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An easy way for younger children to make an Easter Basket craft. Different colors of plastic spoons can be decorated as Easter Eggs with puff paints and markers.
This is a great way to use up odds and ends. If doing this for a large group, ask children to bring in a few plastic spoons from home this way you might be able to gather a variety of colors. Different colored spoons can also be purchased at a local dollar store.
MATERIALS:
- Colorful plastic spoons
- Small paper plate
- Brown pipe cleaner
- Easter grass
- Puffy or fabric paint
- Brown paper lunch bag or brown construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Three spoons are used for each basket. With scissors, cut off about an inch off of each plastic spoon handle. ** For younger children, this step should be done by an adult.
- Open up and flatten out a brown paper bag. Trace the small paper plate onto the brown paper bag.
- Cut out the circle from brown paper bag, fold in half, cut along the folded line. Only 1/2 of the circle is needed for each basket.
- Take Easter Grass and cut into shorter pieces.
- First glue the plastic spoons to the paper plate with the rounded side facing out.
- Glue the Easter grass around the spoon handles, up to the base of the spoon.
- Place a line of glue around the rounded part of the half circle of the brown paper bag and attach to the paper plate, covering the handles of the spoons.
- Glue down the pipe cleaner over the exposed, top portion of the paper plate to make a basket handle. **If you have trouble gluing down the pipe cleaner, clip the pipe cleaner in place with large metal paperclips or clothes pins until it is dry.
- Paint designs on the rounded spoon tops to make decorative Easter eggs.
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