Do you like to do needlework and art? Do you want to create something original for a Bright holiday? Below are some very interesting ideas for Easter. With your own hands you can make a lot of beautiful gifts, souvenirs and decorations both for the festive table and for the interior. Everything that is said is easy for even a beginner to do. Some options will especially appeal to children. They will be happy to make gifts.
DIY Easter Ideas
Despite the fact that now you can buy almost any decor, making it yourself is especially nice. Man-made things created with a soul carry warmth and kindness and look nicer and more tender than purchased ones.
So, below is a list of souvenirs and techniques for making gifts and decorations for Easter:
- Eggs decorated in various ways.
- Compositions of eggs and other holiday attributes.
- Easter trees, including topiary.
- Bunnies made both edible and decorative.
- Wreaths to decorate the interior.
All this is created and decorated using the following techniques:
- Painting by paints.
- Decoupage.
- Application.
- Knitting.
- Sewing.
- Quilling.
Any combinations of both technique and objects are possible. Everything is limited only by your imagination and desire to create.
Egg decoration
First, consider the traditional ideas for Easter. Do it yourself with your own hands often stain eggs like chicken food dyes, and wooden any others. Now they are selling sets with shrink films, stickers and other decor that allows you to create real masterpieces. They are very interesting for children's creativity.
If you know how to draw, you can paint the surface at your discretion or using special stencils. By the way, plastic children's options are sold, adapted to the surface of the egg. It’s easy to work with them, as they fit snugly enough. Such kits also include felt-tip pens, probably with food pigments.
Eggs can also be decorated with applique elements, including those made using the quilling technique. By the way, Easter panels and decorative compositions made using this technology look spectacular. Braiding eggs with beads is very popular as a continuous pattern with chickens, churches, domes, and decorative mesh weaving of the pattern.
Interestingly, you can decorate eggs with satin ribbons, bows, dense threads, lace, buttons, apply the decoupage technique, apply patterns composed of cereals, peas, and beans to the surface. Out of all this diversity, magnificent compositions in baskets, Easter trees, topiary and other decor are created.
Eggs made of thread and other materials
The previous section described how to decorate an already finished shape. Here we will talk about how to create it yourself. Of course, you will still need the baseline. An ordinary shell from a chicken egg is used, in which the contents are blown out through the holes made above and below. The second option is balloons.
Very unusual ideas for Easter with your own hands can be realized using ordinary yarn. To create a lace decor from threads, do the following:
- Take small balloons of the appropriate shape, coat the surface with glue.
- Thread and let dry.
- Blow out or burst the ball, remove it from the resulting lace form.
You can put a light bulb inside, making a lamp, or leave a “window” when winding the threads and put a chicken or rabbit in it.
As for creating the shape of an egg, they can be made from paraffin in the form of candles, from chocolate, jelly, soap. It is enough to pour the molten compounds into an empty, washed and dried shell, cool and clean.
Easter bunnies
This is a relatively new souvenir for our country, which is becoming popular. Here you can also offer some interesting ideas for Easter. With your own hands for children, and even better with them, it’s easy to bake, sew, bind, make cute rabbits with carrots from paper or these objects separately. Kids will be delighted with both edible and decorative products. Soft toys in the form of bunnies are especially cute. They can be a great gift for a children's room.
DIY Easter Ideas: Knitting
If you like to crochet needlework, you can create many different souvenirs and jewelry for the holiday. They knit (or tie) eggs, make bunnies, chickens, and baskets. All this is done as a small desktop decor, and in the form of full-fledged interior decorations.
Monochrome and multicolor things look spectacular. They are used as independent souvenirs or as part of complex compositions.
Easter tree
If you are engaged with children, then it is worth using the simplest ideas for Easter. You can make a beautiful tree with your own hands with children.
To do this, it is enough to put half-blossomed twigs or a willow in a vase of water and decorate them with pre-decorated, eggs suspended on ribbons or ribbons. For this, two holes are made in the shell, the contents are blown out. The blank is washed and dried. A ribbon in the form of a loop is threaded into the hole. From the bottom side under the second hole, a knot is tied, which holds the loop.
Wreath or decorative composition.
With older children, you can complicate the work. Instead of decorating the finished branches, suggest creating a wreath from the same branches or from wire, cardboard blanks. For decoration use decorated eggs, figures of bunnies, chickens.
An interesting souvenir will turn out in the form of a composition in a transparent vase, container or in a simple basket.
Easter Topiary
If you are looking for unusual ideas for Easter, you can make a topiary of decorated eggs with your own hands. In shape, this souvenir resembles a miniature tree trimmed in the shape of a ball in a pot.
To create it, a ball, a papier-mâché sphere or another piece is usually taken. It attaches to the stem-rod, which is firmly fixed in the container or vase. The ball is decorated in this case with Easter eggs, the trunk and the surface of the "earth" - at your discretion.
So, you saw how diverse the ideas for Easter are. With your own hands you can make any decor and souvenir both in the simplest technique, and in a complex labor-intensive one. Choose what suits you. Do it yourself and teach kids.