Easter eggs used to be decorated with natural colors using the shell onions, beetroot, spinach or reed.

Eggs would also be decorated in various drawings, ornaments and labels which would be imprinted with vinegar or brine, by attaching leaves, flowers and grass. 

Another traditional way of decorating Easter eggs is to use hot liquid wax and pencil-like instruments. You need to make sure that eggs are clean and dry. You take wax and melt it, dip your pen into the melted wax and draw different patterns on eggshells. Then you cook them in coloured water- the wax will melt and leave beautiful designs, while the rest of eggs will be coloured. In the end, polish it with some vegetable oil, the colour will be nice and shiny.

Easter eggs would be given to one another as a present, mostly to children, but also to friends, and as by tradition they were used to show affection and love, and were exchanged by girls and boys in love whit one interesting there saying “this is an egg for a kiss.”
In Dubrovnik, the girls would give their eggs to their fiancés and future mother in laws would bake a braid from dough.

These traditions are no longer well preserved but even today when you go to your friend’s or family house during Easter time, it’s tradition to bring some of your home made dyed eggs. Then you exchange them and bring one as a souvenir from every visit.