Easter Egg Decorating

Sat, Mar 27 2021
11:15 am – 1:15 pm
Virtual

arts and crafts

The practice of decorating eggshell is ancient, predating Christian traditions. Ostrich eggs with engraved decoration that are 60,000 years old have been found in Africa. Decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago. For Christians eggs are a symbol of the resurrection. In the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, Easter eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ, and the hard shell of the egg symbolized the sealed Tomb of Christ — the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead. Brits roll decorated eggs down steep hills on Easter Sunday, people in South Louisiana play so called "egg tapping" when a winner eats the egg of his rival. The same game is practiced in Croatia, Greece, Lebanon, Poland, Switzerland, and in many other places. Egg hunting, when children look for decorated eggs hidden in a garden is a common practice in the US.

Whatever is your excuse for decorating eggs, please join us at this workshop. We will learn how to decorate painted egg with hot wax and then dyeing it.

The workshop will be held at the zoom. Our long-term instructor, Ms. Elzbieta Ostapowicz will show you the details of decorating.

Those who want to take part in the workshop should prepare the following:

· hard-boiled eggs (or Styrofoam eggs available on Amazon)

· bee wax (Amazon)

· wax crayons

· dyes for painting eggs (available in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian grocery stores or on Amazon)

· Pencils with an eraser, headpin with ball end

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