Easter Eggs and Bunnies

A happy Easter video to help learn colours with cute animated hand illustrated surprise chick eggs and bunnies! 🐣🐰 Designed to teach toddlers and young children the basic colours word recognition and literacy, a fun way to learn. I hope you enjoy watching this video with your little ones 😊 Buy Easter Cards featuring the rabbits in the video here

Did you know that decorating eggs at easter comes from the traditional Ukrainian folk art called pysanka. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, "to write". The designs are made on eggs using the wax batik and dyes. 
Pysanky eggs were thought to protect households from evil spirits, catastrophe, lightning and fires.
The symbols which decorated pysanky underwent a process of adaptation over time. In pre-Christian times these symbols imbued an egg with magical powers to ward off evil spirits, banish winter, guarantee a good harvest and bring a person good luck. After 988, when Christianity became the state religion of Ukraine, the interpretation of many of the symbols began to change, and the pagan motifs were reinterpreted in a Christian light.

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As the video is about colours I thought it would be intersting to include the symbolic meaning of the colours on the pysanky eggs. Although the earliest pysanky were often simply two-toned, and many folk designs still are, some believed that the more colors there were on a decorated egg, the more magical power it held. A multi-colored egg could thus bring its owner better luck and a better fate.

We are going to try and make some of our own home made low fi pysanky eggs and see how they come out this week!