Easter Crafts
It's high time to begin making something very interesting in order surprise your acquaintances on the occasion of Easter and a very good opportunity your children to learn something new. Spring is the season when children are eager to do beautiful things with their own hands. And Easter eggs and Easter baskets are the best purpose of their creative work.
Berry Easter Baskets
The plastic baskets in which summer fruits were brought home are very good to utilize them as nice sweetmeats containers.
1. A handle is formed by two pipe cleaners joined together edge to edge. In order this joint to mask fix here a bow.
2. Use narrow bands and paper stripes to ornament the basket putting them through the slats and fix there ends by white glue.
Weave narrow ribbon or construction paper strips through the slats, using white
3. Put some Easter grass in the basket and on it place chocolate eggs, jellybeans, sweetmeats and a plaything.
Bunny Ears
White poster board; White craft/school glue; Pink construction paper; Easter stickers, markers, crayons; Tape or stapler;
1. Cut a strip of poster board about 2" wide by about 24" long. 2. Cut out 2 ears out of poster board each about 8 1/2" long x 3 1/2" wide. 3. Cut out 2 smaller ear forms out of pink construction paper. Fix the smaller ears inside the white ones. 4. Fix by the ears inside the band, positioning to fit behind the child's head.
5. Let the child adorn the head band with stickers, markers, or crayons if they wish.
6. Control that the band fits the child's head. If it is longer then its necessary remove the surplus with the scissors.
Jelly Bean Carrots
Orange jelly beans; Green tissue paper or construction paper; Disposable clear plastic icing bags; Twist ties
1. Put orange jelly beans into an icing bag , 3 inches should remain at the top empty.
2. You need two leaves, so cut them out green construction paper and connect the lower ends twisting them together
3. Arrange this “stalk” in the icing bag, twisted end down.
4. Gather the bag over the jelly beans and fix it with a twist tie around the "stalk" of the paper, so the greenery hangs out of the top.
Easter Egg Tree
Put some pebbles and water into a beautiful case, cut several fresh twigs of magnolia, forsythia or cherry blossom and fix them in the case. Tie different kinds of eggs with the help of narrow bands to the twigs.