We prepare gifts and funny crafts for Easter with our own hands

On the feast of Easter it is customary to go to visit,"Christo" and give small gifts-souvenirs - the symbols of this bright holiday. Preparation for the celebration begins in advance, thinking out the decoration of the table, the methods of making gifts, methods of staining eggs, looking for recipes of traditional Easter treats. The most pleasant, cute occupation, of course, is the painting of eggs. In many Slavic peoples, the tradition of creating colorful Easter eggs is rooted in the deep past. Eggs painted with symbolic patterns, adhering to strict canons of skill, are not only a bright decoration of the holiday, but also a gift-message, a gift-wish for health, prosperity and joy.

You can make crafts for Easter with your own hands,having attached children to this. Traditional Easter symbols are an egg, a nest with colored eggs, chickens and chickens, rabbits, spring primroses and, of course, the famous Easter tree - a symbol of eternal life and rebirth.

Easter eggs

Eggs are colored not only food colors,but also in other ways, using aniline inks, gouache, watercolor, various natural materials, the technique of "decoupage." Such souvenirs serve solely to decorate the table, so the egg must first be "blown out", leaving only the shell. It is necessary to pierce the egg with a thin needle on both sides, then mix the yolk with a long narrow stick inside, then insert a narrow tube into one of the holes and blow the contents into a plate.

Make Easter gifts with your own hands ordecorations on the table from the eggshell can be different. The first way - decorating with color cuttings in the technique of decoupage. We select a beautiful thematic picture on a napkin or thin paper, cut it out along the contours, lightly moisten with water, soak excess moisture, put on an egg, smeared with diluted glue, iron with a soft brush, top again with glue and dry it. To make the egg edible, instead of glue we use egg white.

Crafts for Easter with their own hands made from eggs,Applying to the decor a crumbled egg shell, previously painted in different colors with gouache or watercolor paints. It turns a kind of mosaic, which is imposed on the surface of eggs, greased with PVA glue, chaotically or in the form of a pattern. Decorate eggs can be colored with braid, lace, dried herbs and flowers, colored beads and beads.

Crafts from eggs

Using an empty shell as a basis, you cando other handicrafts on your own for Easter. For example, turn shells into funny chickens. On a flatter top of the shell, glue the eyes made of small buttons or beads, in the center under the eye sockets we attach a beak - a triangle cut from a piece of felt or cardboard, on the top of the head we construct a crest of colored chicken feathers. We cut the cardboard honeycomb package for eggs into separate pockets, formally form the edges, make holes on three sides of each hole, into which we stretch a narrow silk or paper ribbon and tie it with a loop. In each prepared pocket-bag we insert the chicken, and hang the ornament on the spring branches. Chickens from eggs can simply be planted in a basket, at the bottom of which a strip of colored paper to weave a nest. Crafts for Easter with their own hands from eggs can be made in the form of rabbits, chickens and bettas.

The tree of Life

As an Easter decorationthe symbolic tree of life. The easiest way is to make it from the branches of pussy-willow, set in a floral sponge in a flat plate. The foundation should be decorated with colored straws, grass, intertwined fine branches or gentle artificial medium-sized flowers, feathers. On the branches hang eggs on colorful ribbons, plant small colored birds, attach various crafts for Easter, made with their own hands (flowers from beads, Easter cards). In the holes made at the two ends of the shell with a long needle, into which a tape is inserted, or a crochet hook, pass a loop. Below, the outer ends of the tape are stretched into a bead and tied with a knot. For such an elegant loop, the decorated eggs are hung on branches.