What would Easter be without the Easter basket in which the colorfully painted anddecorated Easter eggsbe put on display? Children especially enjoy making such baskets. That's why today we'll show you how you can make an Easter basket out of paper, because paper is usually the easiest to work with. Whether braided or with a template – our ideas are perfect for spending a fun craft afternoon together during the pre-Easter period.
There are no limits when it comes to choosing paper. But it should be at least as strong as normal printer paper. You can choose any Easter basketMake construction paper, which is plain, but also use patterned or motif paper. Paper can also be wonderfully recycled. So if you still have a few paper bags left over, you can use them to make a woven paper Easter basket!
Keep in mind that the wastepaper baskets are not particularly sturdy and are not suitable for being carried around fully loaded. Instead, fill them with light things like chocolate or plastic eggs and Easter grass or use them for display (e.g. as aTable decoration for Easter).
Make an Easter basket out of paper using a template
Thanks to the ready-made templates that you will find at the end of the article, these Easter baskets can be made quite quicklyChildren help outcan. Only if a cutter is used to cut out the templates should this be done by an adult, as these knives are extremely sharp. Therefore, children's scissors are more suitable for a project with children.
Make Easter baskets out of paper – what you need:
- printed templates
- Scissors or cutter knife with ruler
- kitchen knife
- Glue stick
Here's how you can make this type of paper Easter basket:
Print out the templates and cut them out along the outer, solid lines. You can trace the fold lines around the middle square and below the adhesive tabs a few times with the dull side of a knife or with a ruler if you used thick paper. This makes them easier to fold afterwards. Add glue to the tabs and form the cube. Finally, fix the handle on the inside and you can fill the baskets.
Would you like extra large Easter baskets?Make your own paper, you can also print them out in A3 format and then make them as described above.
Simple craft idea with or without a template
You can make this paper Easter basket without a template, but you can still use onefor printingfound at the end of the article. You need any paper (white, with motifs or with patterns) on which you draw a grid of nine equal squares. The middle square will be the bottom of the basket, so you can use this to determine the size you want.
Make your own simple Easter basket out of paper
Then cut the two lower, inner lines (in the template these are the blue ones). Then fold the basket as shown in the instructions and glue the sides together. Finally, cut out a narrow strip for the handle. Glue this to the inside of the basket as well. Now you can fill the basket.
- any paper (in the example from a paper bag)
- Scissors
- Craft glue
If you would like to make this pretty Easter basket out of paper, cut out an even number of strips from the selected paper (8 pieces in the example) that are as long as possible and 3 cm wide. Fold the strips widthwise twice so that you get 1 cm wide strips (this will make them more stable).
Now place four strips vertically in front of you and braid a fifth horizontally, placing it alternately over and under the four vertical stripes. Repeat with three more and you get the bottom of the basket. Push all the strips together tightly and fix them together here and there with glue (e.g. at the four corners of the floor).
Now work on the sides of the Easter basket by removing the protruding onesBraid strips. To do this, first place the two middle ones on top of each other. Then follow the steps in the picture instructions. If you accidentally braid it incorrectly, you can easily unravel the strips and repeat the steps again.
Once you are happy with the height of the basket, simply fold the excess strips inside and then secure them there with glue. Now you can make a handle out of the same paper (again 3 centimeters and folded twice, and of any length) and glue it in place and add other decorations as you wish.
Easter bunny basket inWhite,BlauandRosaprint.
Template for the black and white basketshere.
