On the feast of the Resurrection of Christ, eggs are usually painted and cakes are baked. Now in our country, symbols of Bright Day - Easter rabbits are also becoming popular. With their own hands, they can be made with very simple methods in a few minutes or you can make beautiful, but sophisticated souvenirs in the form of interior dolls.
Ideas and manufacturing methods
To make beautiful gifts - Easter bunnies made by yourself, choose your favorite options from the following list:
- knitted and crocheted;
- paper applications;
- origami;
- plasticine products, model mass;
- decorative forms of dough (salted and baked);
- textile dolls ;
- stitched simple rabbits from felt and other fabrics;
- Easter eggs decorated with ears and muzzles;
- painted stones.
Any of the ways is suitable as a creative activity with children. So you will make gifts for relatives and friends, cards, decorations for the interior.
Materials for work
So that you get original and various Easter bunnies, created with your own hands, prepare everything in advance. You will need the following:
- paper;
- scissors;
- glue;
- the cloth;
- filler for soft souvenirs;
- thread with a needle;
- paints;
- pencils;
- tassels;
- plasticine, model weight, dough.
If you are going to do souvenirs with children, try different ways. Complex stages of work should be performed by adults, and the children will do the rest with pleasure themselves.
Sculpt from plasticine and polymer clay
Any work with plastic materials favorably affects the development of children. Souvenirs can be made according to patterns using metal or plastic forms. Objects are made both flat and voluminous.
Do-it-yourself Easter bunnies made from plasticine quickly. The main advantage of the material is the simplicity of working with it. Polymer clay allows you to fix the result of crafts in the form of a solid sculpture. In addition to different shades of plastic masses, children like to use additional decor (beads, beads, sequins).
Dough Crafts
Do-it-yourself Easter bunny can be made either decorative from a salty substance, or in the form of an edible bun or cookie. The first option will decorate the room. It is enough to stick a magnet to the product on the reverse side to get an original decoration for the refrigerator.
Baking will pleasantly surprise guests at the festive table. In both cases, the technology is similar: from a rolled dough, shapes are cut out or a three-dimensional figure is created from a piece.
After baking, it is easy to decorate cookies and buns with icing, make a pattern with food colors on stencils or sprinkle with confectionery beads.
Easter egg decoration in the shape of a rabbit
Unusually and beautifully look products in the form of Easter eggs, decorated with rabbits. As a basis, an ordinary chicken egg, wooden or papier-mâché form is taken.
To get such a cute animal, do the following:
- Take the blank, paint it white. It is good to use acrylic paints.
- Paint the lower part with a second layer in a different shade. Apply the brush or stencil. You can also glue a colored cloth, pre-coating the surface with PVA glue.
- On the upper half, draw or glue the muzzle elements.
- Cut the ears out of paper, cardboard or felt so that they are also easy to glue.
- Varnish for gloss and water resistance.
If the egg is natural and will be eaten, use only food coloring.
Do-it-yourself Easter bunnies made of paper
Cardboard or even a regular sheet of Whatman paper will allow you to create original decorations for the interior or greeting cards. For decorating walls, bookshelves, it is easy to make a garland of plain or multi-colored rabbits.
To do this, follow these steps:
- Draw yourself or print a ready-made template (object outline);
- Cut the silhouette out of cardboard.
- Circle it as many times as you want on colored paper.
- Cut out all the elements.
- If desired, decorate them with a pattern, stickers, bows.
- Connect all the parts together, assembling them on a cord with glue, knots or attaching pieces of wire threaded through a pair of holes made in the workpiece.
A cute Easter bunny with your own hands can be made using the applique technique. It is good to use to decorate the front of the greeting card.
To make a rabbit like in the photo above, do the following:
- Buy colored paper (design, packaging, for scrapbooking).
- Cut out the elements of the object from it.
- Glue the parts together.
- Draw a muzzle.
- Glue a beautiful bow or other decor.
In addition to paper, shirts, felt, lace are used for application. Imagine and create your stylish souvenirs.
Origami
This is a popular hobby today. Both children and adults are engaged in it. Take a beautiful and not very dense colored paper, follow the entire sequence of actions with the sheet, as shown in the diagram.
Draw the eyes, glue the bow. The souvenir is ready. If you use several different paper samples, you will get cute Easter bunnies with your own hands. Origami, like any other technique, is sure to interest children.
We sew simple souvenirs
Another simple method is the manufacture of textile accessories and decor. It’s enough to take the simplest one, in the shape of a rabbit (the same as used for cutting from dough or plasticine). So very different objects do it: from a garland element to a sofa pillow.
Even if you are not a skilled craftswoman, but just a beginner needlewoman, you can easily make Easter eggs with your own hands, such as in the photo above. The pattern is taken ready, or the template is drawn independently of the desired size and shape. Further, the sequence of work will be as follows:
- Lay the workpiece on a double-folded cloth.
- Pin with pins so that it does not budge.
- Chalk the outline with allowance for seams.
- Align the two parts with the front side inward.
- Sweep and then stitch the seam along the outline, leaving a small hole.
- In the places of excesses, make incisions along the allowances. Be careful. It is important not to damage the seam. This operation will not allow wrinkles and distortions to form on the front side of the product.
- Turn the object from the inside out to the face.
- Fill the toy with stuffing material. A synthetic winterizer, holofiber, scraps of shreds are suitable.
- Sew manually the left hole carefully on the front side.
Such souvenirs are made of any plain or colored fabric. If you want, you can draw a muzzle on the finished product. To do this, it is better to pre-coat the corresponding part with PVA glue so that the paint does not fade after drying.
An even simpler technology is the creation of felt rabbits. This material allows you to grind parts manually and does not require edge treatment, as it does not crumble. Parts are usually sewn together on the front side over the edge or along it with a regular or decorative seam.
Small details are embroidered and even glued. This technology allows you to make a lot of souvenirs in a short period of time.
For any of the two methods, the pattern shown in the figure below is suitable. It can be used for applications, and even for working with the test.
Interior dolls
The following two ideas are already suitable for needlewomen with experience. If in the previous section simple textile souvenirs were considered, then the doll in the form of a rabbit is shown in the photo. To make it, you will need to carve out many details that are first stitched and packed separately, and then joined together.
Such a handmade souvenir will become a full-fledged gift and a pleasant home accessory.
Crocheted rabbits
If you own this tool, try making gifts this way. Use a wooden egg as the base or fill the mold with stuffing material.
Parts of the product are knitted separately, and then stitched together.
Fancy Easter bunnies with their own hands. Workshop on manufacturing
As you see, there are a lot of technologies and methods for making gifts. Spectacular crafts are obtained by combining different materials. The photo below shows a souvenir that can play the role of a magnet, postcard, decorative panel.
Use several suggested ideas in one product. And you will get a variety of exclusive handmade Easter bunnies. Photos from the article give room for the manifestation of imagination, refinement of seen crafts.
To perform the magnet, which is shown in the picture above, an application of paper and felt was used. If you have time and want to make such a gift more complex and decorative, make the rabbit voluminous, as described in the previous sections, and make the frame of polymer clay.
In addition, the magnet can also be made of ordinary stone, which you paint for a rabbit.
It is important to find a suitable rounded shape with one small flat surface, to which it will be possible to glue the magnetic sheet. The technology will be like this:
- Take the prepared stone, smooth the surface. White acrylic will do.
- After drying, apply a pencil drawing. As a sample, take a photo of a real rabbit or cartoon if you are not confident in your abilities and skill of the artist.
- It should be painted with acrylic paints. They are special, suitable for stone.
- After completing work, coat the product with varnish. This will make the surface resistant to moisture and other influences. It is better to apply the varnish in several thin layers with a preliminary drying of each previous one.
So, you have learned how to make Easter bunnies with your own hands. Choose the appropriate manufacturing method. Engage with your children at home or in art classes.