When it comes to Easter eggs and Easter basket fun, hardboiled eggs is where it’s at. Delicate blown eggs are simply too fragile for little hands to manage. Remember though to never eat Easter eggs decorated with anything but food coloring.
Following are some child Easter crafts made easy.
Decorative Easter Eggs
Dyed Easter eggs are nice but why go all the trouble when you can make beautiful eggs with some paint, felt and pretty ribbon. Make eggs stands by cutting paper towel tubes in ½” sections and covering with pretty wrapping paper.
Fingerprint Easter Eggs
Personalized masterpieces can by created by dipping the tips of little fingers into different colors of acrylic craft paint and dabbing dots of color all over the outside of an egg. Let the tops of your Easter eggs dry and then turn over and dab paint on the other sides.
Sponge Art Easter Eggs
To create a dappled effect, dab a second color on a solid colored egg using a sponge. First make sure the initial coat of color is completely dry.
Appliquéd Easter Eggs
Use paper dinner napkins and craft glue to make decorative eggs to match your table settings. Start by pulling apart the individual layers of the napkins. Cut the printed layers into small random shapes. With a paint brush spread glue on half of the egg and then gently press cut pieces all over the shell, overlapping the edges. Let dry and then finish appliquéing the rest of the egg. Once the egg is completely dry coat with a second layer of glue so the Easter egg has a glossy look to it.
3-D Easter Eggs
Use squeeze paint to create textured Easter eggs. Let the paint dry completely before picking the egg up again to work on the other sides. Use egg cups or cardboard egg stands (cut from paper towel rolls).
Tissue-Dyed Easter Eggs
To create colorful tie-dyed looking eggs use different colors of tissue paper and an egg that has been dipped in water. Rip tissue paper into small pieces. Now dip your egg in water and wrap some wrinkled tissue tightly around it. Hold the tissue in place for a few minutes until the color is transferred. It may take some experimentation to come up with just the right color and wrapping patterns.
Note: This technique may result in stained hands. After a few washings with soap your children’s hands should come clean but to avoid colored hands altogether have your children wear rubber gloves.
Glitter Easter Eggs
Dab dots of glitter glue on the outside of solid colored eggs.
Pretty Plastic Easter Eggs
To create pretty Easter eggs that will last decorate plastic eggs by gluing on some rickrack and tiny pom poms.
Now that your little ones have decorated their eggs they need something to keep them in.
Following is another one of my favorite child Easter crafts.
Paper Easter Baskets
It’s easy to turn pretty patterned paper plates into beautiful Easter baskets. For a collection of decorated Easter eggs use dinner sized plates. For a single decorative egg or for smaller foil wrapped eggs and jelly beans use lunch sized plates.
For this Easter craft idea you’ll need a colorful paper plate, a pencil, rule, scissors, a craft knife, a hole punch, ribbon, glue, colored paper and Easter grass.
Start off by laying the plate design side down. Using a ruler draw a square in the centre of the plate. Now make two lines so you have a small pie wedge at each of the square’s corners to the edges of the plate. Cut away the wedges. Now use the craft knife to lightly score the outline of the square. Bend the four scored edges of the plate upward. Note: the printed pattern should be on the outside.
Punch holes in each of the upper corners of the plate. Cut your ribbon into four 12” lengths and lace up each corner. Finish with a bow. You can now make a handle using a strip of colored paper glued to opposite sides of the basket.
Child Easter crafts are always a fun activity to do in the weeks and days leading up to Easter. Hopefully you will have found at least one Easter craft idea you are interested in doing with your children. Happy Easter!
Published by Sherrie Le Masurier on March 31, 2006 03:08 PM
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