Easter baskets and Easter nests are a nice idea to really showcase the brightly colored Easter eggs. You can even make a beautiful Easter basket yourself from simple materials and use it to decorate the table for Easter. You can find many ideas and tips for the materials, as well as some simple instructions for crafting, in the article.
Make a creative Easter basket
Making Easter baskets is easy and certainly a lot of fun. You can come up with original designs yourself. You can use a DIY Easter basket to display pretty Easter eggs and as part of the Easter table decoration. Homemade Easter baskets are also a good gift idea and are sure to be very popular with friends and family.
Made from natural materials
Easter nests made from natural material look really original. They are reminiscent of beautiful bird's nests and give the room a natural touch. Suitable natural materials include twigs, sticks, moss, straw and various plants. You can collect all of these crafting materials in nature some time in advance and let them dry at home.
Make green Easter nests
With small plants from florist supplies you can make a fresh Easter basket and create a natural atmosphere at home. A popular plant for this purpose is the so-called gypsophila. The tiny white flowers highlight the colorful Easter eggs particularly well and create a fresh ambience in the room.
Simple idea
An Easter nest for Easter eggs can also be made very easily by using just a single material. The best materials for this are materials that can be easily processed with your hands and shaped into a round shape. With coconut fiber, for example, you can make a simple Easter basket and display the Easter eggs effectively.
Step-by-step instructions
More elaborate Easter nests can also be made from natural materials, which are the perfect addition to spring decorations. For this project you will need a wire ring, some moss, pussy willows, a roll of craft wire and twigs. First, the moss and branches are intertwined with the wire ring and tied with craft wire. Then the base is designed with the pussy willow.
Decorate with spring flowers
To add some color to the nest, you can enclose a few spring flowers in it by placing them in small glass bottles of water. You can also use an Easter nest like this as a bird's nest for colorful spring decorations inside or outside.
Made from natural materials
You can choose the size and materials yourself. You can make several small Easter baskets or even one large one. Below we will show you how you can make a natural nest out of twigs and craft wire. It's best to collect green branches for this project because they're easier to bend. If you cannot find such branches, soak the older ones in water and they will become more flexible.
From branches
First, make several circles of different sizes from the branches. The smallest circles are for the base and the larger ones are for the edge of the nest. Then attach the individual branches to each other with the craft wire until you get the Easter basket you want. With this DIY project you can create a unique Easter basket, because the design of the finished decoration depends on the branches you collect and your crafting skills with them.
With moss
Moss is another popular material for making bird and Easter nests. There are a variety of different types of moss that are suitable for this. Here you will find instructions for making an Easter basket made from the so-called jungle moss. As a template, make a bowl out of aluminum foil using a small bowl.
Make a bird's nest - instructions
The moss is first wrapped with string and then glued to the outside of the aluminum foil bowl. You can use the glue gun to glue. Once the lower side is finished, you should now remove the nest from the bowl and cover the inside of the bowl with moss so that the aluminum foil is completely covered. Finally, decorate the finished Easter nest with green moss and other natural materials of your choice.
Decorate the apartment
You can use Easter baskets in different sizes for Easter eggs as well as small sweets for the children. They are also perfect as an original decoration for Easter and spring, which will certainly bring a good mood.
Decoration ideas
If you would like to make a beautiful Easter nest and use it as part of the spring decoration, then you can further decorate the nest with colorful spring motifs. You can make butterflies and colored flowers from any material and use them as decoration.
Mini Easter basket
Easter baskets are particularly decorative and invite nature into the house. You can make mini Easter nests in small objects, such as plastic eggs, and make a creative hanging decoration yourself. Use small sticks, flowers and moss.
Use as a table decoration
If you would like to conjure up a creative table decoration for Easter, then you can make a beautiful Easter nest for each guest. To do this, you can use the papier-mâché technique for crafting with paper. For this DIY project you will need several strips of paper, small bowls as craft templates, cling film and wallpaper paste.
Make your own from paper mache
This technique is very simple and is also suitable for children. First prepare the paper strips and paste and wrap the bowls with cling film. Then place the bowls bottom side up, soak the paper in the glue and stick it to the bottom of the bowls. Repeat until all sides are covered. Let the Easter nests dry overnight, paint them as desired and finally fill them with Easter grass and Easter eggs.
With balloons
You can also use the paper mache technique to make a large Easter basket with a balloon. To do this, the balloon is inflated, covered with paper mache and then burst. The size in this case depends on how much you have inflated the balloon.
Made from simple materials
There are no limits to creativity when it comes to crafting. For example, you can turn plain brown paper bags into pretty Easter baskets by rolling down the bags and crumpling them up a bit. Then simply wrap it with some twigs and sticks from the garden.
Made of paper
You can also fold small Easter nests out of paper for table decorations. An origami Easter basket is perfect for Easter place cards. You can also put a small sweet in it for the guests.
Make it out of egg carton
If you would like to make a cheap Easter nest, the cardboard box from the eggs can be used for this purpose. With a little paint and decoration, the simple egg cartons can be transformed into beautiful Easter baskets. You can design it completely individually and it is perfect as a small gift for Easter.
Fill egg carton with candy
To make an Easter basket out of egg carton, you first need to decorate the box and then fill it with Easter eggs and candy. With some Easter grass or colorful tissue paper underneath, the egg box looks like a real Easter nest.
Made of cardboard
Instead of egg carton, you can also make an Easter basket using old fruit cardboard bowls. They can be decorated with glitter, paint and other decorations of your choice and immediately become an atmospheric decoration for Easter and spring.
With thread
Similar to the Easter nests made of paper mache, you can also use thread or wool. To do this, the bottom of a bowl of any size is covered with aluminum foil as a template and then covered with thread. You can use napkin glue as an adhesive here.
Create table decorations
Easter nests are a popular decoration idea for Easter place cards. They can be easily integrated into the table decorations and guests can keep them as a small gift after the party. Instructions for making a grass Easter basket follow.
Made of paper
You need light green and dark green colored paper that you cut into long strips. Then cut the paper like grass with scissors and make a circle out of it so that an egg fits inside.
Design as place cards
Repeat this with the second strip of paper and tie a bow with satin ribbon on top. Now make the place cards out of small strips of colored paper and attach them to toothpicks. In this case, you can use either Styrofoam eggs or blown-out Easter eggs as filling for the Easter nests.
Make your own creative place cards for Easter
You can also make such place cards from natural material as an Easter basket. Simply make mini wreaths out of twigs and craft wire and fill them with Easter grass. Then place the egg with the place card on top and you're done.
From napkins
Would you likemake the table decorations for Easter even more creative, then you can fold the napkins as an Easter basket. Cloth napkins are best suited for this because they are more flexible and make it easier to recreate Easter cakes.
Fold napkins
Here you will find simple folding instructions for napkins. First, the napkin is rolled and then tied in a knot, leaving the place in the middle empty. An Easter egg is placed there and designed like a place card as desired.
Instructions for napkin
If you want to fill the Easter basket made of napkins with Easter grass and sweets, then it should be a little deeper. In the pictures you will find another oneInstructions for making Easter basketsmade from napkins, which you can then fill with sugar eggs and other Easter sweets.
