All Orthodox and Catholic Christians are looking forward to the holiday of Bright Easter. Even those who do not attend temples try to observe the traditions of one of the most important religious holidays. Before Easter, a lot of different things related to this day appear on sale: souvenirs, towels, tablecloths, toys, handicrafts. But, if the crafts are made by hand, there will be warmth in them, especially when the whole family participates in the process of making crafts for Easter.
Decorating eggs for Easter
The Easter egg is one of the main symbols of the holiday, which means the victory of life over death. Previously, eggs were dyed exclusively red. This tradition began after Mary Magdalene brought the ruler the news of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, carrying an egg in her hands. To this, Tiberius answered her: "This could not have happened, just as it is impossible for the egg to turn red." At that moment, the eggshell turned red.
Nowadays, different colors are used for coloring, patterns and drawings are applied, they are decorated in every possible way.
Beautifully decorated eggs are one of the symbols of Easter
Important! The Church forbids sticking decals with the faces of saints.
What Easter crafts can be made by hand:
- On the shell, you can draw small flowers with a brush, and glue a ribbon with a bow on top;
- Coat the egg with glue and then roll in finely chopped colored paper or multi-colored confetti;
- As in the previous version, first coat the shell with glue, and then roll it in corn flour;
- You can draw original drawings with an indelible marker. Children love this activity!
Original crafts on the theme of Easter
Crafts for Easter can be made from improvised means
It is very exciting to get together with the whole family and make interesting crafts for Easter with your own hands. What ideas for unusual Easter crafts might be:
- Chickens made from yellow thread;
- Empty eggshell souvenirs. For example, you can make funny rabbits from it by attaching paper ears to the shell and rope legs. It is very easy to make such original crafts for Easter with your own hands, even a preschooler can handle;
- Easter egg basket decorated with ribbon. Place a colored egg and a small greeting card inside the basket;
- Crafts for Easter with your own hands from improvised means, for example, a picture with the image of multi-colored eggs from legumes or cereals;
- Crafts for Easter made of fabric: for example, a garland of colorful felt eggs;
- Crafts made for Easter may be edible. Try making white chocolate eggs by garnishing them with colored sugar sprinkles.
Easter crafts can be simple, it is important that the soul is invested in them. When loved ones give homemade souvenirs, it is always very touching.
DIY Easter egg
Many families have this tradition: to give loved ones Easter eggs, decorated in the form of crafts. There are many options for how to make an Easter egg, for example, a craft in the shape of a chicken or an egg from threads or beads. Get creative with the tools at hand to create your Easter masterpiece. Surely, in every house there is plasticine, pieces of fabric, beads, beads, ribbons, felt-tip pens, paints, brushes. Even pasta or various cereals will do. You can use iron-on stickers, but only with those images that do not have the images of saints.
As a rule, an empty shell is used in the manufacture of crafts.In order to get a workpiece, you need to make two holes with a large needle at the top and bottom. When the contents of the shell are poured out, it remains to rinse and dry thoroughly. You can also use plastic cases from "Kinder surprises".
Easter eggs from beads
DIY craftwork for Easter, made of beads, is distinguished by refinement and grace. If you have never done beadwork before, you will have to work hard to master the basics, but the result will exceed all expectations. A thermal sticker with a pattern is preliminarily applied to the prepared eggshell, and a pattern woven from beads is glued on top.
Easter pasta eggs
Crafts for Easter can be unusual, for example, made from pasta in the form of Easter eggs. How the original craft is made:
- In a deep dish, mix PVA glue with dry pasta.
- Inflate the balloon to the desired size of the future Easter egg.
- Gently glue the pasta over the ball, leaving a small space through which you can then remove the ball.
- After the glue is completely dry, the ball bursts and comes out through the hole left.
- It remains to decorate the egg with curly pasta (for example, pasta in the form of bows) and paint the finished craft with spray paint.
Easter eggs made of felt and fleece
Interesting DIY crafts for Easter are obtained from fleece and felt fabric, for example, a fabric egg.
Make felt blanks, decorate them with embroidery or applique. Sew the blanks together with a decorative seam, leaving a small hole on top, through which fill the craft with cotton wool or padding polyester. Attach the strap and sew the hole. Present to everyone close and dear to this Easter craft, which can even become an individual talisman.
Having cut out colorful blanks of eggs from felt, they can be connected in the form of a festive garland and hung in the hall or above the fireplace.
Another option from fleece:
- Cut out two blanks from the fabric;
- Sew multi-colored buttons on one of the blanks;
- Sew the blanks with a decorative seam, stuff through the hole with soft material or cotton wool;
- Sew on a string or ribbon.
Knitted Easter eggs
If you know how to knit, do-it-yourself knitted crafts can become an Easter gif.webpt for loved ones. For beginners, an option is suitable: crocheted Easter eggs. Place them in a small basket and your holiday craft will be ready.
More confident knitters can try attaching a knitted flower to the finished craft. Glue a button in the center, and tie the egg itself with a satin ribbon.
Eggs "dressed" in an openwork knitted fabric crocheted from thin threads look very delicate.
Origami Easter Egg
Quite often, DIY crafts for Easter are made of paper. Interesting and funny crafts for Easter are obtained in origami style. How to make an origami-style birthday egg:
- First, modules are folded from colored paper. There are several ways to make modules. Detailed master classes on making modules can be found on the Internet.
- One row of modules is pushed onto another. You just need to choose the right colors that will create the pattern, combining with each other.
- The result is an origami-style paper egg. Since it is quite difficult to make such a craft, it is better to follow the step-by-step recommendations from the Internet.
Egg baskets and stands
Eggs will look really festive if you put them in homemade coasters or Easter baskets. Such crafts will create a festive atmosphere and can serve as a gif.webpt for loved ones.
To make egg coasters, you will need:
- White and yellow corrugated paper;
- Cardboard spools (those used for cling film are suitable);
- Lace, braid, decorative ropes, ribbons;
- Scissors, glue gun.
Sequencing:
- Using a stationery knife, carefully separate the remaining paper from the spool, cut it into equal parts;
- Cut a strip of white and yellow paper so that the yellow strip is narrower than the white one.
- Stretch both stripes, then squeeze to create a fake ruffle on both sides.
- First, glue the white frill to the cardboard blank, and the yellow one in the middle.
- Decorate the coasters with ropes, ribbons, braid.
Easter-themed crafts can be decorated with artificial flowers, butterflies, green grass, because this holiday symbolizes the onset of a sunny warm spring.
Holiday egg baskets can be made from paper, fabric, thread, twigs, and other materials. A knitted basket decorated with flowers and ribbons will look beautiful.
Easter bunny
For Catholics, one of the symbols of Holy Easter is the Easter bunny. Children believe that it is he who brings gif.webpts on the day of the Resurrection of Christ. Of course, a toy in the shape of a rabbit can be bought in a store, but it is much more valuable if you make crafts with your own hands for Easter. What a rabbit can be made of:
- Polymer clay;
- Salt dough plasticine;
- Paper, cardboard;
- The cloth;
- Fur;
- Chocolate;
- Shortcrust pastry, etc.
You can attach ears to the egg shell, draw a muzzle using acrylic paints. Place the egg on a stand with green corrugated paper imitating grass.
Gingerbread is often used to make the Easter bunny. Gingerbread figures in the shape of rabbits are baked and covered with multi-colored glaze on top.
Children will love rabbits made of fur, felt, knitted from fluffy white threads. Craftsmen who are capable of painstaking work can create a real masterpiece from small parts. Each of the parts is individually stuffed with filler, and then all the parts are sewn together. You can dress the rabbit in nice clothes and tie a satin bow around the neck.
Video how to make an Easter bunny
Easter cards
Simple crafts for Easter will also delight loved ones. Try making your own postcards that you can put in your basket of colored eggs. You can draw a drawing on a homemade postcard, or leave handprints for all family members. Usually on holiday cards painted eggs, Easter cakes, chickens, rabbits are depicted. Be sure to write congratulations and the most sincere wishes to the person to whom you are presenting your craft.
On a note! Postcards made by young children look especially touching and cute. Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters have kept children's crafts, presented to them for Easter, for years.
A postcard can be made from materials that are sold in specialty stores for creativity. If it is not possible to visit such a store, in any home there are tools at hand that will make a wonderful Easter postcard craft: pieces of different fabric, buttons, paints, braid, lace, paper, etc.
What images can be on a postcard:
- Temples;
- Easter paraphernalia: Easter cakes, Easter, eggs, candles, etc.
- Animals and birds: hen with chickens, rabbit, songbirds;
- Flowers.
You can come up with your own version of the drawing, making the craft unique and inimitable.
Easter applique cards
Easter cards can be the simplest:
- Glue strips of lace on a blank made of thick cardboard;
- Cut out applications in the form of chickens from colored paper;
- Stick them on the card between the lace.
You can cut an egg-shaped postcard out of thick paper, stick multi-colored paper on top, decorate the craft with a decorative border, an artificial flower, and beads.
The applique can be in the form of a basket of Easter eggs. Or you can cut out small postcards in the form of eggs from cardboard and stick small flowers cut out of colored paper on each postcard. These postcards will complement basic gif.webpts.
Easter cards in scrapbooking style
Crafts in the now fashionable scrapbooking style are quite simple to do. You just need to visit a specialized store and purchase the materials necessary for creativity. For example, try this wonderful craft:
- Stick special scrapbooking paper onto the cardboard base.
- Glue the basket on top, and inside - multi-colored Easter eggs, cut out of scrap paper.
- Decorate the picture with twigs, lace, beads.
You can make a postcard in the style of scrapbooking and homemade materials. You will need:
- Paper lace napkin;
- Colored tape;
- Multi-colored cardboard;
- Beads;
- Buttons.
Glue a lace napkin and all decorative elements to the cardboard base.
Video Easter Cards
Easter wreath
A wreath of twigs and flowers, decorated with a bright ribbon, will become a real decoration of the front door. Beautiful Easter crafts in the form of wreaths can also be presented to relatives. How to make a real Easter wreath with your own hands?
You will need thin willow or birch twigs. They must be pre-soaked in hot water so that they become soft and flexible. The twigs are intertwined with each other, forming a circle. Around the entire circle, the wreath is fixed with twine so that the branches do not fall apart. It remains to decorate it with flowers, ribbon, green grass. You can put a figurine of an artificial bird on top.
On a note! According to the tradition of Great Sunday, wreaths should combine such colors as red, white, soft green.
A wreath made of felt looks unusual and beautiful. To make it, sew a ring from a light green fabric, processing the edges with a decorative stitch. Cut zigzags out of yellow felt and sew over the top of the wreath. Flowers, rabbits or chickens sewn from yellow fabric can be used as decoration.
Some housewives bake a festive wreath from sweet dough, using candied fruits, dried fruits, marzipan mass, etc. as a filling. Top with a sweet wreath sprinkled with chopped nuts.
Easter napkins
Do-it-yourself napkins are considered a very stylish element of the festive decor. In addition, Easter cake can be presented on a festive napkin as a gif.webpt. How to sew a napkin for Easter:
- Choose a fabric with a themed pattern: Easter cake, eggs, chickens, rabbits, flowers, sun, etc.
- Cut 2 identical circles.
- Sew the circles together.
- Tape the edges to match the base color of the fabric.
If you know how and love to embroider, you can make beautiful embroidery on a white linen napkin. It is not necessary to embroider Easter motifs, it can be, for example, a basket of flowers.
Children will surely like napkins on which little rabbits or hen and chickens will be embroidered.
Napkins with appliqués and decor in the form of buttons, beads, lace will look original.
What else can you do for Easter with your own hands?
DIY crafts for Easter are not only an opportunity to show your imagination and creativity, but also to spend time with children in the family circle. Craft "Easter cake" can be entrusted to preschoolers, they will be happy to take up the creative process. From paper towels, newspaper, cotton wool, white gouache and pastry sprinkles, kids can create a cake that will look like the one that mom bakes.
You can make wooden crafts for Easter with your own hands. Very beautiful Easter eggs are made from wood. Wooden blanks for future eggs are sold in stores. It remains to paint it and varnish it on top. Such wooden crafts can be a good gif.webpt for a holiday.
Cute Easter souvenirs - knitted hats for eggs or animals. First of all, children will be happy with these gif.webpts.
What other crafts can there be:
- Paper garlands in the shape of rabbits;
- Cushions with applique or embroidery;
- Decorating trees;
- Hen with chickens, sewn from felt;
- Easter egg with candies inside.
There are an incredible variety of options for crafts for a bright holiday. Choose what you like best and create, including your imagination. Family members, friends and close people will be pleased to receive a handmade gif.webpt for Easter.
