Painting eggs, making fun-loving chickens, decorating a house is so cool!
Easter traditions are so joyful and beautiful and so affect the soul that the holiday days are remembered for a long time. It is not for nothing that the customs of the celebration of Easter have come down to us practically unchanged from the depths of centuries.
And what could be better than a holiday cooked by own hands with the help of Easter hand-made articles for the holy Sunday? All family members, including toddlers, can participate in these preparations. Do not be afraid to attract children to work - creativity gives room to the soul. But our children have such a rich imagination!
The symbol of spring, life, awakening of nature is a painted egg. There are an incredible variety of ways to dye eggs. Having shown a little imagination and patience, you can make eggs with beautiful and original drawings.
Unusual decor - tapes and rhinestones
In shops for fans of needlework, plastic or wooden eggs are often sold. Sometimes they can also be purchased in the departments of children's creativity. Decorated with a variety of techniques, eggs can be a good gift and decorate the festive interior. With a simple pencil, divide the workpiece into sectors. Lubricate the sector with the glue "Moment", and, without waiting for it to dry, paste a thin fabric, gently stretching and pulling it in the places of fillet rounding.Spread the fabrics with glue and cover with a satin ribbon, tied it with a bow or a loop. all the workpiece with a ribbon.
For these Easter handicrafts for the holy Sunday, the tape should be tightly pulled onto the workpiece with a slight overlap and, after every 5-6 turns, fix it with a drop of glue on the top and bottom of the workpiece. Over sew small flowers from ribbons and beads. They will be not only an ornament, but also an additional tape on the egg. On a shallow canvas, perform a small embroidery with a paschal or plant motif. Each half of the blank is glued separately, the connection line is closed with tape or braid.
Basket
Take:
Cardboard, colored paper, sequins, glue
At Easter, it is customary to exchange colored eggs. But for such a fragile gift you need packaging. From a thin or corrugated cardboard, glue the baskets according to the size of the egg, decorate them with paper or paillettes. To work with cardboard it is better to use an adhesive pencil.
We decorate eggs
Take:
- self-adhesive film
- dye
- hole puncher
From a self-adhesive film cut out various small figures: asterisks, squares,
letters. To cut out the circles, you can use the usual pencil punch.
Then remove the protective film and glue the cut elements on white boiled eggs
This is the easiest and fastest way. If you want to get colored eggs with a white pattern, then hold the eggs with stickers in the dye solution for 10-15 minutes, and then remove the stickers.
Who lives in the shell?
Take:
- Threads
- pieces of braid
- beads
- felt
From the eggshell, you can make funny jewelry in the form of Easter crafts for the Holy Sunday. To do this, gently break the raw egg from the side so that you get a "hollow" of a round shape, merge the yolk with the protein (useful when you bake the cake), rinse and dry the shell.In the upper part, gently pierce the hole with a needle, , at the end, string a bead and tie a knot.You now have a pendant house.You now make a pair of pompons from the yellow threads and tie them together.On the top pompon, glue the beady eyes, the nose and the scallop from the felt.This turns out the chicken. mik and hang on branches.
On the festive table
Take:
- disposable containers and plates made of plastic or foam
- thin color cardboard
- colored staples
- eye beads
The invariable characters of Easter are the chicken and the Easter hare. The legend about the "belonging" of the bunny to this holiday came from Germany, and the reason was precisely in the Easter eggs.It was believed that such bright and magically powerful eggs could not of course be demolished by ordinary chickens.On the eve of Easter a nest was made of grass or straw and left in the evening somewhere in a secluded corner of the garden.In the morning, the kids found a present from him in the bunny - usually various delicacies and, of course, Easter eggs.The German settlers brought their traditions to America, and then the entire world met with the Easter hare. make unusual plates for eggs in the form of chicken and bunny.Kids like this table decoration! Cut out all the details from the cardboard, each in two copies .Play out the muzzles with a felt-tip pen .Use the appropriate beads as eyelets-they can simply be sewn onto cardboard. Put a green paper or a bit of shaped yarn - "grass" - on the bottom of the dish-nest. Now you can spread and krashenki.
Green lawn on the window
Take:
- seeds of watercress
- land
- beads
If your family likes miniature shapes, then you can grow a lawn in the eggshell. Gently break the shell, pour the contents. Wash the shell, fill a little bit of land and sow the seeds of watercress. Put the egg-pots in the packaging container for eggs, close with a plastic wrap. In a warm place, the seeds will germinate on the second day, and in 3-4 days they will please you with lush greenery. You can fasten such a pot on a stand made of large beads strung on a thick string.
Birds
Take:
- thin multi-colored cardboard
- pieces of braid, felt, leather
- sintepon
- beads
- feathers
- buttons
For pre-Easter decorating a house, you can make stylized chickens out of leather, cloth or cardboard. To make a textile chicken, take two square pieces of fabric, fold them with their faces, inserting inwardly cut out beak, scallop and tail. Sew a square, leaving a hole for eversion. Hook out the hamster, fill it tightly with a sintepon, sew a hole. Sew eye-beads. The angle opposite to the head, push inwards so that the hen can stand. From scraps of leather (or an old bag, gloves) will get another birdie. Long legs made of wire wrapped in red thread. For sustainability, you can put this bird in a small flower pot decorated with braid.
Spring is coming, spring is the way!
Take:
- bulbs of crocuses
- plastic pail for mayonnaise or ice cream
- colored paper
In spring everything revives to life, is resurrected. Therefore, Easter traditionally has many living and artificial flowers.
The beginning of spring is symbolized by crocuses, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths. If you want to grow flowers by yourself, then this should be taken care of in advance, because
for each type of plant the terms of distillation are different. Consultation on this issue you can get in the specialized shops and departments for the sale of seeds. If the house is not suitable pot, then you can put the bulbs in a normal plastic bucket from under the ice cream. The bucket can be decorated with an appliqué of colored paper, braid, beads, paillettes or pasted with a colored egg shell. And when the summer comes, the bulbs can be planted in the garden.
Paschotnitsy for eggs
Take:
- thin white and colored cardboard
- pieces of braid
- beads
- markers
Children will undoubtedly be pleased with the eggs for eggs, made in the form of a bunny and a chicken. They can be made from thin cardboard. The allowances of the ears and bunny's legs are glued to the inside of the cylinder. Wings and beak of the chicken - to the outside. Paws of the chicken make of a piece of braid, on the edges of which put on the beads. At the ends of the braids, tie knots of this size so that the beads do not slip. Do together with the baby a few such paschitnits and use them as rings for napkins, so that the festive table is decorated in the same style.