All Christians are waiting for the bright day of Christ's Resurrection. Prepare for this holiday in advance, think through Easter decoration. With your own hands, you can create an amazing design of the rooms, decorate the table in an original way, and prepare amazing gifts for guests. Every detail is important here. This article describes how to create a unique Easter decoration with your own hands.
Transparent rabbit curtains
You can make your own Easter decoration by making original curtains on the windows. Even if everyone sees from the street that the house is a real holiday! Moreover, making such a decoration is not difficult. It is recommended to involve children in work.
To make this Easter decoration with your own hands, you will need pieces of different wallpapers and a rabbit pattern . The pattern of the animal is imposed on colored paper, outlined along the contour. Then the rabbits are cut with scissors and with the help of a needle and thread they make a garland which is hung vertically on the curtain.
You can glue the blanks on a string or sew on a tulle curtain. And some prefer to stick figures with soap directly on glass.
Wall decoration for the holiday
You can place paper rabbits not vertically on a twine, but horizontally. It is recommended to hang such a garland on a wall. Yes, and just a bunch of pasted multi-colored rabbits remarkably raise the festive mood.
Rabbit bags for gifts
In general, many Easter ideas are based on the image of a rabbit. With a fantasy, the housewives manage to fold the napkins in such a way that they resemble this eared coward.
Appliques with this funny animal decorate bags with hotel guests, make greeting cards. Folding a thick paper cone, attaching ears to the top, and drawing eyes and antennae on the front, you can get an excellent original bag for gifts. Hang it on the front door and wait for the neighbors to put a treat in it.
Egg wreath
What amazing Easter ideas just do not occur to dreamers! For example, a luxurious wreath of eggs - this is so non-trivial! It will adorn the entrance to the room, even outside. True, to collect this decoration from real eggs will not succeed.
Therefore, you should first make parts from papier-mâché. Pieces of newspaper are pasted onto a template - a devastated egg. The first layer is applied by wetting the paper with plain water so that papier-mâché can be easily removed from the template. The next 10 layers are already glued with starch or flour paste.
After drying the workpiece, it is carefully cut in half, trying not to hurt the shell, and removed from the template. Having folded the halves with each other, pieces of newspaper seal the joint. After complete drying, the eggs are painted or left so, right with the letters. Holes are made at both ends of the workpiece, into which they stretch the rope.
You can place bunches of flowers or bushes of grass between the eggs and tie bright beautiful bows. And you can even wrap a wreath with an electric garland from a box with Christmas tree decorations. Let dark lights fabulously flash colorful lights, giving a magical mood to everyone around. Such crafts on the Easter theme will not only become an interesting solution to the design of the room, but can also serve as a pleasant gift for the holiday.
Decorating Kitchen Accessories
In the appliqué technique, various objects made of fabric are decorated. For example, kitchen towels, aprons, potholders. Such Easter decorations for the home are easy to make.
Applique on the fabric can be done by sewing the cut out parts on the main subject with a sewing seam. There is still a method of hot bonding tissues. To do this, the material on which the contour of the application is marked is laid on polyethylene, a newspaper is laid from below. Using a hot iron, iron the fabric on the front side. When she "grasps" with the adhesive material, the part is cut with scissors.
Then, the finished application is laid down on a permanent place with polyethylene down and ironed again. So the exclusive thing is ready!
Decorating an egg stand in five minutes
There are other Easter ideas. With your own hands, for example, it is easy to decorate an egg stand. To do this, it is enough to cut from a thick colored paper or cardboard a contour image of a rabbit, which is as if trying to climb up. A fluffy tail made of a piece of cotton wool or fur can be fixed to the workpiece.
Having bent the upper legs of the rabbit, it is attached to the stand, in which the puppies lie. Now a cute picture is presented to the eye: a funny animal is trying to get to the bright eggs prepared for the holiday.
Coasters - "nests" for paint
It’s not so difficult to realize interesting Easter ideas with your own hands. For example, original egg stands will help to decorate the room decor.
The "nests" for the puppies can be woven from straw, newspaper tubes or willow twigs. Knitters can use their skill. Charming knitted nests look great when multi-colored eggs are beautifully laid inside.
Just do not forget to lay the bottom of each such stand with hay, decorate with artificial flowers. You can use any capacity instead of a wicker nest: a pot, a jug, a bowl. After all, hens, as you know, manage to rush not only in strictly designated places - for them the law is not written.
Chocolate figures are original and tasty!
Today, more and more culinary experts use their creative abilities to make interesting crafts for Easter. Having at hand a baking dish of figures of a rabbit, chicken, chicken, they make a biscuit figure. Then it is doused with chocolate icing.
You can cook the icing in a cold way. It is enough to mix in a bowl three tablespoons of cocoa with half a glass of powdered sugar and dilute the mixture with half a glass of warm milk. After adding one and a half tablespoons of softened butter and vanilla, you should mix everything thoroughly, rubbing until shine appears. Glaze is used immediately after preparation, as it hardens very quickly.
Easter decorations made from salt dough
Often needlewomen make amazing figurines with their own hands. To create these masterpieces, clay, porcelain or gypsum are not needed. After all, they are sculpted from ordinary salt dough, the ingredients for the preparation of which can be found in any kitchen.
Flour and small salt are mixed in a volume ratio of 2: 1. That is, flour is taken twice as much in volume as salt. A fairly steep dough, similar to dumplings, is mixed with water. From this mass, sculpts are baked, which are baked in the oven, and after hardening, they are painted and varnished.
Festive cake - both refreshments and Easter decoration
The most skilled confectioners manage to embody Easter ideas in their amazing masterpieces. With their own hands they decorate a baked cake with figures from mastic, fresh or glazed fruits, peeled nuts. Can be used as a design and chocolates, for example, to simulate a fence.
Mastic for figures do so. First, three grams of gelatin is prepared by the method indicated on the bag. There also add half a tablespoon of softened margarine and one and a half teaspoons of powdered glucose. After mixing, pour 400 grams of powdered sugar into the mixture. This mixture is again stirred until a homogeneous mass. Be sure to add food coloring to the mastic!
Easter tree
A wonderful option for a festive design will be a plant with fantasy fruits - decorated with eggs. Of course, hanging on thin branches of real paint will not succeed. But the hollow shells, painted according to the plan, with thread loops glued to one of the ends, can easily stay on the tree. The decor of Easter eggs for this craft uses the one that is most to the liking of the master designer.
Thus, you can decorate any home plant. And there is also an option to make a tree from an ordinary branch by installing it in a pot of earth. You can pre-put it in water so that young leaves hatch from the kidneys. Then the twig is installed in a container of water, which is masked in the ground of the pot.
Easter egg decor
In addition to the well-known method of cooking paints in onion husks, there are many other options for decorating them. These are:
- drawing with paints using a brush;
- decoupage with napkins;
- foil wrapping;
- decoration of Easter eggs with beads, buttons, sequins;
- drawing an ornament by paints 3D.
Beads, sequins, buttons can simply be glued to the shell. And you can weave a beautiful case. It will require beads and beads.
The easiest way is to make a few strands of low beads that tie at both ends of the egg. On the sites of nodes, you can make cute brushes, pompons.
The second option involves the manufacture of openwork "chain mail" for the egg. For this, the pieces of wire or fishing line on which the beads are attached are crossed among themselves in the process of weaving, which is why the lace is formed.
Master class for making a vintage Easter egg
This option allows you to create a real masterpiece. True, it is done on empty and dried shells. And it is right! Indeed, to spoil such beauty in order to eat an egg will be sacrilege.
- First, an ornament is applied to the shell with a pencil.
- Then, using a drill with a very thin drill, make holes in the right places.
- 3D paint is applied to a strip of ornament along a contour drawn in pencil.
- After the convex pattern has dried, it is painted with white paint using a sponge.
- In a place free of ornament, lay a piece of a paper towel dampened with glue with a pattern.
- PVA glue is again applied on top.
- The edges of the piece can be painted over with the same white paint with which the ornament was coated, so that the pattern itself remained untouched.
If you attach a loop to the tip of the egg, you can decorate it with an Easter tree.