Easter... a holiday that everyone loves - both adults and children. It is a holiday of spring, a holiday of rebirth, a holiday of hope and new dreams. On the eve we are all preparing for the Bright Resurrection of Christ: some certainly fast in order to cleanse the soul of frailty, others limit themselves to spring cleaning in the house and worries about. And we also make sure to decorate our homes in some way: to create the appropriate mood for ourselves, our family, and our guests.
We do not use purchased decor: it is much more pleasant to do something with your own hands. Most known method decorate the house - make Easter wreaths: they look very beautiful and festive. But still, as a rule, they are hung on the door, and are not so appropriate in the kitchen or living room. This year we decided to approach the issue of Easter decorations for the home a little differently: more creatively. After all, what do we definitely cook for Easter? That's right, Easter cheese and eggs painted dark red. This is exactly the decor made from eggs that we will talk about.
Greens in eggshells, the decoration for Easter is quite creative and original.
Funny, cheerful faces drawn on egg shells can set the appropriate festive tone. They are given a special charm by the green forelocks provocatively protruding from the top - it turns out very bright and cool! In addition, such decor can be placed on shelves in big room, on a window sill in the kitchen, and even on a holiday table - they will look very good everywhere.
Making such an Easter decoration with your own hands is quite simple, the main thing is to remember about it a little in advance so that the greenery has time to sprout. But let's talk about everything in order.
Materials:
- egg shells;
- land for seedlings or flowers;
- watercress seeds;
- a black marker (or several markers of different colors).
How to grow greens in eggshells for Easter - original decor
First, wash the eggs thoroughly, washing away all stamps and marks on the surface of the shell. Wipe dry. If the surface is not washed well enough, it will be difficult to draw on it: the lines of the drawing will be dim and unclear. Yes, the most important thing: eggs can have any shell - white or brown. In any case, the decor will look good. On a white shell, the pattern will look brighter, but a brown shell is closer in color to traditional Easter colored eggs.
Now let's get down to it complex process, requiring accuracy.
We break the eggs from the sharp end so that no more than 1-2 cm of the shell is broken. If you break the eggs closer to the middle, you won’t get the semblance of a head, and accordingly, the “face” will be unattractive. Pour the egg and use it for its intended purpose (in baking and other culinary recipes).
Carefully fill the remaining shell with earth (any soil for seedlings, or substrate, or soil for flowers - whatever you have in the house - will work here). Gently compact the soil slightly with your fingers. We fill almost to the very top, not reaching the edge by about 5 mm.
We water the ground so that it becomes well moist. If after watering the soil sinks, add a little more soil.
Carefully pour the seeds onto the ground, trying to ensure that they are distributed more or less evenly (you can help yourself with the end of a small knife, since this is simply impossible to do with your fingers). For 1 egg we pour about 20 seeds (taking into account that not all seeds can sprout).
Carefully sprinkle the seeds with a layer of soil, then press it in lightly. The soil should immediately become moist. If this does not happen, it means that the soil was not watered enough. Carefully pour some water on top, using a teaspoon or a bowl with a spout, so as not to pour too much water.
Now cover the eggs tightly with a small (sandwich) plastic bag. Wrap the bag tightly at the bottom of the egg, blocking the access of air. But we pull the bag loosely on top, leaving room for future sprouts. Place in a shaded, warm place. You can put it on a windowsill, removing direct sunlight with blinds or curtains, or you can put it on a heating radiator.
If the seeds were fresh, after 5-6 days, green sprouts will appear in eggshells. If the seeds are not completely fresh, they will take a little longer to germinate, up to 10 days.
But you should look at the seeds after planting early, already on the 3-4th day. After all, if the seeds germinate in a warm, shaded place, they will stretch out too much in search of light and the plants will turn out too tall. Carefully remove the plastic bag from the sprouted seeds. We place the eggs in stands on a well-lit windowsill.
Don’t forget to look at the soil - if it becomes dry, carefully add water. For this, you will need either a watering can with a narrow neck, or even a children's dish - a teapot. You will need just a little water, 0.5 - 1 teaspoon - after all, there is very little earth in the “pots”. And I repeat once again: be very careful - the plants are very delicate, and the “pots” are fragile.
But after 7-10 days, seedlings will emerge from the eggshell. Don't overexpose it. As soon as the seedlings reach a height of about 2 cm, we begin the “artwork”.
Using a thin marker, draw a cheerful face. The color of the marker is according to your taste, just like the face itself. You can also draw with multi-colored markers - everything is at your discretion. The only advice: since the surface is round, it is not very convenient to draw, take your time, take a closer look. Better yet, practice drawing on a whole egg. So, the faces are painted. We place the eggs in stands again and place them on a window or any bright place so that everyone can see and admire them.
We take care of the greens in eggshells in the same way as before - occasionally water them a little. And our watercress will continue to grow a little more - 2 weeks, until the grown leaves force the stem (thin and tall) to bend. But that’s nothing - just the “forelock” will turn into a “bang”. Well, then the seedlings simply don’t have enough land (as they grow, they require more nutrition) and they wither. If you have small children, then do not allow the seedlings to reach this state, otherwise bitter children’s tears may await you...
Alena Baltseva 04/26/2016 3016
We offer a spring option for creativity with children - break own garden in an eggshell.
Whatever one may say, there is nothing left until Easter. If you're preparing for this happy holiday in advance, good idea– set up a mini-garden in eggshells and involve children in this exciting process.
Egg “pots” with sprouted grains will be a charming decoration festive table. In addition, if you plant plants in them that you eat (parsley, onions, etc.), for the holiday you will also have fresh herbs from your own windowsill. What are some compelling arguments to try this idea?
Cooking eggshells
The most the hard part This little experiment is to figure out how to break eggs correctly and accumulate a sufficient number of shells.
Try to break the eggs not in the middle, but closer to the sharp end (after all, the blunt end is a more stable base), so that “ flower pots"turned out deeper.
You don’t have to try to break the eggs evenly (and you won’t succeed). Let your impromptu mini-garden be in the natural style: the more natural, the more beautiful.
Choosing seeds
The second important point is which seeds to choose for germination. It is better to give preference to plants that “hatch” quickly, otherwise your child may simply get bored waiting for the end of the experiment.
Thyme, parsley, watercress, and chives are suitable for germination on a windowsill.
If the edibility of a plant is not an important point for you, you can try growing daisies or other unpretentious flowers.
You will need
- Eggshells (optimal quantity - 10 pcs)
- Cardboard egg tray
- Seeds
- Soil for home flowers
- Scissors
- Spoon
Egg shells can be painted or painted.
Planting a mini-garden
- Dry the shells. It is advisable not to leave remains of a raw egg in the shell.
- Place the shells in an egg tray.
- Take any soil for house plants and slightly moisten it.
- “Stuff” the eggshell with soil using a spoon, leaving about 1cm from the edge.
- Place the seeds.
- Sprinkle the seeds on top with another spoonful of soil.
- Place the tray on the windowsill. If possible, on the south side. For seeds to germinate quickly, they must receive at least 6 hours of sunlight daily.
- Water your mini garden daily. This should be done carefully using a spray bottle so as not to wash away upper layer soil.
- Wait for the sprouts to sprout.
The atmosphere in the house will be helped by grass planted a few weeks before the celebration and grown in shells.
It is best to make such an original and unusual green decoration together with your children; they will be happy to join in such an interesting and fun work, and will also enthusiastically take care of and water the sprouts. In addition, planting seeds and caring for them does not present any particular difficulties. This is easy to do and even small children can do it.
To create real green mini-vegetable gardens, you will need ten egg shells (or more, according to your desire), with the top part carefully “removed” from each eggshell. The shell must be washed and dried. Prepare fescue seeds, which sprout with soft, fluffy, bright green shoots.
Place a ball of soil in each shell, then add a few seeds (trust your children to place and plant the seeds), sprinkle more on top a small amount soil. Seeds should not be placed too deep. Water the planted seeds immediately after planting and continue watering over the following days (do not overwater), place them under straight sun rays, for example on the windowsill of your kitchen. Under no circumstances should you take improvised pots into the yard or open balcony, otherwise you risk losing sprouts and seeds to birds.
In a few days you will already notice the first sprouts of grass. If your seedlings are given plenty of sunlight, the grass will grow very quickly, within just a few weeks. Trim the grass and decorate spring greenery in a shell Easter dinner table. Great mood With such a spring miracle on the table, you and your guests are guaranteed! Idea from Andrea.
And more ideas for using chicken and ostrich eggs:
Many are already starting to prepare for Easter. This time I will show how my daughter and I made an Easter “flower bed” to decorate the holiday table, which will help create a spring mood not only during the holidays.
For this we need:
- eggshell
- millet for germination
- food coloring
- two jars
- priming
- tea spoon
- egg cup
How to germinate wheat in eggshells
So let's get started. First we need to free the shell from the egg itself. Then we wash it thoroughly and dry it.
We dilute the dye for Easter eggs (instructions are usually on the package), which can be easily purchased at any store. We paint our shells.
Now comes the most interesting part of the work, which your children will surely enjoy. We take the soil and fill it up to half the shell.
Now you need to pour millet into the decorated shells. Before this, we soak it for 15 minutes in warm water so that it will sprout faster in the future.
We lay the millet tightly in one layer, because the denser the layer, the more magnificent the bush will grow from it. And note, denser does not mean thicker, it’s just that the millet should lie grain to grain.
AND last layer- this is soil, you need just a little bit of it to hide the millet.
Gently pour in a small amount of water. If you have a container like the one in the photo, you can simply close it for a day. If not, then wrap it in a bag so that you get a kind of mini-greenhouse for the seeds.
As soon as the sprouts emerge, do not forget to spray them with water every day, because millet loves moisture.
Just a few days and our bushes are ready and delight the eye with real spring greenery. Happy easter!
While preparing for Easter, I came across a wonderful Easter decor idea on the Internet: sprouting cereal grains in eggshells.
Sprouting grain is a very simple process and, moreover, very exciting and educational. Therefore, we decided to make this bright craft to decorate the festive table for Easter together with our three-year-old daughter.
We bring to the attention of all creative mothers and grandmothers our small master class:
Easter decor: barley sprouts in eggshells
Time to make crafts: 7 days.
Tools and materials:
- cardboard tray with 6 large chicken eggs(preferably with a white shell);
- watercolor paints;
- brush;
- a jar of water;
- barley grains (you can also germinate wheat, corn, millet, oats, soybeans, watercress for Easter, or use a special grain mixture for germination for parrots);
- cotton wool;
- saucer;
- soil for indoor flowers or seedlings;
- small plastic spoon;
- watering can or plastic bottle with a narrow spout;
- magnifying glass.
The first day: Preparatory chores.
On the morning of the weekend, my daughter and I went to the market, where, on the advice of a neighbor who germinates cereal grains for Easter every year, we bought barley.
Upon returning home, we prepared a flat saucer and lined its bottom thin layer cotton wool, which was generously moistened with water, and laid barley grains on a saucer in one layer.
Having soaked the barley grains for germination, we began preparing the eggshells:
- thoroughly washed raw eggs warm water with soap;
- Having beaten the sharp end of the egg, carefully freed the shell from the contents;
- removed small fragments, leaving approximately 2/3 of the eggshell intact;
- again thoroughly washed the shell, this time from the inside, trying to remove as much as possible the thin film from the walls;
- dried the shell.
Second day: Freedom of children's creativity.
The next morning next day I had to get up early and get ready for kindergarten. As usual, neither persuasion nor compelling arguments in favor of the need to attend a preschool institution had an effect on my daughter. But our child instantly responded to the invitation to look at the sprouting barley grains, jumping out of bed in one easy jump.
To finally drive away the dream, we decided to look among our natural history equipment for a magnifying glass. And what did we see when we looked through the magnifying glass? Several grains sprouted tiny white sprouts as the first roots of barley began to emerge. The day started with good news!
To prevent the grains from drying out, we added water to the saucer so that the barley seedlings were constantly in a moist environment.
Inspired by the successful start of the process of germinating grains for Easter, in the evening of the same day my daughter and I began decorating eggshells that would serve as pots for barley sprouts.
I confess that at first I really wanted to paint the shells of eggs with natural dyes: in yellow- turmeric and in blue - a decoction of red cabbage leaves. But it turned out that natural paints “take” very poorly on the shells of raw eggs.
Without thinking twice, I suggested that my daughter correct my mistake and paint the shells prepared for germinating barley with watercolors. And at the same time, decorate the cardboard tray at your own discretion. And she happily got to work.
Soon we were already admiring the result of children's uninhibited creativity.
Day three: Great responsibility.
I think you have already guessed how our next day began. Of course! From contemplation through a magnifying glass of sprouted barley grains, which by this time had already managed to sprout small roots.
In the evening we took on the most important part of the work of germinating barley for Easter: planting the grains in the ground.
First, we placed the painted eggshells in a cardboard tray decorated using the free-form technique.
Using a small spoon, fill the prepared shells ¾ full with potting soil.
Sprouted barley grains were carefully placed in each shell in one layer.
The sprouted barley was sprinkled with a small amount of soil on top.
Well, what kind of activity can you do to develop your child’s coordination and fine motor skills?!
The planted seeds were watered.
When watering, it turned out that the bowl from a baby mixer was not the best equipment for this purpose. And in the absence of a watering can with a narrow spout, we later used plastic bottle with drinking nozzle.
Day four: First shoots.
Again, quickly getting up in the morning and observing the progress of grain germination.
The magnifying glass came in handy again; without it we would hardly have been able to clearly see the first tiny sprout that appeared in one of the eggshells.
As a bonus for diligent growth, barley grains receive their daily portion of water.
Day five: Confident victory.
There is no doubt that our careful care for the growing seedlings has brought its generous fruits: the barley sprouts are increasing right before our eyes, adding 1.5 cm per day.
We remember for rapid growth grains need water! We water the seedlings so that the soil in the shell is constantly moist.
And at the end of the day the barley sprouts are already almost twice as tall as in the morning!
Day six: Cognitive retreat.
While our barley sprouts are enjoying the warmth of the spring sun and the moist nutrient medium for germination, there is time to provide a scientific basis for our hitherto only creative experiment.
For children preschool age easiest to digest educational material, presented in a visual form. For example, in the form of pictures.
After a short search on the Internet, a wonderful series of educational pictures was found from a set of demonstration materials published by IP Burdin S.V. entitled “How Living Things Grow.”
