Easter Art Projects for Grade 4
Children enjoy creating art projects to give as gifts and to use as decorations for their homes. Easter and spring are a time for renewal, when the days grow longer and flowers start to bloom. Young children enjoy the renewed energy of the Easter holiday and spring season. Their energy will blossom with Easter art projects they can make and enjoy with family and friends.
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Paper Easter Lily Bouquet
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Using a child's hand as a template, create paper Easter lilies. Trace the hand onto white or pastel papers, using construction paper or plain office paper. One hand print will make one flower. Cut as many hand prints as needed for the bouquet. Roll the cut hand print into a funnel shape, with the bottom slightly open, and tape it closed on the inside. Wrap each finger of the hand print out around a pencil or finger to curl them out and down. Cut yellow pipe cleaners 3 inches long and bend them to form a U. Wrap a green pipe cleaner around the center of the U and twist around the yellow pipe cleaner to hold. Curl the ends of the yellow pipe cleaner to form the center of the flower. Insert the green stem into the top of the flower and pull it through. Tie a bunch together with a ribbon or place them in a vase.
Decorated Gift Bag
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Create a decorative gift bag with a shopping bag, paper and ribbon. Purchase or recycle a white gift bag with handles. Choose a size that a child can use for collecting Easter eggs instead of an Easter basket. Using construction paper, pastel-colored wrapping papers with or without designs, or scrapbooking paper. Cut out egg, bunny and chick shapes. Cut a strip of green paper the width of the bag and about one quarter of its height. Cut slits along one long edge of the green to resemble blades of grass. Using a glue stick, attach the grass to the bottom of the bag. Tuck the bunnies, chicks and eggs into the grass. Use stickers, punched designs or other craft supplies to embellish the design. Repeat the design or create a different one for the other side of the bag. Cut small slits all the way around the top of the bag, about an inch from the top, and weave a pretty ribbon through. Tie a bow and attach a gift tag.
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Bunny Flowerpot
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Make a container for an Easter plant or a centerpiece for a table with a flowerpot. Use acrylic paints to paint a small plastic or clay flowerpot. Let it dry completely. Cut two bunny ears out of pink construction paper. Use a glue stick or white school glue to attach pink pipe cleaners around the edge of each ear. Apply googly eyes with glue or paint eyes with acrylic paints. Use a pink pom-pom as a nose and two pink pipe cleaners as whiskers. Glue the nose beneath the eyes and the whiskers below the nose. Attach a pink or white pom-pom to the bottom back of the pot as a bunny tail. The child can fill the flowerpot with a small plant or Easter grass and jellybeans.
Decoupage Easter Eggs
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Use pictures, stamps, stickers and copies of photos to create beautiful Easter eggs to display for years. Use unfinished wooden eggs or plastic eggs. If using plastic eggs, glue the two halves together with white school glue. Tear pastel tissue papers into half-inch strips. Paint Mod Podge decoupage medium onto a half-inch width of the egg with a foam brush and apply the strip of tissue paper. Carefully tear or cut the paper when the space is covered and smooth out wrinkles. Repeat with additional strips of tissue paper until the egg is covered. Let it dry completely. Apply a thin coat of Mod Podge to the back of a small picture or other item and attach it to the egg. Once you have attached all images and let them dry, apply a thin coat of Mod Podge to the entire egg to seal it and let dry.
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