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Easter egg napkin rings

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Easter napkin rings created in Eric Carle fashion…

eric carle inspired easter eggs cover shot

After seeing a wonderful post by Dilly Dali Art,  we were inspired to make Easter egg napkin rings, using papers that I created to look like Eric Carle’s artwork.

I’m going to send you over to Dilly Dali Art’s Eric Carle post to learn about this simple and fun painting process, and then you can pop right back here to see one of several projects that we made with our Eric Carle papers.

Are you back?  Wasn’t that fabulous?  Would you ever have guessed that THAT’S how he created The Very Hungry Caterpillar?eric carle inspired art - red paper

One thing that I did differently is I painted on waxed paper rather than tissue paper.  Although I ended up painting all of the papers ahead of time, I originally thought the hooligan might paint them, and I thought waxed paper would be easier for them to work with.

For my painting tools, I used brushes, sponges, and that plastic netting that fruits and veggies are packaged in.

Aren’t these papers gorgeous?eric carle inspired art on waxed paper

I was so excited by how they turned out, and how much they really look like the pictures in Eric Carle’s books!

I wasn’t really sure what we would make with them, so after brainstorming for a day or two, I came up with several ideas.

These napkin rings are one of my ideas, and the others, I’ll share with you, as we do them.

For the napkin rings, I simply cut a paper towels rolls into small rings, and we painted those with acrylics in Easter colours.eric carle napkin rings - toilet roll tubes

After cutting the Easter eggs out of our painted papers, I glued them onto some white cardboard, and then cut those out.  Then we glued them all to our paper towel rings.

Won’t these look sweet on the table on Easter Sunday?

eric carle inspired easter egg napkin rings with napkins

 

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As always, all photos in this post were shot with my Canon Rebel XS

toilet roll Easter bunnies

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Craft up an adorable Easter bunny with a toilet roll tube and some craft sticks!

With the holiday weekend approaching, we are just crafting up a storm here!  We’ve made Easter finger puppets, adorable toilet roll peeps in paper bag nests, stained glass eggs, and our latest creation is these toilet roll Easter bunnies!

toilet roll Easter bunnies cover photo

Like most of the stuff we make here, these are totally easy to make, and require only a few basic supplies.

What you’ll need:

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  • toilet roll tube
  • 2 wide craft sticks
  • googly eyes
  • small pom pom, bead or button for nose
  • large pom pom for tail
  • white craft foam for teeth
  • glue (a glue gun is handy for the ears)
  • paint and/or glitter paint
  • (whiskers would be cute too, but I didn’t even think about that until just now!)

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Making your bunnies:

To make things a little easier, I used a glue gun to attach the ears to the inside of the toilet roll when I was prepping the craft.  Older children could do that step themselves.

Give your toilet roll and ears a coat or two of paint.  You can see that we gave some an additional coat of glitter paint which added a nice shimmer to our bunnies.blue, shimmery toilet roll easter bunny

Cut a set of bunny teeth out of a piece of white foam or card stock.3 toilet roll easter bunnies

Glue the eyes, nose, teeth and tail all in place, give an extra little shot of paint to the inside of the bunnies’ ears, and you’re done!toilet roll Easter bunnies and paint chip garland

How cute are these little guys?  And see that paint chip Easter Egg garland in the background?  Pop on over to Modern Parents Messy Kids to get the scoop on those!

Happy Easter!

stained glass Easter eggs

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Creating a stained glass effect with tissue paper and contact paper…

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stained glass Easter eggs - cover photo

We used contact paper and tissue paper to make these “stained glass” Easter eggs last week.  The process is easy and fun, and the results were really pretty.

I’ve seen contact paper used for all kinds of preschool crafts, but this was our first time using it.  It was really neat.  Contact paper comes on a roll, and can be found at most hardware stores.  You can also order it from Amazon, along with all of the other materials needed for this project, right here from my site with the following links:



This is what we used to make our stained glass eggs:

supplies for stained glass easter eggs

  •  contact paper
  • tissue paper
  • coloured yarn
  • scotch tape

How we made ‘em:

I started by cutting some large ovals out of the contact paper.  Then I peeled the back off the contact paper, and placed these oval “eggs” sticky side up on the table.  I used a couple of pieces of scotch tape to secure each egg to the table so they wouldn’t slip around as the hooligans worked on them.

Then I set out a tray filled with squares and different lengths of tissue paper, as well as some long pieces of colourful yarn.stained glass collage

Then the hooligans got busy completely covering their sticky eggs with the tissue paper and the yarn.

One thing to remember is that the side facing up will actually end up being the back of the egg, so if there are pieces that you want to see (when you hang your egg in a window), you’ll want to stick them down first, and then cover them up with tissue paper.

In the bottom-right shot of the above photo, you can see that the yarn was placed on top of the tissue paper.  I realized that it wouldn’t show up once hung in the window, so I actually took a second piece of contact paper, and covered the top side of the egg as well, so yarn side could be the “good side”.

Once your little one has completely covered their egg, simply trim off any tissue and yarn that extends beyond the contact paper.  2 finished eggs

Then, tape it up in a sunny window, and see how the sunlight comes through the tissue paper, giving it the stained glass effect.

Sadly we haven’t seen much sun lately, but you get the idea…stained glass Easter eggHappy Easter!

For more Easy and inexpensive easter ideas, be sure to check out our toilet roll peeps and paper bag nests, our toilet roll chicks and our adorable Easter finger puppets!IMG_4996

I am frequently asked what kind of camera I use to shoot my photos with.  I do not digitally enhance or alter my photos in anyway except to add a title and my watermark (the name of my blog) to the feature photo in each blog post.  All of my photos taken in the past year have been shot with my “baby”, a Canon Rebel XS.  It’s an entry-level DSRL camera, and you can check it out here:

 

toilet roll Peeps

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Toilet roll Peeps and paper bag nests…

Remember the simple paper bag nests that I shared with you yesterday?

And remember I told you I’d show you what we filled them with in a later post?

Well, heeeeere they are…toilet roll peeps - happy hooligans

The inspiration for these toilet roll Peeps came from the toilet roll chicks that we made last year.  I wanted to make them look a little more like Marshmallow Peeps this year though so we went with a variety of pastel colours.  I’m not terribly certain that these little guys actually look like Peeps, but they were fun to make, and they sure are cute!

Here’s what you’ll need for your Peeps:

supplies for toilet roll Peeps

    • cardboard tubes (toilet roll/paper towel roll/wrapping paper tube etc)
    • paints in pastel colours
    • matching tissue paper
    • googly eyes or small black buttons
    • card-stock or construction paper “beaks”

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How we made ‘em:

To start, the hooligans painted their cardboard tubes: one purple, one yellow and one blue.  To prevent us from ending up with multi-coloured Peeps, I set out one colour of paint at a time.  We used acrylic craft paints.  Acrylics are my favourite type of paint for crafting with.  The colours are vibrant, the coverage is great, the colours are rich, and they dry very quickly.  No, they are not washable, so yes, there may be stains, but if you dress your child in old clothing when crafting, or whip up one of our easy re-purposed denim aprons, you won’t have to worry about it. :) painting toilet roll tube Peep

Once the paints were dry (a blast with the hairdryer speed the drying process up even more), the kids added eyes and beaks, and stuffed a tuft of tissue paper into the top of the toilet roll.adding eyes and beaks to toilet roll peeps

Nestle these little guys into your paper bag nests to complete this super-sweet Easter craft!

toilet roll peeps in paper bag nests

One of the questions that I’m most frequently asked is “what kind of camera do you use?”  I shoot with a Canon Rebel XS.  It’s an entry-level DSLR, and it’s my baby!  I do not digitally enhance or alter my photos in any way except to add the title and my blog name to the feature photo in each blog post.  I LOVE my Canon Rebel!  You can check it out here: