Half the fun of the Easter holidays is in the build-up and preparation.
Making creative Easter crafts with your kids is a way of spending family time together and you can have some decorative bits and pieces for Easter Sunday.
Bouncing Bunny
What you need:
Blown and drained egg. (To blow an egg: make a small hole at either end of egg with a pin or cocktail stick. Break the yolk inside. Blow out contents into a bowl. Rinse inside with a water and vinegar solution. Dry.)
White spray paint
Two tiny black beads or peppercorns
A few bristles from a hairbrush or broom
Cotton wool and polystyrene tray
Bostik Blits Stik super glue gel
How to make:
Spray paint the blown egg and set aside to dry. Cut out bunny feet, ears and a bean-shaped muzzle from the polystyrene.
Cut out the insides of the ears from cotton wool and attach to the polystyrene ears, then glue the ears on to the egg with super glue gel.
Now attach the muzzle, then make two small cotton wool balls and stick these on for the nose and tail. Lastly, glue the bristles on for whiskers.
Bunny Mask
What you need:
White and pink card paper
Black card paper and pencil
Cotton wool balls and pads
Chopstick or a thin bamboo dowel
Craft knife and scissors
Tot glass
Clear adhesive
Glue Stick
Bostik Blits Stik Super Glue Gel
How to make:
Use a pencil to draw a circle on the pink card paper for the bunny's face - use a bowl as a guide.
Now draw two large bunny ear shapes on the pink card and two smaller ear shapes on white card. Cut out the shapes and stick the white ears on to the bigger pink ears using glue stick.
Draw two circles for eyes on the face using a pencil and a tot glass and cut out with a craft knife. Attach ears to the back of the bunny's head with clear adhesive. Apply super glue gel to the chopstick or dowel and attach to the back of the mask. Attach the cotton wool ball for the nose and the two make-up remover pads for the cheeks with clear adhesive.
Eggs in a nest
What you need:
A bunch of sisal (obtainable from a flower shop)
Quail or fake eggs or sugared almonds painted with food colouring
A stick of lavender
Bits of scrap wrapping paper
Tiny peg (from stationery or craft shop)
Art & Craft Funky Bitz
Art & Craft Glitter Glue pens
Art & Craft Glitzy Glue pens
How to make:
Shape the sisal into a nest and place the little eggs inside. Decorate the lavender petals with the blue pen in the Glitzy Glue set. Place stick of lavender into nest. Dot glitter glue around nest with glitter glue pen, leaving some as dots and sticking some stars from the Funky Bitz wheel on to others. Cut tiny butterfly wings from wrapping paper and stick the wings on to the peg. Decorate with glitter pens and clip on to lavender stick.
Miss piggy
What you need:
Blown and drained egg
Pink spray paint
Two tiny black beads
Pink felt and pink button
Pink pipe cleaners
Paintbrush
Bostik Blits Stik Super Glue Gel
Prestik
How to make:
Spray paint the blown egg and set aside to dry.
Wind the pipe cleaner around a thin paintbrush to form a tight spring using the whole pipe cleaner - then snip into five sections for the legs and tail.
Cut two triangles out of the pink felt for ears.
Glue the ears, nose, legs and tail to the egg with super glue gel. Using a blob of Prestik on the end of a paintbrush, pick up the beads, apply a tiny bit of Blits Stik Gel and attach to the egg for the eyes.