Every year, we look forward to approaching the bright holiday of Easter. His celebration was closely intertwined with the rites of paganism: the meeting of spring, games, the celebration of ancestors. Mistresses bake Easter cakes on the eve, make curd eggs, decorate eggs. Then they put everything in the Easter basket and bring it to the church for consecration. Then they treat Kulichiki with relatives and friends. A handmade Easter basket has become an integral attribute of a great holiday. It reflects pagan beliefs, requiring the appeasement of deities for welfare. On the eve of the holiday, many are interested in the ideas of an Easter basket made by themselves. We offer you a selection of the best ideas on this subject. Get to know how to decorate an Easter basket in an original way with the most improvised means. Embroidered towels, sisal, burlap, flowers, dried flowers, willow twigs can be your helpers.
Small cardboard products
The basket is popular primarily because of its convenience. Such beautiful baskets are suitable not only for consecration in the church, but also as a gift for relatives and friends. A small basket is often made of thin chipboard, cardboard. To make the basket resemble wicker as much as possible, the cardboard is cut into long strips with a width of 1-1.5 cm. For a change, they use cardboard in two shades, the combination of beige and dark brown stripes looks beautiful. These stripes intertwine with each other and add a basket from the resulting rectangles. The layout of the Easter basket made of cardboard is very simple. The main thing is to fasten the edges of woven rectangles with a stapler or glue. Then from three strips weave a handle and attach it to the basket. Such a wicker is often decorated with colorful butterflies from colored paper. It looks very elegant and beautiful!
Cardboard baskets do not need to be woven, there are other ways to assemble them, it is enough to show imagination and acquire a stapler. A small decorative basket can be made together with your children from colored paper. It is not suitable for a heavy load, but will serve as a wonderful decoration for the home and Easter cake. A very small basket can be made in the form of origami from sheets of colored paper. It is possible to make an original basket from a plastic bottle, because they come in different colors. Bright, colorful wickerwork is made from candy wrappers and candy wrappers, as well as from baking paper. Such wickers are decorated with satin ribbons, and decorated Easter eggs are placed in them.
Baskets decorated with flowers and leaves
Flowers and twigs with leaves always look attractive and elegant. Sometimes wickers are decorated with live tulips or daffodils, but this decor will not last long. It is better to use artificial flowers or made independently of colored or corrugated paper. Sometimes they are woven directly into the basket. Thus, flowers can braid the entire basket or place the composition near the handle. Collected from artificial flowers, a spring bouquet will look very cute. The composition may include not only flowers, but also leaves. It is not a shame to present such a basket of Easter eggs to your loved ones.
Fancy Bast Boxes
Easter basket made of twigs or plastic is a classic of the genre. An unusual option may be to make a small basket out of the cells of the egg tray. It is enough to cut four cells, paste them with paper colored napkins, attach a pen. You will get an unusual basket, where you put eggs from white and black chocolate.
The basket sewn from felt or other dense fabric looks originally. It may resemble a keg. A very unusual decoration of the Easter basket will be lush ruffles made of chiffon. Such a basket will resemble a magnificent ballroom skirt. Often it is complemented by flowers to match the fabric. The space in the basket between the Easter eggs and gifts is best filled with cut colored paper resembling grass.
Original Easter baskets are a Provence style that uses ordinary objects for an unusual purpose. Some even manage to pass off a metal colander, brass watering can, and containers for washing and storing fruits as a holiday basket.
The most patient housewives make Easter bead basket. This is a very time-consuming work, therefore it is better to choose a small basket scheme for one testicle.
Those who know how to crochet can make a braid of thick yarn. Knitwear is not so difficult to make.
Newspaper Tartlets
A full-fledged gift will look like an Easter souvenir to friends and relatives in a basket made independently of newspaper tubes. It turns out that old newspapers can also be given a new life. You can also use unnecessary notebooks. So, to perform such a basket take the following devices:
- newspapers or sheets of notebooks;
- a knitting needle to curl paper;
- PVA glue;
- tube with brown acrylic paint;
- acrylic varnish for gloss and durability of the product;
- a candle;
- polymer universal adhesive "Dragon" ;
- a bowl or other container corresponding to the necessary shape of your basket;
- strip of foamiran, ribbons, flowers, beads and other decor to your taste.
To make a basket, you will need about 80 paper tubes. Screw them onto a knitting needle and fix the ends with PVA glue. Then paint the tubes brown to make the basket look wicker from the vine. As soon as the tubes are dry, proceed to weave. Take 14 tubes, connect them in pairs, inserting one into the other. Glue the joints with Dragon glue. Fold six long tubes three and cross each other. Bend the seventh in half, it will be working. Then weave with a "rope" (braid all the tubes in a circle).
Later, you can put the blank in the form of a sun on an inverted jar to give the product the shape of a basket. In the process of weaving tubules, dip in glue. Pull the basket to the desired height. Lift all the tubes and insert them into the second hole from them inside the basket. Coat the front of the product with PVA glue. Once everything is dry, cut off excess ducts. Make holes symmetrically on both sides and advance three ducts to weave the handle. Make it in the form of a pigtail. At the end, cover the product with acrylic varnish. You can decorate the basket with a ruffle from a strip of foamiran and a wreath of flowers.
Plastic baskets, sweet products
A great way to reuse baskets are plastic and plastic baskets. Each year they can be decorated in different ways. An ordinary plastic basket for berries can be an excellent holiday container. It will fit several eggs and other Easter treats.
Regular containers, packaging, TetraPak boxes are also great for festive decor. It is enough to attach a pen to them and paste over with paper, cloth, felt or decorate with acrylic paints.
The most fantastic idea is the sweet Easter bast basket from the dough. Such rich tiny products will decorate your Easter table. You can bake each guest a small basket in the form of a cupcake with a handle.
Wicker easter basket
Many housewives acquire wicker baskets. Shop products made of twigs will serve for many years and you can decorate them each time in different ways. If possible, you can weave such a basket. Baskets are found in different colors and with different patterns of weaving. Masters use a natural boiled and durable vine, an environmentally friendly product. You can admire these products because they are all unique and give joy on the bright holiday of Easter.
It is best to decorate the braid with an embroidered rushnyk. Almost all housewives in Ukraine adhere to this tradition. They also sew special ruffles or tie satin ribbons with a bow.
Baby baskets
Often, holiday baskets are designed specifically for children. Every kid wants to have his own little Easter basket. Children's baskets are decorated with toys, flowers, bows, put sweets, chocolate rabbits there. It will be appropriate to sew a basket in the form of a bunny with ears on a basket. Do not forget to put in the baby basket a mini-pascha, intricate Easter eggs with the image of cartoon characters. A baby basket should look fun and easy.
Glass and wood products for decor
Holiday baskets for interior decoration are distinguished by their unusual shape, massiveness, lots of jewelry and a minimum of products. In stores you can buy many decorations for such baskets. These are decorative eggs on a stick, various hens, chicks, chickens, cockerels. You can make or buy figures of rabbits, figurines of pink bunnies, original coasters for colored eggs.
DIY Easter basket masterclass
From threads, glue and a balloon, you can easily make a very original, light and delicate basket. For such a product, you will need the following devices:
- yarn for knitting;
- decorative shavings;
- balloon;
- glue;
- fluffy pompon in the form of chickens;
- beads.
First inflate the balloon to the desired size, tie the tip of the thread. Then wrap the ball with knitting threads. To prevent the yarn from slipping, apply a little glue to the surface of the ball. Win the yarn so that the coils do not move and lie close to each other. Gradually cover the entire ball with yarn to make a dense and durable cocoon. After wrapping all the yarn, dip the ball into the glue. Hang it to dry. Once the glue has dried, lower the ball with a puncture and gently stick it out of the cocoon. On two sides, cut two pieces of the product to get a fairly wide handle. This will give the product the shape of a basket. To make the craft more attractive, stick the original tape on top of its surface. You can also stick it along the edge of the handle. Fill the basket with decorative chips and put the chickens and sweets there.
Corrugated paper baskets
A corrugated paper basket will become a cute accessory for Easter eggs. Gentle-blue, light pink, pistachio, cream paper will look vintage. To do this, from corrugated paper of the desired width, you need to sew strips in the form of ruffles, stitching them in the middle. You can paste over with these paper ruffles any bast basket or bucket available in the house, even under mayonnaise. Complete the product decor with a large flower or several small inflorescences, tie a basket with lace or ribbon.
Cases for baskets
Even a sewing machine is not needed to sew a cover in the Easter basket; it is quite possible to make it manually. For this, choose a natural delicate fabric, it can be checked or with an original print. You can take linen or lace fabric. Often, embroidered motifs with inscriptions and symbols of Easter are used for the cover. You can decorate the finished cover with beads, beads, lace. Often the bottom of the basket is simply covered with several delicate napkins or one large one, so that the ends hang outward. A similar option is shown in the photo below.
What to put in an Easter basket
After you have decided on the appearance of the basket that you will bring to the church for consecration, think about its contents. Not all products are consecrated in the temple. Do not put alcohol there, except for red wine, money, jewelry, and blood drop. And here is a list of products that you can safely bless:
- Easter cakes
- cheese curd;
- meat products;
- sweets;
- a jar of horseradish;
- church candle;
- painted eggs.
You can cover the basket with an embroidered towel or a beautiful openwork napkin.