Collection of ideas for the perfect Easter decoration!

Easter is just around the corner

For many people, it is already almost a tradition to decorate the flat or the house with the appropriate decorations for Easter. Of course, you can buy many things ready-made, but like everywhere else, homemade is still the most beautiful. It is not that difficult to make your own decorations. We will go into more detail here about what you can do and, above all, what you need to do it.

Easter egg dyeing

There are different ways to dye Easter eggs. A distinction is made between dyeing with natural dyes and dyeing with food colouring or colour tablets. Both variants produce an excellent result.

Natural Easter Egg Dyeing

Different tools will turn your Easter eggs into different colours. We will go into the most common methods here. Compared to colouring with food colouring or colour tablets, natural colouring is certainly a lot cheaper. You can use leftovers from certain foods, which has a positive side effect.

Here's what you need to colour your Easter eggs naturally

This is what you need for it:

• Raw eggs (preferably white)
• 1 litre water
• Depending on the substance 100-500g natural materials
• 1 pot
• Spoon or a ladle
• 1 grid plate

Instructions for the perfect brew

For the colour stock you need about 1 litre of water and, depending on the natural materials you want to use, the quantity listed below:

• You want to decorate your Easter eggs with Vegetables like spinach or red cabbage dye? Then you need about 500g of the vegetables.
• For egg dyeing with Leaves, onion skins or berries100g of the respective material is sufficient. Insider Tip: If you soak your leaves or berries in water for an hour before boiling, the end product will be even better!
• If you add spices to the eggs like Turmeric or with tea you need about 3-4 tablespoons of it, which is about 10g.

Step by step guide

Put a litre of water in your pot. It is best to use an older pot because you may not be able to completely remove the colour residue.

Now let your materials boil for 30-60 minutes. To prevent the water from evaporating, simply cover the pot with a lid. If necessary, you can also simply add more water.

Then take the materials out of the brew. Now comes the effective colouring. Put the raw eggs into the colouring broth and boil them for about 10 minutes. To ensure that the colour is evenly distributed on the eggs, they should be completely submerged in water.

Prepare your grid, preferably while the eggs are still boiling in the broth. Now take the eggs out of the coloured broth with a ladle and place them on the grid. The coloured eggs will dry quickly and will not stain.

Tips and tricks

• To get special patterns on your Easter eggs you can use the following products: Leaves, herbs, flowers, an old nylon stump or rubber bands. Prepare your eggs with these tools before colouring them to create unique creations.
• When to a tablespoon Vinegar or citric acid into the colour decoction, the colours become even more intense.
• To give the eggs a nice shine, rub the dried eggs carefully with a little oil after colouring Sunflower or rapeseed oil.

Red

In order to obtain a beautiful red, there are various means that can be used. On the one hand, you can simply use red onion peelings. This is the best option, as they would otherwise end up in the rubbish anyway.

You can also use beetroot or mallow tea. For the last-minute egg dyers, there is another variant where you use beetroot juice. You can buy this in almost any grocery shop.

Brown

To give the eggs a brown tone, there are some foodstuffs or aids that you can use. For example, you can work with brown onion peel, which is probably the best option here as it would otherwise just end up in the waste.

Brown colouring is also possible with the following: black tea, dried marigold flowers, coffee and oak bark.

Money

There is only one known remedy for yellow egg colouring, but this should be available in every household. Either turmeric powder or turmeric root.

Orange yellow

If you want your Easter eggs to turn an orange-yellow colour, all you need are carrots. However, if you are cooking something for which you need carrots anyway and you have to peel them, you can simply use the peel. Again, this is a very good solution as they have a use and won't be thrown away.

Green

For a beautiful green colour, dye your Easter eggs with either spinach, nettles, parsley or ivy leaves.

Nettles can be found almost everywhere and can simply be picked, washed and used. This variant is probably the cheapest of all.

Blue & Purple

If you like it colourful, you need blue and purple Easter eggs in your Easter basket. You can get these colours by colouring the eggs with elderberries, blueberries or red cabbage.

Dyeing Easter eggs with colour tablets

The easiest way to colour your Easter eggs is probably with colour tablets. You need few tools and get a great result. There are many different suppliers of colour tablets in various versions. Here you can choose the one that suits you best.

Instructions for dyeing with colour tablets

This is what you need for it:

• Colour tablets
• Raw eggs (preferably white)
• one cup per desired colour
• 2 tablespoons vinegar per colour
• Paper towel
• some oil
• a fabric tablecloth or old tablecloth

Mixing the colours correctly

Now you can put one tablet in each cup and fill each cup with 2 tablespoons of vinegar and 250 ml of cold water. Now stir the whole thing and let it stand.

Insider Tip:Not every cup can hold 250ml of water and then an egg, so it is best to check beforehand that the cup has the necessary volume.

Colouring your Easter eggs

Now you should first boil the eggs and then put them (still hot) into the desired cup. After about 5 minutes, carefully remove the eggs and place them on kitchen paper to dry.

Repeat this process until all the eggs are coloured.

In the step-by-step instructions above you will find tips and tricks on how to make the colouring and the end product even better. You can also see how you can decorate your eggs.

Create your own Easter decoration

Especially at Easter, it's great fun to decorate your home with homemade decorations. Here are some ideas for homemade Easter decorations.

Painting Easter eggs

Here we are not talking about real eggs but artificial ones. Since you might want to use certain things from your decorations again next year, this is an excellent option. There are many different types of artificial eggs, we will show you the most common ones:

• Wood eggs
• Plastic eggs
• Large Styrofoam Eggs

Of course, it is also possible to buy coloured eggs already, there is either the Apricot set or the Blue Green Set. Both sets contain plastic eggs.

Easter wreath

An Easter wreath can be made from different materials. Here, too, you can be very creative and use many different materials. Here we present our highlights in the area of Easter crafts:

• There are different types of moss, such as. Iceland Moss, , Jungle Moss or classic moss.
• For ornamentation is a Vine wreath or a Ivy garland important, this gives your Easter wreath that certain something.
• It's all in the details, small items that make a big difference, such as. Toadstools, wooden pegs with Ladybird or Rabbits and Wooden pin with bunny and eggs.

Easter nests

Easter nests can be made from twigs, straw, wire and other materials. They can be filled with eggs, sweets and other small surprises and serve as a great accessory for any room. To make your Easter nest a success, we have some articles that will help you:

• The connection to nature can be reflected in e.g. Branch pieces, , Moss or a Fir branch.
• As a basis for your Easter nest, you can either use an Willow wreath or a Vine wreath serve.
• We have a wide Easter assortment, this includes different types of eggs, wooden bunnies, carrots made of cotton wool and other great items. Decorating Easter nests has never been easier.