Free guide for fun Easter decoration with plastic eggs

Here's a guide on how to make a creative and colourful decoration for Easter. You can easily get the kids involved in cutting and drawing, and it's a great homemade as well as cosy hostess gift for your Easter get-together! All you need are some creative fingers and markers, craft felt and feathers to turn these simple plastic eggs into colourful Easter eggs.

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You'll need:

• Plastic eggs/Easter eggs
• Hobby felt in sheets
• Feathers
• Posca marker, 8 pcs glitter
• Posca marker, black

In addition you will need:

• Hobby knife
• Glue gun
• Glue sticks for the glue gun
• Scissors
• An egg tray

Instructions:

1) Start by cutting the egg tray in half so you can make two decorations out of it. Then cut holes in three of the eggs and try to imitate a real egg that has a hole in it.

2) Using the posca markers, paint 4 of the eggs in a basic colour of the yellow, green, pink and dark pink marker respectively. Use a finger to smooth out the colour so that it is evenly distributed on the eggs. Then dot the dark pink egg with purple.

3) Then cut:

• The rabbit: rabbit ears from the pink felt and a rabbit nose from the pink felt
• The frog: a yellow crown from the yellow felt and eyes from the white felt
• The rooster: beak and comb of the red felt

Make sure you cut the comb in a curved shape to fit the egg. Draw a black dot on the frog's white eyes.

4) Now take the pink egg and glue the rabbit's ears on with the glue gun. It may be a good idea to make a small dent in the felt before gluing it on. If necessary, give the top of the bend a little glue too, so that the ears get the right angle. Also glue on the rabbit's nose.

5) Now glue the crown and eyes onto the frog and the beak and comb onto the rooster. Do not make a dent in the felt here, instead you can put the glue carefully on the felt edge before placing the crown and comb on the eggs. Then draw the final details on your rooster, frog and rabbit with the black posca marker and glue the yellow feather on the rooster.

6) Now you need the last two white eggs. Draw flowers on one and branches with green leaves on the other.

7) Fill water into the three eggs with holes in them and use them as small vases. Go out into nature to pick spring flowers and branches for the "vases". Your decoration is now complete. If you want to use the pretty decoration as a gift, wrap it nicely with cellophane and satin ribbon or gift ribbon and write a sweet card for it.

Have fun!