Will the bells and the Easter bunny be allowed to pass next Sunday to deposit chocolate eggs? While waiting for their answer, you can prepare some small Easter decorations with your children. Confinement requires, no way to go out and buy equipment: Europe 1 offers 3 ideas to do at home, with what you have on hand.
Pullet in egg carton
You need :
- An empty egg carton
- Yellow paper and red or pink paper
- Feathers
- Movable eyes
- Scissors, glue
Cut out the corner of an empty egg carton: you must have a cone and space for an egg.
In the sheets of colored paper, draw and cut the crest, the barb and the beak of the hen. Then stick them on the cone of your chick. Then add the movable eyes, or draw them with felt-tip pen if you don't have one.
Then stick feathers on the sides to dress your chick. If you do not have feathers, you can cut them out of colored paper or white paper that you have previously decorated.
Your chick is now ready to welcome delicious chocolate eggs!
You can offer this activity to a child from 4 years old, if you prepare all the elements beforehand. He will just have to stick them. The older ones can make their pullets entirely on their own.
Kawaii rabbit
You need :
- A sheet of white paper
- Pink paper
- Scissors, glue, markers
Cut three strips of paper about 1 cm wide across the width of your white sheet. Draw and cut out two ears from the rest of the paper. Then draw and cut two smaller ears out of pink paper. Glue the pink parts on the white ears, leaving a small margin to make a flap.
Form a circle with the first strip of paper, gluing the two ends together. Repeat with the other two strips, gluing them, offset, on the first circle.
Then glue the two ears on the top of your ball. Then draw your rabbit's cheeks and eyes on two strips side by side. Your rabbit is finished: you can decorate it by adding small flowers or knots.
You can offer this activity to a child from 5 or 6 years old.
The woven paper basket
You need :
- Paper
- Scissors, glue, scotch tape
Cut strips of paper of equal width from your sheets. You will need 10 for the base of the basket, cut in the length of the sheet. And 4 others, the length of which will be equal to the perimeter of your basket (the width of a strip x 20). You can tape two small strips together to arrive at the correct length.
Align 5 small strips vertically next to each other. Then with the other 5, form a canvas by passing the strips, horizontally, alternately below and above. Center your grid and tighten the strips as much as possible. You can fix your strips with a little glue.
Mark most of the rest of the strips and then start braiding the sides. Again, your long bands should pass alternately in front of and behind the vertical bands. To start each stage, you can stick the long strip behind the first vertical strip so that it does not move. In the same way, when you have finished going around, fix the strip with a point of glue.
Once you have braided the 4 horizontal bands, fold the rest of the vertical bands inside the basket and fix them with a point of glue. You can add one or two handles, the length you want.
You can offer this activity, which is a bit long and requires meticulousness, to a child from 6 or 7 years old.