A decorated Wreath made from Natural Branches

This wreath is made from natural branches. It is decorated with artistic copper wire, guinea fowl feathers and a small feathered bird. The wreath is then decorated with flower bulbs, white eggs and eggs painted with copper paint.

1. Apply two coats of Art Metal copper paint to the plastic eggs and let the paint dry between applications. NB: the painting procedure is made easier by pushing a flower stick into the egg to use as a handle.

2. Wrap the artistic copper wire around the outside of the wreath.

3. Push guinea fowl feathers randomly into the wreath all the way around. Also clip a couple of feathered birds onto the branches. Place a flower pot with flower bulbs in the middle of the wreath and arrange white and painted eggs around it.

Napkin Decoupage on Eggs

Two-piece cardboard eggs and polystyrene eggs painted with craft paint and decorated with glued on napkins. They are decorated with self-adhesive rhinestone half-pearls and 3D shapestickers.

1. Make a hole at the bottom of the egg to fit the metal stand.

2. Paint the bottom half with craft paint.

3. Tear the top layer of a napkin and glue the pieces onto the lid (the top half of the egg) with decoupage lacquer.

4. Glue the straight edges from the napkin along the edge of the lid.

5. Glue self-adhesive rhinestone half-pearls along the edge (cut them off individually first).

6. Place the stand underneath the egg and attach self-adhesive dragonflies.

7. Paint the brown eggs white before decorating with napkin decoupage.

8. You may paint the polystyrene eggs with craft paint.

Decorated plastic eggs with Babushka faces

Bright colours and babushka theme; a hit for Easter.

1. Draw a circle with a waterproof black Edding marker pen that writes on plastic. See the pattern sheet.

2. Paint the egg with acrylic paint. Do not paint the face and let the paint dry.

3. Use the end of a brush handle to make gold dots.

4. Pierce a hole in the other end of the egg with a sharp pair of scissors. Use a piece of bonsai-wire as a needle when you thread the mercerised embroidery yarn through the beads and the egg. Start by making a tassel, then pull on beads and bead caps in the desired order.

5. Finish with a bead cap and beads and thread the mercerised embroidery yarn through the egg and tie a knot.

Easter Chicks in Egg Shells

This chick is made from a compressed cotton egg painted with matt paint, mixed with pop up line. When heated with a heat gun, the surface becomes puffed up, adding texture to the egg. Eyes and a beak shaped from silk clay are then attached to the chick. Finally, decorate it with a bow, a wooden button and feathers.

1. Mix the pop up line with matt paint in the ratio 1:1 and apply a thick coat of the mixture to the cotton egg.

2. Put the painted cotton egg onto a stick. Puff up the paint by moving the heat gun in circular motions over the egg at a distance of approx. 10-15cm. This makes the colour puff up and gives a textured appearance to the egg.

3. Shape the eyes, the beak and wings from silk clay and press them onto the chick without using glue.

4. Paint an egg shell with matt paint and let it dry. Then glue it onto a wooden button for added stability.

5. Firmly place the chick inside the egg shell, securing it with a blob of silk clay. Use a glue gun for attaching a bow, feathers etc. to the chick.

An alternative

Decorate papier-mâché Babushkas following the same procedure as above. 

Eggs made from Hard Foil with Masking Tape

These eggs are made from transparent hard foil sheets. Use a Fiskars shape template and draw inside the template onto the hard foil using a thin marker pen. Then decorate the eggs with masking tape.

1. Use a thin marker pen for drawing inside the template onto the hard foil. Use a Fiskars shape template.

2. Turn the hard foil with the marker pen line face down towards the cutting mat to avoid the marker pen line from staining the masking tape when it is attached.

3. Cut out the egg along the thin marker pen line. Make a hole at the top of the finished egg and attach a piece of cotton string for hanging or attach the egg onto a greeting card.

Tufts of wool on Silk Clay

Sheep modeled in silk clay. The wool is glued on with a glue gun.

1. Make body parts for the sheep in silk clay and put them together.

2. Make a ball. Cut “toes” with a pair of scissors and attach the hooves.

3. Cut a suitable piece of wool and glue it on with a glue gun.

Easter Decorations made from Metallic Foam Clay

These lovely Easter animals are made from polystyrene balls and eggs covered with foam clay metallic. The ears, wings etc are made from foam clay which has been rolled out flat on a plastic surface, dried, cut and “glued” on with foam clay.

1. Cover a polystyrene ball with foam clay.

2. Roll out a ball of foam clay thinly and let it dry.

3. Roll balls and attach these for legs.

4. Decorate the rabbit.

5. Cut out the ears.

6. Attach the ears with foam clay.

Easter Shapes sewn from Handmade Paper

These paper shapes for hanging are sewn from handmade paper made from  mulberry and dyed using the classic watercolour technique.

1. Lightly moisten the paper with water.

2. Scrunch up the moist paper and place it on a piece of plastic.

3. Dab water-colour paint, mixed with water onto the moist paper. Let the paper dry. Leave it in its scrunched up shape. Let the watercolour run. This gives a very exciting effect in the uneven fibres of the paper.

4. Smooth the dry paper by hand. Draw a pattern using the template for this idea which is a separate pdf file. Cut it out.

5. Use a piece of mercerised cotton yarn for sewing the parts together with tacking stitches. Leave an opening of 5cm for filling the shape with polyester stuffing.

6. Fill the shape with polyester stuffing and close the hole with tacking stitches.

7. Make a four ply piece of mercerised cotton yarn for hanging. Thread a bead, a flower and finally the finished paper shape onto the four ply mercerised cotton yarn You may finish with another bead.

Another variant

A candle holder cover: measure the paper, cut and sew the two sides together to fit the height and the circumference of a candle holder. You may sew beads and flowers onto the paper in case you want additional decoration.

Attached file: Template (226 kB)