Easter Crafts
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Celebrate the changing seasons with an assortment of Easter crafts. Whether you're looking for a fun activity to enjoy with your family or suggestions for unique handmade holiday decor, LoveToKnow Crafts is here to help.
Easter Crafts: Crosses
Easter is, first and foremost, a religious holiday, one of the most sacred days for Christians. Remember that fact by crafting some crosses this Easter season.
A cross can be made of many different materials, from twigs gathered from the yard to craft sticks or popsicle sticks.
If you have access to a selection of long but somewhat skinny twigs, you can make a large cross that would be great to hang by the door or over your fireplace. Just collect all the twigs and gather then together in two bundles. Cut them down to a uniform size if necessary (remember that the cross bar should be shorter than the vertical piece) and tie together with wire, grapevine or raffia. Position the bundles so they make a cross shape and secure them together.
You could also make smaller versions of this craft for pins to wear to church (just glue a jewelry pin to the back), attached to a ribbon or raffia piece to make napkin rings or even used as part of your Easter card decorations.
For a craft stick cross, take two stick and glue them together in a cross shape. Decorate by gluing on beads or glitter or write or draw on the sticks with markers if you like.
A quick and easy cross craft involves cutting a cross shape out of card stock. Decorate with Easter stickers or drawings if you like, or write your favorite scripture on the cross. To make it last longer, cover with clear shelf lining paper. Use as a bookmark.
Speaking of bookmarks, you can also crochet a great cross shaped bookmark.
Easter Crafts: Fuzzy Friends
Animals are another great theme for Easter crafts. Consider all the cute baby animals that seem to come around every spring, not to mention the little chicks, lambs and bunnies that are the traditional symbols of Easter.
Why not craft up a few cute beanbag-style animals to put in the Easter baskets? It’s really easy to do.
Look online, or even in your computer’s clip art collection, for printable shapes of cute little animals. You want your outline to be crisp and not have a whole lot of detail, because you’re going to be using this as a pattern to make your animal.
Here is a basic bunny head outline, or just search for a printable of the shape you are looking for.
Print the pattern out and cut out of felt or fleece of the appropriate color. Remember that you’ll need two pieces to make a full animal. You’ll also need beans or stuffing to fill your animal, eyes or beads to use as eyes, and any other decoration you might like, such as a piece of ribbon to tie a bow around the animal’s neck.
Use craft glue or your sewing machine to adhere the two pieces together. Leave an opening so you can slide the beans in, then glue or sew closed and allow to dry. Decorate with eyes, a tail, feet, or whatever else you like.
Easter Crafts: Fun with Eggs
For lots of ideas on decorating real Easter eggs, check out Egg Decorating Ideas. If you prefer to use fake eggs in your decorating, here are some ideas for you.
You can either buy plastic eggs and decorate them yourself or you can purchase pre-decorated eggs to use in other craft projects.
If you choose to decorate your own eggs, you have many of the same options you would with regular eggs: painting, decoupage, stickers, glitter, etc.
Use the eggs to decorate a wreath (you can glue them on if they don’t have hangers attached when you buy them), a garland or just a pretty basket or bowl on the table. Instead of that scary bright green grass, though, why not consider raffia for your grass? It’s more modern and pretty and you can use it for other projects when Easter is over.
If you're looking for something especially dazzling, you can even knit and felt and Easter basket. Any kind of eggs would look amazing in this simple basket, and you can use them year-round to store remote controls, candy or anything else you like.
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