Easter craft

[Bettyboo22]

I want to do some easter crafts tommorow with my sisters. I would prefer not to have to buy things I have no shortage of paper cups, cotton wool, normal wool and felt tips. Any ideas ?

[Schutzengel]

Bettyboo. I think the easiest one to do, especially if the children are quite small, is a rabbit. You could use the paper cup upside down, and cover it with cottonwool, to form the body, then cut of the bottom one-third of another cup, cover again with the cottonwool and stick it on top of the body, to form a head, then tease out the ears from the head. Eyes, and nose can be done with felt tip pen. If you have some ribbon, you could tie a bow round the finished rabbit's neck.
You could also cut out a carrot shape from white card, and the little ones could colour it in orange for the main part and green for the tuft of leaves. Hope this helps. Schutz.

[Bettyboo22]

that would work but my sisters are 8yrs and 12 yrs.

Good idea though :-)

[clio57]

What about blowing eggs and decorating them. I used to give the contents to the dog as they might be rather full of spit.

Try this link:

http://www.creativekidsathome.com/activities/a ctivity_131.shtml

Happy Easter

[mellywelly]

Why not just give them some templates shaped like easter eggs and let them design patterns on them.

[zzxxee]

make chocolate nests out of melted chocolate stir in some corn flakes add to cake paper cases make a dip put in the fridge add some mini choccy eggs hey presto birds nests containing eggs

[Bettyboo22]

we made easter rice crispie cakes and baskets out of paper .