Dye Easter Eggs with Food Coloring

When Easter approaches, there are several activities to keep the kids occupied with, including jelly bean hunts, Easter egg searches, and chocolate bunny eating contests! One activity that is fun for the whole family is decorating Easter eggs using all sorts of design techniques. There are several different ways to decorate eggs, but one of the most popular (and cheapest) is to dye Easter eggs with food coloring. It is a fairly simple process that can be explained in a few quick steps.

By the end of this article, you should be a master at Easter egg decoration! So let's go into more detail on how to dye Easter eggs with food coloring:

1. Get all the right ingredients.

Go to the market and find some white eggs. A dozen should be enough, but if you have a big family, grab a few more cartons to keep the kids occupied for hours while you can relax. Make sure that the eggs are white and not brown. Brown eggs are harder to color. The colors on white eggs will appear much more vibrant and cheerful.

You'll also want to grab some white vinegar, food coloring and other decorative material like crayons, stickers or decals. Get a variety of food coloring colors so not all your eggs are one color. Spice life up a bit with some blue, green, yellow and ravishing red! Any color of the rainbow will suffice.

2. Prepare your eggs for dyeing.

Before you begin to dye Easter eggs with food coloring, you need to get all your eggs ready for soaking first. You must hard-boil them. If you apply food coloring to an egg that hasn't been boiled yet, then you are going to have a crazy mess all over your house. Can you imagine what kind of disaster you'd have after an Easter egg hunt in this situation? Avoid the chaos by boiling your eggs before you begin dyeing them.

Place the eggs into boiling water, boil them for about five minutes, then take them out and let them cool for over ten minutes. You can set them in a bowl of cold water with ice to help speed the process along, but make sure they aren't hot when you start dyeing them.

3. Dunk the eggs in food coloring.

Get your packets of food coloring ready and you should have one bowl for every different color you have. Add water and a small amount of vinegar into each bowl along with a few drops of food coloring. To make the colors deeper and more intense, simply add more food coloring. You can experiment with one egg first to test the effects. Once you get the desired color intensity on your sample egg, go ahead and dye the rest of your Easter eggs!

The technique you use to dye Easter eggs with food coloring depends on your own personal preferences. Some people dip the eggs into the solution with their hand and dye one half at a time. This is a good method if you want to have different colors on each side or have more color variety. Some prefer to just duck the whole egg, let it sit for a minute then pull it out. You could also do it using a spoon or with gloves on if you don't want to get the dye on your hands.

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Easter Decor Traditions

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Easter is one of the oldest and religious holidays in the year calendar that is why it plays a big role in public life of almost every country. This holiday reflects the idea of the victory of life over death. Notwithstanding the date difference between Christians of different branches it still preserves the same importance and almost the same traditions of celebration. It is very good that usually Easter is scheduled in spring, when everything is in blossom: people use flowers to decorate churches and houses, festive boards and rooms. By the way, alongside strong religious customs of the holiday, there are also typical features of decorations during Easter celebrations varying from country to country.

In the United Kingdom, for example, the religious side of the holiday is much adhered, that is why the most of decorations might be seen around and in churches, which are beautified with branches of trees with swollen buds, daffodils, and painted eggs. Eggstravaganza or egg search is a popular game among children, which makes them to look for the eggs, painted during previous week. In addition, Easter bunny is a core character, which brings up these colored eggs in the morning, according to the legend. That is why Easter art, comprised with drawing bunnies and ornamenting eggs, is also the consistent part of Easter décor.
On the contrary, Australia's people do not appreciate Easter bunny very much (as far as you know the sad history of rabbits' invasion, which killed other animal species on the continent). That is why it was replaced by Australian bilby, a rabbit-eared bandicoot. In Australia, as elsewhere in the world, Easter eggs are very popular - chocolate or sugar.
Ukraine and Bulgaria are true preservers of painting traditions, which are famous for beautifully colored eggs. Moreover, there is a tradition of making a little fight with eggs: the winner is the person, whose egg was less cracked.
Easter in northern Europe is both religious and pagan holiday, because at the same time the fest indicates coming of spring and rebirth of nature. Residents in Sweden decorate their homes with Easter colors - yellow, green and white. In their houses yellow chicks, wearing green and white fancy feathers, are put. Easter eggs are even made of cardboard, and large and nice sweet is placed into each of them. There are usually some fireworks, as in ancient times there was a belief that noise scares the devil and witches, banishing them to spell.

Maria Kruk, an author for Fontsy.com