Beautiful Eggs!

Ahhh, finally a litte art in our curriculum!!!! A good friend recommended that we learn a Polish/Urkarian technique for decorating eggs. So we tried it too. B, mom and I went to the Polish Art Center in Hamtramack for a 2 hr. class. Then we bought the supplies to try it at home and make the decorations for our Easter bunch table. Since I'm not feeling incredibly creative today, I'm just going to give you the basics and share the photos. (why am I not feeling creative??? might have something to do with the fact that we had a shovel 6" of snow last night and the driveway needs to be done again this morning - ugh).

Okay, the Pisanky technique is done with wax and egg dyes. It's kind of a reverse image technique. First you put on the wax, which is what B is doing below.
Then you dye the egg, lightest color first. Then you put on more wax, depending on your designing. Then more dyes, each time using a darker color dye.
Then more dyes, each time using a darker color dye.
When your design and dying is complete - you candle the wax off. Revealing your artwork below! Each time we did it, there was always a surprise.

B's pond egg. This boy is obsessed with ponds and fish. A lot of his eggs had fish on them!
Here is grandma's attempt at sunflowers.
Our completed works of art. It was interesting what each of us was drawn to. I prefered the pretty traditional easter colors - reds, pinks, yellows, purples. B used a lot more of the darker greens and blues (naturally with his pond based thinking). And grandma was probably the most creative trying all kinds of things. The 4 eggs to the left are mine. The other 8 are Bs.

These are grandma's.
Our day of work - waiting to dry so they can be displayed.

It was fun and some of us are already thinking about doing holly eggs to hang on the Christmas tree. Some of us are really into this project, others of us are fine in knowing that we've learned it and experienced it - now we can move on :)