How To Decorate Easter Eggs

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Color and decorate Easter eggs that will have everyone oohing and aahing.

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Step 1: Hard-boil the eggs
Put eggs in a saucepan, add water until they're covered, and gently bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for ten minutes. Remove from the heat completely and add very cold water to stop the cooking process.

Step 2: Cover up
Put newspapers over your table or workspace so you don't get dye on it, and change into something you won't mind getting stained. Decorating Easter eggs can get messy!

Step 3: Ready the dye
Fill some large paper cups halfway with hot water. Then add a teaspoon of vinegar and the dye tablets, which will dissolve. Don't have dye tablets? Add one teaspoon of food coloring into each cup of water and vinegar.

Tip
Try natural dyes. In a pan, arrange the eggs in a single layer and cover them with water. For red, add fresh beets; blue, canned blueberries; yellow, ground turmeric; green, fresh spinach. Bring to a boil, then simmer 15 minutes.

Step 4: Make your mark
Write or draw something on the egg with a white wax crayon before putting it into the cup. The wax resists the dye, so once the egg is colored, you'll clearly see what you wrote.

Step 5: Add stripes
Put electrical tape around the egg, or simply put a rubber band—or several—around it before placing in the cups. When it's dyed, remove the tape or rubber bands and you'll have fun stripes!

Step 6: Make patterns
Add some stickers or brush some rubber cement onto the egg before you place it in the dye. When you remove the egg, simply peel off the stickers or hardened rubber cement and you'll get interesting, creative patterns.

Step 7: Dye it
Place an egg into each cup. Leave it in for five to 20 minutes or as long as it takes to achieve your desired look. The longer it soaks, the darker it will be.

Tip
Add a teaspoon or so of vegetable oil into some of the cups of dye. The oil prevents the dye from sticking to certain spots on the egg, so when you remove it you get interesting designs and patterns.

Step 8: Remove
Using an egg dipper, slotted spoon, or tongs, take the eggs out of the cups and place them in an empty egg carton to dry.

Step 9: Enjoy
Hide your eggs for an egg hunt, put them in baskets, or simply peel your new creations and enjoy!

Did You Know?
Dyeing Easter eggs started as a pagan ritual symbolizing fertility.

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[Vladimir Ionescu]

1:43 it looks like hitler sign while the egg is spinning

[BuIIdogs]

call me old school but i prefer to just eat them

[somethinggirl2001]

They could be sent to jail for Nazi symblysm which could lead to exocution.

[Falken Newton]

Hitler sign!?! It is called a swastika... and before it was a sign of the turds who fallowed the $#ithead Hitler, it was (and still is) used in religious ways around the world... It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, primarily as a tantric symbol to evoke shakti or the sacred symbol of auspiciousness.

[ryanhigaswife]

One: get tights (what girls wear under a dress etc) Two: buy or pick flowers three: take egg and place it in the tights snip the top of the flower and place in in beetween the egg and tights tie the tope of the tights and dip it in the coloring take it out take the tights of and the flower and reveal a pretty pattern on the egg

[ryanhigaswife]

Step one: get tights or anyt

[Frances tabanas]

rly cool! :3

[DeathNote24657]

0:57 it went from a girl to a boy :l

[StopTheDaRkNeSs]

So you're telling me we preform a Pagan ritual for a Christian holiday? CONSPIRACY...!

[Fred Al]

I watch HowtoBasic. It's a lot better than this fake tuts!