Fun & Easy Easter Crafts For The Whole Family vBy Beth Rye Bird’s Nest You’ll need: Construction Paper Magazine/Newspaper Glue Paintbrush Scissors Cling wrap Bowl I like to find craft projects where I don’t have to go out and buy a lot of the material needed and use stuff around the house. This project fit that perfectly! First step is to cut strips of various lengths from various types of paper. Wrap your bowl with cling wrap. Mix a small bowl of ½ glue, ½ water. Coat the cling wrap fully with the mixture using a paintbrush. Start placing one strip of paper at a time in the bowl and brush each strip with glue mixture. Repeat this step until your bowl is fully covered with various strips of paper. Let stand overnight to dry completely. Remove cling wrap from bowl and paper strips. You now have a fun “bird’s nest” decoration to fill with Easter eggs for a cute centerpiece on your table! Embroidery Floss Easter Eggs You’ll need: balloons as you would like. These make Embroidery floss (multiple colors) the perfect “egg” shape for this project. Water balloons Next, you will want to make a small Glue bowl of ½ glue and ½ water mixture. Scissors Take 1 strand of embroidery floss and Bowl completely submerge it in the glue I have a 10 year old and 5 year old mixture. When you start removing it, and they both enjoyed this project pinch the floss lightly to remove excess thoroughly! I believe getting their hands glue. Start to wrap the floss around the full of slimy glue had something to do balloon in all different directions. Repeat with it, but nevertheless they enjoyed this process until the balloon is mostly the craft and especially the end result. covered. Let the project dry overnight. Select the colors you want for your The next morning, use a pin to pop “egg”. The more the merrier. I cut 2 the balloon and remove the fragments ft. strips which seems to be easy to through an opening between the floss. manage when putting the project This craft can be used as a centerpiece together. Then, blow up as many water in a basket or hung with string. You’ll need: Yarn Construction paper Single-hole punch Black marker Scissors Glue stick Assorted candies Easter Candy Pouch This craft is really fun for the kids to make and to also receive! I host Easter each year so this will be a little something to hand out to all of the kiddos before they leave as an extra treat. First take one sheet of construction paper and fold it in half. Draw an oval 4vHERVOICEvMARCH/APRIL 2016 on one side and cut so you will have two equally sized ovals for the body of the project. Depending on what animal you are making, this is also the time to make the eyes, ears, feet, etc. Be as creative as you like here! Take the single-hole punch and make the holes around the edges. Be sure to make an even number of holes so you can tie the project off in the back. Glue all of the project’s embellishments at this time to the body. Cut a length of yarn to use for lacing your project. Leave an opening at the top and put in your candy. Once you have all the candy inserted, continue lacing and tie a knot in the back.