Making colourful Easter eggs

Happy Easter people!

If you havent already know, tomorrow is Easter Sunday. It's the day we Christians celebrate the risen of Christ from dead two days after Good Friday.

So, why the Easter eggs?

The oldest tradition is to use dyed or painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as jelly beans. For Christians, the Easter egg is a declaration of the Resurrection of Jesus. Traditionally, Easter eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ, shed on the Cross, and the hard shell of the egg symbolized the sealed Tomb of Christ—the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead.

Why Easter bunny then?

The Easter Bunny is a character depicted as rabbit bringing Easter eggs. In legend, the creature brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy and sometimes also toys to the homes of children on the night before Easter. The Easter Bunny will either put the baskets in a designated place or hide them somewhere in the house or garden for the children to find when they wake up in the morning. The Easter Bunny is not an Easter symbol. Bringing Easter eggs seems to have its origins in Alsace and the Upper Rhineland, both then in the Holy Roman Empire, and southwestern Germany, where the practice was first recorded in a German publication in the early 1600s.

After so much of theory, just wanted to share that today we went to church earlier to make the Easter eggs below. It was fun and it was definitely the first time we made such nice Easter eggs. So happy to get such pretty eggs for Easter even though I would be happier if I got chocolate egg instead of the real chicken egg :)

And tomorrow is a busy day... choir + Lord's Supper + Baptism + choir practice for next week + Elders' meeting (for MH only).

Pure chicken eggs

The magician showing his skill

And finally here are the pretty decorated eggs