Ring in spring with usa colorful Easter decorationa! We'll show you how you can make your own colorful Easter bunnies and chicks with the children. And we still have manyIdeas for adultsready: You can brighten the mood during the Corona period with a puristic decoration with moss. But you can't just use natural materials. Crafting with Styrofoam balls offers numerous decoration options, especially in spring. The balls can be painted, glued or covered with fabric or paper. There are no limits to your imagination. Let our suggestions inspire you!
Crafting with Styrofoam balls in spring: Easter bunnies for the children
Surprise thema colorful Easter decorationwith delicious candies in a jam jar. To ensure that the lovingly homemade gift is well received, Easter bunnies decorate the mason jar. For this craft idea you need the following materials:
- 1 jam jar
- Candies or sweets of your choice
- Fabric residue
- 1 Styroporkugel
- 1 black painting pen
- Felt fabrics, white, pink, gray
- Stoffblumen
- Pompom
- Scissors
- Hot glue
- Wooden shish kebab skewers, 2 pieces
First, paint a bunny face on the Styrofoam ball and glue a pompom as a nose. Make the bunny ears out of the white and pink/gray felt fabric and glue each ear to a kebab skewer. Insert the wooden skewers into the Styrofoam ball. Decorate the bunny ears with fabric flowers, bows or glitter beads. Decorate the lid with scraps of fabric. Glue the rabbit head onto the lid.
There is another variant for everyone who will send Easter gifts to the family by post. You can wrap lollipops as an Easter bunny. Make the head out of Styrofoam balls, small pompoms in pink and white and googly eyes, you can make the ears out of paper or pipe cleaners and cut out the bunny feet out of glitter cardboard. The lollipops are ready so quickly.
Crafting with Styrofoam balls and pipe cleaners: bouquet of flowers for spring
Crafting is fun for both children and parents. We offer you an idea that is particularly good forChildren in kindergarten– or elementary school age. All you need is several different sized Styrofoam balls, pipe cleaners in different colors and green craft wire. First, cut the pipe cleaners into four equal pieces, bend them and insert them into the Styrofoam balls. With a little skill, a colorful bouquet of flowers can be ready quickly and you can use it to decorate the children's room for Easter.
Crafting with Styrofoam balls: Spring decoration with chicks
The next idea for crafting with Styrofoam balls in spring looks super cute. You can make cute ones out of crepe paper, Styrofoam balls and pipe cleanersChicks for the Easter basketdo it Yourself. Glue a large ball to a smaller Styrofoam ball and wrap it with yellow crepe paper. Make the wings using the same crepe paper. Cut out the eyes and beak from cardboard. Make feet out of pink pipe cleaners and tie a bow around the neck. The happy chicks are ready!
Crafting with Styrofoam balls is a lot of fun for small children. The balls can be painted with acrylic or watercolors. You can also cut them in half. This can create different shapes, such as the monster above. With its cheerful colors it is guaranteed to create a happy atmosphere in the children's room. You will need the following materials: pipe cleaners, 3 small, 1 medium and 1 large styrofoam balls, watercolors, felt fabric in purple and black, three googly eyes. You can attach the balls to each other with hot glue.
Even a caterpillar is ready in no time. You need five equal sized, eight small Styrofoam balls, watercolors and pipe cleaners. First let the children paint the balls, wait for the paint to dry and then glue the individual balls together with hot glue. The new spring decoration is ready and you can use it to decorate the shelves in the children's room or the mantel in the living room.
Crafting with Styrofoam balls for spring: door wreath
A door wreath in cheerful spring colors puts you in a good mood. Spring wreaths made from long-lasting materials are particularly practical. We offer you an idea for a long-lasting door wreath that you can use again in the coming years. You need the following materials:
- Pompoms
- Styrofoam balls of different sizes
- The knitting needle
- Strickgarn
- Glue or hot glue
Wrap the Styrofoam balls with knitting yarn and glue them together to form a wreath. Decorate the spring wreath with homemade or purchased pompoms and old knitting needles. The colorful door wreath is ready.
And if you still have knitting yarn left over, you can make the Easter bunny pictured above with the children. Our tip: Choose knitting yarn in an accent color and display the Easter bunny at the dinner table. You can even make several Easter bunnies and arrange them in the middle of the table. Optionally, you can use the Easter bunnies as place cards and write the guest's name on the bunny ears with a felt-tip pen.
Crafting with Styrofoam balls: lollipops for Easter
A quick last-minute idea for the festive Easter buffet: Place a Styrofoam ball on tall candle holders and stick lollipops in it. The perfect edible decoration for the children's table too. And by the way, it can stay on the table long after the party. So you can
Crafting with Styrofoam balls: Owl made of golden crepe paper
Animal figures conjure up a happy atmosphere and give the spring decoration a final natural touch. For example, you can make an owl out of crepe paper and Styrofoam balls. You need the following materials:
- Crepe paper, multiple sheets from the same color family. For example, sand color, gold and copper go well together.
- 2 black buttons
- Scissors
- Motif punch for circles
- adhesive
- 2 Styrofoam balls, one large and one small
First glue the two Styrofoam balls together. Use the motif punch to punch out circles and glue them onto the Styrofoam balls. Make a beak out of cardboard and glue the buttons to make eyes. Form the wings from the copper-colored crepe paper and glue them in place. Complete!
Would you like an imaginative but natural-looking decoration? Then you can buy Styrofoam balls and cover them with moss. First collect moss from your own garden, for example you can find moss on the lawn or on the bark of a tree. Remove soil and dirt from the moss, lay it out on the work surface and brush the first Styrofoam ball with glue. Now you have to work quickly, otherwise the glue will dry out.
Another craft idea for purists again with moss. Make an Easter tree that can decorate the dinner table long after the Easter holidays. For these craft instructions you will need natural materials from your own garden: tree branches, white pebbles, moss, as well as blown quail eggs and a suitably sized Styrofoam ball.
First, fill a bowl or flower pot with soil and insert the tree branch into it. Place a layer of gravel over the soil and attach the Styrofoam ball to the branch. Blow out the quail eggs, dissolve a little detergent in the warm water and use it to rinse the quail eggs thoroughly. Then let them dry on kitchen paper and stick them on the Styrofoam ball. Brush the Styrofoam ball with glue and attach the moss piece by piece. First remove any remaining soil from the moss.
The Easter tree also looks good on the table after Easter. Because it brings a spring mood. And it can be quickly disassembled and reassembled if necessary. Takes up relatively little space and can be stored in the basement until next spring.
But you can do a lot more with Styrofoam balls; in the photo gallery below we will show you more ideas for spring-like decorations. Get inspired and create imaginative flowers, Easter bunnies or chicks from household items. We hope you enjoy crafting!
Flowers made from Styrofoam balls, shish kebab skewers and cotton swabs
Make Easter bunnies out of fabric and Styrofoam balls
Styrofoam balls and fabric scraps become spring decorations
Cover the Styrofoam balls with scraps of fabric and decorate with decorative ribbons
