KremaP: Easter egg painting is fun, kids love it more than stuffing themselves with chocolate ones...
I use to use white crayon, (which Crayola crayons stopped making ), but any color wax crayon can be used, and then wipe excess off, and dip eggs in oil based dye (food safe) or food coloring with water and vinager. I loved it as much as the kids.
CossackCat: I use to use white crayon, (which Crayola crayons stopped making ), but any color wax crayon can be used, and then wipe excess off, and dip eggs in oil based dye (food safe) or food coloring with water and vinager. I loved it as much as the kids.
I made colored ice cubes too I still do
I still follow the tradition and use the water and vinegar colours...different leaves or normal, white wax for patterns... It gets messy but it's worth it...
KremaP: I still follow the tradition and use the water and vinegar colours...different leaves or normal, white wax for patterns... It gets messy but it's worth it...
Every time I spell vinager it reminds me of all the old world, traditional good my mom, my sisters and I made for (both ) Easters
The Latvians have an egg cracking competition. Two people hold the egg in one hand and count down - 3, 2, 1 Hit the other person's egg in one swift whack! The egg that doesn't break wins!!
When coloring them, they wrap the eggs with fresh, new leaves then with onion skins, put them in a piece of nylon tied at both ends and then soak in hot, vinegar water.
It's fun opening them up and peeling off the leaves and skins. A little more work, but oh, so natural!
rainbowdream2017Melbourne, Victoria Australia2,486 posts
johnjobo: easter egg for? Other then eating it?
Example !
Croatian Town Gives Giant Decorated Eggs as Easter Gifts to Cities around Europe. Published on Apr 12, 2017 A town in Croatia decided to spread the joy of Easter by unveiling a new set of giant eggs. They are made of polyester and decorated by local painters. The project, involves amateur artists from Koprivnica, painting the two-metre-tall eggs in the local style of naive art. The eggs are then sent as gifts to other cities around the country and across Europe who put them on public display as part of their Easter celebrations. It takes four self-taught artists four to five days to paint a single egg, which usually features the motifs of rural life typical for the area. Over the years, some 80 eggs of various sizes have been received by cities around the world, including Salzburg, Vienna, Paris, Budapest, Marseille, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, and one was even gifted to Pope Benedict XVI and put on display at the Vatican. This year's eggs are destined for two towns in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, and one for Berlin.
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