Easter Craft Projects

Gitty

Just a few I found. Hope their useful for someone. Big Mouth Easter Bunny
Fun Easter Crafts

Each year as Easter approaches our family saves gallon-size plastic milk jugs to make our traditional Big Mouth Bunny Baskets


I draw a large circle in the front for the mouth and cut it out with scissors. The children cover the entire outside of the container - except for the handle - with cotton balls dipped in glue.

I draw ears, eyes, noses, whiskers and bows on paper and the children cut them out and glue them onto the bunnies. The girl bunnies wear their bow in their hair and the boy bunnies wear it as a bow tie. We leave the handles intact so even our youngest child can carry her own basket easily.

Marsha Sue Sangster
Decatur, IL

Wish you could deliver downy chicks and cuddly bunnies for the holiday as fast as Mother Nature does? It's easy-and you don't have to sew a thing.

Cuddly Bunnies
Pompoms:
1" head, 1 1/2" body, 5/8" tail, 1/4" (5mm) nose
12" matching chenille stem
Two 4mm beads for eyes
Tacky glue


1. GLUE head to body, pressing down firmly or trimming to shape. Let dry. Add nose and eyes. Let dry.

2. CUT six 2" lengths of chenille. Fold each in half. Glue on as curved ears and arms and as feet underneath, protruding at front. Add tail at back, opposite feet, to balance.

Downy Chicks
Yellow pompoms:
1" head, 11/2" body
Yellow thick-and-thin chenille stem
Hot-pink felt for beak and feet
2 black 4mm beads for eyes
Tacky glue

1. GLUE head to body, pressing down firmly or trimming to shape.

2. TRACE beak and foot. Cut from felt. Fold beak; press fold with iron. Glue beak and eyes to head, feet under body.

3. CUT 2" strip from thick section of chenille; cut in half for 1" wings; glue chenille to sides.

Beaded Eggs for Easter
Easter never looked so pretty

By Brent Pallas

1. Paint papier-mâché eggs white. Let dry.

2. Cover a small portion with tacky glue. Stand tiny barrel beads close together in the glue (use the tip of a craft knife to lift and place the beads).

3. Continue until the egg is covered. Let dry.

Variations
Stripe:
Around the midpoint of the egg, glue a two-row strip of different-colored beads. Finish as directed above.

Flowers: For each, glue six beads around one center bead. Repeat about an inch apart as you cover the egg.

The pictures and directions are here. Sorry I don't know how to put pictures on. But I can copy and paste good! http://www.*********.com/article.asp?section_id=46&article_id=5907
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shelhop

I love the Big Mouth Easter Bunny basket idea! My little ones are having an Easter egg hunt next weekend, and these would be perfect to collect their treasures! Thanx!

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