What can be done from paper for Easter. Easter crafts. Video: Easter composition - do-it-yourself nest with eggs and a bird

They will decorate any home for Easter, and will also be a great gift for your loved ones.

Here you will find original crafts, many of which can be made with children, as they are quite simple.

Turn on your imagination and try to make something really unusual and beautiful for the holiday.

Easter themed crafts: eggs in the shape of hamburgers

You will need:

boiled eggs

Markers (non-toxic)

Color paper (color: yellow)

Corrugated paper or felt (color: green)

PVA glue

Scissors.

1. Draw a wide strip with a brown marker just below the middle of the egg. Allow a few minutes for the marker to dry.

2. Draw a thin line over the brown stripe with a red marker and also let the marker dry.

3. Cut out small triangles from yellow paper.

4. Glue the triangles to the egg, leaving the same distance between them.

5. Cut a small strip of green crepe paper to wrap the egg. Using PVA glue, glue it, making folds.

6. Draw white spots (seeds) on the top of the egg and you will have an Easter hamburger.

DIY Easter crafts (photo): eggs in the shape of minions

You will need:

Plastic eggs (preferably yellow and blue)

black electrical tape

black marker

PVA glue

Toy plastic eyes (you can also draw them with a marker).

1. Separate the blue and yellow eggs and connect them so that the bottom is one color and the top is another.

2. Cut a thin strip of black electrical tape and stick it to the egg.

3. Glue plastic eyes over the tape.

4. Use a marker to draw hair and a smile.

Video instruction

Crafts for Easter (video): a huge Easter egg in the form of a minion

Easter Egg Craft: Super Mario Eggs

Carefully: if you are using real eggs, then you can not eat them after coloring, since acrylic paints are used.

You will need:

Acrylic paint and brush

simple pencil

* Hard boil eggs.

* To draw faces, use a simple pencil. If drawing faces is difficult for you, you can choose other, simpler characters from the popular video game.

* After applying the first word of each color, let the paint dry for a couple of hours and apply a second coat.

* For small details, use a felt-tip pen (marker).

Original crafts for Easter: eggs in the form of emoticons

You will need:

Real (cool) or fake eggs (plastic or papier-mâché)

* If you use real eggs, then it is better not to use them after painting.

Acrylic paint and brush

Markers

1. Paint the eggs yellow and let them dry.

2. Start drawing different emojis using both paint and markers.

Craft on the theme "Easter" do it yourself: piñata egg

First you need to make a papier-mâché ball. Here's how it's done:

Next, we decorate the ball with colored or corrugated paper, with chopped fringe.

Easter: DIY crafts (master class)

Basket with eggs painted with sponges

You will need:

White cardboard or thick white paper

brown cardboard

Acrylic paints or gouache

small sponges

Scissors

simple pencil

PVA glue

Brown marker.

1. On white cardboard, draw the shape of a basket with a simple pencil and cut it out.

You can find a simple drawing of a basket on the Internet and print it out, then trace the shape of the basket on cardboard and cut it out.

2. Glue the basket to another dense sheet of a different shade.

3. Cut eggs out of several sponges.

4. Prepare paints of different colors.

5. Put the paints on a palette or paper plate, start dipping your sponges into the paint and apply the "seal" over the glued basket.

6. Cut out several short strips from brown cardboard. Glue the strips to the basket.

7. You can draw a pen with a brown felt-tip pen or pencil.

Crafts for Easter with your own hands from improvised means: a colorful Easter tree

You will need:

Colored artificial feathers

small branches

Artificial eggs of different sizes (preferably plastic, because they are light)

* you can use toy, plasticine and small wooden eggs.

Hot glue or clear tape

1. Glue the feathers to the branches using hot glue or transparent tape.

2. Cut the tape into small pieces and attach them to the eggs using glue or tape

* You can also create various other decorations from colored paper, cardboard or felt and glue ribbons or thread to them to hang on branches.

3. Decorate the branches as you wish.

Crafts for Easter step by step: eggs in the form of fruits and vegetables

You will need:

Eggs (natural or artificial)

Green felt

Hot glue

Egg paint and felt-tip pens or acrylic paint and brush.

1. Color the eggs the color of your desired fruits and vegetables.

Strawberry: first apply red paint, let dry and then apply white dots.

Watermelon: apply dark green paint, let dry and apply stripes of light green or yellow paint on top.

A pineapple: paint the egg yellow, let it dry, and apply stripes with a red or orange felt-tip pen.

Corn: paint the egg yellow, let it dry and add white spots.

2. For each fruit or vegetable, cut out leaves of the appropriate shape from green felt (see images) and glue them to the eggs.

* For pineapple leaves, make a cut at the bottom of each leaf, cross the ends and glue the leaf to the egg, then add the rest of the leaves.

Beautiful crafts for Easter: Easter egg from buttons and pins

You will need:

Styrofoam egg (found at any craft or stationery store)

Tailor's pins

multicolored buttons

Satin ribbons

Hot glue.

1. Pin the buttons to the Styrofoam egg so that it is completely covered.

2. Glue a ribbon bow.

Crafts from beads for Easter (step by step)

You will need:

Styrofoam egg

Sequins (various sizes available)

Pins "carnations"

Narrow tape.

Simply string the sequins and beads onto a pin, and insert the pin into the Styrofoam egg. Cover the whole egg in this way.

DIY Easter crafts: papier-mâché egg

You will need:

Balloon

corrugated paper

plain white paper

Hot glue

Flour or starch to make a paste.

1. Inflate the balloon first, it should not be too big.

* To make it easier to work with the ball, hang it on a rope or place it on a jar or lid of a suitable size.

2. Cut white and corrugated (crepe) paper into squares.

3. It's time to make a paste from flour or starch. Here's how to do it:

4. Start smearing the squares in the paste and stick them on the ball in random order. Cover the entire ball with squares.

* Make a few more of these layers and let the craft dry.

5. Remove the ball.

6. Draw a window in the paper egg and cut it out.

7. You can decorate the window however you like. Use colored or corrugated paper, buttons and other materials and glue them with PVA glue or hot glue. Add a ribbon on top, which can also be glued with hot glue.

Inside the craft, you can place Easter eggs on artificial grass, a chicken, or other suitable decorations.

Crafts for Easter from threads: airy Easter eggs

You will need:

Styrofoam egg

Threads of different colors

Glue and brush

Tailor's pins

Food film.

1. Wrap a styrofoam egg in cling film.

2. Start piercing the foam with pins as shown in the image (large and small oval).

3. Start wrapping the egg with thread from one row of pins to another, leaving a window where the small oval of pins is (on the side).

4. Lubricate the workpiece well with glue and leave the glue to dry.

5. Remove foam.

6. Now you need to make the second half of the egg. To do this, wrap exactly half of the egg with thread and repeat steps 4 and 5.

7. Glue both halves, you can tie a tape to the gluing place (it can also be fixed with glue in some places).

Crafts for Easter (photo): Easter composition

You will need:

light cup

Hot glue

Fork or thick wire

artificial grass and color

Decorations (eggs, chickens, leaves).

Christians consider Easter the brightest holiday of the year. Easter cards and eggs, handmade crafts will help create a festive mood and special comfort in the house. In this collection you will also find interesting gift ideas for friends and family.

Easter egg decoration

For decoration, both colored and unpainted eggs can be used. Considering that glue is used in almost all ways of decorating Easter eggs, it will no longer be possible to eat such eggs. Therefore, it is better to use blown eggs that can be stored for years. In the event that you want to use Easter eggs for food, use raw egg white instead of glue.

How to blow out an egg? To do this, pierce it on both sides with a needle, then pierce the yolk with a long needle or wire so that it flows out more easily. Gently blow the egg with a straw into a plate (you can also use a syringe).

When working with eggshells, there is always a risk that it will crack. The original solution to this problem is offered by the Land of Masters website. In order for the shell not to crack during decoration, it is necessary to fill the blown egg with polyurethane foam. For detailed instructions, see the link.

The easiest way to decorate Easter eggs is to use store-bought or homemade stickers. Cut out Easter-themed pictures from a magazine or print from the Internet and small in size so that they can lie flat on the surface of the egg without wrinkles. For example, how.

Apply PVA glue or special decoupage glue to the egg, glue the picture, you can cover the picture with another layer of glue on top. Let dry.

In the decoupage technique, you can use napkins with beautiful spring drawings or patterns. Cut out pictures from tissue paper. It is not necessary to do this very evenly, you can leave small white edges, because they will still be invisible on the egg. Peel off the top layer of the patterned napkin, you won't need the other two layers. Lubricate the surface of the egg with glue or egg white. Carefully smoothing out the folds, glue the cut out pattern or pattern. Apply another layer of glue on top. Let dry.

For Easter decoupage, it is better to take white eggs, because the pattern looks brighter on them.

For decoration, you can use the shell of colored eggs. Use PVA glue to stick it on your Easter egg.

You can also glue Easter eggs with bright floss threads in contrasting colors.

Lace, ribbons, braid

Beaded

For detailed instructions on how to decorate an Easter egg with beads, see the Country of Masters website.

You can decorate the eggs with ribbons, instructions.

Children's crafts from eggs

Kids will love the idea of ​​turning Easter eggs into funny little animals and people. Read more on how to do this.

Easter baskets

How to make a festive Easter basket from fabric is described on the Bulgarian site Krokotak.com.

From salt dough or from paste (clay) hardening in air for modeling, you can make an Easter basket in the form of a nest. To make this Easter gift, you will also need tree branches. More details -.

Easter cards

Interesting postcards are made with pistachio shells: if you paint them with paints, you get cute Easter eggs. Stick them on a postcard, cut out an Easter basket from paper. DIY craft for Easter is ready!

To make this simple postcard, you will need scrapbooking paper, colored or white cardstock, glue, a paper cutter, and ribbon and ribbon cutters.

To learn how to make this Easter souvenir with your own hands, watch the video at the link (left column, top, WATCH THE VIDEO). The video is in English, but everything is clear and without words. The template of the egg itself can be downloaded.

You can embroider an Easter egg on cardboard with colored threads. Poke holes in the cardboard first with an awl. This Easter craft looks very original.

Another option is using colored threads, as well as ribbons and yarn. Make an egg template. Cut out an egg, apply a layer of glue on it, and glue strips of colored yarn on top. Cut off the protruding ends of the threads with scissors.

Easter chickens

The Bulgarian site Krokotak.com offers five options for making Easter hens and chickens. The main advantage of these crafts from Krokotak is that they are quick and easy to make.

Download the template for this Easter craft for kids from the link. Cut it out, let the child color the chicken, glue it together with him. Place a colored egg inside the Easter hen.

Another option is a chicken pecking at grains. Download and print the paper craft template from the link. As in the previous version, cut out the template and let the child color it.

And here's what can come out of a carton from under the eggs. You can find the instructions at the link.

How to make such a fun company, read.

You can make an Easter chicken out of an egg carton. Details.

Easter tree

Decorating a house for Easter with an Easter tree is, first of all, a Western European tradition. This custom is especially widespread in Austria and Germany. The Easter tree is intended to symbolize the Paradise Tree of Life and, perhaps, completely different shapes and sizes.

It is best to use willow branches for its manufacture. Place stones, pebbles, floral foam, moss, earth in a wide-mouthed vase or small bucket. You can simply put willow branches in a vase of water. The main decoration for the tree should, of course, be Easter eggs.

To make such a decoration is quite simple. First you need to blow out the egg. Take a beautiful ribbon, fold it in half, make a small loop on top, tying a knot. Use this loop to hang an Easter egg on a tree. Now thread both ends of the ribbon through the egg. Put on a bead from below and tie another knot. Trim the ends of the ribbon with scissors.

Good afternoon, dear needlewomen!

Do we love holidays because we expect something good and fun? But a special thrill causes a special and bright triumph, this Easter.

On Easter It is customary to give small Easter souvenirs to loved ones: decorated eggs, Easter cakes, Easter baskets, Easter toys, for example, a bunny.

A handmade gift on this bright day will be especially valuable. Your child will surely enjoy making an Easter souvenir with you. We have selected for you interesting and simple Easter souvenirs that you can make with your own hands.

DIY Easter basket

All believers are waiting for Easter with trepidation, this is the brightest and purest holiday. There are many Easter souvenirs in stores, but it will be much nicer to receive a gift made by yourself. We invite you to make a simple Easter basket with your own hands. Master class from the Best video channel.

To make an Easter basket, we need:

• Disposable Sauce Container
• Ribbon
• Lace
• tulle
• Cardboard for pen

So, prepare such a disposable container.

Cut off the lid of the container

Cut out the bottom of the container

Lubricate the walls with glue,

Wrap it with satin ribbon.

Now decorate the container with openwork, grease it with glue on the reverse side,

and glue the openwork ribbon around the circumference of the Easter basket.

To form the handle of the basket, cut a strip of cardboard, wrap it with a satin ribbon and put it on glue.

Your beautiful Easter egg basket is ready! Put a piece of tulle and a beautiful egg inside.

Happy Easter!

Also watch the video on how to make an Easter basket with your own hands.

Easter basket video

Easter egg made of threads

An Easter egg made of threads is a fragile and beautiful souvenir for this holiday.

You can put small chickens in them. Master class by Elena Ozhegova.

• Styrofoam egg
• Polyethylene film
• Needles
• Cotton or silk thread
• Glue or liquid glass
• tassel

First, we cover the foam blank with polyethylene, since the threads can stick to the foam, then we stick the needles, as shown in the photo.

Then we wrap the egg with threads in a chaotic manner.

We get the first open half of the Easter egg. For the second, one row of needles is needed. Now glue the two halves together.

The junction of the halves can be tied with a beautiful ribbon.

Watch the video on how to make a craft for Easter

Easter craft video

DIY Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny with Kinder Surprise is a great gift for a child for Easter.

In order to make an interesting and simple Easter towel bunny, we will need:

• Towel
• Two rubber bands for money
• Ribbon
• Kinder Surprise
• toy eyes

Put the towel in front of you

Roll it into a tube on both sides.

Bend the resulting tourniquet and form a muzzle with rubber bands from money.

Tie a ribbon around the rabbit's head.

Tie a bow at the back of the ribbon.

Put Kinder Surprise in the rabbit's tummy.

A beautiful Easter Bunny is ready!

Watch the Make it easy channel video tutorial on how to make an Easter Bunny.

easter bunny video

DIY Easter Bunny

You can also make a simple craft for Easter - this is an Easter bunny from a sock and cereal.

Easter craft supplies:

• Groats
• Threads
• Sock
• Scissors
• Ribbon
• felt-tip pen

After watching the video below, you can easily make an easy craft for Easter with your own hands.

DIY Easter Bunny video

Text prepared by: Veronica

Making crafts for Easter with your own hands is a long tradition. This is not just needlework, the life-affirming essence of the Bright Holiday is expressed in home-made Easter souvenirs. That is why it is customary to give Easter crafts, and you cannot refuse if they are given away like this. If possible, you just need to give at least something corresponding to Easter symbols to those you meet on the street: this holiday is older than any of the religions recognizing it and means that all good beliefs have something in common. What exactly? Take your time, everything has its time, we will discuss, we will not bypass.

The basis of the holiday

How to make Easter crafts with your own hands, no canons have been established, neither secular nor church, the little thing would be funny, kind and cheerful. But by the very essence of Easter, its main element is always an egg, to which, perhaps, a meaningful entourage is also added. A harmonious combination of parts of the Easter composition according to the general idea will convey the spirit of the holiday and create a favorable mood.

Easter eggs don't have to be natural; Easter eggs - masterpieces of applied art of world significance - are well known. But the natural base - a boiled egg or shell - is certainly decorated. The photo shows only some examples of amateur decoration of Easter eggs: painting, appliqué, inlay, decoupage, beading, tying, covering with ribbons, etc. Lovers manage to decorate Easter eggs, and not bad, even with pasta. Now such seemingly non-Easter techniques as quilling and kanzashi are widely used, but they apparently do not contradict the spirit of the holiday: their origins are in the same place as our Easter, only on the basis of local conditions. It is possible to combine several techniques in one craft.

Note: Kansas decor has nothing to do with the state of Arkansas, its capital Kansas City, or the Indians who inhabited this area before the arrival of Europeans. Kanzashi is a Japanese technique.

The basis of the Easter egg decor is color and pattern; possibly vegetable. Images of people and animals are the latest stratification. Easter encompasses much more than a single being or person, or all that is, persons and beings. Therefore, it is customary to paint Easter eggs with your own hands in compliance with some specific rules, see fig.

It would be absolutely legal to just paint real eggs, pos. 1; perhaps with a simple irregular pattern in the spirit of the holiday. This is available to everyone, even those who do not have artistic taste and skill, see below. Those who can draw can be advised to depict traditional (folk) spring patterns, pos. 2 and 3; a golden background, symbolizing the source of life - the Sun - is more than appropriate. Those who understand the intricacies of esotericism, witchcraft, etc. can display sacred geometric patterns, also traditional or of a general meaning, pos. 4 and 5. But - only good ones! Wishing evil on Easter, albeit secretly, will turn against yourself. Finally, those and other semantic layers can be freely combined, pos. 6, if only everything together was for good.

history of the holiday

So what kind of holiday is Easter? Our Resurrection of Christ and the Jewish day of deliverance from the Egyptian yoke - Pesach - did not arise from scratch. Easter was celebrated long before Christ, and he himself with his disciples too; On Passover, Jehovah killed the firstborn of Egypt, letting Pharaoh know: do not keep the Jews, let them leave.

Easter was originally an agricultural holiday of paramount importance for spring sowing. and was celebrated in the same age as ancient Egypt - Sumer. By the end of the Stone Age, agriculture had already been developed in the foothill oases, which soon became overpopulated. Part of the population was driven out to the fertile but arid plains; those who survived and gave rise to civilization were those who had the opportunity to provide irrigation of sown areas, but in all respects it was more difficult than digging a canal from a mountain stream in the field. It was the need to coordinate joint efforts to survive that gave rise to state mechanisms.

In Egypt, crops were guaranteed by the floods of the Nile, whose sources are in the equatorial zone with a stable climate. The sources of the Tigris and Euphrates, which irrigate the homeland of the Sumerian culture, Mesopotamia (or Mesopotamia) are near the northern border of the subtropics, and it was much more difficult to guess the time of sowing here. The Sumerians had to strain all their powers of observation, ingenuity and lay the foundations of astronomy in order to eventually derive an algorithm for calculating the start date of sowing: the first Sunday immediately after the first spring full moon, i.e. the first full moon after the spring equinox. They established this pattern no later than 3500 BC. e; some scientists believe that the Sumerians already knew the date of the spring sowing holiday, and their predecessors learned to determine it approx. for 6000 years b.c. e.

In the future, the development of agricultural technology, climate change and astronomical factors (for example, the precession of the earth's axis) shifted the timing of agricultural work, made it possible to expand the area of ​​agriculture and reduce the dependence of yields on climatic factors. Nevertheless, among the Semitic peoples, the day of the beginning of sowing remained the main holiday of the year. Its original meaning was forgotten, but Easter retained the meaning of the holiday of rebirth and the triumph of life. The historical account then went not by years, but by events, and it is not surprising that the most important of them, in the absence of a common date for the beginning of the chronology and a written organized historiography, turned out to be tied to Easter.

The Jews borrowed from the secret Egyptian cult, accessible only to the priests of the highest initiation, monotheism, and made it public property. The new vision of the unity of all things provided more opportunities for the development of the individual and society than the previous pantheons of deities with their mutual squabbles and love affairs. Having grown out of monotheism, Christianity adopted Easter; more precisely, it could not get rid of the holiday of the rebirth of life, but its date began to be calculated in accordance with the same astronomical principle, but according to changed rules: Christ, according to the Gospels, was crucified on the Jewish Passover (Pesach), and resurrected three days later. The clergymen, who were pagan in origin, did not touch the symbols and attributes of Easter at all, and even tried to sum up the foundations of their teaching under them: if it is necessary to give on this day, then where, first of all, if not to the temple?

Note: The popularity and vitality of Easter was also facilitated by the fact that any more or less sane atheist recognizes the role of religion in the development of human society rather positive, and certainly will not object to the common holiday of life for all.

About the date of Easter

In well-known sources (eg Wikipedia), the principle of calculating the date of Easter is formulated as follows: the first Sunday after the spring new moon. Here is an inaccuracy that allowed Christians to "get rid" of Pesach and each of the Christian churches to compose their Paschalia. If, for example, the spring new moon fell on Wednesday, then what, next Sunday is already Easter? No, you need to wait until the new moon after March 21 falls on the night from Saturday to Sunday, which then will be Easter. The date of Easter will change from year to year. within March 23 - May 2. The closest thing to the Sumerian feast of the sowing is Orthodox Easter. The Anglican Church tried in 1948 to make Easter a non-transferable holiday by setting it on the second Sunday in April. This date is accepted by some Protestant and Evangelical sects.

Easter symbols

Well, what's the deal, making Easter souvenirs? A little more, you need to understand their symbolic meaning, so that the composition comes out pleasing to the eye and harmonious in spirit. Superstitions are superstitions, but everything must be put together so that it is simply joyful to look at.

Easter compositions, as mentioned above, are formed around the egg. The beliefs of the peoples who created the first centers of civilization included world egg as a symbol of the rebirth of life. And Aristotle, who already lived in a fairly developed time, cited as an example of dialectics: here, they say, a living bird is born from a dead egg. The fact that a stone-like egg is also a living object, people began to guess much later.

Note: Aristotle is the only one of the "pagan" thinkers whose teaching was recognized as completely true by the Christian church.

The next most important Easter symbols are the chicken that lays eggs and thereby ensures the continuation of life, and the chicken that hatches from the egg and continues it. They are followed by the tree of life in the form of an Easter tree hung with eggs or crowned with an egg (see below), which symbolizes future fruits. The Easter tree does not follow from the Christmas tree, on the contrary, the Christmas tree with decorations came from the Easter tree in a temperate climate: snow in the fields - harvest in the bins. The family of Easter symbols is completed by a round Easter basket, symbolizing the Sun, which gives life, and also a round egg stand, meaning the full Moon, the combination of which with the Sun gives impetus to its rebirth. Easter candles - a symbol is also desirable, and in some churches it is obligatory; here the symbolism is completely transparent: light, the light of life.

The Anglo-Saxon and Romanesque peoples, who inherited a lot from the Celts with their druidic cult, unexpectedly found themselves among the Easter symbols ... a rabbit. This is pure relic of paganism. Druids, for their own reasons, independently learned to calculate the date of Easter Sunday, and simple Celts firmly believed that on the night before him, wild rabbits (namely, rabbits, not rabbits) ... lay eggs. Finding a rabbit egg was considered the greatest fortune.

Druidism was any kind of religion, but not a good one, but in our country this prejudice has not become more widespread for a curious reason: in English rabbit's eggs and rabbit's balls it is immediately clear that we are talking about completely different things, but both in Russian - "rabbit eggs" - it is impossible to get rid of ambiguity. Nevertheless, a cute and by no means evil Easter bunny (there are no wild rabbits in the boreal zone) will not spoil the Easter surroundings, and children will understand the complex symbolism of the egg more clearly.

Finally, the Easter wreath. He is already a descendant of Christmas, which is also of druidic origin, but is not prohibited by the church. Hanging it on the wall for Easter for a believer will not mean anathema and even penance, only a wreath for Easter should not contain needles, mistletoe, holly, holly, etc. elements of no Easter value. The Easter wreath should be round, preferably from willow branches, with flowers, greenery; highly desirable - with eggs (better - in a basket nest) and a chicken, emphasizing its sinlessness, see fig. a little higher.

We start needlework

Now you can get to work. It will go through the elements according to their value. We will try to focus more on crafts from improvised materials, not for the sake of saving, but in order to show vitality in the efficiency and fruitfulness of labor. The Sumerians believed that the world hatched from an egg, and we will start with it.

Easter eggs

The best basis for an Easter craft that is not eaten is the shell of a bird's egg. On sale you can find, in addition to chicken and quail, duck and goose eggs, which gives a fairly wide range of blank sizes. Guinea fowl eggs are remarkably strong: they do not always break when dropped from the table to the floor. Blanks for Easter souvenirs made from whole eggshells have a wonderful property: they easily accept any coloring method (see below), because the shell absorbs the dye.

It is not difficult to get an empty, seemingly whole, shell. This is done step by step as follows:

• A fresh raw egg needs to be rubbed between the palms of petroleum jelly, and when it is absorbed, rub the same again, this will give the shell strength;
• With the tip of a sharp knife, a thin nail or a hand gimlet, drill holes with a diameter of 2-3 mm on the poles of the egg;
• Put a thin sharp splinter (for example, a toothpick) into any of the holes, pierce the yolk and lightly chat the egg;
• Substitute a glass and blow out the contents into it, which will go into the dough, scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs;
• Pour hot water into the shell from a medical syringe, chat the shell, blow out the contents, do the same 2-3 more times.

Note: chicken eggs are best taken from poultry. In poultry farms, chickens are given a minimum of calcium to increase egg production, so factory eggs are not very durable.

It will be possible to paint an empty eggshell without painting only in a cold way (see below), but mini-banners are obtained from shells dyed in one tone, see fig. on right. The shell on a stick is fixed with drops of glue. Before putting the workpiece on the holder, you can put paper rolled up with tubes with good wishes into the shells.

How to paint eggs?

Homemade eggs for Easter (see below) are painted with any paint suitable for this material. Acrylic paints are universal: they lie on almost any surface, they are bright, durable, resistant, and allow the use of miniature technique. Only foam plastic has features, it is able to crumble or settle from any liquid that is not water. Therefore, the foam blank of the egg souvenir must be strung on a stick (there is already a hole for it in the float blanks), dip in PVA, let it dry completely and do the same procedure 1-2 more times. In addition to better adhesion to the paint, the PVA film will increase the strength of the workpiece.

You can paint natural eggs for Easter, or their shells-blanks, you can already boiled in a cold way or raw with boiling. According to tradition, eggs dyed cold with patterns are called Easter eggs, and eggs dyed with boiling are called Easter eggs. If an edible egg is dyed, natural, harmless dyes should be used. You can buy both food and special ones for Easter eggs, but it is possible to get by with natural food products.

How to paint eggs for Easter in a cold way is shown in fig. higher. “In a cold way” is relative here, because. eggs can be bathed in a solution of hot dye, the depth of tone depends on it. But to obtain a clear pattern, the solution should not be excessively hot. With boiling (see the next figure), the eggs are painted faster, but the patterns will not work when painting, they will need to be removed later. In any case, completely dried eggs after staining are rubbed between the palms with vegetable oil.

Note: it is undesirable to use isabella grape juice, boxwood berries, elderberry and bird cherry for dyeing eggs, they are not unconditionally useful products.

Patterns on Easter eggs do not have to be drawn, masterfully mastering the technique of miniature painting. It is possible to get by with a paper napkin, on which a pattern is applied in advance in a mirror image, see fig. on right. Use the above dyes in the maximum concentration. The pattern is applied to a slightly damp napkin so that it stretches and evenly sticks around the egg. At pos. 3 the egg is not boiled, the water should be just hot!

Note: along the way, we give another way to decorate natural and foam Easter eggs using a patterned paper napkin, writing paper and glue, see next. rice.

homemade eggs

Crafts for Easter in the form of eggs are made from a variety of materials. In high speed blanks for fishing floats made of foam; how to prepare them for painting, see above. Durable, not for one year, artificial Easter eggs are obtained from (plastic, cold porcelain). Colored plastic can be brewed at home in the kitchen; a serving is enough for 3-5 eggs, but the possibilities of this material are much wider: the properties of polymer clay make it possible to sculpt miniature relief compositions from it, see fig. Plastic perfectly accepts painting, varnishing, glue, it is easy to process, quite large products can be molded from it. All this together allows you to implement almost any idea of ​​Easter, and not only Easter decor.

The next kind of imitations of Easter eggs is made of paper. Graceful and quite durable paper Easter eggs are obtained using the modular origami technique. It's not as complicated as some people think; see some samples in the videos:

Video: do-it-yourself paper Easter eggs

Or here's another option, an egg made of colored corrugated paper, made in the same technique as some varieties. In addition to the ease of manufacture, a clear example of the adaptability of life will fit both Easter and New Year.

Video: original paper egg for Easter

Sometimes you want to get an artificial Easter egg large in order to place a complex composition in it. In this case, without mastering the secrets of high skill, you can use a balloon as a template. It is inflated and smeared with Vaseline. Further, at home, 2 options are possible: plastic and thread. After hardening of the workpiece in both cases, the ball is blown off and pulled out.

In the case of plastic, the eggs are prepared in the same way as a lampshade: a fresh batch (300-400 g) is rolled into a thin layer and the desired pattern is cut out in it. A ball is wrapped in a layer, waiting for the mass to solidify. They encrust, if so conceived, already in a frozen mass, so as not to knock down the shape and not pierce the ball. There are also options for sticking the mandrel with sausages or strips of plastic: with not frozen, they work with it, like with plasticine.

If a large egg for an Easter composition is made of openwork threads, then a difference appears in comparison with a lampshade, because. the opening will be from the face. To make the window in the egg look neat, the ball-mandrel needs to be taken stronger, gel. On the inflated template, the contour of the opening is drawn in advance and hooks from paper clips framed with plastic are glued on it with adhesive tape; “Vaseline” the workpiece only after that. Hooks will help to get a neat opening, as on the left in the figure, and circle the entire egg in a more or less regular pattern. Well, and then everything, as with a lampshade: the winding on the mandrel is impregnated with PVA with a soft brush or watered, and when it dries, the ball is removed. Cheap paper clips framed with polyethylene, PVA do not stick to textiles either.

Chicken and Hen

An Easter chick can be made with your own hands from pompoms and quite small, like a real one, so that it fits in the shell of a real egg, as on the right in Fig. higher; cm.

Video: do-it-yourself Easter chicken

We also give patterns for chicken and chicken, see next. rice. The hen is cut out of paper, and a cut foam egg blank is put on it, so the pattern needs to be scaled to fit the available material. The chicken can be both glued and sewn, stuffed with cotton wool or padding polyester, then it will be a long-term toy.

Tree

What a traditional Easter tree looks like is shown on the left in fig. The most desired basis is willow branches, which also goes back to the Sumerians: the abundant flowering of a moisture-loving tree in the arid Mesopotamia promised a good harvest. Theologians, linguists and literary critics have not yet figured out all the semantic layers of the biblical "... and hung their harps on the willows of Babylon."

But the deep meaning of Easter is much better expressed by the Easter garden of monotrees, in the center: fruits-eggs, as it were, grow out of the ancestral earth. A prerequisite for such a decision is the number of trees equal to the number of letters in the name of the holiday (“Easter” in English Easter) and thick juicy live grass.

The shoots for the foot of the trees of the Easter garden begin to grow 10-12 days before the holiday, mixing the seeds of wheat, oats, barley, watercress with dry, greasy soil. Take more seeds. Then the mixture is laid out in a bowl, watered abundantly and put the pots (bowls) on a sunny window in a warm room. Then it is watered every day, up to 3-4 times, so that the earth does not dry out at all. Also, several times a day, turn the dishes so that the grass grows evenly, and does not reach for the light in one direction.

If you give dill or parsley seeds to the sowing mixture and grow seedlings in eggshells, you can serve fresh greens in their original form for the Easter table, on the right in fig. And if the seeds of cereals are germinated in this way in a deep plate or bowl and watered not so plentifully so that the seedlings are stocky, you get an original desktop basket for Easter eggs with the same meaning as the Easter garden; Krashenki from it are offered to guests.

Basket

On a visit to Easter, you need, on the contrary, to go with a basket of edible eggs or Easter eggs. She, as mentioned above, needs a round one. The traditional type of Easter basket is a basket, pos. 1 in fig. Not necessarily braided; maybe glued from cardboard and decorated, for example, with quilling, pos. 2. Another option is a basket with sides made of bags, symbolizing abundance. Bags are now increasingly made in the form of rabbits / bunnies; how to sew a ribbon of bunny bags for the side of an Easter basket is shown in fig. right above. And for the smallest ones, a handbag from a disposable plate for one testicle will come in handy for the Easter trip. Nothing, adults will still understand that it is still round.

Let's think again about desktop baskets for Easter eggs. The most exquisite of these is considered to be a basket stylized as a bird's nest: there is a bird, although not a domestic chicken, and eggs, and a chicken (chick) is quite appropriate here. An example of an Easter composition with eggs in a nest and a bird, see the video below.

Video: Easter composition - do-it-yourself nest with eggs and a bird

And a desktop Easter basket that looks like a nest can be woven from newspaper tubes, see next. rice.

coasters

On a beautiful round stand, it is not a shame to lay a lonely testicle: the meaning of life is not in gluttony. An elegant stand for an Easter egg is made from cutting a cardboard tube and corrugated paper in just 6 steps, not counting the flower, see fig. You can get by with colored paper, cotton pads and felt, see the bottom row in fig.

The stand at the bottom right is not round, but is made in the form of a chicken, which is quite consistent with the spirit of the holiday and its symbolism.

And how to make an egg stand - a chicken from a cardboard egg tray, see next. rice.:

Rabbit, he is a hare

Children's crafts for Easter are generally better to do with a rabbit-bunny, especially since aesthetically it goes well with an egg; maybe that's where the Celtic belief comes from? A cutie like the one in the figure is clearer to the child's mind than the secret meaning of sacred patterns or eggs in ancient mythology, which is rooted in the depths of centuries. And the answer to the question to dad or mom: “Why is the bunny an egg?” it will be clearer, the basis before your eyes. Quite quickly, and, therefore, interestingly, an Easter bunny can be made right at the table from a napkin, see next. rice.

Looking at how easy the Easter Bunny turns out, I want to make the same, and better, myself. If yours is already older and has full control of his hands, look at the trail. rice. already a detailed master class on making an origami-style Easter paper bunny. It was invented by a wonderful master of this art, and Paolo the rabbit is now widely dispersed around the world.

How to fold an Easter bunny - paper origami

Note: for another option for making an Easter bunny, see the following. plot.

Video: do-it-yourself Easter bunny from an egg

Candles

So, we have already crept up to the light on the Easter table. Homemade (not for church services) egg-shaped Easter candles are on sale, but they are often made by hand by pouring melted paraffin or stearin into an empty shell and inserting a wick from a cotton yarn 1-2 mm thick, pos. 1 in fig. Here it is already possible to advise: carefully take away the top (nose) of a raw egg, having first filed it with a nail file or a needle file. The contents can be poured out without spilling the yolk.

The second method will give a candle "eternal", not sagging. More precisely, an oil lamp: we empty a raw egg through 2 holes, as described above. The lower one, in the arch of the egg (its more rounded top), is temporarily sealed on the outside with adhesive tape, and inside we drip superglue. When it hardens and the hole is tightened, remove the adhesive tape.

Now you need to insert the wick. This is done by gently pushing it into the upper hole with a needle. It remains to pour vegetable oil into the shell from a syringe (better - refined palm oil, absolutely does not smoke), put the lamp-egg in a glass and light it, pos. 2. But - be careful and be careful again! At the Easter table, so that everything is decorous, without frills and violence - an overturned oil lamp can lead to a fire!

Postcards

The Sumerians did not exchange postcards on their sowing holiday. They wrote on wet clay, which was the forerunner of the Babylonian-Assyrian cuneiform. Easter cards are also not used in church services, but what kind of holiday would it be without them?

The simplest Easter card can also be made with a child from an ordinary postcard-book by gluing an egg holder or a fake candle into it with an angle, see fig. on right. And how to make “real” cards for Easter with your own hands, see the video:

Video: DIY Easter cards, scrapbooking

In the second option - complex and time-consuming, but the most spectacular embroidered; a unique expression of the best feelings to the closest people.

Video: do-it-yourself embroidered Easter cards

Doing crafts for the holiday is a great way to recharge your good mood by taking yourself and all the household members with an exciting hobby. To create many homemade things, there is not even a need to stock up on additional materials: paper, cardboard, pieces of fabric, pencils and paints, most likely, are in every home. Let's get down to creative self-expression and create interesting crafts for Easter with our own hands.

Beautiful cards for Easter

Among crafts, Easter cards are the most popular and easy to make. However, the result of the work can surpass the ready-made store options.

Here are some ideas on how to make a greeting card for interior decoration or for a gift:

Paper crafts for the holiday

In addition to making paper cards, you can build many other fakes for Easter:

You can even make voluminous Easter crafts from napkins:

• you need a colored cardboard base, yellow napkins, eye and beak molds;
• we roll small balls from a yellow napkin torn into pieces;
• on a cardboard we draw a template for the future chicken, grease with glue, pour prepared balls;
• we complete the composition by gluing a cut out white shell, eyes, a beak and a flower.

DIY Easter egg

There are never too many Easter eggs! And this is not only a delicious dish, they can perfectly decorate the house for the arrival of welcome guests.

We offer a list of ideas on how to make or decorate Easter eggs with your own hands for children and adults:

Papier-mâché egg

Required: a balloon, newsprint and colored corrugated paper, PVA glue, scraps of felt fabric and satin ribbons.

Original crafts from eggs

Easter eggs can be decorated not only with paints. Try the following Easter craft ideas:

Don't forget that shells can also be used instead of small pots to create bouquets of spring wildflowers.

The eggs themselves for crafts do not have to be edible. Artificial ones can serve as a blank for decoration, crafts from wooden eggs will turn out. It is convenient to make embroidery on these practical bases. There are also foam blanks and boxes from kinder surprises.

Egg decor with artichoke-style ribbons - video

We sew and knit Easter crafts

No less love and popularity are crafts for Easter made of fabric. What to sew for the spring holiday?

Try to sew Easter toys with your own hands:

1. Bunny from socks. Just from a pair of long socks you can tailor a full-fledged toy.
2. Easter bunnies. Any multi-colored material is needed. Everything is sewn unusually easily: patterns are cut out according to the template, three points are embroidered on the muzzle - eyes and nose, the front and back parts of the torso, stuffed with cotton, are sewn together.
3. Finger toy for the little ones. Cut out finger-shaped bunnies so that you can arrange Easter-themed home performances with the participation of these dolls.

Easter Bunny out of a sock - video

Unique knitted Easter crafts, at first glance, are not so easy to do, but for lovers of this type of needlework, there is nothing difficult. Getting Started:

Even more original gizmos for the holiday

Don't stop at Easter crochet crafts. There is still a sea of ​​unrealized ideas. Easter is a wonderful chance to take up painting. Moreover, drawings for Easter will be an excellent craft for a gift. What to draw? All the appetizing contents of the festive table, beautiful domes of churches, Easter animals. The child will love Easter coloring pages, there are a lot of them on the Internet.

In general, the topic of Easter craft contests is very common. And it is not surprising, because this nature of the event contributes to a greater effort to prove oneself and present the finished product in the best light. This real competition of talents is encouraged in kindergarten, school and at home.

From disposable cups and plates, you can build children's Easter crafts:

1. The white glass will be a bunny: we attach the nose, antennae, eyes, paper ears made of white and pink material and fill the glass with pink straws.
2. We make a chicken from a yellow glass: we glue orange paws, a beak and eyes, put a yellow straw inside and stick a few feathers into it.
3. We make a rabbit mask from a plate: cut out holes for the eyes, fix a fluffy nose in the center, ears on top, draw a charming smile and make holes for ribbons from the sides.

A wonderful craft on the theme of Easter - a wreath. It is made from branches, straw, flowers and beautiful ribbons. For decoration, artificial nests, dried flowers, spiral ribbons, twigs of wheat and willow, and figurines of birds are taken. The wreath is traditionally hung on the front door.