How to color Easter eggs: ideas to personalize them with imagination
To find out how to color Easter eggs and make them unique, we have prepared a real guide with the list of ingredients to use and the right technique that will ensure you a perfect result. Prepare for Easter and spend a few hours having fun with parents and children it has never been so easy. Before continuing, however, let's listen to the expert's advice in the video below to stimulate creativity in children.
How to color Easter eggs while having fun
Coloring Easter eggs is a fun pastime that will brighten the afternoons of young and old. Impossible to resist the thousand shades of colored eggs, among the most loved DIY Easter jobs by children! To make colored Easter eggs, just use a few simple ingredients that we all already have at home and with a very small budget you will get an amazing result.
If you intend to make colored eggs to eat, then you will have to exploit the power of fruit and vegetables to light them up with a thousand different shades: thanks to the high water content, most vegetables release color that acts as a natural dye fixing on the egg shell.
However, there is an alternative that we will present to you in this article, namely food coloring: ready to use and non-toxic, they will be perfect for making similar colored Easter eggs and real works of art!
Continue reading the article and discover all the ingredients that can be used to color the eggs, together with the different techniques to be applied. For both the youngest and the oldest children, it will be a real discovery and a moment of learning and play. unique.
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Natural ingredients for coloring Easter eggs
The best ingredients for coloring Easter eggs are natural ones: but how are they used correctly? Just insert the chosen vegetable into the cooking water of the hard-boiled eggs, during boiling the color will deposit on the shell. The greater the quantity of vegetables and fruits used, the more intense the color you will obtain. below also some spices that can dye eggs.
- Beetroot: to obtain the red color
- Red cabbage: for Easter eggs with red / purple tones
- Karkadé: for a light shade of red
- Blueberries: for blue Easter eggs
- Onion blonde: for its straw yellow color
- Red onion: for an intense red
- Red wine: to obtain the purple color
- Coffee: for brown eggs
- Saffron: for yellow or orange Easter eggs
- Turmeric: to obtain an intense yellow
- Chamomile: for the very light yellow
Hard-boiled or hollow eggs to color? Here are which ones to choose!
Colored Easter eggs can be of two types, it all depends on the use you want to make of them: we recommend that you opt for hard-boiled eggs if you know that they will then be an integral part of Easter lunch or breakfast; while, on the other hand, empty eggs or emptied of yolk and egg white will be the ideal choice if you have to use them only as a decoration. In this second case you will need to empty them completely and carefully clean the shell to prevent even a small residue from rotting and releasing bad odors over time. do you proceed to empty the eggs? This is a simple "operation, but it must be done by an adult: with a syringe equipped with a very thin needle you will have to suck out all the contents with great precision; you can do this in advance and let the children find the egg shells ready to decorate. Two small holes will be enough, one at the base and one on the top of the egg, to be able to eliminate any residue. Blowing lightly first in one hole and then in the other, could help. It is very important to be careful as the eggshell is very delicate and if we are not extremely delicate, we would risk breaking or damaging it.
In case you decide to use hard-boiled eggs, they are generally colored with the immersion method, very fast and practical because it will color the eggs already during the writing time, we will explain the technique in detail in the following paragraph.
All the techniques for coloring Easter eggs
- With food coloring
Food dyes are a very simple coloring method to make. There are both powder and gel on the market: the powder guarantees a lighter effect, while the gel gives a really intense color. How do you proceed? Combine a bowl for each color chosen, then melt a dye inside each. Place an egg in each bowl and let it soak for a minimum of two hours. Once the exposure time has elapsed, drain and dry the eggs with In this way you will have obtained your colored Easter eggs. If you have chosen primary colors as food coloring, try mixing them together to obtain shades of purple, green or orange.
Kit of 6 Wilton food colors available on Amazon for € 18.85
- With tempera, markers and stickers
You can use hard-boiled eggs and decorate them with paint and markers if you know you won't eat them. Tempera colors can be used with the use of the brush to paint and draw on the shell, but they can also be used in a similar way to food coloring and then dissolving about a tablespoon of color in cold water, boil it, bring it back to room temperature and that point immerse the egg in it for 2 or 3 hours. On the market you can also find stencils to be applied on the shell of Easter eggs, together with stickers and special stickers that embrace the whole egg, moving onto the shell thanks to the "action of the" hot water.
Decorate Food Markers - 6-Piece Set available on Amazon for € 17.09
- Marbled
One of the most beautiful and sought after effects for Easter eggs is the marbled one. To make it follow these simple steps:
- dip the eggs a first time with food coloring
- repeat the operation with the same egg, but choosing a color that is one or two shades darker than the previous one
- irregular "spots" will remain on the shell which will make the egg appear marbled.
- With tissue paper
Tissue paper can be used to color Easter eggs: follow these simple steps.
- Moisten the egg shell
- Gently rub the tissue paper over it
- Depending on the pressure applied, the color will be darker or lighter.
- The Easter egg will be beautifully shiny and just pass a little olive oil over it to fix the color and make it even more brilliant.
As an alternative to the method just described, to color Easter eggs with tissue paper, you need to get several sheets of tissue paper, all of different colors, scissors, a brush and some vinyl glue. Cut many pieces of different shape and size and stick them on the shell with the help of the vinyl glue. If you overlap it will be even better and the final effect will be spectacular!
Colored Tissue Paper A4-26 Different Colors is online on Amazon for € 12.99
- With flowers
Floral elements are perfect for decorating Easter eggs, especially chocolate ones! In this case, opt for small sugar paste flowers, to be glued on the shell with melted chocolate. For a super realistic effect, always combine some small leaves in sugar paste: your eggs will be so beautiful that you may even decide not to eat them.
As an alternative to what has just been described, you can exploit the power of nature: collect real flowers, leaves, petals and other elements to decorate your eggs. Dye the eggs with one of the methods we explained earlier, then use the egg white as a glue to adhere the chosen elements to the shell. Green light to the imagination!
Decorate Sugar Flowers that can be purchased on Amazon at the special price of € 4.75
