So you have not tried: painting eggs for Easter with colored napkins
Together with spring, a wonderful bright holiday comes to our homes - Easter. Preparing for the celebrations is always a fascinating and creative process that is traditionally liked by both children and adults. The main symbols of these days are fragrant Easter cakes, curdled cakes and, of course, colored eggs. Today I want to share with you step-by-step recipes for creating unusual patterns that will make your krashenki unique. Painting eggs for Easter with napkins is a fascinating activity, as a result of which you can get real spring masterpieces.
Workshop on creating decor using napkins
We will need:
- food colors of different colors;
- chicken eggs, preferably white;
- water;
- white table napkins or paper towels;
- cotton buds;
- disposable cups;
- gloves
- threads or elastic bands;
- vegetable oil.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Hard boiled eggs. In this case, before boiling in cold water, you can add a pinch of salt - this will protect the shell from cracking.
- Each dye according to the instructions on the packaging and recommendations for use must be diluted in water in a separate disposable cup. Thoroughly mix the colored solutions with cotton buds. To enhance color fastness, you can add 1 tablespoon of 9% vinegar to each cup. It is better if the shades of the dyes are harmoniously combined with each other.
- Wrap the boiled egg tightly with a napkin or a piece of paper towel. Secure the ends of the paper with thread or elastic. To facilitate the staining process, you can pre-moisten the shell with water.
- Put on gloves. Alternately with colored sticks (you can use a brush or a pipette), apply bright blots on the eggs wrapped in napkins, filling the entire white space with rainbow stains. The size of the spots can be different, as well as their shape.
- Leave the eggs to dry overnight. Wait until the wipes are completely dry. You can speed up the staining process with a hairdryer. Carefully peel off the paper and admire the original color pattern on your dyes.
- For a spectacular shine, you can rub the shell with sunflower oil.
Decoupage painting
Another original way of coloring eggs for Easter is associated with the decoupage technique. Use here should be colorful and bright napkins. In this case, food coloring in this case is not required. Obvious bonuses of such coloring are that you don’t have to get your hands dirty, and the result will definitely surprise those who are used to traditional methods of coloring Easter eggs.
We will need:
- chicken eggs, preferably white;
- multilayer paper napkins with drawings;
- egg whites;
- brush;
- scissors;
- hair dryer.
How to make Easter eggs with napkins - a step-by-step master class:
- Cut a piece of the picture from a napkin - for example, a flower or a pattern.
- Take a raw egg and separate the protein from the yolk. Beat egg white with a fork or whisk until foamy. This will be a kind of glue, thanks to which the cut out pattern is firmly fixed on the surface of the shell.
- Pre-washed eggs are hard boiled by adding salt to the water to protect the shell.
- In a certain place, boil a boiled and cooled egg with a whipped protein using a brush. Attach the picture cut from the napkin to the shell and smooth the picture with a brush dipped in protein.
- Glue other pictures in a similar way, covering the entire surface of the shell with drawings.
- Dry the decorated eggs with a hairdryer.
- Cover the dyes with protein again - to fix the decoupage. This layer of protein will serve as a varnish and make the shell shiny.
- Dry the egg again. Luxurious Easter souvenir is ready!
Separate the top color layer. It is better to take napkins with a small pattern: such pictures will look more organic on an egg.
Cold eggs must not be filled with hot water so that the shell does not crack and the dye does not get into the protein. If this happens, the egg is better not to eat.
Following the selected recipe step by step, you will create a truly original Easter souvenir. To paint eggs on the eve of Holy Sunday is accepted by the whole family - after all, this is not just an old tradition, but one of the reasons to spend time with your closest and loved ones.