Original DIY to celebrate Easter
Were you looking for an easy Easter craft? You’ve come to the right place. The idea we’ll teach you today is for decorating your home for Easter. Very easy wooden eggs that can also have other uses. Will you join us?
Easter Sunday is a day full of traditions. It marks the end of Lent in majority Christian countries and is celebrated by giving chocolate eggs, the “mona” in Catalonia, or making special pastries.
In many countries around the world, chocolate eggs are hidden around the house or garden for children to have a wonderful morning, first searching for them and then enjoying them as dessert. This special day deserves special decoration. That’s why at Manubens, we’ve prepared this easy Easter egg craft for you to decorate your home, give them to family, or hang them on the most beautiful blooming almond tree in the garden.
What do we explain in this article?
- Materials for Easter eggs
- How to make this easy Easter egg craft step by step
- Another idea with this Easter egg craft
- Want a good idea with this easy Easter craft to play with the kids?
- Other easy crafts for Easter Sunday
- Where does the tradition of Easter eggs come from?
- How to decorate Easter eggs
1. Materials for Easter eggs
To make these fantastic Easter eggs, you’ll need:
- Petersham ribbon in 100% cotton, Manubens P.495:
- Color 067: light green
- Color 015: baby blue
- Color 832: silver pink
- Color 233: pale mauve
- Color 929: salmon
- Wooden eggs.
- Scissors.
- Hot glue gun.
2. How to make this easy Easter egg craft step by step
Start the craft by cutting as many pieces of Manubens’ 100% cotton Petersham ribbon as eggs, approximately 40/50 cm each. Combine different colors to add more joy to the decoration.
Fold the ribbon in half.
Put a dot of hot glue in the center of the fold.
Glue the wooden egg right in the center of the bottom.
Glue the rest of the ribbon on the sides of the egg with hot glue.
Once the glue has cooled, close the other end with a knot or bow, and it’s ready to hang!
Very easy, isn’t it?
3. Another idea with this Easter egg craft
We’ve come up with another idea for decoration. Why not take advantage of these beautiful Easter eggs and put them together in an egg carton? Recycle one that isn’t screen printed and decorate it to your liking. In addition to decorating your home, it will also be a wonderful gift.
4. Want a good idea with this easy Easter craft to play with the kids?
Now that you have all the materials, we’re going to make a suggestion with this easy craft to play with the kids and hunt for Easter eggs. Finish wrapping the entire egg with ribbon using the same procedure, pressing the ribbon well and putting dots of hot glue from time to time.
Once you have the wrapped eggs, hide them in the garden along with the chocolate eggs to play a prank on the kids. They’ll have a blast finding the real ones and the fake ones!
5. Other easy crafts for Easter Sunday
On the Manubens craft blog, you can find many ideas, some very easy and others a bit more entertaining, but with time and enthusiasm, you can learn by following the tutorial.
From all the proposals, we have chosen the one we published last year as an easy Easter craft for children to do on a Saturday afternoon.
Discover how to make Easy DIY Easter Nests to make with children and spend an entertaining afternoon preparing the nest for the Easter Sunday chocolate eggs.
You can also learn crochet with another blog post: Easy Easter Craft: Crochet Bunnies. You’ll love them!
6. Where does the tradition of Easter eggs come from?
As we mentioned at the beginning of the article, Easter Sunday marks the end of Lent for countries with a Christian tradition. During the Middle Ages, eggs were considered meat, and they could not be eaten during this period of abstinence.
However, hens continued to lay eggs, and to preserve them, they were boiled and kept to be consumed at the end of Lent. The custom of painting eggs to differentiate them from fresh eggs spread, and they were given as gifts on Easter Sunday.
From the 19th century onwards, with the development of pastry, the tradition of chocolate eggs spread. In Catalonia, it is customary for godparents to give “monas” to their godchildren. Traditional “monas” were buns with boiled eggs decorated with feathers. Nowadays, there are more cakes made of sponge decorated with butter and chocolate, with colorful figures and feathers for decoration.
Large eggs or figures that are true works of craftsmanship are also made. It’s a delight to see the pastry shop windows during Holy Week and be amazed by these true wonders.
7. More easy Easter ideas: How to decorate colored eggs
If you want to paint your own eggs, you must first empty them. Wash them well and make a hole with a needle at the pointiest part and another slightly larger one at the base for the egg white and yolk to come out. You can blow a little to help empty it. Be careful, the egg must be very clean!
Now you can paint and decorate them with acrylic paint or permanent markers.
If you want to paint hard-boiled eggs, remember that you can only use food coloring.
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