Egg Coloring!



Dear Egg Lovers,

Besides being something totally awesome and that everyone should try at least once in their lives, egg painting has been around for the past 2000 years!!!

Shocking? hardly

 Eggs were first decorated for Easter in ancient and medieval times. They were beautifully painted in detail to be given as gifts and used in spring festivals. The wealthy often decorated their eggs elaborately with gold or gold leaf while peasants used what was readily available in nature to decorate their eggs. Gorse flower, spinach, insects and even wood chips were used to dye their eggs.

Since then, Coloring eggs usually for Easter and water based dyes or food coloring is used to paint Easter eggs.

HOW TO COLOR YOUR EGGS

Step One:choose your eggs and decide whether you want to 

A) keep it for as long as possible

B)Keep for like a week or so (just to show someone that can)

C) Or play a awesome game

Step Two: if you selected

A) use a pin and pierce the egg and drain all the fluid

B) leave as is

C) Hard boil your eggs

Step Three: fill a cup with hot water and your favourite food coloring 

Step Four: Use a table spoon to dip your eggs (about for a minute)

*handy tip add a few drops of vegetables oil into your mixture and it will make the eggs spotty

Step Five: wait until they are dry

Step Six: your can also your glitter or stickers to further your egg-perience  

OK so what do you with them afterwards?

well

A) if you hollowed your egg out first you can keep it forever

B) if you didn't that's ok you'll still have it for about a week or so before it gets old  

C)However if you hard boiled your eggs your in luck,

 a traditional game is played where hard boiled pace eggs are distributed and each player hits the other player's egg with their own. This is known as "egg tapping", "egg dumping" or "egg jarping". The winner is the holder of the last intact egg. The losers get to eat their eggs. The annual egg jarping world championship is held every year over Easter in Peterlee Cricket Club. It is also practiced in Bulgaria, Russia, Hungary, Croatia, Lithuania, Lebanon, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, and other countries. They call it tucanje. so practice and maybe you'll be a winner too!!

anyways stay tune for more egg-citing news from

the EGG LOVER INC.

By: Emily Pronin