- Fabric Easter decorations make simple, entertaining projects.Tooga/Photodisc/Getty Images
Easter heralds the arrival of spring as well as being a time of celebration in the Christian faith. Spring decorations pop out as quickly as spring flowers around this time, many of them handmade. You can easily occupy your children with fabric Easter crafts. Take the crafts outdoors or make the decorations on a rainy afternoon and put them up when the sun returns. Simple crafts are easy for kids to complete and entertaining for adults as well. - If your family loves putting out Christmas stockings each year, continue the tradition into the spring with Easter egg pouches. These soft, felt pouches offer something for the entire family to make and personalize. Cut two large egg shapes out of the felt color of your choice. Snip a small slit into the top of one of the shapes for a pouch opening. Draw around the edge of one shape with hot glue or liquid stitch and press the shapes together. Decorate them with glitter paint, stickers, sequins, plastic rhinestones, acrylic paint, ribbon and rick-rack. You may attach small hooks or magnets to them for hanging. Fill with candy the Saturday before Easter.
- Easter dyeing projects almost always end with leftover dye. Instead of pouring it down the drain, cut up some old T-shirts and make personalized Easter baskets. White shirts work best, but you may also use pastel shirts. Cut the body of each shirt into ¼-inch-wide loops and soak the loops in the leftover egg dye, coloring them just as you would the eggs. Try to dye colored shirts with a complementary color. For instance, pastel blue may be dyed with blue, purple, red or green dye. Cut the center out of a few paper plates and snip them into wheel-spoke patterns with the spokes being about 2 inches wide. Bend the spokes up and weave the dried cloth pieces in and out of the spokes. You may also use ribbon or cover the paper plate with colorful contact paper before weaving.
- Easter comes at the highlight of spring, when flowers are just showing their petals. Celebrate this along with your Christian faith by making a felt flower garland. Cut long, pointed, oval petals out of felt. You may use the colors of your choice for painted daises or just use white. Arrange the petals in a circle and glue a large button to the center with hot glue. Line up a bunch of flowers with the backs facing up. Lay a piece of nylon thread over the centers of the flowers and glue a second button to the back, securing the thread in place. Hang the flowers where you like. Create an autumn leaf or poinsettia garland this way for other times of the year.
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