Easter 2016 is almost here, and anyone searching for some last-minute and easy DIY craft ideas need look no further.
Easter is one of the most craft-friendly holidays, with everything from bunnies to eggs to spring flowers lending themselves to crafting. Most of these craft ideas are very simple — ones you can make yourself or with just a few bucks and a quick trip to the nearest craft supply store.
Here are some Easter craft favorites, plus some links at the end to more craft ideas.
DIY Easter Crayons
This is a creative and colorful way to get the kids involved, and it’s a great solution to any family with a lot of broken crayons (which is pretty much any house where young kids come into contact with crayons).
It does require a silicone Easter bunny baking mold, but that can usually be found at specialty food stores.
Here are the instructions (via Moonfrye ):
Step 1: Break crayons into small pieces. We choose bright and pastel colors for an Easter feel.
Step 2: Fill each mold to the top and mix and match different colors in each.
Step 3: Bake the crayons at 300°F for 10 min. Let them cool completely.
Step 4: Take the crayons out of the mold and let your coloring adventure begin!
Decoupage Easter Eggs (Martha Stewart)
Martha Stewart offers a cool alternative to dunking eggs in cups of dye, showing how to make decoupage eggs using a printed napkin. The video is extra useful because Martha Stewart explains how to blow out an egg, a method of emptying the white and yolk so the decorations can be used year after year.
Homemade Easter Basket
Tesco Lifestyle posted a how-to video on how to make an Easter basket with some simple art supplies, starting with a plastic tub. It’s a great way to spend the day before Easter, and it’s also an affordable alternative as a last-minute Easter craft idea. The project allows kids to get a bit creative and arrange their bunnies and flowers on the basket.
Easter Basket with Recycled Supplies
For those who are a little more ambitious, Love Doing Craft has a video on how to make Easter baskets from recycled materials. The project calls for a plastic jug and a number of colorful plastic bags, and though it calls for a glue gun, if you don’t have one you could get by with superglue.
Pom Pom Easter Bunnies
Another video, from BeforeAndAfterTV , shows how to make some fun and simple pom pom Easter bunnies and chicks. Again, this uses simple and cheap art supplies, and it is a simple idea that can keep the kids busy for an hour or so.
Easter Suncatcher
A fun Easter craft idea from Everyday Dishes , this one requires just a few instructions and produces an adorable keepsake that you can include with the decorations ever year.
Here’s a description from the site:
Bunnies, flowers, Easter eggs and chicks will brighten up any room as long as there’s some sunshine. Card stock, colored tissue paper and transparency cutouts make it a fun, inexpensive craft that’s easy for the kids to do.
Cut out lots of brightly-colored tissue triangles in different sizes and have the kids overlap them onto the template to create a colorful suncatcher.
Full instructions can be found here .
More Easter craft ideas
For anyone looking for more ideas for simple Easter craft ideas, Country Living has a list of 50 different crafts at varying degrees of simplicity. The Huffington Post also has a list of 19 different ideas.
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