Easy Kid's Easter Basket Crafts

Create your own Easter basket for a fun holiday decoration.

Children like to make things themselves and an easily-crafted Easter basket is fun to make at home, school or church. Use pastels and bright colors for a fun Easter decoration that can hold an assortment of candy, dyed eggs or a special gift from a friend or family member. Keep the craft easy, and kids will enjoy them even more.

Paper Candy Basket

Older children and adults may wish to paint designs on their basket.

Make an Easter basket with yellow card stock and other decorative materials. Cut a 6-inch wide strip of card stock and glue the edges around a beaker to form the circumference of the basket. Cut a strip of yellow paper the width of the beaker's bottom and one or two inches longer in length. Tuck in this strip of paper to form the bottom of basket and tape on the inside of the basket after removing from beaker. Add a handle of one-inch wide yellow construction paper. Give a child lime green circle stickers to put on the outside of the basket and help him glue pink pompoms on each dot for an added touch of Easter color.

Recycled Basket

Raid your recycle bin for a two-liter bottle for this basket.

Create a simple Easter basket from the bottom of a plastic soda bottle. Have an adult cut the top off of a 2-liter plastic bottle leaving the bottom 3 1/2 inches to form the body of the basket. Help the child place painter's tape or colored masking tape over the top edge of the basket. Glue a 14-inch piece of brightly colored ribbon around the circumference of the basket, placing it near the top of the bottle or just below the tape. Help the child cut out egg shapes from different colors of self-stick craft foam and adhere them to the inside of the Easter basket. Let the child hold a hole punch with an adult's assistance and punch a hole across from each other about an inch down from the lip of the basket. Loop one end of a pipe cleaner around a hole and fasten the end by twisting a loop over the basket edge. Repeat the loop on the other side of the basket. Place Easter grass into the completed basket.

Necklace Basket

Paint a small bottle lid yellow to create the body of your basket.

Use a yellow, plastic lid from a small bottle as the body of your Easter basket. Drip white glue in to the base of the lid. Stick each end of a 4-inch piece of green pipe cleaner to the bottom inside the basket's sides. Push a 3-inch square of brightly-colored cloth into the bottom and up the sides of the basket to create a liner. Attach a piece of green labeling tape around the perimeter of the lid to add color to your project. Loop a two-foot length of yarn through the basket's handle and tie a slip knot in the ends to create the necklace.

Decorate a Basket

Paint Easter-themed details on your pre-woven basket.

Add style to a store-bought, woven basket by weaving brightly-colored ribbon in and out of the basket's circumference and around its handle. Attach flowers, plastic eggs, silk sprigs of grass or bows to accent your basket's Easter theme.

References

• "Crafts from Your Favorite Children's Songs"; Kathy Ross; 2001
• "Cake Pops: Bakerella"; Angie Dudley; 2010
• "Crafts for Kids";Gill Dickinson; 2003

Resources

• "Easter Crafts"; Jean Eick' 2011