With
Easter just around the corner, you may be looking for some ideas to
share with the kids and the grandkids. It’s not too early to
get started creating the Easter fun. This month each week I will
share a fun ideas that you can do that will be creative and fun for
all. Once you create this fun Easter Egg Tree you can use it year
after year. This is also great to do with the kids to create
memories that last forever.
Easter
Egg Tree
This
fun idea will be sure to please the little “peeps”.
You
will need:
A
tree limb with many smaller branches
Spray
paint (optional)
Plaster
of Paris
Basket
with plastic liner (large enough to hold the branch)
Easter
grass
Tiny
silk flowers
Glue
gun
Spray
paint the branch if desired. Mix the plaster in the plastic liner
according to package directions. Insert the tree branch in the
plaster and allow it to harden. Put the plastic liner inside the
basket and cover the plaster with grass. Attach the flowers to the
branch with glue gun. Hang Hatching Chick and Bunny Ornaments on the
tree.
Hatching
Chick and Bunny Ornaments
Store
these cute chicks and funny bunnies in an open egg carton inside a
Styrofoam-popcorn-filled box.
Chicks
6
raw eggs
12
(2’) yellow pom-poms (for hands and bodies)
12
(1/8”-1/4”) wiggly craft eyes
Orange
felt, cut in six 3/8” triangles (for beaks)
1
yard narrow pink ribbon, cut into six 5” strips
Glue
gun
Bunnies
6
raw eggs
12
(2”) pink pom-poms (for heads and bodies)
12
(1/8”-1/4) wiggly craft eyes
Pink
felt, cut in bunny ear shapes
White
felt, cut smaller for inside bunny ears
1
yard narrow pink ribbon, cut into six 5” strips
12
(1/4”) light pink pom-poms
6
(1/8”) white pom-poms
Glue
gun
To
make each ornament, hold an egg in your hand and tap firmly with a
knife to crack the shell. Break the egg in half. Wash both halves
of the shell and allow to dry thoroughly. Glue the ends of the
ribbon inside the larger half of the eggshell on opposite sides to
form a handle. Glue the head and body pom-poms together, and attach
the eyes. Glue felt beaks on the chicks.
For
the bunnies, glue two small pink pom-poms in the middle of the
cheeks.
Glue
the smaller white felt ears to the larger pink felt ears. Glue the
ears to the top of the head.
Set
a completed chick or bunny inside the larger half of the eggshell.
Glue the smaller end of the egg to the chick’s head to make it
appear as if it were just hatching.
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