Museum Class: Easter Egg Decorating

Thursday, March 29, 2012

6:00pm - 9:00pm

Single Brothers' Workshop

(10 W Academy Street)

Learn about natural dyes for Easter eggs, dye your own eggs to take home using onion skins, cochineak and cabbage, as well as painting an egg based on one in Old Salem's collection.

Like other Eastern European groups, the Moravians sometimes dyed eggs to celebrate Easter.  These eggs would be boiled, colored with natural dyes, and then eaten on Easter day.  Sometimes the eggs had designs drawn on them, and these could be saved from year to year, often given as a gift.  Old Salem has a number of these decorated eggs in our collection from the 19^th century. 

Our museum class will learn how to create several natural dyes for eggs, and participants will get to take home several eggs they dye themselves.  You will also get to try two different ways to create designs on the dyed eggs, one done by scratching off some of the dye to create a picture, the other by putting beeswax on the egg before dyeing, creating a resist design on the dyed egg.  A great way to decorate for Easter, and something that can be done year after year at home, continuing a wonderful tradition!

The minimum age for this museum class is 8 years old.  Pre-registration is required and space is limited.  Please call 1-800-441-5305 for more information or to reserve your space.

Admission: $20 for adults & children, $18 for Friends of Old Salem Museums & Gardens. Visit our Friends of Salem webpage for more information on becoming a Friend of Old Salem Museums & Gardens.

*Class will be cancelled 7 days prior if minimum number of participants is not met. Enrollment fee will be refunded in this case.

** If participant cancels more than 14 days before the event, a full refund will be given.  Within 14 days there are no refunds.