Vintage Easter Printables

Vintage Easter Prints! Are you ready for some vintage?!

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Eggs made from Color Bar Card

Eggs cut out from color bar card with double-sided print. Three or four pieces of card are stapled together with a stapler and a piece of coloured elastic beading cord is used for hanging.

1. Draw the eggs onto Colorbar card using the template. Cut out three or four eggs.

2. Fold the egg in the middle (horizontally) and staple all four eggs together with a stapler along the fold in the middle.

3. Make a hole with a hole punch and insert a piece of coloured elastic beading cord through the hole for hanging.

Attached file:  Template (269 kB)

Sprouting eggs with feet

These small signs of spring in papier-mâché eggs are painted with matt acrylic paint. Cotton balls are glued on for feet and eyes and a small cone is glued on for the beak.

Insert small plastic pots with cotton into the egg so that you can grow cress.

An Easter Bunny ready for the Festivities

Paint a chubby wood body and a wood bead with craft paint. Make a neck collar from ribbon and ears from felt. A fur pom-pom is used for the tail.

The cute little bunny is easy to make. Glue wood buttons onto the body. Make a neck collar using tack stitches (sew up and down and pull tight). Cut ears from felt using the template and glue them on. Glue on wiggle eyes. A bit of flax twine with a wood bead are nose and whiskers. Everything is glued on with a glue gun.

Attached file:  Pattern (87 kB)

Plastic Eggs with Napkin Decoupage

These plastic eggs have been painted with craft paint and then decoupaged with napkins and decorated with feathers.

1. Paint the egg with craft paint.

2. When the paint is dry, glue small pieces of napkin onto the egg using decoupage lacquer. NB! For a shiny egg apply several coats of decoupage lacquer on top of the napkin.

3. Glue a feather inside a wooden bead.

4. Cut off the excess end of the feather.

5. Glue the bead with the feather onto the pointed end of the egg.

6. Insert a metal hanger in the other (rounded) end of the egg.

A Papier-Mâché Egg decorated with Quilling

Use a guillotine trimmer for cutting canson card into strips. Then roll the strips into coils using the quilling pen and place them in the chosen mould in the quilling board. Then glue all the coils onto the papier-mâché egg which is painted with acrylic paint.

1. Paint the  papier-mâché egg with white acrylic paint.

2. Cut the canson card into 5mm wide strips using the guillotine trimmer from Fiskars. Begin by trimming the piece of card so that the guillotine trimmer's printed measuring tool is visible and can be used on the left-hand side. The procedure of cutting strips is to constantly move the piece of card 5mm to the right.

3. Place each strip (one at the time) in the slot at the tip of the quilling pen and roll tight to make a coil. Place the coil in the desired mould in the quilling board to keep its shape.

4. Remove the quilled paper strip from the quilling board mould if this tool has been used. Carefully unroll it between two fingers. Secure the coil with a blob of glue and place the coil in the quilling board until the glue is dry. Use the quilling board's different sized moulds to achieve a variety of different sizes of coils. NB! You may choose to make the coils by using your fingers.

5. Glue the hardened coils onto the egg, so the final result appears with a pattern. You may choose to cover the egg entirely or partly with coils.

6. TIP! You may choose to squeeze half-sized strips into a slightly larger heart-shaped mould on the quilling board – several at the same time and glue them together with a bit of glue.

Easter Animals made from Pipe Cleaners and Silk Clay

The pipe cleaners have been shaped into bodies and silk clay eyes, beaks and noses etc. have been attached. The animals have been fixed onto a stand made from foam rubber.

1. Crumple up and squeeze together a pipe cleaner. You may let legs and ears stick out.

2. Roll small white and black silk clay balls for eyes. The white ones should be larger than the black ones. Also roll or shape a beak or a nose and attach these parts onto the pipe cleaner animal without using glue. Silk clay has the consistency which makes this possible, before drying.

3. If you wish to use these Easter animals as a decoration for hanging, then attach a piece of elastic beading cord or a piece of string onto the heads. If they are to be used for standing, form a small ball from silk clay and attach this between the pipe cleaner and a cut-out foam rubber circle or stand.

Eggs Wrapped in Felted Knitting

A plain-knitted square stitched together to form a tube with a fixed piece of string in both ends. Then put a plastic egg inside the tube and sew each end together with the egg inside. Then felt in the washing machine.

1. Plain-knitted squares: for the plastic egg measuring 6cm in diameter, cast on 14 stitches. Knit 40 rows  in plain knitting = 10cm. Cast off.

2. For the plastic egg measuring 4cm in diameter, cast on 8 stitches. Knit 30 rows in plain knitting = 8cm. Cast off.

3. Sew the short ends of the square together, forming a tube.

4. Tack a piece of wool at the top and a piece of wool at the bottom of the knitted tube. Put the egg inside the tube.

5. Pull both ends of the pieces of wool tacked at the top to close the tube in one end. Secure. Repeat this at the bottom of the tube.

6. To make a string for hanging, crochet 30 chain stitches for the small egg and 40 chain stitches for the large egg. Felt the egg in the washing machine at 60°. You may pull the egg into shape whilst it is still wet.

An example

This is a photo of eggs in bold colours prior to felting in the washing machine.

A small Papier-Mâché House, covered with Handmade Paper

Painted  papier-mâché houses covered with handmade paper and decorated with a wooden bead and guinea fowl feathers.

1. Use the papier-mâché house as a template for drawing and cutting out the appropriate pieces for covering the house. See paragraph 4.

2. Paint the surfaces of the house with acrylic paint as desired.

3. Paint wooden beads in different colours.

4. Place the template onto the handmade paper. Copy and cut out.

5. Attach the piece of handmade paper onto the house using decoupage lacquer.

6. Also apply a coat of decoupage lacquer on top of the handmade paper.

7. Thread the bead onto the string used for hanging.

8. Attach a guineau fowl feather inside the hole of the wooden bead using glue.