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)

A Quilling Butterfly on a Greeting Card

This is a fun technique in which narrow veaving paper strips are rolled or twisted using a quilling pen and then wedged in a quilling board and glued together. The shapes are glued onto a greeting card.

1. Roll or twist the weaving paper strips using a quilling pen.

2. Place the rolled up paper strips in a desired mould in the quilling board.

3. Remove them carefully from the quilling board. To hold the size and the shape, glue them together with clear marker.

4. Place in the mould on the quilling board again. You could use pins to keep the same distance between the turns. Now glue with clear marker. The glue is gel-like and not runny. Let it dry.

5. Glue a piece of color paper onto a greeting card using double-sided adhesive tape.

6. Glue the paper coils onto the greeting card in a desired pattern. In this example: a butterfly.

7. Glue strips of paper along the edge.