Making Ukrainian Easter eggs in 3 minutes!

We just made these last night and boy did it bring it back memories from my childhood!  Did take hours? No!  Here's what I'm going to show you so you and the kidlets can have fun making Ukrainian Easter Eggs(Pysanky) and trust me, the kids will love doing this,love playing with them and admiring them.  It's a great way to share culture.

You can either hard boil them first if you plan on eating them, leave them raw as the yolk will eventually dry out or if you have a nifty little gadget, you can blow the yolks out. I do that with my traditional pyskanka's.

Guaranteed if you live in a major city in Canada, possibly the USA too you might have a Polish, Russian or Ukrainian area or market.
I picked up a whole bunch of these sleeves at a Polish deli for decorating eggs this year.  Because it's written in cyrillic you might not be so inclined to pick these up but it's super easy and I'll show how it's done.
The sleeves cost may $1.99 and there's 6-8 sleeves in a package.

The Sleeves:

The Eggs

The Sleeves out of the package and need to be cut. Your older child can carefully cut each sleeve

Cut the sleeve and place around the egg before submerging it into hot water. Slightly boiled with a 1tblsp of vinegar

Place in hot water and watch the cellophane type material shrink around the egg

  Simmer for 3 minutes or so and lift out.
Voila, beautiful Pysanky's.  Try dying them before putting the sleeves on too.

A beautiful gift to give this Easter to your friends and families and economical.

It is custom to say "Krystos Voskre's"(Christ has risen) as we exchange pysanky and the reply is "Voistyno Voskres" (Indeed he has risen)