Creative ways to make an Easter Tree, or a Special Easter Basket.
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
by Sacreeta
Make your Easter Special this year! Decorating Easter Eggs is fun and easy, in today's article we are going to cover how to blow out your Easter eggs, and decorate them with flare.
Are you tired of the same old hum drum Easter Baskets? Looking for some new ways to make your Easter Basket Stand out? Have you ever heard of an Easter Tree?
This article might just be of interest to you, if you answered yes to those questions.
Decorating Easter Baskets can be a fun experience, and there's always something new to try. Here's some great ideas how to make your Easter Baskets stand out this year for Easter.
* When I get my pictures ready, I'll add them into the article.
Making Easter Decorations can be a fun project to share with your children, whether they are toddlers, preschool, or school aged kids, they can spend some time with you, helping to make their Easter Special.
One of the great things you can do with your kids is.
Decorate an Easter Tree.
What is an Easter Tree?
An Easter Tree isn't a tradition like a Christmas Tree, but it is a beautiful elegant addition to your Easter decorating at home. It's a delicate tree, not overly full, that has decorated eggs hanging off it. And it can be made in several different ways.
Use your own tree.
If you have a fake, or real fern, or plant in your house, you can hang decorative eggs off the tree.
Make a Tree.
If you don't have plants, using skewers works great, you can wrap them with green floral tape and make a tree.
Fiber Optic is gorges.
You can also get one of those fiber optic white trees from any party shop. The tree has lights at the tips, and barren branches, you can hang the eggs off the branches, and looks great, during the day, and lights up your home in the evenings.
Making Eggs for your Easter Tree. *That also is an easy thing to do.
Blow the yolk from your Easter Egg.
You take your raw eggs, and poke a hole with a needle on both ends. Holding your egg over the bowl you blow on the top of the egg, and let all the gew come out. You have to blow really hard to get the yolk to come out. Set your eggs to dry, usually for a day. Then you take thread and poke it through the egg, a large darning needle works best, and you tie a knott at the base. Then your egg will hang on the tree.
Decorating your Easter Eggs.
The easiest way, are to buy a pack of Easter Egg Decorating sheets. They come in Disney themes, or Fairy Themes, or even Shrek. They are round and they slide over your Easter Eggs. Once put in a coffee cup of hot water, the plastic sticks to the eggs. If you can't find any at your craft store or party shop, you can look them up on e-bay.
Paint Your Eggs.
If you want to decorate your eggs yourself. Any pattern will do, and you can use water based paint, with a soft brush. Or you can use glitter pens, or tubes. Easter Eggs look great with Spring Colors, bright yellows, blues, green, what ever is your favorite color, purple is a great one to.
You can paint them plain, with pastel color, and then speckle the eggs. You speckly by running your fingernail over the paint brush while you carefully trun the eggs. Do not hold the eggs while you speckle, it will leave finger smudes. You sprinkle the eggs while the eggs are on a piece of paper. When they are dry, you turn them over, and then speckle the next side.
If you like to draw.
A really nice outline of Peter Rabbit, with soft tracing with watered down water based paint looks gorges.
If you can't draw.
I have the most excellent tip for you! You can take one of your story books, or one of your kids Peter Rabbit pictures, and trace it onto your egg using carbon paper. Then you can trace over the lines with pastel markers. Don't use paint because the carbon would smudge. Don't cover every inch of the egg, only lightly sketch over the outline. Winnie the Pooh also works great, and toddlers love Winnie the Pooh. Everyone will try to steal your eggs when they see them, because they are soooo beautiful.
*You can apply a light touch of glitter to your eggs to make them stand out.
Making a Spectacular Easter Basket.
This Easter Basket would be great for a decoration for your home, or as a glamours gift for a friend, your desk at work, or for a Grandparent.
You will need a bag of skewers.
Easter Eggs, chocolate foil covered ones.
Tissue Paper, or Silk Flower petals. (Assortment of Easter Colors)
Food Coloring (Green)
Foam or Floral Foam Block. The green ones, or styrofoam.
An Easter Basket
Ribbon
Cotton (quilt batting) or..
Easter Grass.
Optional, fresh flowers.
The Petals.
You need to cut the tissue paper. Cut circles out of the paper, and fringe the edges, or cut it in a wavy motion, to look like a flower. You might be able to find silk flowers at the craft shop, as some sell the flower petals without the stem. If you can find a cheap bouquet of silk flowers, that you can rip apart that would be great.
Color your skewer.
Take the skewers and soak them in green food coloring. Set them aside to dry, and use them when they are dried completely. You can drop the skewers in a bowl of food coloring and some water. Don't touch the skewers with you hands, just drain the water out in your sink, and use rubber gloves to put the skewers standing up in a clean vase or juice container. Putting them on paper could make them stick to the paper, and it might not work.
Make the Flower.
Take the skewer and poke it the center of the cut out flower.
Take the foil covered Easter Egg and poke the skewer into the chocolate.
The Easter Egg should look like the center of the flower, and you can push up the cut out flower to meet the egg.
Prepare your Easter Basket.
Take your Easter Basket and cut the styrofoam, or green plant foam block to the base of your Easter Basket.
Stick the Skewers into the foam of your basket, and fill it as much as you can.
Final Touch.
You can add a pretty stuff bunny, or tie ribbons on the skewers, and a glue a big bow on the front of Easter Basket.
You can cover the base of your basket with Easter Grass.
Or.
Take cotton, or quilt batting, and soak it in a bowl of food coloring. Green, Yellow, Blue, or a rainbow of all three. Let it dry, and it makes a gorges Easter Base.
You can fill in the spaces with tiny yellow, blue, purple, or any bright colored real Carnations. You can add ferns, and babys breath as well.
*Using real flowers makes it look professional, like it came from a florist.
* If you don't have an Easter Basket, you could put the skewers in a clean vase.
Looks Gorges Gals, You sure to love it, and get rave reviews.
Happy Easter
By: Sacreeta
Are you tired of the same old hum drum Easter Baskets? Looking for some new ways to make your Easter Basket Stand out? Have you ever heard of an Easter Tree?
Decorating Easter Baskets can be a fun experience, and there's always something new to try. Here's some great ideas how to make your Easter Baskets stand out this year for Easter.
* When I get my pictures ready, I'll add them into the article.
Making Easter Decorations can be a fun project to share with your children, whether they are toddlers, preschool, or school aged kids, they can spend some time with you, helping to make their Easter Special.
One of the great things you can do with your kids is.
Decorate an Easter Tree.
What is an Easter Tree?
An Easter Tree isn't a tradition like a Christmas Tree, but it is a beautiful elegant addition to your Easter decorating at home. It's a delicate tree, not overly full, that has decorated eggs hanging off it. And it can be made in several different ways.
Use your own tree.
If you have a fake, or real fern, or plant in your house, you can hang decorative eggs off the tree.
Make a Tree.
If you don't have plants, using skewers works great, you can wrap them with green floral tape and make a tree.
Fiber Optic is gorges.
You can also get one of those fiber optic white trees from any party shop. The tree has lights at the tips, and barren branches, you can hang the eggs off the branches, and looks great, during the day, and lights up your home in the evenings.
Making Eggs for your Easter Tree. *That also is an easy thing to do.
Blow the yolk from your Easter Egg.
You take your raw eggs, and poke a hole with a needle on both ends. Holding your egg over the bowl you blow on the top of the egg, and let all the gew come out. You have to blow really hard to get the yolk to come out. Set your eggs to dry, usually for a day. Then you take thread and poke it through the egg, a large darning needle works best, and you tie a knott at the base. Then your egg will hang on the tree.
Decorating your Easter Eggs.
The easiest way, are to buy a pack of Easter Egg Decorating sheets. They come in Disney themes, or Fairy Themes, or even Shrek. They are round and they slide over your Easter Eggs. Once put in a coffee cup of hot water, the plastic sticks to the eggs. If you can't find any at your craft store or party shop, you can look them up on e-bay.
Paint Your Eggs.
If you want to decorate your eggs yourself. Any pattern will do, and you can use water based paint, with a soft brush. Or you can use glitter pens, or tubes. Easter Eggs look great with Spring Colors, bright yellows, blues, green, what ever is your favorite color, purple is a great one to.
You can paint them plain, with pastel color, and then speckle the eggs. You speckly by running your fingernail over the paint brush while you carefully trun the eggs. Do not hold the eggs while you speckle, it will leave finger smudes. You sprinkle the eggs while the eggs are on a piece of paper. When they are dry, you turn them over, and then speckle the next side.
If you like to draw.
A really nice outline of Peter Rabbit, with soft tracing with watered down water based paint looks gorges.
If you can't draw.
I have the most excellent tip for you! You can take one of your story books, or one of your kids Peter Rabbit pictures, and trace it onto your egg using carbon paper. Then you can trace over the lines with pastel markers. Don't use paint because the carbon would smudge. Don't cover every inch of the egg, only lightly sketch over the outline. Winnie the Pooh also works great, and toddlers love Winnie the Pooh. Everyone will try to steal your eggs when they see them, because they are soooo beautiful.
*You can apply a light touch of glitter to your eggs to make them stand out.
Making a Spectacular Easter Basket.
This Easter Basket would be great for a decoration for your home, or as a glamours gift for a friend, your desk at work, or for a Grandparent.
You will need a bag of skewers.
Easter Eggs, chocolate foil covered ones.
Tissue Paper, or Silk Flower petals. (Assortment of Easter Colors)
Food Coloring (Green)
Foam or Floral Foam Block. The green ones, or styrofoam.
An Easter Basket
Ribbon
Cotton (quilt batting) or..
Easter Grass.
Optional, fresh flowers.
The Petals.
You need to cut the tissue paper. Cut circles out of the paper, and fringe the edges, or cut it in a wavy motion, to look like a flower. You might be able to find silk flowers at the craft shop, as some sell the flower petals without the stem. If you can find a cheap bouquet of silk flowers, that you can rip apart that would be great.
Color your skewer.
Take the skewers and soak them in green food coloring. Set them aside to dry, and use them when they are dried completely. You can drop the skewers in a bowl of food coloring and some water. Don't touch the skewers with you hands, just drain the water out in your sink, and use rubber gloves to put the skewers standing up in a clean vase or juice container. Putting them on paper could make them stick to the paper, and it might not work.
Make the Flower.
Take the skewer and poke it the center of the cut out flower.
Take the foil covered Easter Egg and poke the skewer into the chocolate.
The Easter Egg should look like the center of the flower, and you can push up the cut out flower to meet the egg.
Prepare your Easter Basket.
Take your Easter Basket and cut the styrofoam, or green plant foam block to the base of your Easter Basket.
Stick the Skewers into the foam of your basket, and fill it as much as you can.
Final Touch.
You can add a pretty stuff bunny, or tie ribbons on the skewers, and a glue a big bow on the front of Easter Basket.
You can cover the base of your basket with Easter Grass.
Or.
Take cotton, or quilt batting, and soak it in a bowl of food coloring. Green, Yellow, Blue, or a rainbow of all three. Let it dry, and it makes a gorges Easter Base.
You can fill in the spaces with tiny yellow, blue, purple, or any bright colored real Carnations. You can add ferns, and babys breath as well.
*Using real flowers makes it look professional, like it came from a florist.
* If you don't have an Easter Basket, you could put the skewers in a clean vase.
Looks Gorges Gals, You sure to love it, and get rave reviews.
Happy Easter
By: Sacreeta
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