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Easter Craft Ideas for Kids

Easter Chick Pin Cushion
Spring Flower Sun Catcher
Chick in Broken Egg Paper Mache
Cloth Birds Nest

Small Baby Food Jar
Yellow Cloth
Yellow Craft Foam
Red or Orange Craft Foam
Wiggle Eyes
Red Straight Pins
Cotton Balls
Yellow Pom Poms or Yellow Buttons
Scissors
Hot Glue

Fill the clean baby food jar with yellow buttons or pom poms. Cut a piece of yellow cloth about three times larger than the lid.  With the hot glue, overlap the yellow cloth slightly over the lid and glue on in one spot. Continue to glue the cloth to the lid.  As you do this, pinch and pleat the cloth.  Cover the lid only half way. Stuff cotton balls between the lid and the cloth to form the "cushion" for the pins.  Finish gluing on the cloth to the lid.  Trim off excess. With the red or orange craft foam cut out 2 small triangles for the beak. Glue these onto the front of the jar with one slightly below the other.   Cut out wings with the yellow craft foam and glue to the sides.  Now finish the face by gluing on the wiggle eyes. Tip:  If you don't have wiggle eyes you can use black and white craft foam or construction paper and make your own eyes. To complete this pin cushion, place several red straight pins to form the "comb" on top of the baby chick's head.

Supplies

	Use a flower shaped cookie cutter or cut out a flower shape with cardboard.
	Place a piece of wax paper on the table.  Place your flower template on top of the wax paper.
	In a small bowl, pour in some liquid starch (enough to soak the yarn).
	Cut a long strip of yarn.  You can use several strips but it's best to use just one so you may want to pre-fill your template to see how much you need.
	Place the yarn in the bowl with the liquid starch.  Make sure the yarn is completely soaked.
	Remove one end of the yarn and starting at the outer edge of the template, begin to fill the flower with yarn.  Do this by wrapping the yarn around inside the template (from outer edge to the inside). Tip:  Squeeze off excess liquid starch as you remove the yarn from the bowl using your finger and thumb.
	All the yarn to dry (at least 6 hours).
	Remove the flower from the template and wax paper.  Add some petals to your flower using the craft foam.
	Lastly glue on some green ribbon on the top and bottom of the flower. Let the bottom hang down to make it look like the stem.  The top is for hanging in your window.

Supplies

	Blow up an oval balloon and tie it off.  Tie a string to the end of the balloon.
	Mix 2 parts flour with 1 part water for the paper mache paste.  Tear several strips of white printer paper.
	Dip the paper in the paste and place on the balloon.  Squeeze off excess paste before placing it on the balloon.  Let this first layer completely dry.
	Repeat with another layer of white paper and let dry.  Now tear up several pieces of colored tissue paper (in your choice of colors).  Dip these into the paste and place on the balloon.  Let dry and repeat 2 or 3 more times until your egg is strong enough.
	Once the paper mache egg is completely dry, have an adult cut it in half using a craft knife or exacto knife.  Cut in a zig zag to create the "broken" egg look.
	Take your yellow plastic Easter egg and glue on a beak (cut from the orange paper).  Glue on the wiggle eyes.
	Glue the bottom of the chick egg to the bottom of the broken egg paper mache.
	Now place the top half of the broken egg on the bottom half in a way that will leave a big opening so you can see the chick. Tip:  To do this, place 2 or three tips of the zig zag together at the back and then hot glue in place.

	Place your bowl upside down on top of some waxed paper.  Cut a piece of cloth slightly larger than the bowl.  Soak the cloth in liquid starch and place on
	Cut a piece of cloth slightly larger than the bowl.  Soak the cloth in liquid starch and place on top of the bowl.  Repeat with another piece of cloth.
	Allow to dry for about 6 to 8 hours.  Once the cloth is dry remove from the bowl.  Tie a piece of ribbon at the bottom to help hold the nest shape.
	Fill the nest part way with your natural items. Tip:  You can also just use some Easter grass to fill the nest.
	Take your plastic yellow eggs and use one half to make each bird.  To make the birds cut out some beaks with red or orange construction paper and glue or tape it on the egg. Tip:  We used double stick tape as this worked the best.  Elmer's glue takes a while to dry.  Hot glue will also work but for the little ones we wanted to just use tape.
	Cut out some wings with yellow construction paper and tape to the sides.
	Place your birds in their nest.