Latvians have a tradition of dyeing eggs for Easter using onion skins, which produces various colors depending on how long the eggs are immersed. Eggs can be decorated by attaching leaves or flowers before dyeing, leaving a lighter pattern. Another method is to boil the dyed egg and scratch a pattern into it. The eggs are often dyed the day before Easter and used in an egg-knocking game on Easter morning, with the owner of the intact egg said to live longest.

1. Easter in Latvia.
The most important thing in every family is to colour
eggs. We would like to explain and show some ways how
latvians do that.
 You will need to get some white eggs and a large
quantity of dry onion skinsor. This will produce a variety
of colurs on eggs, depending on how long they will
have been immersed in the
onion skin mixture: short
immersion will give you a
light yellow, whilst the longer
you'll keep the eggs
immerssed, the more brown
they'll get.

2.  Usually there are two approaches to decorating eggs.
You can tie leaves or flowers or rice to eggs and then
immerse them in the onion skin mixture. This will leave
you with a lighter pattern on the egg where the object
was attached.
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 Other approach is to boil the egg in the onion skin
mixture and then to sratch the pattern into the egg.
Both of these approaches will take some time but when
done together with friends or family, is a great way of
making your own traditions.

3. Usually the eggs are coloured the day before Easter, so
that on Easter morning first thing you could have is an egg
fight. You simply choose an egg and knock it against
someone else's egg. The one whose egg stays intact, is said
to live the longest. These eggs have also been used to
exchange between families and
friends in that way mulitplying the
goodwill around.
So, this is one of the way Latvians are celebrating
Easter. Do you have any traditions on Easter that are still
practised?