How to Make an Easter Egg Greeting Card

Making an Easter egg greeting card is simple and quick. It's an ideal craft project to do together with your kids. You can complete this greeting card craft project in under 30 minutes. This homemade card is perfect to send to parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who are out of town. This entire Easter egg greeting card craft project is safe for your kids to complete on their own, but you may want to supervise the cutting and gluing to ensure that it turns out properly. Have all the pieces of the Easter egg card pre-cut and ready if you're working with younger children.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Protect your workspace with paper. Select a piece of 9 by 12 construction paper in an Easter color such as yellow. Fold it in half along the long end.

2. Draw a simple egg shape on a green piece of construction paper. If you can't easily draw an egg shape on your own, check a clip art site for one you can download and print out. Ensure that the Easter egg is large enough to cover about half of the front of the Easter greeting card. Cut the egg out.

3. Place the Easter egg shape over the top of a pink piece of construction paper. Trace around the Easter egg shape and cut it out. Repeat with two other contrasting spring colors, such as purple and blue. Encourage your kids to trace the egg shapes themselves.

4. Cut the additional Easter egg shapes in a zig-zag pattern. Make decorative shapes for the top, center and bottom of the Easter egg. Use a glue stick to attach the decorative shapes to the egg base you created in step 2. This is another part of the card craft project your kids could probably do on their own.

5. Apply the glue stick to the back of the Easter egg and attach it to the front of the Easter greeting card. Write a greeting such as "Happy Easter" on the front of the card using a brightly colored permanent marker. Write your personal Easter message inside the card. If possible, include a meaningful object, such as picture of your child with the Easter bunny.

Tips & Warnings

• If possible, use recycled scraps of construction paper to make the various parts of your Easter egg greeting card.
• Take care not to get any glue on the front of the Easter egg shape.
• If you like, you can also decorate your greeting card with pictures of Easter bunnies, Easter baskets and Easter flowers.

Resources

• Free Easter clip art on Kaboose.com

[waters]

on 3/17/2009 Cute article 5*.

[pamom24]

on 3/9/2009 this is a cute idea. I just might do this with my daughter...5

[Mitestarossa]

on 3/9/2009 Excellent and cute tips. I love making cards.