What You Need to Know about Decorating Eggs
Do you want to decorate eggs for Easter? Are you working with young kids? The following are some tips from ARTBEAT Your Creativity Store. Please add to this discussion from your own experience with egg decorating.
Tips:
- -To make perfect boiled eggs, cover eggs with water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Turn off heat, cover the pot, and let sit for 15 minutes. Then run eggs under cool water.
- -Draw on eggs with a wax crayon, then dip in dye. Make sure the dyes you use are food safe if you plan on eating the eggs afterwards. (PAAS egg dyes are available everywhere and are food safe; the stronger Ukrainian egg dyes, available at ARTBEAT Your Creativity Store are not food safe.)
- -To blow out an egg, first shake the egg to break the yolk. Then use a small nail to make a little hole in the top and a slightly larger hole in the bottom of the egg. Blow gently until the egg is empty. Or save yourself some trouble by using Blas-Fix, a cool tool from Germany that pumps the egg clean (available at ARTBEAT Your Creativity Store)
- -For more intricate eggs try the Ukrainian Pysanky technique using wax to create layered designs and dipping into brilliant dyes (older kids and adults).
I know there are other techniques like covering the eggs with onion skins tied on with colored wool and then boiling them, so if you’ve tried anything else please contribute.
Fun Fact: The artist who decorated this year’s Massachusetts egg for display at the White House works right here in Arlington! Stay tuned for more information.
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