The current situation is not easy for many families – and certainly not with small children. The mild temperatures encourage outdoor play, but instead most people spend more time indoors than they would like. In view of the prevailing Corona crisis, this is the best solution for everyone, but that does not mean that you can no longer have fun. On the contrary: Easter is just around the corner! Use the isolation at home to try out a few craft ideas with your children. All you need is the right instructions and a few basic ingredients – you can find out what those are as follows.
The Japanese art of folding is great fun for young and old: There are a variety of creative Easter-themed craft ideas – such as an origami bunny or an origami Easter bunny basket in which you can later hide an egg or sweets. You only need origami paper that is square (e.g. 20 by 20 centimetres). It’s up to you whether you want it in one color or colourful. And here are the instructions for how to do it:
To decorate the windows with Easter motifs, you can make these cute bunny window decals with your children. All you need is construction paper in different colors, suitable templates – for example in the form of Easter eggs and rabbits – and of course scissors and craft glue as well as a few colored pencils or felt-tip pens (that’s a matter of taste). Alternatively, you can also use a craft kit with templates for window pictures. Then proceed as follows:
Use the stencils to draw twelve eggs on different colored cardboards for a colorful mixture and then cut them out.
Using the templates, draw six rabbits on white construction paper and cut them out as well.
Place the Easter eggs on top of each other in a circle so that they always overlap slightly and glue the overlapping sides together.
Color in the bunnies using colored pencils or felt-tip pens (see illustration) and then glue them to the eggs at even intervals.
Finally, you can attach a ribbon to the picture to hang it up, but it also sticks to every window pane with scotch tape
Painting Easter eggs is a tradition in many households. All you need is a few fresh eggs, which you blow out beforehand (you can find instructions here) – alternatively, you can use foam plastic eggs. Here, however, it is advisable to use waterproof pens instead of classic egg crayons or egg paints, which stick better to the surface. The practical thing about the artificial eggs is that you can hang them up more easily.
For this garland you can use the same egg stencils as for the window picture (point two). You will also need construction paper, a string and small wooden clothespins: First draw ten to 15 eggs – depending on how long you want the garland to be – on a piece of white or colored paper and cut them out. Then the eggs can be colored to your heart’s content, with colored pencils or felt-tip pens. At the end hang the pictures on the string and the string on a window or wall.
A fairly simple, but still funny craft idea is to create cute Easter animals from old toilet paper rolls: Whether bunnies or chicks – you need a little imagination, acrylic paints, brushes, cardboard, a pencil, liquid glue, scissors and of course empty toilet rolls. A suitable guide to this can be found in this descriptive video.
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