Easter traditional souvenirs are hand-painted or otherwise made eggs decorated with images of saints, churches, flowers or various patterns. Do-it-yourself easterly completed Easter hares. They become no less popular gifts. You can choose any material and manufacturing method. Everyone will find an option to their taste and experience.
Gift Ideas
Do-it-yourself Easter crafts with children at home or in an organized group:
- Hares
- chickens;
- trees;
- tartlets;
- postcards;
- traditional eggs decorated in different ways.
DIY Easter Bunnies: Manufacturing Options
If you like to needlework and prefer a variety of performance techniques, then you can make a holiday souvenir in completely different ways.
The following products are the most popular, interesting and at the same time simple:
- Baked from dough or souvenir (from salt dough).
- Stitched from shreds.
- Crocheted.
- Made of paper using the application method (including with quilling elements).
- Folded in the technique of "origami".
In each case, you can come up with many different options: crafts for working with children, souvenirs created by adults, and co-creation.
DIY Easter Bunnies: a master class
Very cute and attractive gifts are made of fabric. To complete such products, you will need the following:
- Pattern.
- Pencil.
- Scissors.
- Material in various shades.
- Chalk tailor.
- Pins
- A needle with a thread (for complex options it is better to use a sewing machine).
- Filler (holofiber, synthetic winterizer, scraps of shreds).
- Additional decor (beads, bows, ribbons, lace, eyes, spouts).
If you are engaged in needlework, then all this is at your place, maybe, with the exception of the pattern. It is easiest to draw on your own. This option is suitable if you know how to draw well. By the way, the finished template can also be finalized as you wish (simplify or supplement).
Choose the option that suits your level of training. If this will be the first work of such a plan, it is better to use the simplest template when the product is sewn from two identical halves, which are a contour image of a bunny. In this case, only one seam will be required along the perimeter of the mold.
If you feel confident enough in the field of needlework and sewing, perform complex voluminous soft toys in the form of realistic or stylized decorative bunnies. These Easter gifts will be a wonderful souvenir and decoration of the interior of any home.
In both cases, the work will go as follows:
- Take a pattern (draw or print a template on the printer) and cut along the contour.
- Pin the paper blanks with pins to the fabric.
- Circle the elements with tailor's chalk or remnant, cut them out.
- Fold the parts with their faces inward and sew along the perimeter of the form, leaving a small hole for turning out.
- Turn out the product, fill with holofiber, sintepon or other available material.
- Sew in the hole.
- Decorate the figure with additional decor.
If the hare consists of several parts, each of them is made using the same technology, and then everything is connected together.
Use fleece and felt
A very simple but beautiful Easter bunny made of fabric with your own hands can be made from these materials. To do this, it is enough to find a suitable pattern of the appropriate shape and make a souvenir on it. Felt and fleece do not require edge treatment, since they do not crumble, so the details of the object are often sewn together manually on the front side, and small decor (ears, paws, muzzle) is even glued to the base.
In this way, you can make both flat souvenirs, for example magnets, and ordinary volumetric soft toys. The color scheme allows you to perform both realistic animals and decorative (pink, yellow, blue). The main thing is that even a beginner needlewoman can easily and quickly deal with sewing from felt and fleece.
Paper souvenirs
Do-it-yourself beautiful Easter hares are also made of this material. To work, you will need scissors, glue and, of course, colored sheets. In the technique of "origami" they make voluminous souvenirs in the form of figures, baskets in the shape of bunnies, and also combine different details. For the manufacture of such gifts, special schemes will be required, according to which the products are folded.
The simplest is the application technique, when cut figures or individual details of bunnies are glued onto a solid foundation, such as cardboard or plastic. In this way, even a small child can make a souvenir if the elements are cut out in advance by adults.
A more complex option is a panel, postcard, or just a souvenir made using the quilling technique, when elements are twisted from strips of colored beautiful paper, from which the bunny figurine is then assembled. In this case, you will need a stick, a toothpick or a special tool for making parts to work.
So, you saw how Easter rabbits are made with their own hands. Any of the presented methods can be chosen even by a beginner, since it does not require much experience. Any complex idea can be simplified to the level accessible to a specific person.