DIY Easter gifts: surprise your family!

DIY crafts for Easter

To create a festive atmosphere in the house and give a piece of your soul to your family and friends, let's fantasize and make original Easter gifts with our own hands. Do not hesitate to involve all the household members in the creative work, which will only bring together and strengthen your family, and the children will remember this day for life and will repeat Easter traditions with their children. So what can you do yourself?

Postcards for Easter

For a postcard you need a loose cardboard or album sheet folded in half, preferably color. Decorating a postcard depends on your creativity. In addition to the traditional abbreviation "H.V." we will offer several ideas.

• From colored paper, make an application: cut the eggs according to the pattern and lay on the grass, straw, plate or basket, using the appropriate tone of colored paper or foil.
• Decorate the eggs on the card with an original ribbon tied in a bow, or with rhinestones, beads, and beads.
• Broken eggshells can be used as mosaics; they can be painted both before and after gluing onto PVA glue.
• A willow made of snow-white cotton wool looks very gently on a postcard. You can also make an easter hare from cotton and stick it on PVA glue.
• Another option - drawings for Easter, depicting angels, a church, flowers, baskets with colored eggs and Easter hares. On the page spread write a warm congratulation on Easter.

Egg Shell Crafts

In the chicken egg we make holes on both sides and blow out the contents. From the resulting blank, you can make Easter bunnies by sticking paper ears and a cotton tail on glue. Eyes and nose are easy to make from beads or draw with felt-tip pen. An egg shell chicken will also be a topical gift for Easter. Glue a paper beak and a scallop to the egg. Such crafts will not only be good gifts for Easter, but also an excellent decoration of the apartment on this holiday. Hang the finished toys on a chandelier, windows or put on a table.

Candles in the form of eggs

They are easy to make if you have a mold into which molten paraffin can be poured. Perfectly suitable confectionery molds or plastic children's "Kinder-surprises" egg shape. If there are none, but really want to, make a shape from a chicken egg, making a hole in it and pouring the contents.

First, melt a regular candle in a saucepan, chopping it first and pulling out the wick. Sparkles, beads, a finely cut candle of a different color can be added to the molten contents for decoration. The wick is laid in the prepared form in the middle and filled with molten paraffin. After a few minutes, the candle will cool and harden. Tie a bow to the wick for beauty.

Soapy eggs

Use the same forms as in the previous recipe. For making soap at home, we offer you a very simple recipe. We will need:

• 100 g of baby soap
• 150-200 ml of hot water,
• 1 tbsp. l olive oil,
• 1 tbsp. l honey
• 2 tbsp. l oatmeal,
• 0.5 tsp essential oils (e.g. lavender).

Grate the soap in a ladle, pour hot water, add honey and put in a water bath for 15-20 minutes to completely melt, stirring occasionally. Then add the oatmeal and essential oil. Remove from heat and place tightly on the molds. To easily remove the hardened soap, pre-coat the mold with foil.

Such a gift for Easter with your own hands will look creative if it is wrapped in linen cloth and tied with twine or dry straw.

Thread Chicks

Material:

• Styrofoam,
• pins - 5 pcs.,
• thin yellow threads
• PVA glue,
• colored paper or weave.

Such a nice Easter gift with your own hands will turn out even for kids. For the manufacture of chickens you will need a blank on which we will wind the threads. We make the blank of foam and tightly wrap it with cling film. Then we stick a few pins in different directions so that the threads do not slip. We randomly wrap the workpiece with threads impregnated with glue. Leave to dry for an hour and a half. Then carefully make an incision and remove the base from the foam. The hole in the resulting frame can be sewn with thread or left, then to put a surprise there, such as candy. Then we cut out legs, beak and scallop from the material and put them on glue. Charming chicken is ready!

Wool threads of different colors can be wound on the same base of polystyrene, but not randomly, but in a spiral, thread to thread. In this case, the disc is not removed from the craft. Threads also sit on PVA glue.

Easter fabric hare

This kind gift will decorate the phone or keys of your friends, and to make it easier than ever. We cut two identical blanks from dense material according to the template. We sew it by hand with a seam outward, which will give originality to your toy. You can stuff such a toy with cotton wool, padding polyester. On the neck we propose to tie a satin ribbon and sew a button.

Flowers in ... shell

A small flower or cactus can be planted in the shell of chicken eggs. Spring is just that time of year when it is time to share seedlings.

Papier mache egg

From papier-mâché you can make a large egg, big chicken or bunny. It all depends on the size of the balloon. Newspaper patches are glued onto it in several layers using PVA glue. When the workpiece dries up - there is a finish layer of colored paper. Or from white, which can then be painted in any color.

Embroidery for Easter

There are a lot of embroidery kits in the art stores now. If you are new to this business, then start with this set. It has already been selected the right number of threads of different colors. Any Easter paraphernalia will look elegant on the embroidery, and if you did not find the Easter picture, you can embroider the icon. You will definitely find it in the needlework department.

Do not be upset if for the first time gifts for Easter with your own hands turned out to be a bit ugly. Remember, any gift made with a soul will always remind you of a creative person and just a caring person. Just imagine how nice it is to receive a unique author's thing as a gift! Well, if you do not have time, add our article to your bookmarks and next Easter will be fully armed!

Flight of fancy is not limited, it would be a desire and free time. And remember that changing your mental work to painstaking work with your fingers will allow your body to relax faster and gain strength. Get ready for Easter, make a holiday for yourself and your loved ones with your own hands! Christ is Risen!