Also here - obey the points just like written above - with the garden and kitchen-nature-colors.
Needed quantities You find the quantities in the light-orange box above.

Preparation of the color-bath - most of the colors are used as follows: put the content of the bag into a glas. Let it soak for about 10 minutes. Pour it with 350 ml hot Water, boil briefly - then cook it for about 5-10 minutes together with the eggs. If stronger color is desired: let the coloring-bath soak over night. Boil the coloring-bath again the next day once again - and strain it. Apply the freshly cooked and still hot eggs in this coloring-bath and turn them slightly, until they have the desired color-intensity. Walnutshell: soak before - 1/2 Stunden einweichen.

For Color-Intensification as in the above List (yellow)

Patterns and Ornaments

Foto and Design: © Regina F. Rau

Paint ornaments, signs or names on the surface of your egg - either with ink pen or with technical-drawing ink pen (i.e. such as Rotring (German tool)). Therefore I take China ink or ink for technical drawing. I paint circles in different sizes or shapes, elypses, spirals ... or I combine triangles, circles, rectangles and elypses in or above each other - or side by side; with dots and dashes in between. At least I color only some of them with bright red, blue, green, turquoise colors. This looks really very pretty and are real eye-catchers!

Foto and Design: © Regina F. Rau

Scratching technique:

All you need is eggs with a thick shell. They can either be white or brown - and you can also dye them before scratching. When the color has dried, you scratch ornaments and decorations, or names and hearts with a penknife or a sharp knife blade into the surface of your egg. I use an electric mini drill from Dremel (German manufacturer) with adjustable speed and using various abrasive papers. But you can also use fine handicraft files.



Woolen threads on eggs

Foto and Design: © Regina F. Rau

Apply a 2mm wide film of liquid adhesive on the surface of your egg. Lay your woolen thread (can also be cotton or any other fine material) beginning from the bottom to the top - or from the top to the bottom (as you like) in a spirale. You can cut the thread every now and then - and change the color, which should be in a big contrast to the previous one (i.e. blue - yellow / green - red / yellow - lilac / white - black...) The thread from the second row must touch the thread from the first row. Do this until the egg is fully covered. This looks very pretty! Or stick spirals of various colors to the egg, lining the background with other colored threads.

Colorful scraps
Tear the tracing paper into very small pieces Stick this motley pieces as you want on the surface of your egg - or make some landscapes: for example: green mountains, blue sky and yellow sun. Colorful flowers - and stick the free spaces with a single color and overlapping pieces.

Speckled eggs

Foto and Design: © Regina F. Rau

Speckle the colors with a toothbrush through a strainer, sprinkle on the eggs. After drying this color you can also apply more colors. But always dry the color first, before you put on a new one!

Egg with hatching chick
Cut the egg very carefully open with a small knife - where the blow-hole for the egg is. Do this peace for peace, so that nearly the half - or at least one third of the egg is broken away. You can leave the edges - this looks more real! Paint those edges with a very thin black pen over - and paint some fine shell breaks on the surface of the egg, too.
Wrap a pom-pom with yellow wool. You wrap a yellow wooden thread around two fingers (about 20-30 times - depends on how thick your wool is), so that you make an eight (8). Tie the woolen threads with a strong twine (or other tie) together, where the two circles of the eight around your fingers meet. Maybe somebody could help you - this would it make much easier!

Then you cut the loops at the most left and at the most right. Tug the resulting wollen balls a little bit. Cut a beak out with a scissor from orange felt or paper and form it a bit. stick it with some adhesive to the yellow woolen ball. Make two eyes with black wool. Therefore you knot the woolen thread two or three or four times at the same place (depends how big your ckick is - and how thick the woolen thread is. The eye should be adäquate to the size of the chick). Cut off the knot from the woolen thread - and make a second one. Paste them tho the chick. Put and paste the finished chick now into the open egg. Do this very carefulle, that it does not break further. This egg looks very pretty and is a real eye-catcher!

Have lots of fun with coloring and decorating your eggs!