Glittering Easter Eggs and Baskets

This is another Easter craft we made today. It has 2 parts, the basket and the eggs. I think this craft is quite common. We did this last year too.


Part I: THE BASKET

Materials needed:

1. Paper Cup
2. 1 strip of Cardboard paper, 20cm x 3 cm
3. Crepe papers
4. 2 Fasteners

How to do it:

• Punch 2 holes on the ends of the cardboard strip.
• Punch 2 holes on the opposite side of the paper cup.
• Use the fasteners to hold the cardboard strip to the cup, thru the hole.
• Cut crepe paper into thin strips.
• Stuff the cup using the crepe paper. That is to cushion the egg later.

Note:

You can colour the cup and handle if you want but my son is too lazy to do it. He just colour the handle (cardboard strip) and left the cup as it is.

Part II: THE EGG

When we did this last year, we painted the eggs. Since my son is older and can handle glitters better we will be using that to decorate the eggs instead of painting it.

Materials needed:

• Egg
• Glue
• Glitters

How to do it:

1. To remove eggs from shell, gentle make a hole on the top and bottom of shells.
2. Blow on one end and the egg will be push out from the other end.
3. Don't waste the egg! Try using them to make Nori Egg Roll with Carrot and Spring Onion.
4. Make sure you rinse the inside of the egg.
5. Pour some glitters on a paper plate.
6. Put glue all over the egg.
7. Row the egg over the glitters to let the glitters stick to the glue.
8. Set aside to dry.
9. When it's dried, put it in the paper cup basket to rest on the nice cushion of crepe paper!

Have fun!

Easter Egg Bunny

Easter in around the corner. As usual, we are sure to do some crafts relating to the festival. What do we have for Easter? Rabbits and eggs! Why not an Egg Bunny?

Materials needed:

• 1 empty whole egg shell
• Glue
• Cotton wool
• 1 pair wriggle eyes
• Some cardboard cut into shape of ears, buck tooth (not shown here) and feet

How to do it:

1. To remove eggs from shell, gentle make a hole on the top and bottom of shells.
2. Blow on one end and the egg will be push out from the other end.
3. Don't waste the egg! I'm using it to make Steam Egg Custard.
4. Make sure you rinse the inside of the egg.
5. Put glue all over the egg.
6. Paste cotton wool all over.
7. Paste the feet at the bottom and the ears on top (but of course lah!)
8. Don't forget to colour the inside of the ears.
9. Stick on the eyes and buck tooth.

Now you have a Easter Egg Bunny!

Baa Baa White Sheep

I love this craft! It's soooooo cute! I think kids will love it too! I wanted to be cheeky and buy those coloured cotton balls but I couldn't find them in the shops here. So the sheep stays white.

Materials needed:

• Toilet paper tube
• 4 cotton buds
• Cotton balls
• Tissue paper
• Scotch-tape
• Glue

How to do it:

1. Tape the cotton buds to the tube as legs.
2. Put some glue on the inside of the tube to hold the tissue paper we will be using.
3. Use a few tissue paper to stuff the tube, leaving some outside as the face of the sheep.
4. Dab cotton balls with glue and stick it to the tube.
5. Repeat till the whole tube is covered with cotton balls.
6. Use a maker to draw the eyes.

Now you have a woolly sheep! Isn't it cute?

Stick the cotton buds to the tube as legs

Ice Cream Sticks Container

This is the 2nd craft we did yesterday. It's easy and useful. There's two part to the craft if you don't have a container.


PART I
Material needed:

• Cardboard, our measurements
• - Main~ h: 14cm X w: 40cm (leaving 2cm for both h & w for joining)
• - Base~ 10cm in diameter
• Glue

How to do it:

1. Join the main cardboard into a cylinder.
2. Cut one side of the cylinder 2cm from the edge in strips, leaving about 0.7cm thick.
3. Fold the strips inwards.
4. Glue the base to the strips.
5. Wait for it to dry and you have your own container.

PART II
Materials needed:

• Container, you can use empty plastic milk bottle, cut into desired size or the above self-made container.
• Strong double sided tape
• Ice cream sticks

How to do it:

1. Paste double sided tape on the top & bottom edges and the middle of container.
2. Stick the ice cream sticks to the container till it's all covered.

Now you can keep you stuff in it.

Door Hanger

We have not being doing crafts since Chinese New Year. I thought of 2 easy crafts (yesterday), so I thought we could do it since it's rather easy.

Materials you need:

• Cardboard, cut into the the above shape. (if you want the template, email me. I'll send it to you.)
• Colouring medium (we used colour pencil)
• Printed alphabets for pasting (you can writing, my boy is lazy to write)

How to do it:

1. Mommy cut the cardborad into the the above shape. (if you want the template, email me. I'll send it to you.)
2. Decorate the cardboard anyway you want it. Stickers and ink stamps are other good options.
3. When you have finished, you can hang it on the door.

Easy?