Painting Easter Eggs

Painted eggs are the symbol of Easter, but what to paint them with? You can try using water colors or acrylic ones (these will have a life-span longer than the hen that laid the eggs has).

For people who like the traditional way, here are some more natural alternatives for the artificial paint you can buy in the stores. To be honest, the colors will be pale and undecided, it will take a lot of time and you’ll need to explain to the guests what you tried to achieve, but it could be fun, nevertheless.

Here is what you should boil in the witch’s copper:

For red eggs: red onion peel, beet pieces, common marjoram, red apple leaves (where to find them? Easy, in the grove, of course.)
For yellow: parsley, hardhay, saffron.
For green: nettles, spinach.
For blue: red cabbage, kept in water and then boiled
For brown: coffee, nut-tree or poplar leaves, but who would want brown eggs?

Any of the above ingredients will rather paint your hands, the pots you use in the process, the towels in your kitchen, than the eggs. It’s hopeless trying to avoid it. You can add some vinegar to the concoction, to strengthen the effect, but the smell…

In order to make the eggs glow, you can grease them with oil or fat. Now they will still be ugly, but they will produce stains, too. But it was fun, right?

After all this work, one more piece of advice for nice-looking eggs like the ones in the photo: do as I did this year, buy them already painted….