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These interesting and original crafts will decorate any home for Easter, and will also be a great gift for loved ones.
Here you will find original crafts, many of which can be done with children, as they are quite simple.
Turn on your imagination and try to make something really unusual and beautiful for the holiday.
Easter crafts: hamburger-shaped eggs
You'll need:
– Boiled eggs
– Markers (non-toxic)
– colored paper (color: yellow)
– corrugated paper or felt (color: green)
– PVA glue
– scissors.
1. Draw a wide strip just below the middle of the egg with a brown marker. Allow a few minutes for the marker to dry.
2. Draw a thin strip over the brown strip with a red marker and also let the marker dry.
3. Cut small triangles out of yellow paper.
4. Glue the triangles to the egg, leaving the same distance between them.
5. Cut a small strip out of green corrugated paper to wrap the egg. Using PVA glue, glue it, making folds.
6. Draw white spots (seeds) on the top of the egg and you'll have an Easter burger.
Read also: How to color eggs for Easter
DIY Easter crafts (photo): eggs in the shape of minions
You'll need:
– plastic eggs (preferably yellow and blue)
– black duct tape
– black marker
– PVA glue
– toy plastic eyes (you can also draw them with a marker).
1. Separate the blue and yellow eggs and put them together so that the bottom is the same color and the top is different.
2. Cut a thin strip of black duct tape and stick it to the egg.
3. Glue plastic eyes over the duct tape.
4. Use a marker to draw hair and a smile.
Video instruction
Easter crafts (video): a huge Easter egg in the form of a minion
Easter Egg Craft: Super Mario Eggs
Caution: if you use real eggs, you should not eat them after painting, as acrylic paints are used.
You'll need:
– acrylic paint and brush
– simple pencil
– a marker.
* Hard-boil eggs.
* Use a simple pencil to draw faces. If you find it difficult to draw faces, you can choose other, simpler characters from the popular video game.
Read also: Interesting facts about Easter
* After applying the first word of each color, let the paint dry for a couple of hours and apply a second coat.
* For small details, use a felt-tip pen (marker).
Original crafts for Easter: eggs in the form of emojis
You'll need:
– real (cool) or artificial eggs (plastic or papier-mache)
* If you use real eggs, it is best not to eat them after painting.
– acrylic paint and brush
– markers
1. Paint the eggs yellow and let them dry.
2. Start drawing different emojis using both paint and markers.
See also: DIY Easter eggs
DIY Easter craft: piñata egg
To begin with, you will need to make a papier-mache ball. Here's how it's done:
Next, decorate the ball with colored or corrugated paper, with sliced fringes.
Easter: DIY crafts (master class)
A basket of eggs painted with sponges
You'll need:
– white cardboard or thick white paper
– brown cardboard
– acrylic paints or gouache
– small sponges
– scissors
– simple pencil
– PVA glue
– brown marker.
1. On white cardboard, draw the shape of the basket with a simple pencil and cut it out.
You can find a simple basket drawing on the Internet and print it, then circle the shape of the basket on cardboard and cut it out.
2. Glue the basket to another thick sheet of a different shade.
3. Cut eggs out of several sponges.
4. Prepare paints of different colors.
5. Apply paint to a palette or paper plate, start dipping sponges into the paint and “printing” over the glued basket.
6. Cut several short strips out of brown cardboard. Glue the strips to the basket.
7. You can draw a pen with a brown marker or pencil.
DIY Easter crafts from improvised tools: a colorful Easter tree
You'll need:
– colored artificial feathers
– small branches
– artificial eggs of different sizes (preferably plastic ones, because they are light)
* you can use toy eggs, plasticine eggs and small wooden eggs.
– hot glue or transparent tape
– tape
– a vase.
1. Glue feathers to the branches using hot glue or transparent tape.
2. Cut the tape into small pieces and attach them to the eggs using glue or tape
* You can create various other ornaments from colored paper, cardboard or felt and stick ribbons or thread to them to hang on branches.
3. Decorate the branches as you wish.
Easter crafts step by step: eggs in the form of fruits and vegetables
You'll need:
– eggs (natural or artificial)
– green felt
– hot glue
– egg paint and markers or acrylic paint and brush.
1. Color the eggs in the color of the fruits and vegetables you want.
Strawberries: first apply the red paint, let it dry and then apply the white dots.
Watermelon: apply dark green paint, let it dry and apply strips of light green or yellow paint on top.
Pineapple: paint the egg yellow, let it dry and apply strips with a red or orange marker.
Corn: color the egg yellow, let it dry and add white specks.
2. For each fruit or vegetable, cut out the leaves of the appropriate shape from green felt (see images) and glue them to the eggs.
* For pineapple leaves, make a cut at the bottom of each leaf, cross the ends and glue the leaf to the egg, then add the rest of the leaves.
Beautiful crafts for Easter: an Easter egg made of buttons and pins
You'll need:
– foam egg (can be found in any craft store or office supplies)
– tailor pins
– multicolored buttons
– satin ribbons
– hot glue.
1. Pin the buttons to the foam egg so as to cover it completely.
2. Glue the ribbon bow.
Beaded crafts for Easter (step by step)
You'll need:
– polystyrene egg
– beads
– sequins (can be of different sizes)
– “carnation” pins
– narrow ribbon.
Simply string the sequins and beads onto a pin, and stick this pin into a styrofoam egg. So cover the whole egg.
DIY Easter crafts: papier-mâché egg
You'll need:
– balloon
– corrugated paper
– plain white paper
– tape
– hot glue
– flour or starch to make the paste.
1. First inflate the balloon, it should not be too big.
* To make it easier to work with the ball, hang it on a rope or place it on a suitable size jar or lid.
2. Cut white and corrugated (crepe) paper into squares.
3. It's time to make a paste from flour or starch. Here's how you can do it:
4. Start coating the squares in the paste and stick them on the ball in random order. Cover the whole ball with squares.
* Make a few more layers like this and let the craft dry.
5. Remove the ball.
6. Draw a window in a paper egg and cut it out.
7. You can decorate the window as you like. Use colored or corrugated paper, buttons and other materials and glue them with PVA glue or hot glue. Add a ribbon on top, which can also be glued with hot glue.
Inside the craft, you can place Easter eggs on artificial grass, chicken or other suitable decorations.
Easter crafts from threads: airy Easter eggs
You'll need:
– polystyrene egg
– threads of different colors
– glue and brush
– tailor pins
– food film.
1. Wrap the styrofoam egg in cling film.
2. Start piercing the foam with pins, as shown in the image (large and small oval).
3. Start wrapping the egg with threads from one row of pins to another, leaving the window where the small oval of pins is (on the side).
4. Lubricate the workpiece well with glue and leave the glue to dry.
5. Remove the foam.
6. Now we need to make the second half of the egg. To do this, wrap exactly half of the egg with threads and repeat steps 4 and 5.
7. Glue both halves, you can tie a tape to the gluing site (it can also be fixed with glue in some places).
Easter crafts (photo): Easter composition
You'll need:
– saucer
– lightweight cup
– hot glue
– fork or thick wire
– artificial grass and color
– decorations (eggs, chickens, leaves).
