How To Decorate Easter Eggs

Easter is just about here and one of the fun activities to enjoy this and every Easter season is to decorate Easter eggs. Easter eggs are easy and enjoyable to decorate; you just need to adhere to the following hints.

Easter eggs generally start with hard boiled eggs, so shop for a dozen or two for adorning. Put 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 buy an Easter egg coloring kit. These kits most likely include dyes to paint your Easter eggs several colors, templates or stickers to decorate and design them, and an Easter egg holder to conveniently allow them to dry. Most kits only cost a few dollars and are very practical.

You can also create your own colored dye. You can mix about 1 tbsp. of food coloring with 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar, then add about 1/2 cup to a third cup of water. Now just soak your Easter egg into the colored cup of water. The longer your egg sits in the water, usually the deeper and darker the color.

In addition 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 generally works. It is important to note that you shouldn’t eat any eggs that you have used paint on.

Designing or coloring your egg is fun and easy as well. Once the eggs are hard boiled, you can affix stickers to the egg, use a brush to carefully coat a unique design, or adhere construction paper cut outs to your egg. Some people even dress their Easter eggs up with doll or handmade costumes made from cotton or other types of fabrics.

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