For Easter from salt dough. Salted dough egg plate
From various materials.
You can use napkins, cotton pads and even dough.
You can safely involve in such creative work children for whom it will be not only interesting, but also useful.
Here are some very interesting Easter crafts that you can make from different materials:
Dough craft for Easter: Easter eggs medallions
You will need:
Salt dough
Ruler
Dough cutter
Spatula
Tube (for small holes)
Aluminum foil
Paints (acrylic or aerosol)
Twine or ribbon.
1. Prepare salt dough. There are many ways to do this.
*If you don't want to make dough, you can replace it with polymer clay.
Here is one way to prepare salt dough:
2 cups flour
1 tbsp. spoon of fine salt
1 tbsp. spoon of wallpaper glue
* Mix flour and salt. Add a little water to the glue (a few spoons) and wait until it swells.
* Mix flour, salt and glue - knead the dough. If desired, you can add a little water. You should get a dough that sticks to your hands.
2. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to the desired thickness. In this example, the dough thickness is 6 mm.
3. Cut out the shapes of chicken eggs from the dough.
4. Place these pans on a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil or baking paper. Make small holes using a straw so that the crafts can be hung later.
5. Bake first at a low temperature - about 100 C. After this, remove the aluminum foil and put the baking sheet back in the oven at 125 C. Try not to burn yourself. You can use parchment paper instead of foil and bake at 120 degrees for 2 hours.
After this, place the salt dough pieces on the wire rack.
You can turn off the oven and wait until the dough is still dry.
6. Start painting your pieces, and after the paint has dried, tie a ribbon and hang it up.
Crafts for Easter from pasta: large Easter egg
You will need:
Pasta of different shapes
Felt pens (markers)
PVA glue
Paint (aerosol)
Big balloon
Hot glue.
1. Inflate the balloon.
2. Using a marker, mark the place on the ball to cut out.
3. Apply PVA glue to the entire ball except the designated area.
4. Start gluing pasta onto the ball to create a pattern.
5. When everything is dry, you need to remove the ball - pierce it with a needle.
6. It's time to decorate the craft. Here everything depends only on your imagination.
7. You can put the craft on a stand and paint it with spray paint - in this example, gold color.
DIY Easter crafts made from pasta
You will need:
Chicken eggs
Small pasta
PVA glue
Aerosol paints (if desired).
1. Discard the contents of the egg.
2. Apply PVA glue to the shell.
3. Glue small pasta to the shell (you can glue each pasta, sprinkle it, or dip it in a bowl).
4. In addition to pasta, you can use lentils or peas.
5. Once the glue is dry, paint the egg. First, paint one side, and then the other half.
Paper crafts for Easter
Easter chicken. Option 1.
To make such a craft, you first need to draw a template.
Easter chicken. Option 2.
Paper chicken can be made from paper plates or cardboard, from which you need to cut a circle. Just bend paper plate cut wings, eyes, beak and scallop in half from colored paper and glue them to the plate.
3-D Chicken
Crafts from napkins for Easter: stand
1. Prepare a paper napkin and fold it in half diagonally.
2. Fold the corners of the resulting triangle up so that they connect to the top corner. You should end up with a square.
3. Roll the bottom edge of the resulting square with a roller to the middle.
4. Now turn your design over and connect the bottom corners that are under the roller. These corners should be secured with a paper clip.
5. Turn the workpiece back over so that the paperclip is at the back. Straighten the ends of the workpiece in different directions, and you will succeed beautiful stand for an Easter egg.
We paint eggs using napkins with our own hands
1. Dip a paper towel into the vinegar, squeeze out the excess, and wrap it around the egg.
2. Place the egg on a plate or baking sheet and carefully begin adding drops of colorful food coloring.
3. When the entire egg is colored, remove the paper towel and place the colored egg in the carton.
Crafts from eggs for Easter: decoupage
You will need:
White eggs
Napkins with beautiful designs and patterns
Scissors
PVA glue.
1. From paper napkin separate the topmost layer, you won't need the rest.
2. Cut beautiful drawings and patterns. You can cut with white edges and not necessarily neatly.
3. Prepare the egg and coat it with glue or egg white.
4. Glue the cut-out design to the egg, and apply a layer of glue on top with a brush.
When everything is dry, you will have a beautiful Easter egg.
Crafts from cotton pads for Easter: chicken
You will need:
Cotton pads
Yellow egg paint
Colored paper
Scissors
Chenille wire
1. Dilute yellow paint with water. Dip 2 cotton pads into the solution and color them. After this, leave the discs to dry.
2. Use chenille wire to make chicken feet.
3. Cut out a scallop, wings and beak from colored paper.
4. Glue all the parts between two cotton pads.
5. Glue on the toy eyes and the chicken is ready.
DIY Easter wreath
You will need:
Willow wreath (you can make your own wreath)
Plain paper napkins
Corrugated paper
Colored and regular cardboard
Scissors
Simple pencil
Hot glue
1. Making decorations for the wreath. Cut out several circles of different diameters from paper: the circle for the body has a diameter of 5 cm, for the head 4.5 cm. The more circles, the more voluminous the part.
2. Cut out 2 more circles from cardboard, each with a diameter of 2-3 cm. This will be the base of the chicken.
3. Now glue all the blanks. First, apply a little glue to the center of the first circle and glue the next one. Thus, glue all the circles together.
4. Glue the cardboard piece to one of the circles.
5. In a similar way, you need to glue another stack of circles.
6. Make small cuts on the circles, and then fluff the circles.
7. Cut out a chicken beak, legs and wing from colored cardboard. In order to fasten the body of the chicken, you should cut a strip out of cardboard and glue all the parts to it - the wing on one side, and everything else on the other.
8. Make eyes. You can use plasticine, buttons or other parts of suitable size and shape.
*If you wish, you can make another chicken in a different color.
9. We make decorative flowers and eggs. Take dust wipes. You can use felt, but it is more expensive. Cut out ovals that will play a role easter eggs, and various patterns for them.
Grade
We will need:
- a batch or two of salt dough (recipe below)
- rolling pin
- ruler (to measure the thickness of the dough)
- knife or molds
- spatula
- plastic tubes (for holes)
- parchment paper
- spray or acrylic paint
- pens with paint
- transparent varnish for coating
- ribbon
How to make salt dough: 1 cup flour + 1/2 cup salt + 1/2 cup water. Mix to dough consistency. Roll out and cut out the “eggs”. Using tubes, make a hole for the ribbons. Line a baking sheet with parchment and bake the salt dough craft for 2 hours at 120 degrees.
Cool and decorate as you wish.
Salt dough crafts for Easter: the tomb of Jesus Christ
We will need:
- 4 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cups salt
- 2 glasses of water
- 1 tablespoon oil
This one - great way tell the children. This salt dough craft should be baked for several hours at a temperature of 120C degrees. Then cool a little before adding a cross and small figures of people to the installation.
Crafts made from salt dough for Easter: Easter bunnies
The dough for such bunnies is prepared according to the classic recipe: 1 glass of fine salt + 1 glass of flour + 5 tbsp. l. sunflower oil + water. We knead and step by step we make our crafts from salt dough for Easter: we start with the body - for it we will need the largest piece of salt dough. Next we sculpt the ears.
We pinch off small pieces of dough for all the details we need - tail, paws, nose - whatever you want.
You can draw a face with a toothpick, a knife, a scalpel - anything sharp and thin.
Why do we love holidays? Probably because it’s nice to prepare for them: think about gifts, set the table. But there are special, bright celebrations in our lives, such as Easter. On Easter, people give each other small Easter gifts: painted eggs, Easter cakes, baskets, Easter souvenirs. Children love to prepare crafts for Easter with their own hands; they are so interested in taking part in the preparation and work. We have selected the most from a variety of crafts interesting master classes for children and adults.
We offer crafts for Easter from the most simple materials, the purchase of which does not break your pocket, they are always available in any regular store.
This interesting basket for eggs can be easily made from a disposable plate, wooden clothespins and tape.
Cut a disposable plate with scissors:
Glue the sides together and seal the top with paper or tape. Separate the clothespins and glue them with Moment glue. We secure the top with a thin braid.
We cut strips of paper into the bottom and make a handle from cardboard. Decorate with a bow or several.
We print out the bunny template or draw it on a sheet of cardboard or thick paper. We color on both sides, glue and place a beautiful Easter egg in the paws.
We make chickens from disposable spoons, cotton pads, colored paper.
You can make the same funny bunnies:
More Easter-themed crafts: unusual egg plates. How beautiful multi-colored eggs will look on such an original plate! Cut out 4 legs and a bunny's head from white paper, and decorate the face. We put clothespins on a plate and glue paper paws to them. Place chopped white paper on the bottom of the plate.
We make a plate with chicken in the same way. Differences: yellow paper and the size of the paws.
DIY gifts for Easter
There are so many ideas for gifts for Easter, you’ll get tired of choosing. I would like to hope that our master classes will help you in your choice.
From paper
An Easter basket for the upcoming holiday can be made from a regular paper bag. Or from beautiful wrapping paper, maybe you have leftover candy boxes. There are many options. Multi-colored Easter eggs or delicious treats will look original in such an interesting basket.
To work you will need:
- Paper.
- Scissors.
- Ruler.
- Hot-melt gun or regular paper glue.
- Pencil.
If you took a bag for work, you need to cut off the bottom of it. Cut the side. Using a ruler and pencil, draw the paper into strips 3 cm wide.
We bend all the strips in half along the entire length.
We begin to weave a basket from the strips, as in the photo.
To prevent the parts from getting tangled, we glue the strips to the top of the basket, then cut it all off. Glue the handle and glue the top of the basket.
We will make an interesting chicken stand for Easter eggs as a gift. There are several recipes for making dough.
Recipe for wheat flour dough:
- Flour - 2 cups.
- Extra salt - 1 glass.
- Cold water - 250 grams.
- Bag for storing products.
- 1 tbsp. spoon of sunflower oil.
Recipe for products made from rye flour:
- 3 cups (300 gr.) wheat flour.
- 1 cup (100 gr.) rye flour.
- 2 cups (400 gr.) fine salt.
- 250 ml water.
Rye flour gives the figures a warm bread color. To prepare any dough, mix flour and salt, then gradually pour in cold water and mix again. The degree of readiness of the dough can be determined as follows: if the dough stretches and sticks to your hands, it means there is a lot of water in it. Therefore, you need to add more flour.
To work you will need:
- The dough is salty.
- Stack.
- Peeler.
- Toothpick.
- Manicure file.
- Black peppercorns.
- Paints, brush.
- The varnish is transparent.
- Garlic press.
Roll out the flatbread to a thickness of 0.5-0.7 cm, this will be the chicken’s nest itself. We make the side parts of the nest using a garlic press. We form a “straw” by moistening it with water.
Leave the work to dry for 1 day so that the dough holds its shape well in the future. Let's start sculpting the chicken. We sculpt the body blank. We need the chicken as a stand for an egg, which means we need to make a recess for the Easter egg. We take a round shape, make a notch, and sculpt the breast and neck of the chicken. Use a vegetable peeler to feather the breast.
Insert a toothpick into the chicken's neck, leaving 1.5 cm. Connect the nest and the chicken's body. Roll out the dough, make wing blanks 1 cm thick. Draw the plumage with a vegetable peeler, attach it to the body of the chicken, moistening it with water.
Next, our task is to give the chicken a beautiful tail. We take an oval cake 0.7-1 cm thick as a basis. We make the plumage with a vegetable cutter. We trim the edges of the tail with a knife to resemble the pattern of feathers. Make the cuts neat, smoothing them with your fingers. Attach the tail to the chicken's body. Place something under your tail, such as a ball or an apple. After the product dries, remove the apple.
Roll into a round ball for the head. We shape the scallop using our fingers and a stack, giving it the desired look.
To make the eyes, you need to mark their location. Make dents for the eyes with a stack. Next, use a vegetable peeler to make dents so that the eye becomes shaped.
Insert a peppercorn instead of the pupil. We make a beak and sculpt it to the head.
We fasten the head and torso by putting the head on a toothpick. We attach a small strip of dough to stabilize the head. Decorate the chicken neck with dough feathers. You can make “earrings” for the chicken from pieces of dough.
We sculpt chickens in the same way. Don't forget to wet the parts for better fastening.
We leave the product to dry for 1-2 days, placing them in a distant place, maybe even on a closet. After a day or two, when the chicks and chickens have hardened, we finalize the work: we plant the figures on leaves, moistening the centers with water. Leave it in the air for 1-2 days. We dry the products first in air, and then put them in the oven at a temperature of 50 degrees for 1 hour. After drying, paint and cover with clear varnish.
Another option: dough figures: sculpt Easter bunnies, hens, chicks. You can make refrigerator magnets out of them, or you can make pendants on willow branches.
The fastest gift option is multi-colored paper napkins and ribbons. Wrap the boiled egg in a napkin and tie it with a ribbon. Can be replaced with corrugated paper.
This funny and interesting Easter chicken can be crocheted.
To work you will need:
- Yellow yarn, 100% cotton or 50/50,
- Some orange and white yarn.
- Hook number 3.
We start knitting from the body. First 7 rows:
1st - 8 sc in an amigurami loop
2nd - knit 2 sc in each loop (16 sc)
3rd - 1 sc, 2 sc, and so on (24 sc)
4th - in every third loop add: 2 RLS, 2 RLS (32 RLS)
5th - in every 4 p. add: 3 RLS, 2 RLS (40 RLS)
6th - in every 5 p. add: 4 RLS, 2 RLS (48 RLS)
7th - in every 6 p. add: 5 RLS, 2 RLS (56 RLS)
15th - knit the 5th and 6th stitches together (40 sc)
16th - we knit 2 rows without decreasing (40 RLS)
18th - knit the 4th and 5th stitches together to decrease (32 RLS)
19th - no decreases (32 RLS)
We fill the chicken with cotton wool or padding polyester.
20th - knit every 2nd and 3rd stitch together (16 sc)
21st - knit every two loops together (8 sc)
Cut the thread and carefully sew up the hole.
Wings (2 wings):
- 1st - dial 7 air. loops with yellow yarn, 1 sc in the second loop from the hook, 4 sc, 3 sc in one loop, 4 sc, conn. p.
- 2nd - 1 VP, 4 RLS, two times 2 RLS in one stitch, 3 RLS in one loop, two times 2 RLS in one loop, conn. p.
- 3rd - 1 VP, 1 sc in each loop
- 4th - 1 VP, 1 connection. p. in each loop
We knit the paws with orange yarn:
- 1st - 2 VP, 6 sc in the second loop from the hook (6 sc)
- 3rd - increase in every second stitch (18 RLS)
- 4th - row without changes (18 RLS)
Beak (1 piece)
1st - cast on 5 VP, 1 sc in the 2nd loop from the hook, half-dc, 1 dc, and 1 dc2h
Eyes (2 parts)
- 1st - 6 sc in amigurami loop (6 sc)
- 2nd - increase in each stitch (12 sc)
- 3rd - increase in every 2nd stitch (18 sc)
- The beads are different (colors are indicated next to the diagrams).
- 2 meters of thin fishing line or nylon thread.
- 2 beading needles.
To work you will need:
We start weaving from the central row from number 1 to number 2, then we perform each part separately at different ends of the fishing line, using the table.
In the egg weaving pattern, notice the double rows (12 and 13 at the top, 13 and 14 at the bottom). For a chicken-shaped keychain in the upper part, we first weave the right wing (numbers 5 to 9), and then the left wing (numbers 10 to 16). Next, we move on to the design of the head (numbers 17 to 40).
What would Easter be without Easter cakes, Easter eggs, souvenirs and angels? You can make these original Easter angels with your own hands from ordinary pasta. Pasta can be anything: stars, cones, spirals, vermicelli. These angels can be hung on a willow branch or placed in an Easter basket.
To work you will need:
- Pasta.
- Ribbons or sticks.
- Hot-melt gun or Moment glue.
- PVA glue.
- Salt dough balls.
Use a glue gun to connect the head (dough ball) to the body. Next, glue the ribbon to the back. We select wings from pasta and glue on top of the braid.
Thickly coat the angel's head with PVA glue and dip it into small noodles or stars. This is the "hair" of an angel.
For hands, use openwork pasta. Apply glue thickly on the sides, near the wings and glue.
We paint with either simple golden paint or spray paint.
If you want to insert them into an Easter basket, insert a stick inside the pasta body and glue it, the crafts are ready.
Angelika Smolnikova
Easter is coming soon, I suggest making a souvenir
Look what a miracle
Did mom put it in the dish?
There is an egg, but not a simple one:
Golden painted,
Like a bright toy!
There are stripes, curls,
Lots of little rings
Stars, circles and hearts.
What are all these colors for?
Like in a good old fairy tale?
Mom gave everyone the answers:
Easter is the brightest holiday!
And the egg, I know,
Symbol of life on earth!(
We will need:
salt dough (can be colored, water, brush No. 3, stack, gouache, rolling pin, plungers, chicken egg.
The plunger is an object consisting of two parts made of plastic - internal and external. A spring is connected between these parts, on which the entire operating principle is based. Place the plunger on the rolled out salt dough, press on it and release the pressure. A spring is triggered and a cut-out silhouette remains on your piece of dough, or a traced image of a flower, heart, star, or something else. And then it’s a matter of imagination and artistic ideas for future work. Buying them is not difficult; you can order them in the online store. Plungers are used by confectioners to decorate culinary products.
My kids who are involved in circle work on testoplasty really enjoy working with plungers and decorating their crafts. Try it too.
Execution of work:
1. To make a blank you need a whole eggshell. We make two small holes in the chicken egg and blow out the contents.
2. Roll out long sausages from the salt dough and roll them into flat strips with a rolling pin. We wrap these strips around the egg, as shown in the photo. Here, of course, the child will need your help so that when wrapping it in a layer of dough, the egg does not crack. You can completely cover the shell with dough; I decided to make it hollow inside. Using the second option, we leave the foreground of the shell unfilled.
3. Place the egg on a sculpted platform - a stand. Our preparation is ready.
4. Using plungers, we prepare flowers and place them on the workpiece (to prevent small parts from deforming when attaching them to the base, moisten the gluing areas with a brush dipped in water). We supplement the composition with leaves, it all depends on your imagination.
5. Now you need to make a small figure that will be located inside the egg. It could be a chicken, a candle, etc.
6. Dry the product. Fashionable at room temperature, or in the oven at approximately 80 degrees.
7. After the craft has dried, you need to carefully remove the shell from the foreground
8. Place a small figurine in the inner part.
9. If you sculpted from unpainted dough, then paint the craft with gouache paints.
10. You can decorate the work with beads, satin ribbons, and varnish it.
The work is very interesting and not very difficult for children. Create, imagine.
Holy Easter is one of the most anticipated holidays of the year. Both adults and children look forward to it. And the main reason for this is not only the religious significance of this day, but also the delicious treats that every family prepares on this important day.
We would like to offer you a master class on making dough crafts for Easter with your own hands.
Easter basket
To make an Easter basket from yeast dough, you need to take the following baking ingredients:
- fresh yeast – 2.5g
- warm water – 1/2 cup
- milk – 1/2 cup
- eggs – 1-2 pcs (one for dough, one for greasing)
- sugar – 1/4 cup
- salt – 1/2 tsp.
- olive oil – 1/4 cup
- flour - 4 cups
By using step by step photos make this for Easter interesting craft from the dough will not be difficult.
Let's start:
1. In a glass bowl (preferably with deep edges), you need to combine milk with water. Mix two tablespoons of water with milk and add yeast. Stir thoroughly and leave to brew for a few minutes.
2. Beat the egg, add the resulting mixture of milk, water and yeast, then add olive oil, salt and sugar. Mix thoroughly until smooth.
3. Add flour to the resulting mass. First you need to add half a glass, mix, then gradually add the remaining amount of flour.
5. The next step is to roll the finished dough into rolls. Use a heat-resistant glass dish or cake pan as the braiding pan. And before you start applying the dough, you need to wrap it in foil.
7. Apply the resulting strips evenly to the mold, connecting at the top. On average, there are 14-15 flagella per form. Now you need to put something heavy and round on top of the strands to make the bottom (you can take a glass bowl)
9. In a separate bowl, mix one egg, a tablespoon of milk and a little olive oil. Lubricate the entire dough basket with this mixture.
10. Place the basket on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper in the oven, preheated to 180-190 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes. The dough should take on a golden brownish appearance.
11. When you remove the basket from the oven and remove it from the baking sheet, there will be a mark of dough and utensils on the paper. You should make a braid of the same size along it. This will be the edging for our Easter basket. To make a handle you will need wire. We measure the required length, wrap the wire with foil, and wrap the dough on top.
12. We don’t wait for the dough to rise, but immediately put it in the oven.
13. We attach the finished edging with toothpicks, and insert the handle in the same way.
The Easter basket is ready! Now you can decorate it with a napkin, ribbons and put Easter cakes and other Easter treats in it.
Easter craft made from salt dough: painted eggs
To prepare these crafts you need to take the following ingredients:
- flour – 2 cups
- salt – 1 glass
- water – 1 glass
- acrylic paints or gouache
- egg-shaped mold
- tassels for decorating with ornaments
- hanging tape
If you don't have a suitable mold, you can easily make it yourself. You need to cut off the strip plastic bottle and secure with tape, giving it an egg shape.
Let's start making crafts from dough, photos will help us with this:
1. In a deep dish (bowl), mix salt, water and flour, knead the dough.
2. Roll out the resulting salt dough to a thickness of 1-1.5 cm.
3. Using egg-shaped molds, “squeeze” eggs out of our dough.
4. Using a rod from an old felt-tip pen or pen, we make holes for the ribbon in the resulting molds.
5. Place the resulting eggs from the dough on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper for quick drying. Place in the oven over very low heat, remember to leave it slightly open so that the pieces do not bubble.
6. After the crafts have dried and cooled, we decorate them as desired. Leave to dry.
7. Take a long ribbon of red or white flowers- symbols of Easter, and we pierce them through the holes in our colored eggs.
We made a wonderful craft from salt dough for Easter in the form of a garland.