Interesting DIY crafts for Easter 2020

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

For some time now, Orthodox Easter has again taken a firm and honorable place in a series of Russian holidays. It will be even more joyful to prepare for it and celebrate the bright holiday of the Resurrection of the Lord if you make DIY crafts for Easter in 2020 with your children. The article presents the most interesting of such thematic needlework.

Easter symbols made of paper and cardboard

It is imperative to prepare for the meeting of Bright Easter Resurrection together with the children. Symbols of this Christian holiday will be used as crafts for Easter 2020. Even kids can make them with their own hands. Consider the simplest and most interesting thing that can be made of paper.

Garlands on the windows from the silhouette of the Easter bunny.

Paper coasters for Easter eggs in the form of green grass.

Egg holder made of cardboard or thick paper.

Cutting out patterns of a basket for Easter gifts from paper will become a fascinating and useful activity for children.

The Easter Bunny is a symbol of the Protestant Church in Germany, but it can also be used as an idea for Easter 2020 crafts.

Everyone can cut paper stencils with their own hands. The following is the most interesting of the Easter-themed paper crafts.

Garlands on the windows from Easter symbols

You can saddle the garlands in the shape of an Easter egg made of colored or white paper. On the egg, you can make such a thematic picture using a stencil:

You can also use an Easter bunny stencil

To make such a simple paper craft for Easter in 2020 with your own hands, you only need thick paper or cardboard, scissors, fishing line or satin narrow ribbons.

From the options for Easter stencils offered on the Internet, you need to choose the most interesting for yourself, and then cut the required number of blanks.

When the details for the garland are ready, they should be assembled into vertical stripes using threads, satin ribbons or fishing line. Ready-made decorations are attached to the window in the nursery, kitchen or living room.

Easter appliques from colored paper

To make such beautiful applications, you need to use the proposed stencil, which should be enlarged and printed on a printer.

To work you need to take:

• colored paper;
• glue stick;
• scissors
• a clean napkin.

Master class step by step:

• Adults need to cut out the elements and the base for such an application according to the template, and also show the children how to glue the parts to the base. To glue the parts neatly, press them down with a clean cloth.
• Such a miniature panel in the shape of an Easter egg will be an excellent decoration for your home. It can be presented to relatives or friends in kindergarten for Easter.

You can make beautiful baskets for Easter eggs, pastries, sweets from thick paper. Here are two options for patterns for a basket, which are printed on a printer, and then used as a stencil, according to which the details of the basket are cut:

Easter bunny basket

• First, you need to cut out a blank from colored or white thick paper according to the printed pattern, then bend the parts in the places of the indicated folds and assemble the basket. Cut out the rabbit's face, ears, nose, eyes from paper of a suitable color and glue them on the basket.
• Here, according to such a pattern, a basket in the shape of an Easter egg is made in a similar way:

Such DIY crafts for Easter 2020 can be used to set a festive table. At the same time, you can choose for yourself from the proposed ideas - the most interesting.

DIY paper Easter card

With such a postcard, you can congratulate your loved ones on Happy Easter.

It is made of colored stripes using the applique technique.

To make such a craft for Easter 2020 with your own hands, you don't even have to look for stencils on the net. You can use simple patterns in the shape of an Easter egg, which everyone will draw by hand.

Material for work:

1. 2 sheets of thick white paper with an "eggshell" or "satin" surface;
2. colored multilayer napkins with fine patterns;
3. scissors;
4. glue stick.
5. The picture shows the main stages of making such a postcard:

Interesting! How to make marble eggs for Easter

Master class step by step:

1. First, a hole in the form of an Easter egg is cut out on one rectangular sheet strictly in the middle. On another sheet in the center, draw with a cut-out stencil the contour of the egg, on which narrow colored strips are glued. When gluing these colored parts, the glue does not need to be applied to the entire surface. It is enough to glue the strips at both ends.
2. When the contour of the egg is completely sealed with colored stripes cut from thick double napkins, the sheet with the applique is closed with a second sheet with a hole cut in the form of a sheet, which is preliminarily greased with glue around the perimeter.
3. Such crafts can be presented for Easter in 2020 to mom, grandmother, or sister. A beautiful DIY Easter decor will be a great home decoration. Choosing the most interesting from the proposed ideas, you can pleasantly surprise and delight your family and friends on Easter Sunday.

Interesting! Marble eggs with brilliant green for Easter

Original Easter Eggshell Crafts

Original and simple crafts for Easter 2020 can be made quickly with your own hands from ordinary eggshell.

Figurines of cheerful Easter bunnies with colored bows.

Figurines of rabbits with pink ears and paws

For work, you will need to free the shell of raw eggs from the contents. To do this, carefully pierce the egg from both sides with a needle and blow the yolk and protein into a bowl.

To make rabbits with colored bows, you need to take:

• empty shells from eggs;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• colored felt;
• narrow colored ribbons;
• thin felt-tip pen or marker;
• colored paper.

To make such original crafts for Easter 2020 with your own hands, you do not have to spend a lot of time. All the fun is done very simply.

How to make a fun Easter bunny:

1. Stand legs and details of the ears are cut out of felt. To make the legs more rigid, you need to glue several parts with glue, and then glue them to the wide part of the egg. Glue the details of the ears to each other, and then glue to the sharp end of the egg.
2. Make bows from ribbons and attach them to the ears.
3. Tummies with noses are cut out of colored paper and glued. The rabbit's muzzle is painted with a thin felt-tip pen. To make the figures look harmonious, you should choose the same color scheme for bows, legs, ears and tummy for each rabbit.
4. You can make sedentary bunnies with pink ears and paws in the same way. Everything is done in the same algorithm that was described above, only the legs are glued not from below, but to the outside of the shell.

Such crafts for Easter in 2020 can be quickly made with your own hands and placed in the kitchen, in the nursery, or in the living room. By choosing the most interesting and suitable ideas for your interior, you can create a bright and warm atmosphere of the Easter holiday in your house, which is always associated with the revival of all living things, in spring, warmth and joy.

Decorating eggs with colored napkins

Such beautiful Easter eggs can be made using the decoupage technique by cutting out a fragment of the image from a multi-layer napkin and gluing it to the egg using PVA glue. Before gluing, remove the bottom white layer of the napkin. You can use boiled eggs, empty eggshells, or egg-shaped foam blanks.

If such crafts are made to act as souvenirs, then they should be covered with colorless varnish on top.

Here is an algorithm for decorating Easter eggs with napkins:

Original ideas for simple Easter crafts

To make crafts for Easter 2020 with your own hands, you do not need to buy anything on purpose. All the most interesting in step-by-step execution is made from what is at hand in every home. It is imperative to involve children in this activity, introducing them with the help of homemade Easter gifts to the brightest and most important Orthodox holiday.

Here are some Easter home decor options that can be a great gift for loved ones and a beautiful home decoration.

Traditionally, Easter eggs were kept after Easter as charms and talismans that protect the house from harm. For this, it used to be customary in wealthy houses to give Easter eggs. They were made of precious metals and stones and served just such a function.

Instead of expensive jewelry, you can use Easter-themed souvenirs and decor made from simple and affordable materials. Such works will look dignified with a little effort and imagination.

Here are some DIY options for Easter 2020. Having chosen the most interesting for yourself, and having studied the master class, you can create original amulet products for your home.

Easter composition of pussy willow and eggs

One of the symbols of Easter in Orthodoxy is a willow twig. A week before the onset of Bright Resurrection, believers bring to the house bunches of willow with fluffy buds. They, like Easter eggs, are considered a talisman that protects the house from troubles and misfortunes. You can make a beautiful floral arrangement from willow and Easter eggs:

For such a floristic composition, you will need a decorative flat plate, the surface of which is filled with moss, sesal or shavings. Inside the filler, you need to install special sponges that will fix the willow branches.

Insert the willow from the two edges of the plate, and connect the upper ends together to form a stylized wicker basket handle. You can fasten them with a narrow silk ribbon. Place Easter eggs on the filler of the plate and insert live or artificial daffodils. The composition can be decorated with decorative butterflies.

Panel "Easter basket"

Such a voluminous application on the Easter theme can be made from the simplest materials.

For work you will need:

• ice cream sticks;
• PVA glue;
• colored and white paper;
• narrow silk ribbon;
• scissors;
• brush;
• felt-tip pens, colored pencils or watercolors;
• green silk cord.

Master class step by step:

1. A square is cut out of thick colored paper - the base for the panel. The green cord is cut into small pieces and loosened slightly so that a fringe appears. Egg-shaped ovals are cut out of white paper and painted. Green cord strips are glued to the base. Ice cream sticks are applied to them according to the principle of weaving a basket. In the last row, along with the sticks, you need to attach two strips of satin ribbon.
2. When the basket is ready, painted eggs are glued over the green fringe protruding from the edge of the top layer of ice cream sticks. Then a basket handle is made from a satin ribbon and glued to the resulting image.
3. The panel can be framed or used as the front side of a homemade postcard.

Easter coloring

Anyone can create a beautiful Easter-themed image. You don't have to be an artist to do this. With the help of thematic coloring, you can draw an Easter composition, which will become a symbol of the approaching Bright Resurrection. Here are the options for coloring stencils:

Stencil coloring with chicken

Coloring book with Easter cakes and a rabbit.

Making crafts for Easter in 2020 with your own hands will be an excellent way to introduce children to the great holiday of Christianity. With the help of such creativity, it is possible to organize developmental leisure for children of different ages. Adults will also love these handicrafts, which unite all family members in the process of preparing for Easter.

Bonus

At the end of the article, the following conclusions can be drawn:

1. Making Easter crafts doesn't take much time.
2. For homemade souvenirs that you can use to decorate your home for Bright Resurrection, you don't have to buy anything on purpose.
3. Adults together with children can engage in such exciting creativity.
4. Easter crafts can be great souvenirs for loved ones and friends. Children can take them to kindergarten or school.