Thinking about decorating eggs this year but bored by those same old supermarket dye kits? Rest assured: This Easter, you don’t have to put all your eggs in one basket. There’s as much variety in egg ...

Give the Easter Bunny some competition! Supplement your income with decorated Easter eggs. Ukrainian egg patterns are a beautiful, traditional craft. For over 2,500 years, the art of egg decoration ...

It all starts with the egg. In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end. So it's no surprise that cultures around the world celebrate spring by ...

Since pagan times, elaborately colored eggs were given to family and friends with the coming of spring, to shake off the shackles of winter and to wish good fortune or a good harvest or to ward off ...

Decorated Easter egg in the National Museum of American History’s collection Hard-boiled and colored eggs are traditional for Easter in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Many immigrants have brought these ...

CHICAGO -- Maria Fedachtchin's fingers trembled a bit as she etched the first intricate lines of beeswax along the smooth, unblemished shell of an egg cradled in her palm. She's learning to design ...

1 of 7 — Ukrainians have been crafting pysanky, elaborately decorated eggs, for thousands of years. "There's an ancient legend that as long as pysanky are made, evil will not prevail in the world," ...

When Phyllis Fitzpatrick was asked by the Baltimore Zoo to paint some animals on an unhatched ostrich egg a little more than 20 years ago as a gift for then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer, she thought ...