In the West, an indispensable attribute of Easter is a basket in which the Easter bunny hides eggs. But thanks to cartoons and movies, many Western traditions have penetrated into our country, and today our children willingly make Easter baskets with their own hands in the hope that some mythical character will put a colorful egg there.
What can be used as a basis for such a product?
How to make your own Easter basket
Wicker paper Easter basket
The easiest way, of course, is to make your own Easter baskets from paper. And disposable cups or popcorn buckets will help give them the desired shape and stability.
Craft materials
So, before you make an Easter basket, you need to cut the cup at the desired height with your own hands. In fact, we are only interested in the bottom, which will be used as a basis for further work.
Cutting the cup
To get a larger basket, we fasten several cups together - three or four. We use polymer transparent glue for this purpose.
Gluing the cups
Now the most painstaking part of the work begins: you will need to cut sheets of colored paper into strips of the same width.
Strips 1 cm wide
Armed with a ruler, we draw out each sheet and cut it.
Cut the sheet into strips
Now comes the interesting part: let’s start weaving! We create a base for weaving by gluing the ends of several strips onto a piece of paper. Between them we will weave shorter pieces.
Let's start weaving
When the weaving is finished, fix the edges of each fragment with glue.
Finished weaving one strip
We should have two solid pieces of paper.
We weave two stripes
We glue them together to get a canvas of sufficient length.
Glue the strips together
This fabric needs to be wrapped around our design of disposable cups. In our case, it will take the shape of a heart, because we fastened three cups together.
Wrap the cups with stripes
Let's trace this heart on a piece of cardboard.
Circle the heart
And cut out the resulting silhouette. We will get the bottom of the basket, which will need to be glued to its rightful place.
Cut and glue as the bottom
Now let's take double-sided cardboard and cut out a fairly wide strip from it.
Strip 3 cm wide
We will use it to make a handle for the basket - we will simply attach the ends of the cardboard strip to the opposite walls of the basket. You can use a stapler or regular office glue for this purpose.
Fixing the handle of the basket
Let's decorate our craft with a bow and fill it with Easter souvenirs.
Decorate the basket with a bow
Painted eggs and eggs with surprise toys will come in handy.
Easter basket using paper weaving technique
Look at the video - how to make a simple paper basket:
Easter egg compositions
The Easter red egg is a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was with “painted eggs” that the tradition of giving gifts on Easter began, so compositions made from eggs will be considered first.
Composition from a tray
To create such a composition, you will need:
- egg tray;
- paints and brushes;
- glue;
- eggs;
- flowers.
Such a composition can be of two types - live and artificial. For a live composition, you can use boiled eggs and fresh flowers, and for an artificial one, decorative eggs and artificial flowers.
You need to select a clean tray and cut 4-6 holes. Paint the resulting box any color. This will be the basis of the entire composition. You can paint with regular children's gouache.
While the box is drying, you need to decide on the type of composition, whether it will be alive or not, and prepare the eggs accordingly. If alive, you should boil the eggs, you can immediately use dyes, or you can use pure white ones and decorate them with gouache. You need to focus on free time to create such a composition.
If you wish, you can make decorative ones from ordinary chicken eggs. To do this you will need a gypsy needle or awl. Make two pricks at the top and bottom of the egg, blow out the egg itself (you can use it for dough), wash the shell and dry it. The eggs are ready to be colored. You can draw flowers, or write the Easter letters XB.
Important! Since the shell is very fragile, there is no need to be zealous.
If the tray is already dry, it's time to glue the flowers. Here, too, everything depends on the riot of imagination. If the composition is artificial, then with careful storage it can be used next year.
This festive Easter composition can be used as a tabletop. It looks something like this:
Tray basket
Another option for an interesting Easter composition in baskets with decorative eggs is presented below.
For the composition you will need:
- paper tray;
- colored paper;
- satin ribbons;
- paints and brushes;
- scissors;
- glue.
The process will not take much time:
- First you need to prepare the tray by first cutting it into squares 2*2 cm or 3*3 cm.
- The next step is to paint the box. You can paint it one color, or you can draw something original.
- Next you need to prepare the handle. For greater durability, you can use colored cardboard rather than paper. Fold the sheet diagonally into a strip up to 1 cm wide. Next, wrap the handle in a spiral with a thin satin ribbon.
- All that remains is to secure the handle with glue or a stapler, and the basket is ready.
By placing decorative eggs in it, you can decorate the basket with artificial flowers or ribbon bows, or anything that can serve as decoration.
Advice! There is no need to use heavy objects (such as sweets) since the basket is made of paper.
Composition of a vase and eggs
Another type of beautiful Easter composition made from fresh flowers is a vase. Everything here is very easy and simple. You need to take a transparent glass vase (if you don’t have one, you can use a 2-3-liter jar) and place colored boiled eggs on the bottom. Be sure to check the integrity of the eggs to ensure there are no chips or cracks. Place colored eggs on two-thirds of the vase, fill the bottle with water up to the shoulders, and insert any fresh flowers on top.
Easter wreath on the door made of eggs
Decorations such as door wreaths are becoming increasingly popular. For the Easter theme, you can also create such a composition.
For this you will need:
- decorative eggs;
- vacuum stickers;
- satin ribbons, brushes, paints;
- thick cardboard;
- scissors;
- glue.
Cut a round or oval rim from cardboard. It will serve as the basis for the entire composition. Now you need to decorate the headband. You can wrap it with ribbons or simply paint it in any color. Next, prepare the eggs. You can seal them with vacuum stickers, decorate them with ribbons, or paint them beautifully, depending on your free time and patience. When the base and eggs are prepared, you can begin to create the composition. This will require glue, it is better to use hot glue from a gun. In addition to eggs, you can glue artificial flowers or twigs of live willow. You can glue the entire base, or you can only glue the lower semicircle. It is also important to make a loop so that there is something to hang the wreath on.
Small Easter basket made of paper for eggs
Wrap the muffin tin in pretty colored paper. We secure the paper with adhesive tape.
Wrap the cake pan in colored paper
Glue a paper pen.
Glue a paper pen
Cut out a cube from a floral sponge (you can take a piece of polystyrene foam or even plasticine). Apply glue to one of its parts.
Cut out the cube and apply glue
Glue the cube inside the basket.
Glue the cube
To prevent the cube from dangling, we secure it with colored pebbles. We insert delicious Easter candy into it.
Secure the cube and insert the candy
Place green sisal or strips of paper on the bottom of the basket. We complement the composition with Easter eggs. A little Easter gift - ready!
Small Easter basket made of paper for eggs
Easter basket made of plasticine
A charming Easter basket can be made from ordinary plasticine. We sculpt the lower part of the basket and a thin plasticine rope from plasticine.
Bottom of the basket
Fold the plasticine rope in half and intertwine it.
We intertwine a plasticine tourniquet
Wrap the braided rope around the bottom. Plasticine basket - ready!
Glue the flagellum
We fill our basket with Easter attributes made from plasticine. This makes a very cute Easter decoration!
Plasticine Easter basket
An Easter basket made of plasticine can be made rectangular.
Rectangular Easter basket made of plasticine
See how to make an Easter basket from polymer clay:
Easter basket for sweets with angel
Another win-win option for a decorative element for Easter is an angel. Just look how inspiring the basket with the angel looks.
Cut out the base shape for the basket from felt. We lift the sides up and sew them together with threads. We print templates for decoration from the Internet, cut them out and transfer them to felt. Hearts and flowers go well with an angel. We attach the finished felt decorations to the basket using hot glue.
Easter basket made from a carriage for eggs
An original Easter basket can be made from a cardboard egg tray. It is most convenient to use a tray of six eggs. We put corrugated paper straws in it.
Straws in a tray
Cut out a chicken from paper. Glue on her comb, beard, beak and eyes. Glue the chicken to the back of the egg cell.
Glue the chicken
Color the eggs yellow. Draw black eyes on them. Glue paper beaks. We make funny Easter chicks.
Easter chickens made from eggs
You can decorate the little chicks with red combs. Easter basket made from a carriage made from egg poses - ready!
Carriage Easter basket
Wicker baskets
Willow twigs (vine) are suitable for weaving baskets. Willow is easy to find along the river bank, but it should only be cut in the fall and spring when the branches are flexible. The harvested branches must be soaked in water for two weeks, changing the water daily. Then remove the bark from them and dry them.
The bottom is woven from eight rods, with holes pierced in half of them with an awl to obtain a cross. Encircle four twigs with two branches. This is how two circles are woven. Next, all 16 rods are braided separately. At the very end, another rod is added. Then the racks are bent to form a right angle and continue to weave to the full height. The last row is braided. For the handle, take a thick branch and braid it in a spiral with thin ones. The basket should dry within 2-3 days.
With such crafts, you can go to the forest to pick mushrooms, berries and herbs, and put fruits and vegetables from the garden in them.
If the basket is made oval and larger, then you can even carry a newborn baby in it.
Easter basket for the little ones (drawing and applique)
This craft and the technique of its execution will delight even our youngest creators. To draw the eggs we will use potatoes cut in half. Using a knife, we cut out patterns on its cut - lines, zigzags and circles. Then we apply paint to the potatoes and make colored prints, which will be very similar in shape to testicles.
Making prints with potatoes
When the paint dries, decorate the egg with glue or glitter. When the glue dries, cut out the eggs.
Apply glitter glue
Glue half of a paper plate onto a piece of paper. Color it brown.
Coloring half a plate
We cut strips of beige paper and place them on the plate lengthwise and crosswise. We should get a pattern that imitates a basket. We glue one strip like a basket handle.
Glue the strips
We put our eggs in a basket. Easter basket applique - ready!
Easter applique basket
Mini basket for a little bee or one egg
This basket will fit one colored egg or a small bean. Therefore, it is advisable to make several of these baskets.
We cut out a small circle from felt, which will be the bottom of the future basket. Next, cut out a strip approximately 7 cm wide. The length of the strip should correspond to the circumference of the bottom. Measure and cut off the excess edge.
We cut out the grass from the strip and attach it to the circle. We make another layer of grass, wrap the product, fixing the part also to the bottom. Using openwork scissors, cut out a strip that will serve as the handle of the basket. We fasten it in appropriate places.
If desired, we decorate the product with decorated flowers.
Easter basket made from a plastic bottle (option No. 1)
To make an Easter basket we only need the bottom of a plastic bottle. Let's cut it off.
Bottom of a plastic bottle
We wrap the bottom with thin beautiful paper. We use double-sided adhesive tape for this.
Glue paper to the bottle
Cut the corrugated paper into strips. We put it at the bottom of the basket.
Corrugated paper strips
We tie the basket with a ribbon and a bow. Our Easter basket is ready! You can plant decorative eggs in it - then we will have a very impressive Easter gift!
Easter basket made from a plastic bottle
See how to make another wonderful Easter basket based on a plastic bottle:
Easter basket made from a plastic bottle (option No. 2)
We make the base for this basket from the bottom of a plastic bottle. Glue or staple the plastic handle.
Cut out the base of the basket and the handle
Cut out a wide strip of corrugated paper and cut it into a fringe on one side.
Cut out a strip and cut it into fringe
We cut out colored butterflies and flowers (you can fold the paper like an accordion and cut it out according to the template).
Cut out colored butterflies and flowers
Glue a corrugated paper tape around the plastic base (wrap it several times). Wrap the handle with paper tape. Next we glue our paper flowers and butterflies onto the basket. Easter basket made from a plastic bottle - ready!
Easter basket made from a plastic bottle
Easter basket made of foamiran
When making an Easter basket from foamiran, a hard, flat, round object will be useful. We had a metal ring of a suitable diameter on hand, but it could easily be replaced with a jar lid or an unnecessary CD. We place this item in the center of a large circle cut from foamiran. We make radial cuts along the edges. We bend the foamiran inward and fix the fragments with glue.
Bend and fix the edges of the foamiran
Weave a simple braid from a material of a suitable color.
Braiding a pigtail
Glue it to the main part of the basket, like a handle. If desired, you can decorate the basket with an elegant ribbon or bow.
Easter basket made of foamiran
Egg basket made from clothespins
Source: krokotak.com
You'll need:
- Wooden clothespins (separate and remove metal parts)
- Disposable paper plates
- Colored paper
- Glue, scissors, tape.
Source: krokotak.com
Make equal cuts along the edge of the plate and fold them up.
Source: krokotak.com
Glue all the bent fragments of the plate together and wrap them in colored paper. Can be additionally secured with paper clips. Install the clothespin halves as shown in the picture, wrap with tape. If desired, you can attach a handle or simply use it as an egg bowl.
DIY Easter basket made from pasta
An unusual DIY Easter basket can be made from pasta. As its basis we take pasta in the shape of horns and bows, and a balloon. During the work we use PVA glue and acrylic paints.
Craft materials
Inflate the ball. On one side of it, approximately in the center, draw a small circle.
Inflating the balloon
We fix the “nest” on the stand. In our case, its role is played by a roll of tape. We cover the entire surface of the ball around this circle with horns.
Cover with horns
We wait until the glue dries well and pierce the ball. It turns out to be such a cozy nest.
Pierce the ball
Remove the deflated balloon.
Removing the ball
We paint the basket with acrylic paint.
Painting the basket
We decorate the entrance to the nest with pasta bows and sprinkle them with sparkles. Ready!
Easter pasta basket
Our DIY Easter basket has already been made! The master class is over! You have made a wonderful decoration for the Easter table!
Easter basket made of felt “Chicken”
One of the cutest baskets is the “Hen and Chicken” made from felt. For this craft, cut out the blanks based on the photo.
Blanks for crafts
Between the white parts we sew a comb, beak and beard. Sew on the eye and wing. Leave the upper part of the chicken (back) unsewn.
Sew on the details of the craft
We sew another piece of felt into the lower part, which will allow the chicken to stand.
Lower part of the chicken
To make a chicken we need two felt ovals. We sew the nose onto one of the ovals in advance. Do not sew both ovals at once, leave a small hole through which you will stuff the craft, and also do not forget to “grab” the tuft when sewing. We put the testicles into the hole on the back.
Laying the eggs
You can place a yellow felt chicken on top of the testicles.
Easter basket made of felt “Chicken”
Easter basket made from cardboard packaging “Cockerel”
The most adorable and simple Easter craft is the “Cockerel” Easter basket for one egg. Cut out a piece from a cardboard cell and paint it yellow.
Cut out and paint part of the cardboard tray
Glue the feathers to the back and sides.
Glue the feathers
Glue the legs, eyes and beak of the cockerel.
Easter basket made from cardboard packaging “Cockerel”
Easter basket, expert opinion
We talked to two experts about the Easter basket. Nadezhda Belkova-Bertash, wife of a priest - Father Alexander, Archpriest of the Berlin-German Diocese: “Eggs and Easter cake are obligatory in the Easter basket. It’s beautiful if the basket is decorated with Easter cottage cheese and complemented by a red textile napkin, willow branches, flowers and a candle. I personally do not add sausage, wine and other products. I believe that this may cause temptation among other people who came to the consecration of the meal and do not have enough expensive products. The Easter basket itself on our holiday table sanctifies our meal and is a sign of participation in the Easter joy.”
Erastov Viktor Sergeevich, head of the Museum of the History of Religions and Nationalities of the Kama Region:
“Recently, the Easter basket contains not only eggs, Easter cakes and Easter cottage cheese, but also wine, cold cuts and cheese. Some advice: firstly, there is no need to bring the entire Easter festive table to the blessing; secondly, arrange the basket in such a way that half can be left in the temple without fuss or special trouble for the poor, sick, imprisoned or orphans; thirdly, do not forget about the general rules for Christians regarding abstaining from eating “strangled meat and blood” (Bible, Acts of the Apostles 15:20).”
Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky, “Prayer for Easter.” Oil on canvas, 1888
Easter basket with foam eggs
The first decoration for this Easter basket is flowers. We roll it out of corrugated paper, first forming a yellow core, then white petals, then green leaves. We attach all three layers one after another to the wire.
Flowers on a wire
Easter basket with foam eggs 2
Easter eggs made of foam plastic and beads
Glue paper leaves to the eggs.
Glue paper leaves
Basket
Flowers and eggs
Easter basket with foam eggs
A detailed master class in the article - Easter basket.
Easter baskets - ideas from the Internet
These two wonderful Easter crafts were made in kindergarten especially for the Easter exhibition. One can only be amazed at the imagination and hard work of parents and children. The first basket is made from a box with a paper pen. It is located on a stand made of a box, which was previously covered with green paper. The eggs are wrapped in foil and decorated with a mesh of thread. The nest is made of green sisal, and the eggs and chicks were purchased from an Easter goods stall.
Easter basket on a stand
Many people will like this basket. It is made of felt, which was cut into teeth and pasted over a cardboard base. Plastic eggs are wrapped with ribbon and decorated with beads.
Easter basket made of felt with plastic eggs wrapped in ribbon
A small Easter basket can be made from a yogurt container. We wrap the top with burlap and ribbon. Inside the basket we place a plastic egg and ribbon flowers. It turns out very touching and sweet.
Easter basket made from yogurt packaging
Easter egg basket made from a plastic cup and knitted yarn
Of course, when it comes to crafts, various available materials are used. And I found a wonderful master class on making our present from an ordinary plastic cup. This kind of work is easy to do and takes little time. And instead of knitted yarn, you can use regular thick threads.
We will need: a plastic cup, twine (or thick threads, yarn), Titan glue, a hot gun, a piece of plastic packaging tape used to wrap furniture, any ribbons, braid, beads and other decorations.
Work process:
1. Take the twine and glue the end to the bottom of the glass. Wrap the threads in a circle, having previously coated the bottom with glue.
2. Next, lubricate the walls of the glass with glue and, using simple winding movements, glue the twine, and beautifully round the tail and also secure it with glue.
3. Cut off unnecessary plastic.
4. Take a piece of packing tape of the required length for the handle. Decorate it with braid using a glue gun.
5. Attach the finished handle.
6. Take beads and other decorative elements and decorate the product.
This is such a miracle thing that happens!!
It would be great to do this kind of work for a competition in a kindergarten or school.
You can also take a colored plastic glass, cut the walls into strips and screw them to the base. Makes an excellent egg stand.
Or you can use a large glass, which is wrapped with adhesive colored paper, and decorated plastic spoons are glued on top, then everything is tied with a ribbon. It turns out to be a basket-vase.
This is how you can do extraordinary things simply and brightly.
Paper basket assembly diagram
Some readers might find this diagram for assembling an Easter basket made of paper useful:
Easter basket assembly diagram
Cutting templates will help you create simple Easter baskets. Print, cut out, color and glue the basket.
Easter basket cutting template 1
Easter basket cutting template 2
