Choose the options you like to make a postcard for Easter, a gift, willow twigs and compositions from them for decorating the room with your own hands. Do-it-yourself Easter cards, the child will hand over to the parents, teacher, educator, the girl - to her boyfriend. You can give them to loved ones, dear people. Themed crafts will also make a wonderful president on this day.
Happy Easter Cards
Agree, it's nice to receive such a present!
It seems that the butterflies are about to flap their wings and fly away, the flower will rustle with leaves under the spring breeze. But these are not all the surprises of this postcard for Easter, with your own hands you can cut a hole in the form of an egg, decorate it.
To create this presentation, take:
- wrapping paper or for scrapbooking;
- a sheet of cardboard;
- scissors;
- glue;
- felt-tip pens;
- simple pencil;
- plain paper.
Fold a piece of cardboard in half to form the base of the card. Draw an egg on paper, cut out this template, and place it on one side of the cardboard. Draw and cut the hole in this shape.
Open the card, glue scrapbooking paper or wrapping paper inside. Also make a testicle-shaped slit in it.
From plain paper, you need to cut out a rectangle with openwork edges, write a congratulation inside. Cut out the butterfly, draw on the wings with a felt-tip pen. You need to make grass out of green paper, stick it at the bottom of the picture. Attach the rest of the accessories, after which the handmade Easter card from paper is ready.
It can be made from leftover materials, for example, using pieces of wallpaper or fabric, then decorated in a certain way.
For a similar presentation, take:
- cardboard;
- simple pencil;
- fabric or some wallpaper;
- lace ribbon;
- small items of decoration (flowers and beads).
Draw an egg on the back of the cardboard, cut it out and attach it to a fabric or wallpaper blank. Glue these two parts, decorate the card with a lace ribbon and dried flowers on top.
You can use beads, feathers, ribbons for this. Write congratulations on the reverse side or cut out a small rectangle from paper, which was on it in writing to convey warm words to the addressee. This square is attached to the postcard with a hole punch.
For the next postcard, you need to remember about quilling and facing. For work, take:
- a sheet of white cardboard;
- yellow plasticine;
- double-sided colored paper;
- yellow napkins;
- kernel;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- glue.
- Fold a piece of white cardboard in half and cut it out in the shape of an egg. Cut a strip 3 mm wide from red or yellow paper. Screw it onto the rod, fix the free tip with glue. You will have a tight spiral shape.
- This is the core of the flower. Stick it back on the postcard. To make petals, from blue or other paper, cut a strip 3 mm wide, twist a tight spiral from it, then slightly loosen this blank on one side, press down from above and below with your fingers to get a quilling shape called a drop.
- Glue it with a sharp tip to the core. From a thin strip of green, make a stem, grass and a leaf.
- To shape the chicken, have the child roll two different sized plasticine circles. The smaller one will become the bird's head, and the larger one will become its body. These blanks need to be attached to the postcard, slightly flattened.
- Using a yellow napkin, cut into 1 cm squares. Let the child wind them on the tip of a pencil, attach these trims to plasticine parts tightly to each other.
- It remains to glue the chicken black and white eyes, paws and beak, cut out of red paper. In the center of the postcard, attach a blue oval on which a greeting on a bright day is sealed on a computer or written by hand.
If you do not have yellow napkins, then let the child paint white with gouache of this color. You can also use thin tissue paper. Adopting quilling elements, such as: a free spiral, a drop, a semicircle, you can form the next chicken, which is also glued to an egg-shaped cardboard blank.
If you like the quilling and trimming technique, make a butterfly out of thin curved stripes, and create a chicken from small squares cut from a napkin.
Anyone is pleased to receive such cards. Simple scrapbooking cards are also easy to make.
To make similar souvenirs for Easter, you need to use:
- white cardboard;
- pieces of wallpaper;
- yellow and blue colored paper;
- sequins;
- green corrugated paper;
- culinary napkin;
- rhinestones;
- beads;
- glue stick;
- braid with an ornament;
- printed inscription of congratulations on Easter;
- chicken and eggs pattern.
Master Class:
- Fold a sheet of cardboard in half, stick a sheet of blue paper on its front so that it is 5 mm less than the base on all sides.
- Cut the napkin in half and glue it to the bottom of the card. To make the work look neat, apply glue only to the whole part of this workpiece, you do not need it on the openwork.
- Place an egg pattern on the wrong side of a piece of wallpaper, cut it out of this material, and then decorate by gluing a straight braid, and on either side of it - a wavy one. Attach beads, sequins, or other decorations, if available.
- This blank must be glued to the front of the postcard, on top of the napkin, on its integral part. It is very interesting to make scrapbooking cards for Easter. To make this further, you need to cut out 2 chickens from yellow paper in a mirror image. These birds are directly related to Easter, as well as congratulations on the holiday.
- You need to print it out on a printer or write it by hand and glue it to the top of your creation. Chicks must be fixed on the bottom, after making them eyes.
Easter crafts and gifts
You can decorate the house, give these gifts to friends and loved ones.
To make such bulky eggs, first cut out several blanks according to the template - for each of different colored paper, you can use the rest of the wallpaper.
Now bend each part in half, gluing several in pairs, then - together.
Fabric eggs will transfer the warmth of the craftswoman's hands, decorate any home or become a souvenir that you can carry with you.
To make such a wonderful presentation, you will need:
- felt in two colors;
- egg pattern;
- threads;
- braid;
- synthetic winterizer;
- two buttons in the form of a heart;
- needle.
Cut an egg out of felt; this will be the back of the souvenir. For the front, you need material in two colors. On the lilac blank, stitch a strip of green. Now this front side needs to be decorated with braid, buttons, symbolic embroidery of the letters "ХВ", which means "Christ is risen".
Now fold this front and back side of the egg, seam the two pieces over the edge using embroidery thread or other thick thread.
Leave the side free for now, put a synthetic winterizer or cotton wool here, now sew to the end.
As you can see, you can decorate Easter eggs with fabric bows, ribbons. Do not forget to sew a loop of ribbon or thread, by which you will hang such a fabric item.
An egg with a secret will also make a wonderful Easter craft.
Inside you can put a note with a comic wish or some small souvenir. Before that, take:
- egg;
- a needle;
- food coloring;
- a piece of paper;
- pen;
- small sweets (nuts, sweets).
Use a needle to make a hole in the shell, pour the liquid into the container.
To make it easier to extract the contents, you can make holes on two opposite sides of the egg. Rinse the inside and outside of the shell, leave it to dry. Now you need to paint the egg, wait until this layer dries. Write a note on a small piece of paper, roll it into a thin tube, put it through the hole in the egg.
If the notch is slightly larger, then place small candies and nuts here. Make several of these eggs, place them in a beautiful basket or dish. Let the guests take one souvenir for themselves, they will probably be interested to know what is inside? Such crafts for Easter can be made with children, they will surely like the process and the result. The shells will also be needed for other crafts for Easter, here's what else you need for it:
- colour pencils;
- black marker;
- White paper;
- scotch tape with a printed pattern;
- small twigs and flowers;
- milk plastic bottle cap.
- Before making an Easter craft out of eggs, you need to stock up on shells. Therefore, when you cook Easter cake or other dishes, gently break the testicles so that you get even notches. These blanks need to be washed and dried.
- With a black marker in hand, draw the features of the rabbit's face, and red for its blush. If the child is small, he can break the shells, but you can well entrust him with the next work.
- Take paper and cut out a rectangle 2 cm wide, 7 cm long, or your favorite child will do it. This blank must be folded in half and the bunny ears must be cut out of it. Place these ears on the top of the egg and glue them with colored tape.
- If the leaves are artificial flowers, then just put them in the resulting vase. If real, pour some water into the container, then place the plants here.
- Place eggs in inverted plastic lids to prevent the rounded object from rolling off the surface.
These are such wonderful crafts for Easter, the master class told in detail about the creative process.
Children will surely enjoy sculpting from salt dough, especially since other souvenirs on this topic can be made from this material.
For such colorful Easter crafts you will need:
- flour;
- water;
- salt;
- dye;
- wooden stick;
- ribbon.
Mix salt with the same amount of flour, gradually pour in water here to make a tough dough. If you want the finished products to be bright, add dye.
Roll out the dough with a rolling pin, cut the blanks out of it with a knife.
To make the medallions even, attach a template to the surface of the layer, cut along it. Using chopsticks, make holes in the upper part of the blanks, bake them in the oven for 60–90 minutes at 60–80 °. Cool the crafts, thread the ribbons to be tied into the holes.
How to make a pussy willow twig with your own hands, a composition from it?
If this tree does not grow nearby or you do not want to break it off, then make another type of decoration for Easter. On Palm Sunday, many acquire such an attribute. The willow branches stand in the water for a long time, so they are kept at home until Easter or longer.
If you want to admire them for an even longer time, then the following master classes will help you.
To recreate such a spring painting, you will need:
- dry twigs or wire and brown paper;
- cotton wool;
- cardboard;
- a sheet of blue paper;
- a piece of shiny braid;
- glue gun;
- glue;
- scissors.
Glue a slightly smaller blue paper onto a piece of cardboard so that a frame forms around the edges. Glue the twigs onto the resulting canvas slightly obliquely. If they are not at hand, then wrap the wire or wooden sticks with strips of brown paper.
Form the buds of the willow out of the pieces of cotton wool. Glue them onto the twigs. Tie the ribbon with a bow, attach it at the bottom of the exposition.
If you are looking for kids crafts for Easter, Palm Sunday, the following idea will work as well.
To make the branches look as realistic, take:
- corrugated paper of white and brown color;
- wire;
- cotton wool.
Cut the white corrugated paper into 5 cm squares. Place a cotton ball in the center of each. Wrap so that this soft material is inside the workpiece. Make some of these kidneys.
Place the first one on top, fix it with a piece of brown paper. Then place the second below, attach it to the stem in the same way. At the same time, cover the stem with the same strip.
Such wonderful twigs will turn out, you can decorate a room with them, admire the creation for a long time.
If you attach the testicles to the willow branches, you get a wonderful room decoration for Easter.
For such a creation, blanks made of foam or wood are suitable. They are painted, ribbons are tied, for which they are hung from branches.
But what other decoration for Easter (photos are attached) you can do with your own hands.
For a creative activity, you will use:
- a small beautiful basket;
- polystyrene, polystyrene or penoplex;
- floristic wire;
- several round-shaped candies;
- 3 quail eggs;
- floristic corrugated paper;
- Scotch;
- glue and hot glue gun;
- sisal;
- cotton pads;
- scissors;
- medical syringe;
- artificial twigs;
- rhinestones, beads for decoration.
Bend the wire to form a basket handle and wrap a strip of corrugated paper around it. From two pieces of wire of a smaller size and paper of other colors, form 2 more handles, connect them like this.
From Styrofoam or Styrofoam, cut a round blank to fit the inside of the basket and glue it over with green corrugated paper. Place sisal on top.
With a thin needle, poke a small hole on both sides of each quail egg, blow out the contents.
It is best to put a syringe into the hole, remove the liquid component from the egg using this medical instrument. Wash the inside of the shell, let the water drain. Form a nest from the sisal inside the basket and glue the three egg shells onto it.
To make candy tulips, cut the florist wire in three pieces. Bending one end into a loop, attach a round candy here. Do the same with the rest of the blanks.
Cut out rectangles from white corrugated paper, twist each one at the top, put it on a flower-shaped candy, fix these petals with glue.
As you can see, a petal and a strip are cut out of green corrugated paper, which is wrapped around the stem of the tulip.
To make willow twigs, a cotton pad must be divided into two halves, then each into four parts. Do the same with other blanks.
Sections of floristic wire must be bent on one side in the form of a loop, wrap these parts with cotton pieces. Cut oval blanks out of brown corrugated paper. Place them on top of each bud, secure with a strip of corrugated black paper.
These small pieces are then attached to a large piece of floral wire using the same brown tape. This is how a willow twig turns out.
It remains to make a few, stick them in the center of the basket.
These are Easter crafts, postcards you can make with your children. The guys will find this process even more interesting if they watch a thematic video with you. For example, one in which a little girl makes testicles for this holiday from paper.
In the second video, adults will find out what else they can make Easter-themed crafts.
In conclusion, a very interesting idea awaits you, which will tell you how to make an openwork egg basket for Easter from a plastic cup.
