One of the main traditions for Easter is to consecrate food in the church - cakes, eggs, smoked meats. Less often you can find salt, mustard, cheese, Cahors wine in the food set. They put it all in a special Easter basket. For decoration, myrtle is often used, which, like an evergreen plant, is associated with eternal life. Spiritual light is symbolized by a candle, which is placed next to or stuck into the cake. You can make an Easter basket with your own hands. Use the workshops below and make a craft for a child in a kindergarten, school, or a real basket to visit a church or decorate a festive table.
Crafts for kindergarten and school
You can make an Easter attribute with your child. For kindergarten and school, Easter baskets are made for exhibitions and competitions. For this reason, large and capacious crafts are not required, because this is only a model of a real basket. Eggs, Easter cakes and candies can also be made from improvised means. This will complement the composition and make the work complete.
What crafts are made for kindergarten and school:
- paper - colored, corrugated, holographic, cardboard;
- plasticine, polymer clay;
- foamiran;
- felt;
- burlap, fabric;
- twine, woolen threads;
- waste material;
- natural materials.
The complexity of the work depends on the age of the child and the materials at hand. There is no clear division between crafts for kindergarten and school. You can use any idea and just choose the appropriate complexity of the work.
At the same time, it is not necessary to make the craft exclusively in the form of a traditional basket. The symbolism of the holiday allows you to make crafts in the form of a chicken, chicken, egg, bunny. Connect your imagination and your basket will be the most unusual among all the exhibition exhibits in a preschool or school.
Simple paper crafts
Toddlers attending kindergarten can make an Easter basket in the form of an applique or a simple volumetric modeling technique. Schoolchildren can complicate the task by completing the Easter basket with origami, quilling, scrapbooking, papier-mâché techniques.
Let's look at how to create an Easter basket using origami for beginners.
You can make a craft in the form of a bunny using the scheme below. Just take a square piece of paper and fold it sequentially as shown in the picture. This basket is suitable for one testicle:
By the same principle, you can make an egg stand in the form of a real basket:
Another way is to cut out parts according to the scheme, paint the sides of the workpiece. Next, you just need to glue the resulting parts:
Plasticine basket
The easiest way to make a kindergarten Easter basket is to use plasticine. Students can use polymer clay instead, and then bake the craft in the oven.
For examples of a sculpted composition for Easter, see the photo:
Foamiran Easter basket
It will not be possible to make a real basket from this material, since it will not withstand the weight of the products. But the craft for a kindergarten or school will be wonderful - bright, beautiful, neat.
For work you will need:
- foamiran of several colors;
- paper;
- toothpick;
- scissors;
- glue heat gun;
- compass;
- ruler;
- simple pencil.
How to make an Easter basket:
- First you need to prepare a paper template. To do this, with a compass on paper, you need to draw a circle of the desired diameter, divide it into 8 identical segments and round off the petals.
- Similarly, make a smaller flower. Although this detail has an exclusively decorative value, it is therefore permissible to do without it.
- Transfer the templates to foamiran, cut along the contour, make small cuts and give the shape of a water lily flower:
- For decoration, cut and glue a bow from foamiran. The diagram shows the details, as well as what to do with them:
- Glue a handle to the basket - a rectangular piece of foamiran, attach a bow to it, add other decorative elements if desired.
Easter baskets from waste and natural materials
In most cases, crafts for kindergarten and school are made from scrap materials. This saves finances as well as shopping time. In addition, such products often turn out to be unusual and interesting.
The base and decorations for an Easter basket can be made from the following materials:
- plastic bottles;
- wooden ice cream sticks;
- twigs;
- straw;
- newspapers;
- egg trays;
- plastic jars of mayonnaise or sour cream.
Consider making an Easter basket for eggs made from a cardboard egg tray. We will make the decoration from felt. As a result, we get not just a craft for a kindergarten or school, but a real stand on the table for painted Easter eggs.
Sequence of work:
- Cut the tray so that only the lower part remains under the eggs. The rest of the parts - the cover, the side ledge - remove.
- Paint over the inside with acrylic paint.
- Cut 4 strips from felt to the size of the blank so that each has a small protrusion for gluing to each other. In this case, the width of the stripes should be approximately twice the height of the tray. On one long side of the rectangles, cut a triangular fringe in the form of grass.
- Using a hot glue gun, glue the sides to the tray.
- Glue the small triangles remaining after cutting the fringe to the inner cells, also imitating grass.
- If desired, add flowers, chickens and other decor to the composition.
Video on creating an Easter basket from threads
Of course, the basket can be knitted, but for crafts in a kindergarten or school, you can do differently. It is enough to take a balloon, inflate it to the desired size, and then use glue and threads to create a real masterpiece. Look at the video clearly and in detail about this:
An Easter basket made of twine is made in the same way:
Easter basket with quilling elements - detailed master class
As a decoration of a room or a souvenir for loved ones and relatives, you can make an interesting craft from different materials.
For work you will need:
- plastic jar;
- dense corrugated board;
- White paper;
- colored paper stripes for quilling;
- skewer;
- scissors;
- glue heat gun;
- decor - beads, fabric flowers, colored paper, satin ribbons.
How to make an Easter basket with your own hands:
- Glue the outside of the plastic cup with corrugated cardboard.
- Cover the inside with white paper, after cutting out a circle and a rectangle from it to the size of the jar.
- Glue the corrugated cardboard handle.
- Decorate as you wish. In the example in the photo, the craft is decorated with quilling elements, paper and satin flowers, beads.
- Fill the cavity with padding polyester, lay homemade paper testicles on top. They can be made from papier-mâché or also using the quilling technique.
A detailed master class for beginners will clearly demonstrate how to make the basic elements for quilling:
Easter basket made of felt
For a home interior, you can make an Easter basket out of felt with a firm, firm bottom. You can also take a larger base and make a product from this material to decorate the festive table. It is already permissible to put a real cake and painted eggs in such a basket.Just remember to line the bottom and sides of the finished garment first with a clean cotton towel.
So, for work we need:
- felt of green, gray, red, white, yellow, pink and orange colors (it is not necessary to adhere to the proposed color scheme, choose the design at your own discretion);
- threads;
- multi-colored and different-sized beads;
- thick cardboard;
- base from a sieve for flour without a grid;
- a beautiful image template for decorating a basket;
- scissors;
- glue heat gun.
Step-by-step execution of work:
- Measure the base from the sieve along the circumference and height of the walls. The frame of the basket will be made from it, so measurements will be needed to calculate the required amount of felt.
- Place the frame on very thick cardboard, trace around the contour and cut out the bottom. It is clearly shown in the photo:
- Cut out parts from felt according to the cardboard blank and measurements of the sidewall - 2 side parts and 2 bottoms.
- Cut an ornament out of felt according to the chosen template for the applique. Glue to one of the sidewalls:
- Glue the bottom to the base made of an old sieve.
- Sew felt details as shown in the photo:
- Assemble the basket into a single whole.
- Make a felt handle:
- Sew the side pieces together by attaching the handle securely:
Wicker Easter Baskets
To create such a basket, it is not at all necessary to stock up on willow twigs or flexible twigs. It is enough to prepare a lot of paper or newspaper tubes and weave an Easter basket from them.
It is possible to make a craft even for a certain number of testicles. For a detailed master class, see the video:
Making a round Easter basket from paper tubes is shown in detail in the video:
If you want to weave a deep and spacious basket for Easter, watch the following master class:
Easter basket made of fabric
The easiest way is to take a plastic base from under mayonnaise or sour cream and simply cover it with a cloth. A more difficult option that can be put on a festive table is to sew an Easter basket according to the patterns. In this case, the shape of the product does not have to be exactly like a basket. You can sew a chicken, a bunny or a whole composition with an empty cavity inside.
Making a colorful Easter basket in the shape of a chicken, see the video:
Popular Easter basket with hares made of fabric. For a detailed master class on making it, watch the video in 2 parts:
Knitted Easter basket
Craftswomen who know how to crochet can easily create an excellent stand for Easter cake and testicles with their own hands. It can also be a traditional basket, chicken or bunny. The main thing is to choose the right scheme.
For a detailed master class on knitting an Easter basket, see the video:
Master class on knitting a small decorative basket for Easter:
Making a large round basket, see the video:
Knitting or crocheting in the Japanese amigurumi technique has become widespread. In most cases, small toys 5-7 cm high are made in this way. Or you can make a basket for Easter according to the same principle, because most of these products begin with an amigurumi ring.
Some interesting crochet ideas with patterns:
Photo collection of useful materials
To facilitate the work, you can use useful photographic materials. Templates, stencils and diagrams will be needed in the manufacture of all kinds of crafts. Choose suitable pictures and download using the right mouse button and the "Save Image As" function.
Patterns and patterns for creating an Easter basket made of felt:
Weaving an Easter basket from paper or newspaper tubes can be seen in the photo:
Patterns for crocheting Easter baskets:
For the bright holiday of Easter, you can make an Easter basket with your own hands from all kinds of materials. Kids can make a simple craft for kindergarten or school.Adults - create a real masterpiece for decorating an interior or decorating a festive table. Choose the most interesting master class and get to work. Have a bright and joyful holiday!
