The bright holiday associated with the resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated by all Christians.
Preparing for the celebration of Easter
Long before this day we prepare for Easter. Believers decorate their homes with their own hands, prepare refreshments. Surely we all make spring cleaning before the holiday. With a long post, we are also preparing for Easter.
Do it yourself cake, paint eggs, bake pies - these are the affairs of an experienced hostess. But you can make souvenirs with your own hands as a gift to your relatives with your children.
Table decorations
Not only offerings and treats themselves are important on this day. Often we prepare for Easter, creating interesting crafts with our own hands, which can decorate the holiday table.
Those are home-made imitating chickens. It is very important to involve babies in this process. And if there are children in the family, then we are preparing for Easter, making cute trinkets with our own hands with the children. For example, you can get cool chickens from cardboard disposable cups.
To work, you need paper in yellow, orange and pink. You can use colored feathers. The glass itself is pasted over with yellow paper. You can fix the chicken and feathers on the "body". Some imitate fluff cut from paper "noodles."
The paws are made orange. They should be fixed to the expanded part of the cup. Yellow circles will represent the heads of chickens. They stick orange beaks. They are cut in the shape of diamonds. Folded in half, they will imitate the open beaks of the chicks. Eyes are made of paper or buttons. You can use special items that are bought in stores, or cut them out of postcards.
You can paint chickens with pink bows, red ties, or even “put on” a black tuxedo on the chick - it all depends on the manufacturer’s imagination.
Souvenirs for Easter as a gift
If we are preparing for Easter together with the children, we can make a craft in the form of a rabbit or chicken with our own hands. These souvenirs will be a pleasant celebration offering to loved ones.
You can make a cute toy from salt dough. It is only important to observe the condition: the layer of material from which the souvenir is made should not be thicker than 7 millimeters. Therefore, it is best to make the craft in stages, by intermediate baking the workpiece in a microwave oven in defrost mode for one minute.
That is, first make the body of the rabbit and bake. So that the thing is not too heavy, it is recommended to make it hollow. To do this, use, for example, a deodorant cap, some kind of box that is pre-lubricated with oil. After intermediate baking, this part can be removed.
Then they attach the head to the body. And again, the workpiece is put in the microwave for a minute. Then cut out the ears, which are glued to the head. A ponytail and paws can also be done at this point.
Last baking may be slightly longer than intermediate. After the craft acquires the desired strength, the product is coated with paint and varnish.
Handbag rabbit
If you want to attract very small crumbs to work when preparing for Easter, you can make a craft from a disposable cardboard plate with your own hands. It will be a handbag in the shape of a rabbit.
The plate is folded in half and sewn from each edge one third of the semicircle. At one end insert a piece of fur - the tail. Another is decorated with paper antennae and nose. Eyes can be drawn or glued paper-cut circles. The handle for the bag can be made of fabric or leatherette. But you can use paper. Lovely ears are made of it.
Inside the bag lay a colored egg, sweets, pastries. It’s nice to receive such a gift, especially when you know that a child made it.
Cardboard rabbit-rabbit
You can hang a cool rabbit figure on an elastic band on a wall or on a lamp above a table. When you touch him, his legs will move, like a living one. You can give this souvenir toy to someone for the holiday. And if you make the basket voluminous, then it is appropriate to put candy or money, cookies or krashenka into it.
And if we are preparing for Easter with our own hands, the master class will help to cope with the task.
- The template should be transferred to cardboard.
- Each detail is cut out, then painted.
- At the marked points make punctures with an awl.
- The paws are attached to the body, the buttons will serve as hinges. They are sewn together with each other in pairs in each “joint”, stretching the threads through the holes.
Easter composition
Having accumulated the cardboard midpoints from the rolls of toilet paper, you can use them in business. After sticking figures cut out of paper on them, we get a luxurious Easter composition.
Separately made a cross and a cave. Doing Jesus Christ himself is not recommended. The face of the son of God, like the saints, can only be written by real artists who are trained in this and receive permission.
If you wish, you can even imagine a mini-performance using this craft.