Easter

You may be looking for fun decorations to embellish Easter cards or to decorate your home. Why not try making felt Easter decorations? Your children can also help with these decorations that you’ll want to use over and over again.

Felt sheets can be purchased from nearly every discount and craft store. Your children can have fun making felt Easter decorations for their own room or to decorate common areas of your home. Some Easter decorations made with felt can also be used outside.

Door sign

Create a felt door sign with a decidedly Easter design to it. Allow your children to take several sheets of felt in various colors – pastels would work best. Choose some craft or Popsicle sticks as a base and then cut some felt to fit over it.

Have them glue the felt onto the craft sticks. They can then decorate their door sign with additional felt pieces cut in the shape of bunnies, chicks, flowers, or the cross. They can write their name on the felt with permanent marker or fabric paint. Be sure they include ribbon or some way to hang their sign once it is completed.

Sleeping bunny

Why not create a small bunny with leftover felt pieces? After filling the plastic eggs for the Easter egg hunt, you most likely have a few egg halves that you can’t match. This is a perfect way to recycle those unmatched halves.

Glue an egg shell half onto a piece of painted wood. Then put glue in the egg and place one large white pompom inside the egg shell. Glue another white pompom on top of that one. Glue two medium pompoms to the side of the upper pompom for the cheeks. Then cut two white felt ears and glue them onto the top of the head. Glue two mini pompoms between the cheeks. Make two sleepy eyes out of black felt cut in the shape of crescents. Glue them on and it will look like you have a sleepy bunny coming out of an Easter egg.

Easter flag

Since you can buy felt in large pieces off the bolt, why not get a larger piece and make a “Welcome Easter” flag that you can hang from your door? Buy a piece of sunny yellow, pastel blue or pink. Cut the letters for the flag, as well as Easter type motifs from corresponding colors. Use craft glue to stick the words and pictures on. Hang it from your door and welcome this special holiday.

Felt is a great material to work with for Easter crafts. You can have fun with felt Easter decorations that you can use for years to come. Don’t forget to have your children join in the fun of making these festive Easter decorations for your home.

Chocolate candy and plastic colored Easter eggs are common in Easter baskets. Some people may also try their hand at decorating eggs, real ones, when they have been dyed. Why not take decorating eggs a little further by adding non-traditional embellishments?

Each year hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of colored plastic eggs are sold to fill Easter baskets or for children to find during Easter egg hunts. Those aren’t always appropriate to use when decorating your home, however. You may want to create some Easter eggs that can be reused each year for decorations.

One way to create reusable eggs is to blow out chicken eggs. How do you do that? Start by washing the egg and drying it. Poke a small hole in both ends of a raw egg. Poke a bamboo skewer into the egg to break the yoke. Hold the egg over a bowl and gently blow on one end until the contents are emptied into the bowl. Allow the eggs to dry and then you can use one of these four ideas for decorating them.

Beaded eggs

These eggs can be created using blown-out eggs. You’ll also need a glue gun, glue, and strings of beads. Hot glue a string of beads at one end of the egg, then carefully wrap and glue the beads as you go. When you reach the top, you may want to use ribbon and silk flowers if you intend to hang them.

Chick and egg

What do you do if you crack an egg while you’re blowing it out? Make a chick and egg, of course! You can dye the entire shell and then place a small toy chick into the egg. Your family or guests won’t be expecting to see a chick peeking out of the decorations.

Bumpy egg

Before you dye your eggs, try this decoration for an easy, yet different look. Put glue dots all over the egg using a hot glue gun. Try to keep the size of the dots the same, but don’t worry too much if they’re uneven. Then dye the eggs as you normally would and let them dry.

Batik eggs

This idea is similar to the fabric decorations of India. Use a paraffin wax crayon to create a design on the egg. Dip it into the lightest colored dye and then allow it to dry. Draw another design and dip the egg into a darker dye. You can also use masking tape to mask off any area you don’t want to be colored.

There are many other ways you can enjoy the Easter craft of decorating eggs. Think outside of the box or the carton. The depth of your imagination will determine the look of the eggs you create. Remember to have fun as you create your reusable Easter egg decorations.

You’ve seen them. As Easter nears, there are expensive pre-made Easter baskets everywhere. They’re filled with cheap toys and candy. If spending that much money isn’t for you, why not try this Easter craft? Make and decorate your own Easter baskets for your children.

The great thing about home-made Easter baskets, besides the cost, is that you can make personalized baskets for each child in your family. Not only can you make and decorate your own Easter baskets, you can also include items that you know your child will enjoy, even if they aren’t associated with the holiday.

Perhaps you’ve found a great empty basket that can be used for Easter during the year. You may even have found several at the end of the season sale at a store nearby. Or you could have found a used basket that someone let go at a yard sale. If the color doesn’t suit you, don’t be afraid to paint them to ensure you have a basket in your child’s favorite color.

Don’t limit yourself to just using the wicker baskets that are traditionally used. You want the “basket” to be unique just like the recipient. Use any container you can find, whether it’s a spaghetti pot, colander, fruit basket, or small milk crate. Your imagination and your knowledge of who the basket is intended for will make choosing a basket or container easier.

Partially fill the basket with grass. Of course, you can purchase the plastic-type grass, but you may want to opt for something that looks more natural. Green crepe paper that has been run through a shredder would be a good option. If you’ve saved the grass from previous years, that would be good to use, too, so you’re also recycling.

Add Easter candy, toys, small books, crayons, cars, stickers, or anything else that will fit in the basket that you know your child will enjoy. Remember not to overfill the basket. You want to have room for a stuffed animal. Bunnies, ducks, or baby chicks are common animals to find in Easter baskets.

Use your imagination when deciding what to include in your child’s basket. Think of your child and what they like. If your child isn’t into stuffed animals, why not situate their favorite doll or action figure in the basket instead?

Wrap the completed basket with colored cellophane and tie it up with a big ribbon. This will keep the dust out of the basket, and make it more of a production for them to open it on Easter morning.

Easter is a great day to shower your children with love. A home-made Easter basket will do more to let them know that you love them than a store-bought one, and you’ll save money on it to boot.