For the House -- Things to wear -- Baskets

Easter Sun catchers

• Lay newspaper (several layers deep) on table
• Place a sheet of wax paper on newspaper
• Using a pencil sharpener, make wax shavings from old broken crayons
• Arrange on wax paper to make design. (only one layer, if to thick will make a mess)
• Place a second sheet of wax paper on top
• Place news paper on top of wax paper
• Iron with warm iron (just hot enough to melt the wax)
• Let cool
• Cut out egg shapes from colored wax paper.
• Punch hole in top, and hang.

Draw or glue pictures to heavy construction paper.

If glue is used wait until thoroughly dried, than seal with clear contact paper, or take to a local print shop (like Kinkos) and have laminated. Don't forget to have the artist sign and date their work.

• Make clay (recipe found on Christmas Craft)
• Roll to about 1/4 inch thick
• Use mini-cookie cutters, to cut designs
• Let dry
• Paint and seal with acrylic spray
• Glue with rubber cement or hot glue a magnet or jewelry pen back on back
• Let dry/cool

• Blow up a balloon
• Cover the entire balloon watered down glue (you may wish to use an old paintbrush)
• Wrap crochet thread around the balloon in one direction, leaving small gaps about 1/2 inch wide so the balloon isn't completely covered
• Apply another light layer of glue on top of the thread and wrap with another layer of crochet thread in different direction
• Repeat several more times until the balloon is covered with thread.
• Tie on a piece of thread to knot of balloon
• Hang the balloon from the bottom thread to dry for about 24 hours.
• Pop the balloon and gently pull it out

• Use plastic Easter eggs (cheap this year by the bag at larger discount stores)
• Cut small band of matchining construction paper, for each egg
• Have kids draw and cut out eyes, ears, nose, feet, and mouth/beak of different animals
• Glue all but feet to egg.
• Decorate construction band of paper if desired, staple to make egg holder
• Glue on feet Place egg in holder.

• Gather all the leftover colored egg shells from Easter.
• Break any larger pieces in to small pieces
• Draw a simple design on construction paper.
• Glue egg shell onto drawing

• Using 12 yellow cotton balls (found in the cosmetic area in larger discount stores)
• Draw eyes and cut out eyes from black construction paper
• Draw and cut a small triangles form orange construction paper for beak
• Glue on eyes and beak to each cotton ball
• Decorate egg carton as you wish
• Place chicks in egg carton

• Paint the palm of the child's hand with white washable liquid paint
• Have child spread out hand fully, make print on colored construction
• Let print dry (wash hand)
• Use the thumb for the head and the fingers for the legs
• Glue small cotton balls on to body of (over palm)
• Add eye from made from black construction paper

• Paint the bottom of the child's foot with yellow washable liquid paint
• Make foot print on construction paper
• Let print dry (wash foot)
• Draw eye, beak and legs with crayons
• Glue popcorn, oatmeal or cornmeal across bottom
• Frame and give to grandma

Paper mache recipe

Mix well

• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup flour
• add 5 cups water
• boil gently for couple of minutes
• let cool
Egg
• Blow up balloon
• Dip newspaper strips in mache, and place around balloon
• Repeat until entire balloon has several layers covering it
• Let dry for a day
• Stick in needle to puncture balloon
• Let dry for another day or so
You may wish to use any of the following to decorate
• Cover with different colors of tissue paper
• Cover with light weight pieces of cloth
• Paint with tempera
• After covered or painted, and any extras like buttons, sequins, ...
• Spray with acrylic sealer

Bunny Mask

• Using the paper plate, cut out eyes and nose in the plate
• Cut out bunny ears from pink construction paper, glue to the plate
• Make whiskers from pipe cleaners, or construction paper, glue to plate
• Poke a hole on left and right side of face
• Tie on a piece of yarn through each hole

• Measure child's head
• Make a band from construction paper (about 1 1/2 inches wide)
• Draw & cut ears from white or dark brown construction paper
• Draw & cut inserts from pink or light brown construction paper
• Glue on inserts.
• Glue or staple ears to band

• Staple two paper plates together, back to back
• Cut a wide band of construction paper (several inches)
• Let child decorate the band and the paper plates, this can be done by gluing different colors of construction paper, or with paints, and crayons
• Staple or glue band in to a cylinder
• Make small cuts about 1/2 inch deep, every inch or so
• Bend tabs into cylinder
• Place glue on bottom of tabs, and place on one the paper plates (be sure to center it)
• Let dry
• Punch a hole on the left and right side of bottom plate.
• Tie on either yarn or ribbon.
• Fill cylinder with light weight Easter basket stuff (grass, marshmallow candy, etc

Mini-Easter Baskets

• Cut each of the egg buckets apart
• Decorate out sides, with most anything
• Punch small hole on each side.
• Insert pipe cleaner for handle
• Fill with Easter grass and jelly beans

• Take the first piece of paper and cut horizontal straight lines across about every half inch, leaving about one inch on each side
• The paper should be covered from top to bottom with these slits
• Next take the second piece of paper and cut 1/2 strips
• Weave these strips in and out of the slits in the first paper
• Glue the ends of the strips to the first sheet of paper
• Fold up the sides to make a basket shape
• Staple or glue in place
• With the third sheet of paper cut out a handle, either staple or glue to basket

• Make clay (recipe found on Christmas page)
• Roll to about 1/4 in thick use mini-cookie cutters, to cut designs
• Let dry
• Paint and seal with acrylic spray
• Glue with rubber cement or hot glue a magnet or jewelry pen back on back
• Let dry/cool

• Wash, rinse, and dry a pint size milk carton
• Close the top of the empty carton
• Position the carton on its side with the top closed edge vertical
• Cut along the two long edges and the bottom edge
• Hold flap up slightly and cut it to form two rabbit ears pointing away from the pointed end of carton
• Cover the entire outer part of the carton with cotton balls including the ears
• Add extra cotton balls for tail
• Outline the ears with a pink piece of yarn, glue in place
• Draw and cut out eyes and nose form construction paper
• Glue on eyes, and nose
• Fill with Easter grass, and candy

• Wash, rinse, and let dry one clear 2 liter drink bottle
• Remove support (the colored plastic) from bottom. (some don't have one)
• With crayon, draw a line around bottle about 4 inches from bottom
• Draw on rabbit ears just above the line.
• Using your drawing, cut bottle
• Punch holes for handle, use large pipe cleaner or ribbon for handle
• Cover ears with pink felt or pink construction paper
• You may cover the bottle with cotton balls or leave plain
• Add eyes and nose made with felt or construction paper
• Whiskers may be made of pipe cleaners or construction paper

Fill with Easter grass, and candy