"Do you have any blueberries left that you are not going to eat?" Clara asks. Use old blueberries to make decorative blue Easter eggs, instead of throwing them out. "There is nothing as lovely as homemade Easter decorations," Anna says.
Cut your blueberries into small pieces and boil them in 0.5 l water for 10 minutes. Let it cool down and strain the water from the blueberries.
If you would like a pattern on your eggs, pour water in a bowl and drip a little bit of cooking oil in the water. Dip your raw eggs in the water and then into the blueberry water. Make sure that the eggs are completely covered by the blueberry water. If you don't want a pattern, you can dip the raw eggs directly into the blueberry water.
Let the eggs lay in the water overnight. If possible, you can turn the eggs continuously while they are being coloured. The colour fastness can differ from berry to berry, so you will probably end up with having different results. The longer your eggs lay in the water, the heavier the colour will be. You can also take the eggs out of the water at different times to get different nuances.
Dip your eggs in a bowl with water and 2 tbsp. of vinegar to make the colour stick. Wipe the eggs carefully with a paper towel.
Use a meat needle, or something similar, to poke a hole in both ends of the eggs and blow the eggs. Let the eggs decorate beautifully in a bowl at Easter, hang them separately, or make a beautiful wreath by gluing the eggs to a wreath along with feathers and other decorative eggs. Here, Anna has made a wreath with a mix of brown, white, and blueberry coloured eggs as well as small decorative quail eggs and feathers on a brown nature wreath. If you want, you can make an omelette with the contents you blow out of the eggs. "Then you have used all the materials," Clara smiles.
Til að geyma eftirlætis vörur þarf maður að vera skráður inn.