark-colored egg (such an egg was called drape). Here are several ways to apply a design to an egg:
- roll wet eggs in dry rice or millet, wrap in gauze, tie the ends of the gauze tightly with thread so that the cereal sticks to the eggs, and color in the usual way in a decoction or solution of ready-made paint;
- before painting, wrap the egg in onion skins and wrap it with cotton cloth on top;
- wrap the egg tightly in several layers with white thread and dye it in the usual way;
- wrap the egg in faded colored threads or shreds, boil in water with the addition of soda - you will get multi-colored stains on the eggs;
- You can put stencils on the egg - beautiful leaves of parsley or other greenery, figures cut out of waterproof material, then wrap the egg with a piece of nylon or nylon stocking, tie it tightly and paint it in the usual way.
Easter eggs - pysanky
The most difficult thing to make is Easter eggs - Easter eggs painted using a special technology. The main colors of the Easter eggs ornament are white, yellow, red and black. The marking lines are usually white, and in cases where the background of the pysanka is white, the marking is yellow. The background of the pysanka can also be red or black. An egg painted in violation of the laws of writing was no longer called a pysanka, but a malevanka. Real pysanky were painted only raw and were not used for food. After Trinity, it was customary to blow them out. A painted egg was turned into a bird by gluing wings to the shell.
To make pysanka in modern conditions, you will need aniline dyes for wool (if the eggs are intended for the table, you can only use natural or food dyes). Hot water(0.5 l) dilute dyes in a glass container, add 2-3 tbsp to the solution. l. nine percent vinegar and strain. Roll up a cone-shaped funnel tube from thin tin or foil and secure it to a wooden stick: you will get a “brush” - a tool for painting with wax. In addition to brushes and paints, you will also need napkins, wax, a candle, matches, and a soft pencil.
Take an egg and use a pencil to divide its surface into fields. Place the Easter egg pattern in the margins. To keep the lines even, rotate the egg, and try not to change the position of your writing hand. writing hand fix by leaning on the shell with your little finger or thumb.
Heat the brush, fill it with wax and cover with it those parts of the pattern that should be white. Place the egg in a spoon and dip it into the yellow paint for 1-2 minutes. After removing it from the paint, carefully blot it with a soft cloth, cover with wax those parts of the pattern that should be yellow, and dip it in red paint. Cover with wax those lines and fields that should be red, and then paint the egg black and bring it to the fire. When the wax on the shell melts, wipe it off with a napkin.
Boiled or baked pysanka can be prepared in three ways:
- wash the eggs, hard-boil over low heat, cool and paint;
- raw eggs paint, put in an enamel bowl, pour in the final paint without vinegar and bring to a boil over low heat. Carefully remove the eggs and wipe with a soft cloth;
- Paint raw eggs completely, put them in the oven and bake at a temperature of no more than 100 degrees.
There are also Easter eggs dotted with multi-colored specks (kapanki or krapanki). To get a drop, light a thin wax candle and drip the wax first on the white shell, then on the yellow one, etc. Depending on the diameter of the candle, the specks will be of different sizes.
Mosaic
Another way to decorate Easter eggs is to make a mosaic. Eggs that have cracked during painting will be useful for this. The shells are removed from them (the boiled eggs themselves can be used for Easter dishes), broken into pieces and glued to other eggs using starch paste.
Decorations
Using paste, you can make other decorations - for example, patterns from various colored cereals, seeds, small pasta, colored sand.
In the end, Easter eggs can be covered with anything: rhinestones, beads, Easter cake sprinkles, ready-made pictures on an adhesive base or iron-on stickers, they can be painted by hand with gouache or watercolor - the main thing is to give free rein to your imagination...
Video about how to paint Easter eggs in an unusual way:
Easter eggs look very elegant and festive, and also protect the house from everything bad. Photo by the author.
What is Easter without Easter cakes and Easter eggs? Without these obligatory and, most importantly, delicious attributes, it is difficult to imagine this bright spring holiday. And although now eating colored eggs and Easter cupcakes for the majority has nothing to do with religious beliefs, recently Ukrainians have been trying to find out more about the traditions of their ancestors and follow all the ancient rituals of celebrating Easter. One of them is painting Easter eggs.
Pysanka is a tradition of painting bird eggs with beeswax and paints that has survived to this day. Previously, Easter eggs accompanied a person throughout his life - from birth to death, protecting him from evil. The pysanka was kept in the house as a talisman. It was believed that it gives strength to everything - the earth, humans, animals, plants. Brings beauty, health and prosperity. There are a lot of rituals and customs associated with Easter eggs. Nowadays, painted eggs are associated mainly with Easter.
To create Easter eggs you will need:
Fresh whites chicken eggs,
Beeswax or wax candle,
Special dyes for Easter eggs
Paraffin candle,
Pencil (preferably hard)
Paper and cotton napkins,
Good mood (be sure to think about who this is for).
1. The instrument used to write Easter eggs is called a pisachok. You can purchase it at an art salon or make it yourself. From thin tin (you can take a used cream tube), roll up a cone-shaped tube. Roll it around the needle so that the bottom hole is as narrow as possible. Using a thin copper wire or strong thread, secure the tube to a wooden stick (you can split it a little). I have three of them with holes of different diameters.
2. Next, we prepare the subject of our art - chicken eggs. They should only be white. Wash the eggs in boiled water at room temperature, wipe the surface baking soda, rinse well and dry on a towel. Usually pysanka is written on a raw egg. After lying for some time, it dries out from the inside and therefore can be preserved for years. But there is a risk that the egg may burst during painting, so I suggest blowing out the contents of the egg before painting, piercing holes on opposite sides.
Little tricks:
Poke a hole in the egg shell and carefully drill it with a round file, then use a medical syringe to slowly inject air into the egg. The contents of the egg will immediately begin to flow out. Having thus removed the yolk and white, draw into the syringe cold water and rinse the inside of the shell. Introduce water slowly too. Dry the egg.
You can also blow out an egg using a regular straw through two holes drilled at opposite ends of the egg.
To strengthen the shell, the blown pysanka can be filled one third with melted wax or paraffin and rotated in your hands until it cools down. During this time, the wax will be evenly distributed along the walls.
Boiled pysanka is much stronger than raw or blown pysanka. But it is not intended for long-term storage.
In a word, the choice is yours!
3. Prepare the paint. Pour a glass into a half-liter jar hot water(not boiling water), pour in a packet of dye and stir well. When the paint has cooled, add two tablespoons of vinegar. For yellow and orange paints, add 1 teaspoon of salt instead of vinegar. This paint can be used long time, but it should be kept in a closed container. The table must be covered with paper or cellophane so as not to spoil work surface wax or paints.
The preparatory stage has been completed. Let's get started!
I propose to create a pysanka "48 corners" ("48 kutіv"). The meaning of this ornament is associated with the ancestors’ idea of the spatial and temporal division of existence. I deliberately chose this particular pattern to show how to divide the surface of the egg. After all, most of the Ukrainian pysanka ornaments are based on the spherical division of an egg. Let's try!
I immediately applied the drawing with a scribbler, but I recommend that you do this first with a pencil. Take the egg in left hand, and the pencil in the right, rest both hands with your elbows on the table. Place a cross on the sharp end of the egg, as if conventionally dividing the egg into 4 parts, attach a pencil and little finger to the egg right hand. And then we begin to twist the egg away from ourselves with our left hand, while the pencil will leave a mark on the egg. This way you will always end up back where you started. The faster you turn the egg, the smoother the line will be. Having divided the egg into four parts, we divide along the equator. To do this, divide the line in half, and, turning the egg, draw a transverse line. Then divide the egg as shown in the picture (fifth egg).
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(page from V. Manko’s book “Ukrainian Folk Pysanka”)
Thus, you draw 48 wedges. Don't worry if you can't do it right away, the pencil mark can be erased with an eraser (so you should only use a hard pencil and not leave a greasy mark on the egg). You can also use a pencil to mark the main elements of the ornament (flowers).
Having marked the egg, you can start working with a pissator. Wax tends to cool quickly, so it must be constantly heated. Place a small piece in a branded pisachka and heat it for a few seconds over the flame of a paraffin candle. Since I use a pisachok self-made, then I melt the wax on an electric stove in a small metal container (an aluminum mug from a children's dish).
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Well-heated wax gives an even, smooth line. Try running your pen across the paper first to get used to it and see the thickness of the line. If you blew an egg, the hole must be filled with wax to prevent water from flowing inside the egg. Then we draw lines in the same way as with a pencil - starting from the sharp end, turning the egg away from us. In this case, keep the pisser strictly perpendicular to the egg.
Using a spoon, dip the egg into the yellow paint and hold until the egg turns saturated color. The sequence of colors for each Easter egg is determined separately, but we are always guided by the principle “from the lightest to the darkest.” Since an empty egg is lighter than water, carefully press it down on top with something heavy (I used the same spoon).
When the pysanka is painted over, take it out of the jar with a spoon and lightly (!) dip it with a napkin. Let dry for a few minutes. And then we apply a pattern with a scribbler, which should turn out yellow - we “paint over” the flowers with wax. And we lower it into the next one in red paint.
The procedure is repeated - take it out of the jar, lightly (!) dip it in a napkin. Let dry for a few minutes. And then we apply a pattern with a scribbler, which should turn out red. I would “paint over” the wedges with wax in a checkerboard pattern.
Dip into the next blue paint. The egg has acquired Blue colour- take it out and let it dry. The pysanka is almost ready, all that remains is to remove the wax. To do this, carefully bring the egg to the fire of a paraffin candle a little from the side, but in no case from above, otherwise the pysanka will be covered with black soot. After a few seconds the wax will melt, wipe it off with a clean napkin or cotton cloth.
And so on until we completely clear the wax.
Delicious and Happy Easter!
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Pysanka is a symbol of the Universe. Even before Christianity, spring was celebrated with the help of such works of art. It's time for agricultural work! Nowadays Easter eggs symbolize religious themes and are usually given as gifts for Easter. Do you have a free minute? Then it's time to get carried away interesting activity. Rest assured, your family and friends will highly appreciate your efforts.
Decide on a pattern that can be symbolic. Most often they choose what is associated with the Sun. All ornaments on Easter eggs can be divided into types. The circular pattern is based on a spiral, and the braided pattern is often called a bee pattern. Diamond and wedge lines are key.
The pattern is selected. It's time to prepare everything you need for work. With the help of a brush it is very easy to make your idea come true, but a simple straw can also help with the work. It is better to choose a small egg and prepare beeswax and food paints. You will also need a soft pencil, napkins, glass jars and a candle.
First, all lines are drawn with a simple pencil, and only then a layer of wax is applied. It is very convenient if you rotate the egg and leave the brush motionless. Let's heat it until the pattern becomes clearly visible.
It is better to paint from the lightest to the darkest shade. You can start with yellow color and finish step by step with black. Aniline dye is used only cold and 2-3 tablespoons of vinegar are added to fix it. There are so many colors you can use!
All that's left to do is melt the wax! When you wipe the egg with a soft cloth, you will see a riot of colors before your eyes. If possible, you can arrange a real composition.
Before Easter comes, there is an opportunity to get creative. Today everyone has heard about decoupage. This is what can happen if you prime empty chicken eggs and use elements of napkins. Cover the product with varnish and the work of art is ready.
The beading is simply amazing. Such a gift for a romantic person will be ideal for the holiday. When working you can use various techniques. No time? Then you can make a precious egg using PVA glue and beads. The result is also amazing.
Even a child can make a golden or silver egg.
The baby will also be interested in creating a magical animal
Different grains can also be used in work
Egg from hot air balloon? It's possible!
It's easy to decorate an egg with colored wire, and what an effect
It's easy to get creative using various threads and ribbons.
Craftswomen will appreciate this version of the product. Using an ordinary hook you get a completely unusual souvenir. An egg in such a case will not break.
A pysanka can become not only a symbolic, but also a practical gift. The craftswoman will be able to prepare a pincushion for Easter, which will take pride of place in any home.
Is the gift item prepared? All that's left to think about is packaging. Cute little baskets will come in handy
The Easter egg is not only a custom, but also a part of history.
