Eggs painted in one color are called krashenka, and eggs painted with ornaments or plot patterns are called pysanka. Classic pysanka is a complex way of painting Easter eggs, which uses wax, steel feathers or hooks, and special paints. But along with traditional methods of coloring, there are a large number of simpler and more original methods for painting an egg. Even kids can paint Easter eggs with watercolors, gouache or markers. You can also use watercolor pencils, corrector, felt-tip pens, gel pens and other standard writing instruments. Painting and painting eggs for the main Christian holiday, Easter, is a long-standing tradition. One of the legend versions says that when Saint Mary Magdalene came to Emperor Tiberius and told about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the emperor did not believe it and said that it was as impossible as the fact that a chicken egg would turn red. At the same moment, the chicken egg he was holding in his hands turned red, confirming the news of Mary Magdalene. Other versions date the origin of the tradition back to pre-Christian times.
Painting Easter eggs with watercolors
An easy way to make unique and colorful Easter eggs with your own hands is to paint Easter eggs with watercolors, combined with watercolor pencils. Keep in mind that this is not a permanent dye, but it is an easy, affordable and fun decorating method, and you can create a real watercolor painting effect right on the shell.
The saturation of the pattern depends on the degree of dilution of the paint with water. You can first cover the entire surface of the egg with a light layer of watercolor, and then, while the paint is still wet, add more concentrated and saturated spots.
The core of watercolor pencils consists of pressed watercolors, which allows them to be dissolved with water. In other words, we draw as if with colored pencils, and then we go over the image with a damp brush or cotton wool and get a watercolor drawing. In this case, you can use a watercolor pencil to draw on the still wet surface of the egg. The effect is as if the pencil is melting. As a result, soft and slightly blurred lines perfectly depict details.
Painting Easter eggs with gouache
But this wonderful painting of Easter eggs can be done with gouache, acrylic paint and permanent markers!
Painting Easter eggs with a marker
Stylish black and white Easter eggs - forget about paints and different materials! Just a black permanent marker and your imagination!
Painting Easter eggs with a gel pen
Fine drawing with gel pen:
According to Orthodox canons, housewives paint eggs and bake Easter cakes on Maundy Thursday. Beautifully decorated paints are given to each other by adults and children; they symbolize the bright holiday of Easter. Eggs with drawings are the most beautiful and if you try, you will get a real work of art.
Painting marbled eggs
“Marble” paints look unusual. Prepare food coloring for eggs of various shades (dark and bright) and vegetable oil. Your actions are as follows:
- boil hard-boiled eggs;
- paint them in bright colors - orange, blue, yellow and let them dry completely;
- dilute dark colors (purple, brown, blue) with water in small separate containers. Place a teaspoon of vegetable oil in each container with dye;
- Gently stir the butter in the bowl so that small “buttery peas” appear in the cup;
- Dip each egg into a cup of dye and immediately remove it. Dip once, no more.
We paint eggs with a leaf pattern
Make cute designs on the eggs in the form of birch leaves or parsley sprigs.
First way:
- Wet a few parsley leaves with water and stick them on the raw eggs. Secure the leaves to the product with gauze or pieces from old nylon tights;
- put the onion peels into the pan. The more husk, the richer the color of the egg. Fill it with water;
- place the eggs there and boil for up to 15 minutes;
- Place the eggs in a bowl of cold water, cool and remove the nylon. A cute pattern in the form of a parsley leaf remains on the pysanka.
Method two:
- make a decoction of dry or fresh birch leaves. Leave it to sit for half an hour;
- tie a birch leaf to each raw egg and tie it with nylon;
- pour the infused broth into a saucepan and put the eggs in it;
- Boil for 10 minutes, remove and cool. You will get Easter eggs of a beautiful golden color with leaves.
Painting eggs with a speckled pattern
Prepare dry rice, eggs and cheesecloth. Your actions are as follows:
- moisten raw eggs with water and roll them in dry rice;
- wrap the eggs in gauze;
- cook them in a saucepan with onion skins;
- remove and dry the eggs. Remove all the rice from them, and you will get dyes with an interesting speckled pattern.
Instead of rice, you can take buckwheat or other cereals. For coloring, use a special dye if desired. Put rubber bands on the eggs and you get stripes. Wrap the floss with multi-colored threads - original stains will come out.
We paint eggs with a pattern using decoupage technique
To decorate Easter eggs, do not purchase special stickers; make an original drawing yourself.
Step by step instructions:
- boil hard-boiled eggs;
- make glue from gelatin. Pour gelatin with water in the proportions indicated on the pack and soak. Strain through a sieve and drain off excess water. Heat the mixture over the fire and make sure that all the granules dissolve;
- Prepare paper napkins with colorful, interesting designs in advance. For coloring, choose white eggs;
- separate its top layer from the napkin and cut out the selected element with scissors;
- attach the picture to the eggshell. Apply gelatin glue to it with a brush. The pysanky will produce a beautiful design, no worse than stickers.
Before painting, attach a fragment of a lace napkin to the eggs - you will get a pattern in the form of elegant lace.
Draw any design on the pysanka using children's water-based markers or paints. Use a thin brush. First, draw a pencil sketch of the future design on the cooked product, then color it.
Apply the design using powdered sugar. Make a thick mixture from a glass of powder and a small amount of water. Take a pastry syringe and decorate the boiled and colored eggs with patterns.
Spend some time creating a picture on Easter eggs and let this bright holiday that gives hope to every person into your life. Relatives and friends will appreciate your creativity.
With the spring warmth and sunshine comes the bright holiday of Easter. Tall stately Easter cakes, delicate cottage cheese Easter cakes, various pastries in the shape of chickens, rabbits and, of course, colored eggs. If dishes are prepared for family and guests, then eggs are presented to all acquaintances and strangers. From the children who bring the news of the Resurrection of Christ in the morning, to work colleagues. "Christ is risen!" - they say at the same time. “In truth he is risen!” - they hear in response and receive an egg in return.
What are Easter eggs?
Interestingly, painted Easter eggs have their names depending on how the eggs were painted. Krashenki are plain eggs, specks are eggs covered with multi-colored spots, which are obtained using droplets of wax. And if we paint eggs and scratch out the design, we get drapanka. Separately, it is worth noting the Easter eggs. This is not just an Easter attribute, but a work of art! Drawings on eggs are made with a special tool - a scribbler.
In the article we have collected both well-known methods of painting eggs, which everyone knows very well, but perhaps have forgotten the nuances of, as well as more interesting and “unhackneyed” ones. In addition, we will tell you about quick options for beautifully coloring eggs with the least amount of labor, about methods of decorating them that you can do with your child, and about such original ways where you can let your imagination run free and expect a great result! For convenience, all 20 methods are divided into thematic blocks.
The key to the start - preparing the eggs for painting
- First: never start boiling eggs without first removing them from the refrigerator at least an hour or two before coloring. The eggs should be at least at room temperature to prevent them from breaking during cooking. There is another way to prevent the eggs from exploding. They need to be pierced with a thin sharp needle. However, the first option is much simpler and safer.
- Second: when cooking, add 1 tbsp. l. table salt per 1.5-2 liters of water. It is believed that this is done to prevent the shell from bursting. In fact, it is correct to say that salt will prevent the protein from leaking out and forming white “growths” if the shell suddenly cracks.
- Third: the eggs should be washed thoroughly, perhaps even using a dish sponge. This is done so that the paint goes on more evenly. You can also wipe the testicle with soapy water or alcohol.
- Fourth: you can dye eggs for Easter not only chicken eggs, but also quail ones. It turns out very interesting and unusual! We also pre-keep them at room temperature, rinse and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Fifth: in order for the paint to stick better, vinegar (9%) is added during the painting process. On average, 1 tbsp. l. for 1.5 l. water.
- Well, one last piece of advice. on how to give already painted eggs a festive look. Rub them, after wiping them dry, with vegetable oil.
How to dye eggs in onion skins
First: classics of the genre - onion skins and its variations
Traditional purplish-red, brown or dark yellow eggs are obtained by dyeing them with onion skins. In this case, both the peels of regular onions and red onions are used. When calculating the color, you can use this hint as a guide. If you take the peels of 8 onions to 2 cups of water, you will get a red-brown color.
Second: tandem of husks and brilliant green
A very interesting option is burgundy-green or brown-diamond eggs. To perform them you will need onion peels, brilliant green (standard bottle, 10 ml per 1.5 liter), nylon stocking (or gauze), gloves (to protect the skin of your hands from brilliant green).
Third: coloring in husks with patterns
You can diversify the coloring with onion peels if you first apply a patterned figure to the egg and secure it with a piece of nylon. In this case, to obtain a pattern, you can take what you have at hand. For example, leaves of parsley, parsnip, dill, peppermint, fresh or dried flowers. The dry material must first be soaked with hot water and then applied to the egg.
Secure the chosen motif - a leaf or flower - tightly with a nylon stocking (or bandage, gauze) and carry out the standard staining with onion peels. Then remove the stocking, remove the stencil for the pattern and an egg will appear, painted with onion skins, but with an imprint of a leaf or flower in the natural color of the shell.
Using the same principle, you can decorate a speck with chaotic dots the color of an unpainted shell. To do this, roll a wet egg in rice, crushed peas or millet before coloring it with onion skins, or attach a piece of lace to it. Secure the croup or lace pattern with a stocking nylon. 
You can get a variety of patterns without using a fixing material:
- for straight lines of natural shell color on the egg, put money elastic bands on it;
- any pattern can be made from masking tape, plaster, self-adhesive paper, or simply paint the egg with wax crayons;
- You can get checkered eggs if you put fishnet stockings or a vegetable net on them.
Methods with dyes - natural and not so
Fourth: gifts from nature - natural dyes
- Pour water into a 1.5 liter saucepan and add natural pigment - the source of color.
- Bring to a boil, let simmer a little and leave to infuse for half an hour.
- Strain the broth, pour in 1 tbsp. l. 9% vinegar and place the eggs in a saucepan.
- Cook over low heat until at least tender (12-15 minutes). If the color doesn't come out well - up to half an hour.
- If coloring is not successful within half an hour, leave the eggs in a saucepan with the coloring solution overnight.
Fifth: a scientific alternative to natural dyes - food colors
Multi-colored flowers on young grass, what could be fresher and more attractive for Easter? To make them quickly and without much hassle, you can buy a special Easter kit in the store. When choosing it, please note that dyes vary in the method of application.
One of the options is paint, which must be applied directly to the boiled egg. The other is powder or tablets for diluting the colored solution. Eggs are dipped into it and kept there until the paint takes on.
The dye packaging should indicate the dyeing method. There is nothing complicated in using ready-made liquid paint. It is applied to the prepared egg, distributed evenly and allowed to dry. The general method of painting with water-borne dyes looks like this:
Sixth: a string from the world - a colorful egg
A riot of colors in one egg is a way of dyeing with floss threads. Very simple and beautiful:
- Wrap multi-colored floss threads around a raw, room temperature, pre-washed egg. Combine colors and thread placement as your imagination dictates!
- 2. Boil them in the usual way until hard-boiled (12-15 minutes).
- 3. Remove the threads.
Seventh: fabric transfers
Transfer a beautiful pattern from fabric to an egg? This is quite possible. You just need to take the choice of fabric seriously. In our age of extremely developed chemical industry and the desire to reduce the cost of an item at any cost, you can run into chemically dyed fabric. Despite how beautiful the drawing is depicted on it, it is better to refuse to use it. Examples of permitted material could be a Pavloposad scarf or a silk tie with an interesting pattern.
- Place the selected fabric with the right side on the egg. Secure it by stitching along the contour.
- You can additionally secure the material on top by wrapping the egg in a nylon stocking or white cotton cloth.
- Add 9% vinegar to the cooking water (3 tablespoons per 1.5 liter saucepan) and hard boil the eggs (12-15 minutes).
- Drain the water, cool the eggs and remove them from the cloth. The pattern should appear as delicate contours on the shell.
- Color the egg yellow with food coloring. Although chickens can be of other colors: blue or pink, for example. Even a child from 3 years of age can handle coloring with colored powders or tablets diluted in water. Of course, under the supervision and sensitive guidance of an adult.
- Cut out parts for decorating the chicken from colored paper: eyes, wings, tail, beak, scallop. And also: a bow - if it's a girl or a bow tie - if it's a boy. You can also use decorative fluff from a craft store. It turns out cool and very cute!
- To fix the prepared parts, use gelatin glue. To do this, soak the gelatin as indicated on the package. Drain off excess liquid and heat the granules until they dissolve. There is no need to bring it to a boil.
- Apply gelatin glue with a brush to the parts, egg and gradually turn it into a chicken!
- Boil the eggs. If necessary, color with food coloring, for example, if you are making a lion's face, use yellow.
- Pour warm water little by little into a tablespoon of cocoa until the consistency of sour cream.
- Place the finished eggs on supports, such as plastic bottle caps, and draw.
- Let the chocolate gouache dry.
- Then glue the eyes with gelatin glue if they initially do not have an adhesive base.
- Remove them from the pan and dry them with a towel.
- Place the egg on a stand, such as a bottle cap.
- Start drawing the design with wax pencils. The wax will diverge from the heat and create bizarre transitions and overflows. Choose your colors carefully!
- You can color eggs in this way not only with pencils, but also by sprinkling them with wax crumbs. To obtain it, grind crayons on a fine grater. And then they pour it onto a hot, freshly boiled egg.
- Another way to decorate with wax crayons is to melt them and dip an egg into it.
- Boil the eggs as usual.
- Place the thermal base on the egg and place it in the strainer.
- Place the strainer in boiling water for a few seconds. As soon as the thermal sticker “hugs” it, pull it out.
- Boil the eggs.
- Cut multi-colored foil (available in office supply stores) into rectangular pieces large enough to wrap the egg.
- Prepare decorative elements or just use confetti.
- Wrap the cooled eggs in foil. Attach the decor to them with glue.
- Boil the eggs.
- Take one and paint it completely the lightest color.
- Dip the painted egg into paint a tone darker, but not completely, but halfway.
- Wait for the paint to set. Then drain it.
- Next, do the same, applying paint in layers.
- Boil the eggs, be sure to hard boil them.
- Place them on stands and mark your chosen design with a permanent marker.
- After finishing work, let it dry. This will take about an hour.
- Choose a design for the stencil.
- Apply it to ultra-thin paper (tracing paper).
- Wet the paper so much that it becomes pliable and can be easily applied to the egg.
- Fix the attached stencil firmly on the egg with a nylon stocking or bandage (gauze).
- When the preparation for coloring the eggs is completed, do it in any way: onion skins, food coloring. Only if the eggs are colored with onion skins, they do not need to be boiled first. And if you choose the method of coloring with food coloring, then they must be pre-hard-boiled.
- Remove the fixing material and stencils from the finished, cooled eggs.
- Boil the eggs.
- Paint them in a light color dye: yellow, orange, blue. Let dry.
- Dilute a dark color dye in a deep narrow container (in a glass, tea cup): purple, brown, dark blue. Add 1 tsp to each cup of dark solution. vegetable oil. Stir until the spoonful of oil breaks up into many small oil droplets.
- Dip light colors into dark dye. Ideally do this once.
- Let dry. Marbled eggs are ready!
- Take the finished paint.
- Light a candle and use melted wax (paraffin) to apply a pattern on it. Do this very carefully. The flame should not touch the shell, otherwise a gray soot mark may remain.
- Dip the egg in the material of your choice for decoration. You can also place decorative elements onto the adhesive base by hand.
- When the work is dry, you can grease the decorated surface with vegetable oil for a more presentable look.
- Slowly pour water into the powdered sugar until you get a white mass of thick consistency.
- Place the decorative sugar mixture in a pastry syringe.
- Take the finished paint.
- Apply a pattern to it.
- Let dry.
- Make dye using onion peels.
- Draw a pattern on it with a simple pencil. You can do without it if you feel confident or have your hands full.
- Go along the pencil line with a stationery knife, scratching the outline.
Painting with children
Both adults and children look forward to Easter with equal impatience. Give the kids the opportunity to make a beautiful craft egg and give it, for example, to their grandparents. By engaging in such creativity, we encourage children’s desire to do beautiful things and give it to loved ones. And it’s also very interesting and fun!
Eighth: craft egg
You can make a perky chicken out of dye:
Ninth: funny faces
Show your children that they can draw on eggs in unique ways. But since this is a product and is then eaten, the colors must be natural. For example, it is very easy to make edible “gouache” from cocoa powder. She can draw the face of an animal, the face of a funny weirdo, or even a portrait. You can also draw eyes, but it will be more interesting to glue ready-made ones from a craft store. 
Tenth: wax crayons (pencils)
This is a method for school-age children. Since you will have to work with a hot, freshly boiled egg. 
Save time
When a woman is not only a housewife, but also the main breadwinner in the family, there is not much time for home life. Moreover, Easter eggs are painted on Maundy Thursday. This activity is not postponed until the weekend. Therefore, if you don’t have time, you can resort to “quick” ways to make Easter eggs.
Eleventh: thermal film stickers
Once and done - this is about one of the easiest ways to create an Easter mood using thermal stickers. How beautiful they are: with Gzhel and Khokhloma paintings, with intricate patterns, butterflies, flowers, church scenes, as well as with rabbits, kittens and even children’s cartoon characters! If you plan to use thermal stickers, choose eggs that are not the largest in size. Otherwise, they simply will not fit into the thermal base. Stickers can be applied to unpainted boiled eggs, and they can also be used as a backup option if the shell suddenly cracks during coloring.
Please note: eggs in thermal stickers have a shorter shelf life than, for example, eggs colored with peel or food coloring.
Twelfth: festive outfit
Being one of the most important Easter symbols, the egg requires an appropriate outfit. So far we have talked about its coloring, but you can do it differently. Just wrap the boiled egg in bright foil. Voila! And it is in the spotlight. And in addition it will be decorated with exquisite decoration. 
Flight of fancy
If the standard traditional methods of coloring eggs seem boring and monotonous, let your imagination fly and follow it like a white rabbit.
Thirteenth: Rainbow Power
This method is a variation of coloring with food coloring. The combination of colors, the depth of painting, the number of layers... All this is selected individually. Therefore, such paints are 100% original. However, in order for the eggs to turn out like in the picture, you need high-quality dyes that give rich colors. You need to breed them according to the instructions. Another tip: you need to start with light tones, gradually resorting to darker and darker ones, and end with the darkest ones. 
Fourteenth: eggs “on style”
Easter, originally a religious holiday, has now become more secular. Therefore, eggs are not only traditionally painted red or a pattern corresponding to the holiday is applied, but they also approach this activity more simply and creatively. For example, eggs will turn out stylish if you apply a pattern to them with a permanent marker. You can come up with a coloring page yourself or get ideas from the Internet. 
Fifteenth: stencil work
This method is relatively traditional. We find a stencil, apply it to the egg, and paint it with natural or food coloring. A flight of fancy should manifest itself in the choice of stencil. Here everyday experience, information from books, magazines, and the Internet can come to the rescue. Or maybe you have family symbols. The main thing to remember is that the chosen color and stencil must be in harmony with each other. 
Sixteenth: marble effect
Those who decide to paint eggs marble will need artistic flair. It's not difficult to do this. The main thing is to choose colors beautifully and purchase high-quality dyes. 
Options for decorating ready-made colored eggs
If simply coloring eggs is not enough and your soul asks for artistic continuation, choose one of the proposed options. Turn your paint into a work of art!
Seventeenth: 3D decor
Quite labor-intensive, but worth it. To decorate the eggs you will need a wax or paraffin candle, as well as a variety of cereals, small pasta, confectionery sprinkles and whatever else your heart desires. 
Eighteenth: sugar lace
Eggs in voluminous lace are very stylish, festive and go well with any traditional dyed pattern. To make them, you will need powdered sugar (about a glass) and water. If you don’t have powdered sugar on hand, you can make it yourself. For this you need granulated sugar and a coffee grinder. 
Nineteen: decoupage technique
In order for a picture to appear on the dye, it is not necessary to apply a thermal sticker to it or transfer the pattern from the fabric. You can remember the decoupage technique. It is intended to decorate not only plates and furniture, but can also be transferred to the plane of Easter decor. To do this, we will have to use beautiful napkins or their elements and gelatin glue. To prepare the glue, gelatin is soaked according to the instructions on the package. Then the excess moisture is drained and heated, without bringing to a boil, until the granules dissolve.
Twentieth: drapanki
Colored eggs with a white pattern can be made not only by applying a stencil. The design can be scratched onto the surface of an egg painted with onion skins using a stationery knife or a thick, sharp needle. This method is labor-intensive, but is applicable when you plan to make a thin, elegant pattern on the egg, which is difficult to achieve by applying a stencil. 
Easter is a family holiday that gives hope for the future and faith in miracles. Touch a piece of beauty too - choose the method you like and paint eggs for the Easter table. There is only one drawback to coloring eggs using the methods described. It may turn out so beautiful that you will be sorry to eat it!
Eggs painted in one color are called krashenka, and eggs painted with ornaments or plot patterns are called pysanka. Classic pysanka is a complex way of painting Easter eggs, which uses wax, steel feathers or hooks, and special paints. But along with traditional methods of coloring, there are a large number of simpler and more original methods for painting an egg. Even kids can paint Easter eggs with watercolors, gouache or markers. You can also use watercolor pencils, corrector, felt-tip pens, gel pens and other standard writing instruments. Painting and painting eggs for the main Christian holiday, Easter, is a long-standing tradition. One of the legend versions says that when Saint Mary Magdalene came to Emperor Tiberius and told about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the emperor did not believe it and said that it was as impossible as the fact that a chicken egg would turn red. At the same moment, the chicken egg he was holding in his hands turned red, confirming the news of Mary Magdalene. Other versions date the origin of the tradition back to pre-Christian times.
Painting Easter eggs with watercolors
An easy way to make unique and colorful Easter eggs with your own hands is to paint Easter eggs with watercolors, combined with watercolor pencils. Keep in mind that this is not a permanent dye, but it is an easy, affordable and fun decorating method, and you can create a real watercolor painting effect right on the shell.
The saturation of the pattern depends on the degree of dilution of the paint with water. You can first cover the entire surface of the egg with a light layer of watercolor, and then, while the paint is still wet, add more concentrated and saturated spots.
The core of watercolor pencils consists of pressed watercolors, which allows them to be dissolved with water. In other words, we draw as if with colored pencils, and then we go over the image with a damp brush or cotton wool and get a watercolor drawing. In this case, you can use a watercolor pencil to draw on the still wet surface of the egg. The effect is as if the pencil is melting. As a result, soft and slightly blurred lines perfectly depict details.
Painting Easter eggs with gouache
But this wonderful painting of Easter eggs can be done with gouache, acrylic paint and permanent markers!
Painting Easter eggs with a marker
Stylish black and white Easter eggs - forget about paints and different materials! Just a black permanent marker and your imagination!
Painting Easter eggs with a gel pen
Fine drawing with gel pen:
