Many look forward to the bright holiday of Easter every year. Indeed, on the eve of it, you need to cook delicious cakes, paint eggs in all sorts of ways. And if the family does this together, it turns out to be very fun and interesting. Moreover, the case can be found for everyone. And the final stage of preparation, of course, is the holiday itself and the decoration of the table.
Instructions
Step 1
Recently, an incredible variety of products for decorating the festive table has appeared in stores, so this will not be difficult to do. Even if you just lay down colored eggs, the holiday will already turn out to be colorful. But we will look at the topic in more depth, in detail.
Step 2
Let's start with Easter. To make it look beautiful, you can buy a special form with a pattern. You can shape it with your hands at your discretion in the form of a pyramid or mound. And on top, be sure to decorate with candied fruits, dried fruits, nuts, curly cookies, grated boiled carrots or sprinkle with sugar crumbs. You can think of any drawings: it can be a cross, a flower, a chicken or the inscriptions Christ is Risen, Easter, etc.
Step 3
Easter cake is the next integral part of the Easter table. The surest way to decorate it would be beaten egg white, sprinkled with sugar crumbs. Although this is a common option, it always looks very bright and elegant. In addition, all the decorations that have been listed for Easter will also be appropriate on the kulich. Alternatively, you can make chicken, egg, flowers from mastic and decorate a festive cake. You can also try painting on a kulich with melted chocolate. It will be quite unusual and delicious.
Step 4
And of course, no table can do without colored eggs. After all, everyone should start their morning with them. It is best if the eggs are painted in different colors, with different pictures to add more variety and color to the table. There are many options for coloring, decoration:
- with the help of special dyes for eggs. You can apply any drawing with a wax pencil before painting. These places will remain unpainted. For the same purpose, a drawing can be cut out of a self-adhesive film, glued to an egg and wrapped in a nylon cloth;
- staining with decoction of onion peel. If you first put dots on the egg with vegetable oil, then it will turn out to be speckled;
- decoration with beads;
- staining with multi-colored threads. To do this, take threads of different colors. Wrap a raw egg. To prevent the threads from sleeping during cooking, it is wrapped in a cloth and tied. Cook until cooked. Then all this is removed, and multi-colored stripes remain on the egg;
- using thermo stickers or simple stickers;
- gluing with seeds, cereals;
- painting with paints.
Colored eggs can be placed on stands that are sold in stores. They are multi-level, which looks very impressive on the table. You can design your own or buy a nest in which, in addition to eggs, artificial chicks will sit. A very good decoration option would be to bake a pigtail cake wrapped in a ring. And put eggs in its middle. Or, you can make depressions in the cake in advance when baking using small ceramic containers. Then the eggs will be placed directly in them, which is convenient when there is not enough space on the table.
Step 5
When you have everything ready for the start of the holiday, you just have to put everything in its place. It is advisable to choose a tablecloth and napkins in light colors, and best of all white with small patterns, as a symbol of purity, pristineness. Easter cake and Easter can be placed on beautiful paper napkins. Put candles on the table. And decorate the plates with feathers. Everything is ready! Have a great holiday!