Bright Resurrection of Christ - Easter is no less significant holiday than Christmas or New Year. The symbols of the holiday are Easter cake and Easter eggs (the so-called "krashenki"). Catholics and Protestants have another symbol - the Easter bunny, which, in general, brings these eggs into the house.
It has become a good tradition to exchange Easter eggs, cakes and bunnies for Easter. Hand-made crafts are especially popular. Such crafts for Easter can be made for a competition in a kindergarten, they will be pleasant for both a child and an adult, and it is a pleasure to make them yourself from improvised material.
And the benefits are huge - spending an evening or two making crafts with the whole family is a great way to communicate and reveal your abilities. What to make Easter souvenirs from? Yes from anything!
Styrofoam Easter Eggs
Polyfoam is easy to process and does not require high costs.
Progress:
- An egg is cut from the foam, which can be either voluminous or flat.
- For further work with it, the egg is put on a skewer.
- Next, you need to color it. Gouache, acrylic paints or felt-tip pens can be used here.
- You can decorate the egg with beads or sparkles. To do this, it must be smeared with a brush with PVA glue, and then sprinkled with sparkles or sequins.
- The place where the skewer entered must also be coated with glue and sprinkled with sparkles, but first the egg must dry. Excess glitter must be removed.
Crafts for Easter made of cardboard
A garland of eggs
- Here you need ordinary cardboard, as well as paper - white or colored.
- Small eggs are cut out of cardboard and decorated with applique or ornament.
- Then a hole is pierced in each blank through which the eggs are strung on a thread or thin braid.
- The length of the garland depends on the number of eggs.
Easter wreath
A wreath is not only a symbol of Christmas, but also Easter. And it can be done in absolutely different ways. The easiest way to make a wreath is shown below.
- Cut out a circle from cardboard - white or colored.
- Then testicles of different colors are cut out of colored paper and glued to the wreath in a circle.
- For decoration, you can glue beautiful ribbons or butterflies between the testicles. The craft is ready!
Such a wreath can also be knitted or made using the quilling technique. It all depends on the flight of imagination and possibilities.
Egg for Easter made of threads
Required:
- Foam Egg Harvesting
- Polyethylene film
- Silk or regular thread or floss. Fine yarn will do as well.
- Stealth pins or needles
- PVA glue
- Hot melt glue or glue gun
Progress:
- Wrap the polyethylene foam around the piece. Then stick the pins in two rows: one row - along the perimeter of the workpiece, the second - in the place of the future window.
- The threads are abundantly wetted with glue. Then the first half of the workpiece (window) is wrapped with a zigzag pattern.
- Then, after drying, the second half of the egg (oval) is wrapped. After wrapping, the workpiece is once again coated with glue.
- After the first half has dried, remove all the needles and carefully remove the threads from the workpiece.
- Do the same with your second half. Then both halves of the egg are glued together using a glue gun (hot melt glue).
Easter eggs made from soap
Very interesting crafts for Easter and not only make soap figures. Soap making has become a rather popular hobby in our time. It may well be mastered not only by adults, but also by children.
The main thing is to give the product the desired shape. In this case, the egg can be either voluminous or flat.
Egg "Cheerful Hare"
A cheerful face of a hare and stripes of the "torso" are drawn on the egg with a felt-tip pen. The remaining parts (ears and tail) can be made of felt or cardboard and glued to the face with PVA glue or double-sided tape.
Egg "Mosaic"
In this technique, you can depict not only the egg. But also a chicken, a flower or a bunny.
- For a mosaic, you will need eggshells of different sizes, cardboard and PVA glue.
- An egg or a hare is depicted on cardboard, and then pasted over with pre-prepared shells.
Mosaic shell preparation
The shells from the peeled eggs should be collected, washed, dried and the inner thin film removed. Give the desired shape to the shell already in the drawing, using an ice cream stick.
If the mosaic was made from a white shell, you can paint it with watercolors or gouache.
Egg is a soft toy
You can sew such an egg from absolutely any fabric and stuff it with cotton wool or padding polyester. It can also be crocheted or sewn from an old knit. Further, it all depends on the imagination of the master: you can sew on eyes-buttons, pens, legs, etc.
A large egg can serve as a decorative pillow.
Plants in shell
You will need half an eggshell, not necessarily even. It needs to be filled with earth and any seeds sown there. The sprouts will look like hair, and you can draw eyes and a nose on the shell itself.
Cereal eggs
The technique for making cereal crafts is very simple and does not take much time. You will need any grits and PVA glue.
Manufacturing technology:
- Hard boil the egg, let cool. Then coat it with PVA glue and glue it with cereals.
- You can stick the cereal randomly, it can be in the form of a pattern or ornament.
- Other Easter crafts are also popular, but egg crafts are especially common.
Easter chickens made of thread
You will need: a balloon, any thread and glue.
Manufacturing technology:
- Inflate the balloon to a small size. Wrap the threads, previously soaked in glue, around the ball, let dry. Pierce the ball and remove.
- Decorative parts of the chicken (scallop, legs, tail) can be made of felt, colored paper or cardboard and glued to the base.
- For the manufacture of Easter bunnies, paper, cardboard, scraps of fabric of different textures, yarn (for those who know how to knit) are also useful.
- Bunnies can be made from plastic bottles, yogurt cups or juice boxes!
Application "Hare" made of plastic lids
You will need:
- Cardboard (white or colored) with a muzzle or a figurine of a hare drawn on it;
- Plastic covers;
- PVA glue.
The finished drawing is pasted along the contour with plastic covers with the bottom up. The combination of lids of different colors will give the craft an even more original look.
Go for it! Be creative! And suggest your Easter craft ideas with photos!
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