For guests and loved ones. We paint eggs and prepare crafts and gifts for children and adults. And how much different options preparing for all this splendor that surrounds us. Head spin. Let's bring some order to this diversity. Today I want to organize the information and also tell you about how to paint eggs with onion skins. This is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to dye eggs for the holidays. But at the same time it does not become the most banal and uninteresting. But let's talk about everything in order.
Simple coloring of eggs with onion skins
The easiest way is to paint eggs with onion skins without additional designs or ornaments. An even, rich red-brown hue makes the eggs elegant and beautiful. In some ways it looks like rich mahogany, and if you rub the eggs with vegetable oil, it also shines like an expensive treasure coated with varnish.
Natural onion peel natural product, so there is not even a shadow of a doubt that eggs painted in this way will not cause any harm to either adults or children.
Onion peels for coloring can be used as usual white onion, and from red. Collect the peels from several onions of any variety and set aside in advance. To do this, you can have a special container in the kitchen, and every time you cook something with onions, put the peels into it.
From my experience, I can say that not many bulbs are needed. 5-6 pieces are enough to prepare a small pan of broth.
Another big advantage of this coloring is that eggs can be dyed both white and brown. We all know the situation of shopping around for good white eggs before Easter. Brown ones will also work now.
The final color of an already painted egg will, of course, be different. White eggs turn out more red, like the onion itself in the husk, and brown ones are redder and darker. You can buy both types of eggs and create a nice variety.
Painting stages:
1. Remove the eggs from the refrigerator, fill them with water room temperature and let stand for half an hour. The water will wash away all the dirt and stamps that are placed on many eggs in the factory. Wipe off what is not dissolved with a sponge. You can use baking soda.
2. Pour onion skins into an old saucepan. The pan is likely to stain, so choose dishes that you won't mind or that won't stick to anything.
3. Fill the husk with water and put it on the stove to boil. After boiling, cook the husk for about 20 minutes. It will begin to darken and its color will become more intense every minute. Then turn off the stove and leave the husks to cool naturally.
4. When the decoction of the husks has cooled, it’s time to start coloring the eggs in it. There are two possible ways. First: catch all the husks from the broth or strain and leave only the liquid, into which you can later put the eggs. Then the color of the eggs will be uniform. Second: put the eggs directly into the husks and cook with them. In this case, small stains and slight marbling may remain from the paint itself.
5. Place the eggs in the onion peel broth and turn on the stove again. Pour 1-2 teaspoons of salt into the broth so that the eggs do not leak out if they do burst. The eggs in the broth should boil and cook for 10-15 minutes. Then turn off the stove again.
6. Let the eggs sit in the broth until it cools down. After this they can be removed. Place the eggs on a paper towel or napkins and dry them.
7. Painted eggs will be matte and if you want an elegant shine, then take a cotton circle or a piece of gauze and rub the eggs with vegetable oil.
This is how you can paint eggs with onion peels without any patterns or designs, but if you want to add delicacy or designs, then before the cooking stage you should carry out small manipulations.
Pattern on eggs from leaves, flowers and twigs
The entire painting process will take place exactly as I described above. Only now, before we put the eggs in the finished broth, we must prepare them.
For patterns you will need leaves and twigs, you can take small flowers. Not everyone has flowers blooming outside their window at this time of year, and there aren’t always herbs available. But ordinary garden greens can be found in any store. Dill, parsley, cilantro, rosemary, tarragon - aromatic herbs with leaves of different shapes and sizes are perfect. You only need a few twigs and leaves. You can pick up a few different ones so that the entire testicle has an individual, unique pattern.
You will also need a thin nylon or mesh to attach the leaves to the egg. It is clear that they themselves will not be able to hold on in conditions of boiling water in a pan. A cut piece of elastic tights works great. And also thread or elastic to tie the nylon tightly to the egg.
Attach the leaf to the egg and wrap it with nylon. Tie the nylon tightly so that it fits tightly around the egg and holds the leaf in place. In this form, place the egg in a decoction of onion peels. Wrap the remaining eggs in the same way, place them in a saucepan and cook for 10-15 minutes in the broth.
After this, cool the eggs and remove the nylon along with the leaves. Their light imprint will remain in the place where they were glued.
It is important to note that white eggs should be dyed this way.
How to color eggs with onion skins and rice
The method of this coloring is very similar to the previous one. For it you will need thin mesh fabric, for example from nylon socks, and raw rice.
Clean dry egg moisten with water, then place in a bowl of rice and roll in it on all sides so that the rice sticks. Now wrap the egg along with the rice in a net, tie it tightly and send it to a saucepan with the broth to cook until completely coloured. For the egg to color, it must simmer in the broth for at least 10 minutes. Then cool the egg and remove the mesh with rice from it. To make the egg shine beautifully, it is coated with a very thin layer of vegetable oil.
A beautiful way to paint eggs with onion peels and threads (rubber bands)
Eggs with stripes and patterns can be made using threads or thin rubber bands. Before dyeing, wind a thick thread around the egg in different directions. You can wind the thread in a spiral or two threads perpendicular to each other. You will get beautiful patterns.
You can also take thin rubber bands and wrap them around the egg. Just not too tight so that the egg does not crack from the pressure; it is still raw and fragile before cooking.
Threads can be taken in different thicknesses and colors; it will also look beautiful if you take thick twine or braided cord; they will give their own interesting pattern on the testicle. Use your imagination. For example, you can weave a braid from thick threads and wrap it around an egg, then the “imprint” of this braid will turn out to be very original.
Marble eggs using onion skins
Another way to beautifully paint eggs with onion peels is the so-called “Marble Eggs”. They are so called for the original uneven stains, like on marble, which are obtained artificially using onion flakes and dyes.
I suggest watching a very good visual video on how to paint a house like this.
The most exciting activity on Easter Eve for me has always been coloring chicken eggs. My first memory is how my grandmother and I painted eggs bright pink. As a result, both of their fingers were more colored than the eggs themselves, and my grandmother uttered a phrase that I remembered forever: “It would be better to take the onion peel, as usual.” In that memorable year, the colors were bright, and with them both the meat and the Easter cake in the basket received a bit of acid color. Grandma didn’t buy artificial dye anymore.
There are a few tips and even tricks that will help you end up with very beautiful and vibrant colored eggs without the use of chemicals.
You can initially take eggs with shells of different shades and cook them for the same amount of time. Whites will become reddish, browns will become dark and original in their own way.
How to paint eggs
- Wash the eggs. Remove the skins from ten onions.
- Transfer the husks to a saucepan. Fill with water. Add salt. Cook for 20–30 minutes.
- Place the washed eggs in a saucepan. Make sure they are completely covered with water and husks.
- Bring the liquid in the saucepan to a boil. Then cook for another 15 minutes over low heat.
- Transfer the eggs to a napkin. Wait until they cool down. Rub a small amount sunflower oil to make them shine.
And when you, following the ancient custom, fight with dyes for, and then peel the eggs from the shell, you will see what’s inside pure protein, which you can eat without fear. Isn't it worth it to prepare the onion skins in advance?
Perhaps this method will seem too ancient to some to follow. But, believe me, such eggs look bright against the background of others, painted blue, green or red. Our ancestors knew how to get natural color without effort. Write how you paint chicken eggs!
Very soon one of the biggest Christian holidays will come - Easter. On the eve of this holiday, many housewives are puzzled by the question of how to paint and decorate eggs at home without using harmful chemical dyes.
For many centuries, our ancestors successfully dyed eggs for Easter using ordinary onion skins.
Starting from Maslenitsa, housewives usually did not throw away onion peels, but dried them a little and put them in a linen bag. Before Easter, the amount needed to paint eggs just accumulated.
When painting eggs using onion peels, you can independently adjust their color from light yellow to rich red-brown. If you want to get more dark color eggs, then necessary a large number of Boil the onion peels in water for at least thirty minutes, and then just immerse the boiled eggs in the resulting broth.
To make the eggs lighter, you just need to use a smaller amount of husk for coloring and cook it for three to five minutes.
Also, the final color of eggs when painted with peel depends on the type of onion. Each variety of husk has its own color - purple, golden, deep orange, red, light yellow.
Here are several ways to beautifully and originally paint eggs using onion peels to achieve different effects.
Before painting, eggs must be removed from the refrigerator so that they warm up to room temperature and do not burst during cooking. Then, put the onion peels in a saucepan, pour boiling water over it and let it brew for two to three hours. Next, put the eggs in the onion infusion and put the pan on the fire. After boiling, reduce the heat to low and cook the eggs for ten minutes. After the water has cooled, remove the eggs from the infusion with a spoon and wipe them with a paper napkin.
Dyed eggs “speckled” or motley eggs.
Each egg must first be dipped in water, and then rolled in dry semolina, rice or corn grits. Next, the egg must be tightly wrapped with a piece of gauze. To make the cereal adhere better to the egg, the ends of the gauze are tightly tied with thread. Next, the eggs are boiled in onion infusion, as in the first method.
Krashenki with a pattern.
In order to get nice patterns when painting with onion skins, you need to attach small leaves, flowers, blades of grass (can be dried or freshly picked) to the eggs. Next, as in the second method, wrap the eggs in gauze and boil in onion skins.
You can decorate eggs with a design or pattern in other ways. If you don’t have leaves and flowers on hand, you can simply tie a piece of lace around the egg before boiling.
To obtain “marble” stains on a colored egg, you must wrap each egg in onion skins before boiling. Then, together with the husk, wrap the egg in a cotton napkin. white, gauze or a piece of nylon stocking.
For more pronounced marble effect It's better to use onion skins different colors(from different varieties Luke).
Second option how to do it marble eggs slightly different from the first one, but also very simple. Multi-colored (red, yellow, orange) husks need to be chopped into small pieces with your hands or scissors and a little added to the husks small pieces paper. The egg must first be moistened with water so that the mixture of paper and husk sticks to it better. Then, we tie the eggs, rolled in a mixture of husks and pieces of paper, with gauze, pieces of stocking or linen. Next, water and onion peels are added to the pan and the eggs wrapped in peels are placed. You need to cook the eggs for thirty to forty minutes over low heat.
Video from user 365 TIPS on how to make marble eggs.
By coloring with onion skins you can get original striped eggs. To do this, before painting, each egg must be tightly wrapped with an elastic band or threads, which can be applied to the egg either symmetrically or asymmetrically. How to do it is only a matter of your inspiration and imagination.
Then, dip them in the infusion of onion peels and cook for half an hour.
To Easter eggs painted traditional way in a useful natural dye, they were even more beautiful, shiny and looked more impressive on the festive table. After cooling, you need to carefully rub each egg with a cotton pad dipped in vegetable oil.
All known to me unusual ways I described how to paint eggs for Easter in onion skins here. I hope that the information will be useful to you when preparing for the holiday. If you paint eggs in onion skins somehow differently, write. I think it will be interesting for both me and the readers.
Dyeing eggs for Easter with onion skins is a simple and budget-friendly way to prepare for the holiday. How to make paints unusual? Let's find out some original ones step by step recipes with a photo - how to paint eggs in onion skins, and how - with a drawing, and we will make beautiful Easter eggs with our own hands.
Ingredients needed:
- chicken eggs - 8-10 pcs.,
- onion peel - 1 l,
- water - 2 l,
- salt,
- vegetable oil
Instructions:
- Pour water over the onion skins, bring to a boil and simmer for 40 minutes. There should be enough water to completely cover the number of eggs you need. For two liters of water you will need about a liter of tightly compacted husks.
- If you don’t have time to cool the broth, put the eggs directly into boiling water. Before doing this, the eggs need to be slightly warmed. This can be done by keeping them in slightly warm water for 10-15 minutes.
- Boil the eggs for 10 minutes. Then you can drain the boiling water and pour over the eggs cold water- this way they will be cleaned better. You can leave the eggs in the broth for a while longer to achieve a richer color.
Easter eggs with drawings
- raw chicken eggs - 8-10 pcs.,
- onion peel - 1 l,
- rice (cereals),
- brilliant green,
- old nylon stockings or tights,
- elastic bandage,
- gauze,
- paper,
- scissors,
- leaves and flowers of plants,
- threads,
- rubber bands,
- lace,
- needle.
Rice
- Cut the stocking into pieces so that one piece fits one egg, leaving edges that can be tied tightly.
- Tie one end of the stocking, forming a pouch.
- Place the egg in the bag and add the rice. Tie the bag so that the nylon fits tightly around the shell.
- Using your fingers, spread the rice inside the bag so that the grains evenly cover the entire egg.
- Boil the eggs in their shells according to the instructions above.
- Once the eggs are cooked and cool, cut open the bag and rinse the eggs with cold water to remove the rice. You will get speckled eggs. Why is rice used? Other cereals quickly boil and turn into mush, leaving no clear imprints on the shell.
Leaves and flowers
- A popular way to color patterned eggs is to use parsley leaves.
- Choose beautiful, neat leaves.
- Wet the leaf with water and apply it to the shell, then secure the leaf with a nylon bag.
- Instead of parsley, you can use dill, cilantro, currant leaves, chamomile flowers and any other plants.
- The area of the shell covered by plant material will remain unpainted. The eggs will have a clear pattern with natural contours.
Paper
- Cut the writing paper into small pieces of any shape.
- To make the fragments neat, first draw an outline with a simple pencil and then cut it out. These can be abstract ornaments or thematic designs.
- Moisten a piece of paper with water so that it sticks to the shell, and secure it with nylon. If you are worried that the fragments will move and the drawing will turn out blurry, use self-adhesive paper or electrical tape.
Threads or elastic bands
To paint eggs with a pattern, you can do without stockings, but use, for example, threads or elastic bands.
- Just wrap each egg with threads in a random order - you will get striped eggs.
- Instead of threads, you can use rubber bands. Choose thicker rubber bands so that they do not burst in boiling water.
- Don't pull the eggs too tightly; the shell may crack.
Lace
Another option is to wrap the eggs in lace. As a result, the shell will be decorated with luxurious openwork ornaments. The finer the lace, the more elegant the pattern will be. Simple but cute diamond shapes on the shell are obtained by placing the egg in a large mesh.
Zelenka
Made using onion skins amazing drawings on the eggs (see photo below) - with marbled stains. You will also need additional brilliant green solution and gauze.
- Grind the husks with scissors, in a blender or in a coffee grinder.
- Moisten raw eggs with water and roll in chopped husks.
- Secure the husk fragments with gauze or nylon stocking. Tie the edges of the makeshift bag tightly.
- Boil water and add brilliant green to it - from a few drops to a whole bottle. The brightness of the shade depends on the amount of greenery.
- Boil the eggs for 10 minutes and cool.
- Drain the water and carefully cut the gauze. Wash the husks off the shells with running water. It is recommended to wear gloves when performing this type of work.
To make the stains even more varied, use peels of different varieties of onions. You can add shredded writing paper to the crushed husks. Please note that if there is a lot of paper, the eggs will turn out pale.
Needle
You can even apply the design after you have painted them with onion skins. Any ornament is simply scratched onto the shell with a needle. Painted eggs can be complemented with Easter-themed factory stickers or tied with ribbons.
Gauze or bandage
You can use your imagination and use any other materials, coloring eggs according to this principle. Instead of a stocking, gauze or a wide elastic bandage will also work.
- The water in which you will boil the eggs should be generously salted. If the shell breaks, the egg will not leak out.
- To make the color more intense, use vinegar. You can rub the egg with vinegar before coloring, after coloring, or add vinegar to the water.
- To ensure the shade goes on evenly, wash the eggs before dyeing using a soft sponge. You can also rub the shell with alcohol.
- Don't cook the eggs too long - they will taste bad. If you want a darker one saturated color, after dyeing, keep the eggs in a cold decoction of onion peels for several hours.
- To make eggs shiny, rub the shell with vegetable oil.
That's all the tricks to creating beautiful and original easter eggs. Onion peel is a natural dye, so all procedures are completely safe.
Now that a lot of different things are being sold food coloring and specialized chemistry, it is worth thinking about the fact that eggs painted natural substances, much more natural, more beautiful and safer.
We will tell you how to color eggs with onion skins. This is the most affordable and easy way. In addition, for the entire existence of this tradition, a more environmentally friendly and beautiful method of coloring eggs has, perhaps, not yet been invented. Thanks to the husk, all sorts of shades of red are obtained, and if you take it from the Yalta onion, you will get a purple shell color.
Why are eggs painted, where does this tradition come from?
Exists Easter tradition exchange colors with each other. The custom has ancient roots. The story goes that Mary Magdalene decided to bring the news of the resurrection of Christ to Emperor Tiberius.
It was not customary to go to visit empty-handed, so she took the most affordable gift - egg, considering that it is very symbolic: at the top there is a shell, and inside there is life. Isn't this the personification of eternity?..
The emperor did not believe her words, saying that this could not be the same as the fact that this white egg would turn red. It immediately turned red. This is where this custom came from.
Making dyes using onion peels
We will paint eggs in onions (husks). Samples of white and brown colors will be useful.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
- Pour water into the pre-collected onion peels.
- Salt.
- Boil for 50 minutes until a decoction is obtained.
- Let it sit for two hours.
- We filter.
- Cook the eggs in the strained broth for ten minutes, turning them occasionally.
- Place in cold water.
- Let it cool.
- Remove and wipe well with a dry towel.
Eggs must be completely covered with water when boiling. If the broth is not enough for this, then add water and stir.
Note:
If the broth is not strained from the husk, the color may turn out uneven.
Marble eggs using onion peels and chives
This recipe is for those who want to get original decoration To festive table. It’s easy to paint eggs with onion skins and greenery. This is a short process, but the result will be beautiful: the shell will be marbled. 
You need to take:
- eggs;
- brilliant green;
- threads;
- gauze or nylon;
- latex gloves.
Peel painting process:
- Remember the husk, it will become smaller.
- Wet the eggs.
- Roll in the husks (or lay them down).
- We put the egg in the nylon along with the stuck husk.
- We tie it with a bag and secure it with threads.
- We cut off the unnecessary end.
- Let's cook.
Green dyeing process:
Note:
- Try grinding the husk with a coffee grinder, then the effect will be even more beautiful.
- Eggs dyed in this way are individual for everyone, depending on the amount of greenery spent and the fit of the husk.
How to make marble eggs - video
Several ways to create a pattern on the shell
You can diversify this easter decoration by painting the eggs with onions and applying original patterns. In these recipes we will tell you how to color eggs correctly so that the shells have patterns.
We will need:
Marble paints
Cooking option:
- Husk from different types mix onions (red, yellow, orange).
- Add small pieces of paper there.
- Together with wet egg wrap in nylon (gauze).
- Cook for 30 minutes over low heat.
- Rinse under cold water. All is ready!
Cooking method:
- We wet the eggs.
- Dip in rice (dry).
- Wrap tightly in gauze (stocking).
- Place in onion broth.
- Cook for about ten minutes.
- We take it out.
- Wash in cold water. Ready!
Note:
- You can take peas instead of rice, you will get round spots.
- A unique effect can be achieved if you add olives cut into rings to the eggs.
Be sure to make wonderful patterned paints!
Striped eggs
To obtain striped eggs, they must be wrapped with rubber bands or threads before boiling in their shells.
How to diversify:
- Make several colors with horizontal stripes.
- Several have vertical stripes.
- On others, place the stripes randomly.
- Make symbolic crosses on the remaining ones.
This Easter decoration will be even more beautiful if, after coloring, you rub it with cotton wool dipped in vegetable oil. It will turn out great!
Lace pattern
Fairy tales and magic are hidden in paints with such patterns! Amazing patterns, wonderful curls, ingenious loops are obtained thanks to lace. These delicious colors are easy to obtain.
The main thing is to choose the right lace material so that the pattern is not too small, but not large either.
Process:
Note:
In addition to lace, you can use other textured material for the same purposes, for example, plastic mesh, in which fruit is sold in stores.
Krashenki with a pattern (first method)
An incredibly beautiful shell is obtained if you attach the leaves of any plants to it. Some of them even give shade, e.g. birch leaf colors the picture yellow.
Cooking method:
- Prepare leaves (from flowers or other plants).
- Attach them to the egg and wrap them with gauze (tightly).
- Cook in the husk broth as usual.
Enjoy the resulting beauty!
Easter eggs with leaves pattern - video
With a pattern (second method)
You can make unusual lines, surreal squiggles on the shell, draw snowflakes, trees, etc.
Performance:
- We take electrical tape and cut out everything we want from it (hearts, snowflakes, droplets, etc.)
- We stick them on the shell.
- Let's cook.
- Unhook the electrical tape.
We admire how beautiful it turned out! 
Note:
- Adults usually do not have time for such applications. But who says adults should do this? Get the kids involved. Children will be very happy with this assignment.
- You may come across electrical tape that can only be peeled off with the shell, but a positive result is still obtained much more often.
Drawing with a needle
Let's create the magic ourselves! We take a needle and begin to scratch something on the egg, colored by the husk. Complex ornaments or some incredible designs are not for everyone. But you can scrawl inscriptions like “Christ is Risen!” or make a personalized egg as a keepsake. Believe me, this is quite an exciting activity. 
Decorate with flowers
There is nothing complicated about this method.
Preparation:
- Instead of leaves or rice, we tie flowers to the eggs (you can take shaggy ones, for example, daisies, etc.).
- Wrap it in 2-3 layers of nylon (gauze).
- Cook in onion broth.
- Let's get it.
- “We undress” by removing the nylon.
We enjoy the result. See for yourself that it is easy and beautiful!
Gradient paints
Thanks to this method, unusual, ceremonial colors are obtained. The manufacturing process will be a little more complicated than the previous ones, but the result will be worth it.
What should be done:
- Select cookware that allows you to install required amount eggs in the desired position.
- Place the eggs vertically.
- Fill 1/3 full with the husk broth and cook for five minutes.
- Add another 1/3 of the broth and boil for three minutes.
- Pour the broth so that the eggs are completely covered with it.
- Cook for five minutes.
- Drain.
In this way wonderful transitions from dark color until light.
We make paints and paint with wax
This method is more labor-intensive, but the most mystical and magical. The eggs turn out incredibly soulful and warm.
Cooking process:
Painting beets
A rich burgundy shell will come out if the dyes are made in beet broth.
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