In the process of creating original interior decorations and other handicrafts dedicated to Easter, the kids will be able to understand why this holiday is so important for people professing Christianity and how it should be celebrated. In this article, we bring to your attention ideas for crafts for Easter, which can be done with children of different ages.
Preparing for Easter with children: doing crafts
Creating Easter hand-made articles with children is not only very useful, but also an extremely fascinating activity. To do this, you can use a variety of materials, in the process of working with which kids will learn to concentrate and focus, and develop small motor skills of their fingers. Hand-made masterpieces can be presented to relatives and friends or used in Easter compositions, as an interior decoration to create a bright and gracious atmosphere of the holiday in it.
The most popular idea of crafts that can be performed with children is the Easter egg. Boys and girls adorn the main symbol of bright Easter with great enthusiasm with the help of various paints, varnishes, stickers, sparkles and other materials.
Meanwhile, decorating the eggs for the holiday can be and completely unusual, but in this very affordable way. To do this, you will need several old newspapers and magazines, as well as glue. Cut the pages of printed publications into strips and wrap them with each egg, having previously smeared the middle of the newspaper cut with glue. Cut loose pieces of paper into several thin strips, and glue each of them to the side surface of the egg so that there are no spaces left.
The finished product should be covered with paint, and then with a colorless varnish to achieve a glossy effect. If you want to keep the product for a long time, use plastic eggs instead of the usual ones, and after decorating place them in a beautiful transparent vase. Older children can make a similar work from newspaper tubes. Weaving from this material is very difficult, but very interesting and fascinating.
Also very original look Easter eggs, made of felt. You can make them very easily - cut out of this material 2 parts of a suitable shape and sew them together, leaving a small hole. Fill the inner surface of the eggs with cotton wool and finish the seam, and on the outer surface draw or embroider a funny face.
If you make several such felt eggs, they can be connected to each other and make them a long garland, which is very suitable for decorating the interior for the holiday. By the way, other symbols of light Easter - figurines of chickens or rabbits, as well as angels - can easily be made from felt.
With the youngest children, you can make bright Easter applications. This can be a picture of a chicken from pieces or fragments of colored paper, and an original applique from pasta on any Easter theme, and a panel in the form of eggs from such small items as buttons, beads, foam balls and so on.
Finally, Easter souvenirs made from salted dough, which can be done with children of almost any age, are very popular. Most often this material is used for various baskets and plates, for which you can lay out colored eggs, various souvenirs on the theme of the Bright Resurrection, stand under the testicles and other objects.
These and other ideas of Easter crafts that can be done with the child, you will find in our photo gallery.
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