4/4/15

Easter time in Greece

Kids were shown by Mrs Anthoula how to dye Easter eggs in the traditional greek way, using only natural plants, mostly onion leaves and madder seeds.
Eggs are wrapped with onion leaves and are tied with a piece of stocking. Then they boil for about 20-30 minutes.
In the same way they are boiled in madder seeds water( it must be drained from the seeds first) and we can use various leaf patterns that are removed after boiling.
Another way is to be wrapped in construction paper of various colours and be soaked in water. Then they are left to dry.

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