One of the most revered days of the year is Easter. This is not only a church, but also a family celebration. Preparations are carried out in advance: eggs are painted, Easter cakes are baked, gifts are prepared. Home decoration plays an important role in the pre-holiday bustle.
We offer the Top 10 creative ideas with which you can create a unique holiday atmosphere.
Paper garlands
Even a child can make cardboard crafts for Easter. To do this you will need a set of colored cardboard, scissors, glue, pencils. You can find ready-made templates on the Internet, but it’s much more interesting to create a garland yourself.
Everything is extremely simple:
- We draw our favorite Easter symbols on a piece of paper: eggs, bunnies, chickens.
- We cut out blanks from cardboard.
- We glue on the decor (beads, rhinestones, buttons, ribbons), and complete the necessary parts.
- We construct a loop for hanging. To do this, glue a rope folded in half to the back side, pierce a hole with a hole punch or secure it to the stretcher with clothespins.
Postcards
Easter cards will help you express in writing all your warmest words to the recipient of a lovely gift. To decorate a postcard, you can use applique, decoration, embroidery, and ribbons.
Crafts for Easter are very diverse. They will give you a pleasant pastime while creating cute masterpieces and will be great surprises for the holiday.
Working with kinders
Plastic cases from Kinder Surprise will be an excellent basis for kindergarten crafts for Easter. Yellow containers will make small chickens and ducks.
The process will not take much time:
- Cut out wings, a tail, and a comb from foamiran. Hold the material in warm hands, shaping it into the desired shape.
- Then stick it on the capsule.
- On paper, draw eyes, a triangular beak and a pair of legs. Attach to the Kinder egg using glue.
- The naughty chicken is over!
Chicks
The theme of little chickens is also considered relevant for the spring holiday. Fluffy chicks can be made from pompoms.
To create such a creation you will need yellow threads (preferably wool) and a piece of cardboard.
A small ring is cut out of cardboard and evenly wrapped with thread in several rows. The more rows there are, the fluffier the chicken will become.
When the winding process is completed, carefully cut the outer edge of the threads, and pull the center tightly with thread. The resulting pompom is lightly trimmed, giving it an even shape. All that remains is to glue on the eyes, beak, wings and paws. They can be cut out of cardboard.
Chickens can be made from one or two pompoms. In this case, a smaller blank is used for the head.
Eggs made from threads
Easter egg crafts are easy to make using cotton threads. To do this, you need to inflate a balloon, grease its surface with glue and wrap it around with a thread.
After the toy has dried, the ball is pierced with a sharp object and removed from the resulting web. If you leave a window in the center, you can put a bird inside.
Easter gifts for children
Easter made from sweets
will look very unusual . Children especially like this gift.
And you can do it like this:
- We take a small straw basket without a handle, decorate it with ribbons and corrugated paper.
- We put sweets in bright wrappers in the basket.
- We decorate the top with fresh flowers or linen napkins with traditional symbols.
A beautiful Easter gift for children is ready!
Easter bunny. You can put an Easter egg in the paws of the toy.
At Easter, children usually receive gifts in the form of a basket filled with Easter eggs and sweets .
Instead of Easter eggs, you can put eggs made from milk chocolate and painted with fondant in different colors.
You can give your child a book with stories on religious topics .
This gift is given to a child who likes to read and is interested in religious issues.
An interesting gift for a child can be an Easter tree , which is decorated with various attributes of such a bright holiday, made from marmalade or chocolate.
Such a gift will cause a storm of emotions in a child!
The tree can also be decorated with Easter chickens, bunnies or Easter eggs, etc.
An Easter chick can be made from fresh flowers.
Such a gift can be given to a romantic and tender girl.
An additional bonus could be a small Easter cake, Easter egg and various sweets.
You can make a chic gift from Easter sweets in the form of a bouquet of sweets .
To make a bouquet you need beautiful corrugated paper, ribbon, lollipops and sweets.
We make something like an envelope out of paper, and put a sweet gift inside. We secure the paper with ribbon and attach a beautiful bow.
This gift can be decorated with real flowers.
Various animal figurines
can be children's gifts for Easter Such figurines can be made of clay, wood, cardboard, crystal, fabric, metal and other materials.
It can be:
- chickens and hens, which symbolize the beginning of a new life;
- the cockerel, which symbolizes light and the Sun;
- rabbit or swan - symbols of abundance and prosperity;
- turtledoves and doves, which symbolize mutual love and fidelity;
- the cuckoo symbolizes longevity;
- stork - the birth of a new life;
- the swallow symbolizes the beginning of spring;
- the lamb symbolizes abundance and prosperity in the home;
- The goat symbolizes fertility.
Often, along with animal figurines horseshoes , which bring good luck and happiness, or bells, a symbol of renewal and the awakening of new life.
A popular Easter gift is the Easter Gift Set .
This set can be assembled on your own. You can also buy ready-made gifts for Easter in online stores or souvenir shops.
An Easter set may consist of the following attributes:
beautiful Easter eggs;- animal figurines, which are usually given for Easter;
- Easter cake;
- embroidered napkin
- Herb tea;
- honey, jam or preserves;
- Gingerbread Cookie;
- amulets, figurines of angels or bells;
- all kinds of sweets.
Such sets are packaged in a gift box or in a beautiful wicker basket. It is not forbidden to complement such an Easter gift with a bouquet of spring flowers.
Baskets
A good option for decorating a holiday table is baskets. You can place sweets, paints, candles, and nice little things in such stands. To work, you need a minimum of tools: glue gun, foamiran, scissors.
The sequence of actions is as follows:
- Cut the blank in the shape of a flower. Bend the petals upward to form a cup.
- Prepare the second element in the same way - the green sepal. It will also be a stand. Use a felt-tip pen or sharp toothpick to draw the veins.
- Cut a piece of satin ribbon for the handle of the basket. Fasten all parts with a gun.
DIY Easter crafts: a guide to master classes
This review article from Krestik is dedicated to everyone who loves Easter and wants to prepare for it in advance. In recent years, we have written and published more than 20 master classes on creating DIY Easter crafts. To make it easier for you to navigate the variety of ideas and choose the crafts you want to make for Easter this year, we offer you a list of all our Easter articles and master classes.
We must start, of course, with the largest and most complete article about DIY Easter crafts, which contains about 64 great ideas! Here you will learn about the history of the holiday, as well as how to make Easter eggs (we analyze in detail all existing preparations for creating decorative eggs) and bunnies, baskets and candles, napkins and cards for Easter. The article includes photo and video master classes, as well as many photographs of finished crafts that will inspire you to get creative.
Perhaps, after looking at the above article, you will already decide on the choice of crafts. But don’t rush, maybe new master classes will inspire you even more!))
Decorating Easter eggs
Let's start with handmade Easter eggs. The easiest way to decorate an egg is decoupage. You can decoupage boiled eggs and bless them in a church; you can use empty eggshells or wooden blanks. The choice depends on whether you want to keep the souvenirs you made or simply decorate the eggs directly for the holiday table. The article Decoupage an Easter egg with your own hands will answer all your questions regarding this technique.
The next way to decorate an egg is also quite simple. You can take any egg-shaped blank as a basis (whether wooden, plastic, or foam), but the author offers his own unique way of creating a blank - from polyurethane foam!
So, master class DIY Easter egg or Miracle craft made from polyurethane foam
The next master class combines both decoupage and gluing the workpiece with decorative cord, but the result is strikingly different from the previous ones! See for yourself by looking at the MK Easter egg, decorated with napkins and jute.
Next, let's see how you can decorate an egg with satin ribbons. It’s also not difficult and quite beautiful.
And another master class with wrapping an egg blank) This time we will delight the embroiderers, because in addition to floss threads, embroidered motifs are also used in egg decoration.
Easter egg in 1 evening: decor with embroidery and floss threads.
Easter eggs made of fleece or felt also turn out very beautiful, soft and cozy) They are easy to sew, can serve as decoration for another Easter gift, and someone even decorates willow branches with them like a Christmas tree)
For those who know how and love to crochet, 2 master classes at once! The first one is about how to crochet an egg. Just look at how elegant and lacy the souvenirs are!
The second master class also includes crocheting a workpiece, but the knitting will not be openwork, but rather very dense.
In principle, you can stop at this stage by tying several eggs in a similar way. It will turn out very cute:
Or you can go further and decorate the tied egg with embroidered flowers and beads, crochet voluminous leaves and a basket! All stages are described in detail in the master class.
One of the most difficult ways is to braid an Easter egg with beads. But he is also one of the most beautiful, your efforts will not be in vain!
And since we’re talking about Easter eggs, it’s worth paying attention to another very interesting idea - an Easter wreath for the door, made from eggshells and natural materials. They can decorate the front door or any other door in the house, or you can simply hang it in the kitchen, for example, next to the holiday table.
Easter bunnies
It has become commonplace that rabbits, along with eggs, are also considered Easter souvenirs. There are also many techniques for making Easter bunnies. In the article Easter bunnies that bring good luck! you will find out where the tradition of making rabbits for Easter came from, and also watch master classes on creating rabbits using different handicraft techniques.
In the article “Eared” DIY crafts for Easter: we sew and sculpt rabbits, there are 3 more master classes. One of them is for sculpting rabbits from plaster, the other two are for sewing.
And see another master class on sewing baskets with rabbits for Easter eggs here.
Easter vytynanki and silhouette cutting for Easter
Vytynanka is a very expressive paper decor. They can decorate windows, decorate glass facades of furniture and mirrors:
You need to print it on paper and cut it out using scissors or a stationery knife, and then stick it on glass or a mirror.
Baskets and egg cups
And so we smoothly moved on to such necessary crafts as baskets and stands for Easter eggs. Let's start with a simple chicken stand that can be made in 1 hour.
Next, let's see how to turn a plastic cup into a basket for an Easter egg.
And an even more interesting master class on how to make an Easter egg with a surprise that opens into 2 halves.
For those who crochet, master class Easter egg case in the shape of a chicken.
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