Paper Plate Easter Bunny Craft
August 12, 2008
This simple Easter bunny craft is perfect for your preschooler. All you need are some paper plates and basic crafting supplies.
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You’ll Need
* large paper plate
* small paper plate
* pink construction paper
* pipe cleaners or yarn
* crayons
* scissors
* glue
Easter Bunny
Directions:
Glue the small paper plate on top of the large paper plate to form the bunny’s body and head. Cut two bunny ears out of the pink construction paper and glue them to the head. Use markers to draw the bunny’s eyes, nose and mouth. Glue on some pipe cleaners and yarn for whiskers.
You may also enjoy making this Koala Mask with your child and for Easter, try making this hollow Easter egg craft.
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Natural Easter Egg Dye
August 12, 2008
Use a natural Easter egg dye this year. You can create all sorts of different dye colors for your Easter eggs using all natural ingredients.
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You’ll Need
* large pan
* water
* vinegar
Choose from the ingredients below depending on what color you like.
* Beige to brown: Strong brewed coffee
* Pale Red: Fresh beets or cranberries, frozen raspberries
* Pale green: Spinach leaves
* Orange: Yellow onion skins
* Light yellow: Orange or lemon peels, carrot tops, celery seed or ground cumin
* Yellow: Ground turmeric
* Green-gold: Yellow Delicious apple peels
* Blue: Canned blueberries or red cabbage leaves
natural-easter-egg-dye
Directions:
Put the eggs in the pan and add enough water to completely cover the eggs. Add a teaspoon of vinegar to the water as well as some of the natural ingredients above.
Bring the water to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Take the eggs out with a spoon and let them cool.
After you’re done peeling and eating the eggs, use the shell pieces to make this fun mosaic craft.
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Mother’s Day Flower Craft
August 12, 2008
This Mother’s Day, give Mom some flowers she can keep for years to come. Best of all, they will include your pictures.
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You’ll Need
* Construction Paper
* Green Pipe Cleaner
* Small Photos
* Glue
* Scissors
* Terracotta Pot
* Oasis
* Tempura Paint
* Spanish Moss
Directions:
Paint the tempura pot in your favorite color. Let it dry. Use a paint brush, or your fingers and additional colors of paint to draw small designs on the pot. Cut some oasis to fit inside the clay pot.
Cut round circles and flower petals out of the construction paper. Cut leave shapes out of the green construction paper.
Cut out pictures to fit in the round center piece of your flowers. Glue the picture on the circle, glue the flower petals around it (attaching them to the back of the center circle of your flowers).
Glue the flowers to the green pipe cleaner stems. Do the same with the leave shapes.
Stick the flowers in the oasis, arranging them to make a pretty flower bouquet.
Cover the oasis with Spanish moss.
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