Easter crafts: mastering with children

We are preparing for Easter with the whole family: we make greeting cards, original gift wrapping, funny chickens, paint and decorate Easter eggs with our own hands and, of course, together with the children!

In our selection - step-by-step master classes with a variety of ideas for simple and unusual crafts for Easter. And for the smallest thematic crafts and original gifts from a wide variety of materials will be useful for a holiday in kindergarten.

Knitted Easter Bunny

Photo: design-peak.com

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Tie a 10x10 cm square.
Make a triangle at the top of the square with a notched stitch.

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Fill the area of ​​the triangle with cotton or any other filler for toys.

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Pull the threads, forming the muzzle and ears of the rabbit.

Photo: design-peak.com
Fill the exposed part with cotton or any other toy filler. Form the torso and sew. Sew a tail, embroider eyes and a muzzle.

Decorative Easter Eggs Gifts

You will need:

• plastic egg with a diameter of 8 cm
• fine-grained structural paste
• yellow, orange and light green acrylic paints
• 4 wires for hot stickers of the color of hot metal with a diameter of 0.8 m and a length of approx. 18 cm
• brown floristic crepe ribbon
• yellow, purplish pink and violet silk paper
• yellow, orange and light green satin ribbons with a width of 3 mm and a length of approx. 50 cm
• pliers
• scissors
• transparent universal glue
• circle patterns
• simple pencil
• jigsaw
• breadboard knife
• sandpaper
• drill with a drill 2 mm
• brush number 3

Step 1

Saw off about a third of the sharp end of the plastic egg with a jigsaw. Then cut sharp teeth along the edge with a breadboard knife or old scissors. Brush the edges with sandpaper. At the lower end of the egg, drill 2 holes with a diameter of 2 mm at a certain distance from each other. Bend four pieces of wire in the middle in the shape of the letter U (so that the jumper is equal to the distance between the holes) and draw pieces of wire through the holes from the inside out of the egg.

Both ends of the wire at a distance of approx. Bend 5 cm (= height of the egg leg), bend 3 wires (like claws) at an angle of 90 ° forward and bend one wire in the opposite direction. Wrap the wire with a brown crepe ribbon. Then bite off the claws to a length of approx. 1.5 cm

Step 2

Cover the eggs with a thin layer of structural paste, allow the paste to dry. Using a template and a pencil, draw circles and color the eggs according to the photo of the model. To paint legs yellow. Then wrap the gifts in silk paper, tie them with narrow satin ribbons and put the gifts inside the eggs.

Charming chickens

You will need:

• 2 styrofoam eggs with a diameter of 15 cm
• air-drying mass for modeling
• 2 black half beads with a diameter of 4 and 5 mm
• fine-grained structural paste
• white, yellow, orange, brown and black acrylic paints
• simple pencil
• carmine red watercolor pencil
• white feathers
• 3 white plastic eggs with a diameter of 4.5 cm
• the remains of gray cardboard with a thickness of 1 mm
• 2 small light green buttons
• wicker from willow twigs basket with a diameter of 35-40 cm
• wreath from mulenbekia with a diameter of 25 cm
• dry floristic sponge
• light green sisal fiber
• cream colored lace approx. 4 cm and a length of 1.4 m
• light green cord with a diameter of 2 mm and a length of 2 m
• breadboard knife
• sticks for modeling
• hot glue gun
• brush number 2 and number 16
• rolling pin
• thin wire for packaging
• thick wire for floristic sticker stickers

Motives and patterns for free download

Step 1

Glue two halves of styrofoam egg, allow the glue to dry completely. According to the motive, cut two flowers from gray cardboard. Cover eggs and flowers with a thin layer of structural paste and allow it to dry. The mass for modeling is rolled out with a rolling pin into a thin layer. Transfer the outline of the chopped eggshell with a pencil on the egg.

Then press small pieces of mass for modeling to the egg until its lower part is completely covered with mass. Remove the protruding mass for modeling with a breadboard knife. Additionally, according to the motive in the magazine, make two beaks. To do this, put the motive on the mass rolled into the reservoir for modeling and cut with a knife. Egg and beaks leave to dry overnight.

Paint the egg in light yellow, the beaks in orange, the shell in white, then shade the details in black.

Step 2

Glue eyes and beaks, draw eyebrows, holes on the beak and on the top of the first chicken stick 1 feather like a crest. Insert 2 short wires into the crown of the second chicken. Fill the basket with a dry floral sponge, lay a wreath on top and decorate the surface of the sponge with sisal fiber and mulenbekia shoots. Chickens strung on thick wire as stickers and placed in a basket.

Sprinkle the eggs with brown paint, then these eggs, half the eggs, two flowers and individual feathers are beautifully laid out in a basket and glued. Stick a button in the middle of the flowers. Tie the ribbon and cord into a bow and attach it to the side of the basket using pieces of wire. On the opposite side, tie the rest of the cord with a bow to the handle of the basket.

Easter Greeting Cards

You will need:

• designer cardboard with a linen texture of the color of linden leaves 12 x 17 cm in size
• gift paper 8.5 x 16 cm in light green stripes
• wine red and grass green photocardboard
• gift paper in light green polka dots and a red and white check
• red satin ribbon 3 mm wide and 20 cm long
• light green button
• white, green and dark brown watercolor pencils
• black thin marker

For a card with Easter motifs:

• light blue designer cardboard with linen texture 12 x 17 cm
• light green color paper measuring 7.5 x 17 cm
• cardboard with motifs: in blue and white stripes and in pink and white cells, in pink and blue polka dots, with an orange pattern
• paper self-adhesive lace border
• tape in a blue and white cell with a width of 5 mm and a length of 35 cm

Besides:

• scissors "zigzag"
• paper scissors
• transparent universal glue
• transparent glue stick
• double-sided adhesive pads
• light green, blue and wine red silk thread for sewing
• sewing machine
• clerical hole punch

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What are curly zigzag scissors for?

These versatile scissors are mainly designed for decorative work. They can cut fabrics, and leather, and paper and other materials.
They can also be used for cutting drape, cloth, loden, felt, woolen non-woven. The cut edge will not crumble and at the same time looks beautiful, without requiring additional processing of open slices.

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Greeting card with tulips.

Fold the light green cardboard with the texture of linen in the form of a double postcard, smooth the fold, then unfold and cut the long edge with scissors "zigzag". Stitch the left edge of the card in expanded form on the upper side with a sewing machine, as shown in the photo of the model. Cut cardboard in a strip measuring 8.5 x 16 cm, cut the bottom edge with scissors "zigzag" and stick on a postcard. According to the motives, having previously enlarged them, cut out a wine-red circle and a circle of polka dots, as well as a tulip, then glue them one by one. Stick the tulip on the neckline with a double-sided adhesive pads. Copy the inscription and repeat with a thin marker.Shade the postcard with colored pencils and put a sheet for text inside.

Motives for free download

Easter card

Fold the light blue cardboard with the texture of flax in half, smooth out the fold and cut out a strip of light green colored paper measuring 7.5 x 17 cm. Motifs of hares and eggs, respectively, increase, transfer to a suitable paper and cut. Glue the motives with glue on the striped paper and sew horizontally on the sewing machine, as shown in the photo of the model. Then put a strip on a card and stick along the bottom edge with a paper border. Cut the second border about a third in width and stick along the top edge of the colored paper. First stick the tape into the cage, then tie a bow from the remaining tape and stick it. Using a hole punch, cut circles out of cardboard with polka dots and distribute them on a postcard and also stick them.

Motives for free download

Easter bags

You will need:

• brown and red paper bags
• light green acrylic paint
• jute cord with a diameter of 2.5 cm: green color 20 cm long and natural color 30 cm long
• the remains of tapes of dark red and brown woolen interlining
• light green felt 1 mm thick
• 2 half beads or pins with black heads with a diameter of 3 mm
• rags of coarse calico of natural color with a size of 13 x 16 cm
• white felt flower with a diameter of 3.5 cm
• the remains of light brown and light green colored paper
• light green buttons
• brown threads for sewing
• brown watercolor pencil
• sewing machine
• needle for sewing
• adhesive double-sided pads
• hot glue gun
• pins
• fabric scissors
• paper scissors
• flat brush number 6
• glue stick

Step 1

The motives of the hare and the chicken, respectively increasing, copy to a sheet of paper and cut. Paste the patterns with pins on the corresponding woolen non-woven and cut. Transfer both the passe partout with a pencil to calico, sew along the contour on the sewing machine with a short zigzag stitch and cut with scissors for the fabric.

Motives for free download

Step 2

With a transparent glue stick, first stick the mat on the bag. Tie a small piece of jute cord around the hare’s neck and sew a button. Place the hare and the chicken in the middle of the mat and stick it on. Cut green circles from green felt and stick on the chicken. Finally, stick on the eyes.

Step 3

On the bags with brown colored pencil, draw the decorative dashed lines of the seams and the edges of the packages to slightly shade. According to the motive in the magazine, cut out plates from two types of colored paper, stick them together, label them and stick them on the bags. Paint the pens with green acrylic paint, sew buttons after drying. Sew one button on the felt flower, then stick the flower on the bag, tie a small stick on the bag handles, stick the flower on the bag, tie a small piece of jute cord to the handles of the bag.

Handmade plastic egg decor

You will need:

✽ plastic eggs 8 cm long
White, yellow, orange, purplish pink, light blue, ultramarine and green matte acrylic paints
Slim black marker with persistent black ink
✽white watercolor color pencil
3 matching satin ribbons 3 mm wide 1 m long and 60 cm long
По Waxed cords in waxed cotton braid, 1 mm thick, 50 cm long
Деревянные matching wooden beads with a diameter of 12-15 mm

Besides:

Scissors
✽ breadboard knife
✽ grinding pad
✽ paint sponge
✽ barbecue stick
✽ hair brush number 2
✽ hot glue gun
✽ drill
✽ drill with a diameter of 2 mm
✽ glass cleaner

Step 1

Before painting with a sanding pad, clean all burrs on the plastic eggs and degrease the surface of the eggs with a glass cleaner.Drill holes at the sharp ends in the middle.

As shown in the photo, paint the eggs with acrylic paints, before painting, fix each egg on a stick for barbecue. Apply different areas of paint using a brush-sponge for drawing, while applying separate layers of paint with a slight overlap. Allow the paint to dry completely and remove the egg from the stick.

Step 2

Using a thin black marker, guided by the photo, draw patterns by hand or by template. Previously, you can sketch with a white watercolor pencil, the paint of which is easily removed with water.

Motives for free download

Step 3

Glare of light and shadow can be applied using a white watercolor pencil or slightly diluted white acrylic paint.

Step 4

Hang the eggs on satin ribbons of a suitable color, insert them into the holes and fix with hot glue. Tie the ribbon and thin cord with a bow, glue hot glue to the ribbon for hanging and string a colored wooden bead.

Crafts for Easter: woolen vases with their own hands

Original festive decor - Easter eggs in the form of vases for flowers hanging on the window. Natural woolen non-woven fabric is perfect for such functional gizmos.

DIY Easter Gifts

By a bright spring warm day, we will not only paint eggs and consecrate Easter cakes. We will prepare charming souvenirs for friends and relatives, as well as festively decorate your home!

Gift for easter bunny

No, this is not vitamin vegetables. Soft pillow toys will surely appeal to your "hare", because they contain so much joy and love!

Pink easter

What all around is bright, beautiful, spring! All Easter crafts are pink - a basket, eggs and even bunnies! To make hearts or stars appear on the eggs, use stickers. The intensity of the color depends on the amount of time for which the egg is immersed in the solution with the paint: the longer the exposure time of the paint, the brighter the color.

Beaded wooden egg

Beadwork knows no bounds! And our Easter master class confirms this as well as possible. A very original and beautiful gift - an Easter egg made from beads - will be an excellent decoration of the festive table.

Egg shell embroidery

Every year, needlewomen come up with more and more new ways to decorate Easter eggs, but embroidery on an eggshell is definitely not the most common of them. The first reaction at the sight of such an unusual embroidery - how ?! But in reality, everything is not as complicated as it might seem!

We decorate willow twigs with pompons

Palm Sunday precedes Easter. Our sunny master class will help you create coziness, warmth and spring mood in the house, from which you will learn how to make pompons for decorating willow twigs.

Great ideas for fast-paced Easter decorations can also be found on our website.

And some more interesting workshops for the holiday of Easter in our selection

Material prepared by Julia Dekanova