The most popular spring festival is getting closer and closer and are you already looking for ideas for Easter crafts? If it should be really easy this time because children or beginners are involved, paper is a good craft material. It is easy to handle and creates beautiful creations. If the paper is cut into strips, you can even create three-dimensional figures. But what can you actually make with strips of paper for Easter? In the article you will find ideas with instructions for the classics: whether Easter eggs, chicks, Easter bunnies, carrots or sheep, we have a large selection of ideas.
Colorful eggs made from paper strips
The most famous symbol of Easter worldwide are the colorful Easter eggs. You can use strips of paper to make eggs of any size and decorate them beautifully. To do this, you need a template in the right shape, as well as lots of colorful strips of craft paper and glue. The decorated Easter eggs can then be cut out with scissors and hung on the wall as decoration, for example.
This craft project is perfect for children of all ages and is a lot of fun for them. The first step is to divide the craft paper into many colorful strips of similar width. Pattern paper would also work well here to create original Easter eggs.
Then draw an egg shape on a (large) piece of paper. Use a dark felt-tip pen to mark the outline on both sides of the sheet. Then it comes to decorating. To do this, stick the colorful paper strips horizontally on the sheet until the template is completely covered.
If the Easter egg is already decorated, all that remains is to cut it out. If children are doing this work, provide children's scissors and never leave the little ones unattended.
The cut out Easter eggs are perfect as a wall orWindow decoration for Easterand create a festive atmosphere in the house.
Make cute chicks for Easter
We also associate chicks with Easter and spring, which is why we chose this craft project. If you want to make cute chicks out of paper strips for Easter, then you will need the following:
yellow craft paper
orange craft paper
scissors or paper cutting machine
Glue stick
self-adhesive eyes of appropriate size
Directions:
1. Cut the yellow craft paper into strips of the same width (approx. 1 cm). 4 strips of paper are needed for each chick.
2. Fold the strips slightly in half without creasing them. This will make it easier for you to locate the center in the next step.
3. Put some glue in the middle of a strip.
4. Then stick a second strip of paper on top to form a cross. Press lightly with your finger to adhere the paper.
5. Glue two more strips of yellow colored paper in the middle. The resulting shape should look like a snowflake.
6. Now the chick is made like a ball. To do this, first glue the two ends of the bottom strip of construction paper together.
7. Repeat the previous step with all strips to create a yellow ball.
8. Cut out two simple wings from the yellow paper. You choose the exact shape yourself.
9. Glue the wings to the ball and fold them a little so that they are clearly visible from the front.
10. Cut a small diamond out of the orange paper and fold it in half. This is the beak. Glue it to the front of the chick.
11. Finally, complete your Easter chick craft project by attaching the self-adhesive eyes over the beak.
Make Easter bunnies with paper strips
Well, if you already know how to make balls from strips of paper, you can use them to make cute bunnies for Easter. Each Easter bunny requires two balls of strips - one large and one smaller, as well as some craft paper to design the ears. To create the smaller ball, you should shorten the paper strips used for it a little. But they have to be the same size. Somake cute Easter bunnies:
1. Cut craft paper into strips and make two balls of different sizes.
2. Glue the two balls together, placing the larger one under the smaller one.
3. Cut out the bunny ears from construction paper, fold them a little at the bottom and glue the fold onto the bunny's head.
4. Cut out a snout and teeth from paper and create the face. Finally, glue or paint on googly eyes and you're done.
Carrot garland as decoration for Easter
Would you like to decorate your mantel or an empty wall with a pretty garland for Easter? Then create a carrot garland out of paper strips and the Easter bunny will definitely come.
Materials and tools:
orange craft paper in A3 format
green craft paper in A3 format
Scissors or stencil knife and cutting mat
Booklets
a fabric ribbon
Here's how:
1. Cut the craft paper into strips 2.5 cm wide along the shorter side. Fold all the orange paper strips in half. Cut each strip of green construction paper into three different lengths: small, medium and large. Then fold the green strips in half.
2. Now hold the three green folded strips of paper in your hand so that the largest one is in the middle and the folds point upwards. Place the “bundle” of green strips in the fold of an orange strip of colored paper and staple everything together under the fold.
3. To finish the carrot, bring the two ends of the orange strip down and staple them together.
4. Make as many carrots as desired and finally thread the fabric ribbon through the “leaves” to make the garland.
Make Easter baskets with strips of paper
AEaster basket for the colorful Easter eggsYou can also make crafts with paper strips. But note that you can only store plastic eggs or Styrofoam eggs in a paper basket. For this project you only need construction paper strips and glue. Of course you can also choose the color freely.
Directions:
1. Cut out several strips of colored paper of the same size. Take 8 of them and fold them slightly in half without folding to make it easier to determine the middle. Then glue the strips together to create a snowflake shape. This is the base of the basket.
2. Now, take another strip and cut it in the middle. Glue the small piece together with another strip of paper to create a longer strip.
3. Glue the two ends of the long strip of paper together to form a circle. Now glue each strip from the base (the snowflake shape) to the circle to make the basket.
4. Finally, create a handle from another strip and you're done.
Make your own cute sheep
You can also make a cute little sheep for Easter using several strips of paper. To make this you will need plain white paper, glue and a small piece of black paper for the head and ears.
1. First cut the white paper into thin strips. Then cut or cut out a circle from the black one, glue two small pieces as ears and attach self-adhesive eyes.
2. Create several loops from the white paper strips by gluing the two ends of each strip together.
3. Start gluing the loops to the back of the head, always pressing lightly with your finger. Add as many loops as necessary to make a fluffy sheep.
4. If desired, you can glue a drinking straw to the back of the sheep as a handle.
