From staff reports
First-grade students at Sandycreek Elementary School in Franklin School District have spent some time learning the Easter custom of creating a Ukrainian Pysanka egg.
Judy Detar of Oil City showed the children in Terri Sunder and Lori Hugar’s classes the process, and she emphasized the safety involved in designing the egg.
Each child designed a “gift egg” with a special tool called a kistka that is filled with hot beeswax used to draw designs on clean, raw eggs. The eggs are progressively dipped into brightly colored, non-edible egg dyes as more designs are drawn on the eggs until a final design is reached.
Parents then helped wipe off all the wax, allowing the bright colors to become visible. Parents then drained each egg before the child was able to take an egg home to help celebrate the Easter holiday.
