Comments on: 6 Ways to Decorate Easter Eggs

By: Christopher Radko

Christopher Radko — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:51:00 +0000

The marble and panda eggs are amazing!

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Ah — the marbled eggs freak me out… They remind me a little too much of the gross, cold dyed eggs they served in my elementary school cafeteria during Easter as a kid.

Currently, my family draws on the eggs with crayons before sticking them in the dye. We used to use the clear crayon they included in the mix, but found the entire box of crayons to be a lot more fun.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:16:00 +0000

use colorful patterned SILK cloth, cut into squares and tie-wrapped over raw eggs. then wrap the eggs in white cotton cloth and tie the tops as well. boil the wrapped eggs for 20 to 40 minutes. cool and unwrap for amazing, colorful and original eggs. the cotton keeps the individual colors from running onto other eggs in the pan. only silk cloth works for this, but not other fabrics.

By: Jake Le Master

Jake Le Master — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:49:24 +0000

Wow, someone actually has the same last name as me?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:53:50 +0000

@ Aileen–I love this type of art! If you don’t have some already, could you maybe post some photo’s of this year’s batch?? I’m sure mentalfloss would love to show them, and if not, just respond to this and maybe we can coordinate a way to share.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:30:39 +0000

When I was in grade school, one of my classmates was Ukrainian, and every year at Easter she’d bring in a pysamky egg for the teacher (made by her older sister). I remember trying in vain to re-create those elaborate designs with my Paas home kit.

By: Aileen

Aileen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:53:41 +0000

Love the article!

I’ve always been fond of eggs as art. My grandmother had three very old pysamky eggs which I loved to look at when I was little. Their fragility and antiquity made them even more beautiful.

My own little Easter decorating tradition is to draw strange, surreal faces on my eggs using ink after they’ve been coloured. I did it as a joke initially, arranging these little spooky little characters in a basket of cheery pastels…but everyone liked them so much that I’ve kept it up.

I spend a good deal of time on each, cross-hatching and detailing. Someday I may use hollowed shells, but so far I do my art on hard-boiled eggs, and after I photograph them, they are eaten.

By: donner

donner — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:15:31 +0000

Gorgeous eggs…those pysamky eggs always intrigue me…I think my faves are the natural dyed ones, tho…isn’t nature groovy…

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:39:05 +0000

Thanks, ann. I believe I’ve found the glitch in the picture code.

By: ann

ann — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:02:01 +0000

Yep, we know that the Miss C posts will be interesting.

I recognized the pysanky as soon as I saw them. Glad to see you included them; I’d never seen or heard of them until moving to Ukr several years ago. They are very much a symbol of this country. The different colors and design styles are region-specific. For some reason, they pysanky only show up on my google feed reader page but not here on this page… wierd