Pysanka Egg Decorating.

On Monday we made our Pysanka eggs. We worked with a lady from the Ukraine who taught us about the decorations on the eggs and what they mean. We all put a star on our egg and added images symbolic to the Easter theme we have been studying in Religion. Students were encouraged to dip their eggs into different colours of ink and then the eggs were taken overnight to be dipped in varnish to make them shiny. Most of us know the eggs to be called Pysanky eggs, we learned this is the Polish way of saying it but in the Ukrainian language Pysanka means "to write."