Celebrations these days are as much about mood and family as they are most importantly about saving some money and making gifts to give to others, including your children. There are so many festive and fun ideas for DIY Easter gifts floating around the internet. With Easter fast approaching, we thought you might find some of our favorites inspiring. Most instructions are quick and easy to follow. In addition, all gift ideas are colorful and ensure a large portion of happiness on this special day.
Make imaginative DIY Easter gifts
Instead of buying a lot of Easter candy or chocolate to fill your Easter baskets with, you can make some clever DIY Easter gifts. For this reason, we share with you some of thegreat ideaswith that we have picked out for you. Many of them are also suitable for adults. Check out these 10 DIY Easter gifts to help you save money and time while celebrating a unique Easter this year.
Sew a rabbit bag
- Fabric (color of your choice)
- Scissors
- Lineal
- marker
- Paper grass
- pink thread
- white thread
- black thread
- Nadel
- pink felt
- sweets
- First, sketch a square on the fabric using the ruler and marker pen measuring 20 x 20 centimeters.
- First cut out the shape and then sew the two sides to create a bag. Leave 1 cm gap on both sides to allow space for a hem.
- Turn the bunny bag over and make a hem at the top.
- Next, draw outlines for the eyes, nose and mouth with the pen and then embroider them.
- Mark the ears on the felt fabric and embroider the insides of them with the white thread.
- First sew the bunny ears closed on both sides from the inside and then decorate them with the paper grass.
- Fill such DIY Easter gifts with sweets or treats of your choice.
Make a sock bunny with rice
- 1 sock (color of your choice)
- Felt (white and pink)
- Bumble
- Craft eyes
- 1 Plastic knob
- Ribbon
- Rubber bands
- Reis
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
- First fill a third of the sock with the rice and then tie it with a rubber band.
- Stuff the top of the sock with more rice to form the Easter bunny's head. This should be approximately half the size of the body.
- Also tie the filled part with a rubber band and a bow.
- Finally, cut the ends of the sock that are sticking out into a V shape.
- First glue the craft eyes and the button as a nose to the sock bunny's face using the hot glue gun.
- Cut out two rabbit teeth from the white felt fabric and add them to the sock using hot glue.
- Next, cut a circular tummy out of the pink felt and glue it in place.
- Finally, you can make the tail out of the pompom using the glue.
Easter bunny jar with confectionery
- Einmachglas
- Foam for crafts (white and pink)
- 1 small pompom
- 1 large pompom
- Craft eyes
- Hot glue gun
- sweets
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Paper grass
- First draw two rabbit ears on the white foam with a pencil and then cut them out accordingly.
- You can then make the small, inner parts for the ears from the pink foam.
- Then glue the finished rabbit ears onto the glass lid.
- Then attach the craft eyes to the glass with hot glue, and underneath them the small pompom as a nose.
- First cut 4 strips from the white foam and glue two of them on each side of the nose.
- Next, glue the large pom-pom to the bottom back of the jar for the tail.
- Finally, fill the preserving jar with the paper grass and the confectionery on top.
DIY Easter gifts: make an Easter bag
- orange craft paper
- green crepe paper
- Scissors
- Double-sided tape
- Ribbon
- Lineal
- Pencil
- sweets
- Start by drawing a triangle in the shape of a carrot, then cut it out and use it as a template for another triangle.
- Attach strips of double-stick tape to the inside of one piece of paper and then stick the other on top.
- Fill the space with candies or other confectionery.
- Cut a piece of crepe paper into fringes and attach it to the top of the carrot with double-stick tape, closing the opening as well.
- Finally, decorate the cone with a bow.
Gift box for Easter
- Egg-shaped wooden box with lid
- Acrylic paint (various colors)
- Paint brush
- Paper grass
- sweets
- Easter egg
- Ribbon
- Scissors
- First, paint the lid any color you like (e.g. pink).
- Repeat the process for the box with yellow acrylic paint.
- Next, you can draw purple motifs and yellow flowers on the lid and then let it dry.
- Stuff the box with paper grass and then add the egg and candy.
- Decorate again with bow.
Make Easter packaging as a bunny
- Crepe paper (color of your choice)
- Candle
- Ribbon
- 1 large pompom
- 1 small pompom
- 2 buttons
- Designer wrapping paper
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Stanzer
- First position the candle on the crepe paper, which you then fold up.
- Tie the bow so that you can make bunny ears out of the paper.
- Draw a heart on the back of the wrapping paper, then cut it out and punch a hole for the bow.
- First glue the two buttons as eyes and the small pom-pom as a nose onto the crepe paper.
- Finally, use the large pompom again for the tail.
Make a gift basket as a hot air balloon
- small wooden box
- Acrylic paint
- Paint brush
- Paper straws
- Ribbon
- 1 balloon
- Double-sided tape
- sweets
- Easter egg
- Paper grass
- Spring decorations (mushrooms, ladybugs, flowers)
- First, paint the wooden box with any color and stick a straw in each corner.
- Then inflate the balloon and place a small piece of tape on the tip of each straw.
- Position the balloon so that you can attach it to the straws.
- Finally, fill the box with paper grass, Easter egg, candies and decorations.
- In addition, you can attach two ladybugs anywhere using the double-sided adhesive tape.
Make an Easter basket with plastic cups and felt
- Plastic cups
- Felt (pink, yellow, green and purple)
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
- wallpapering knife
- Paper grass
- Easter egg
- Decorative ladybugs
- Cut about half of the cup down the middle.
- Draw 5 yellow, 5 pink and 2 green leaves on the felt and then cut them out.
- Cut a strip out of the purple felt material to use as a handle for the Easter basket.
- Again fill the gift basket with the paper grass and the Easter egg.
- At the end, decorate with the ladybugs.
Paper dresses for Easter eggs (piñata)
- Paper sheet (ordinary printing paper)
- Bastelkleber (Mod Podge)
- Ballon
- Paint brush
- Crepe paper (various colors)
- Band
- Scissors
- confectionery
- First inflate the balloon and then tie it with the ribbon.
- Tear small pieces of paper and then glue them to the entire balloon using the craft glue. Also add a second layer.
- Let the whole thing dry for 12-24 hours.
- After drying, make a hole from which you can then pop the balloon and get it out.
- Use the same hole to fill the egg shell you have made with candies or other small treats.
- First, cut 5-6 strips of different widths from the crepe paper and make fringes.
- Then glue the Easter egg again with craft glue and crepe paper and let it dry.
Make a cuddly bunny out of yarn
- Thick yarn (brown, gray or white)
- Scissors
- brown felt
- pink felt
- pom poms
- Hot glue gun
- 2 black beads
- 1 pink pearl
- fishing line
- Craft paper
- Quick adjustment compass
- Pencil
- Lineal
- First, use the compass to make two 5 cm and two 3 cm diameter circles on the paper.
- Then, in the middle of each circle, draw smaller 1cm diameter circles and then cut them all out like in the photos so you can wrap the yarn around them.
- Then tie the finished pompoms together so that they form the head and body of an Easter bunny.
- Then cut out 2 bunny ears from the brown felt and 2 smaller pieces from the pink felt fabric.
- Hot glue the smaller pieces of felt onto the larger ones and then hot glue the finished ears onto the head.
- Then glue a pompom to the back as a tail.
- Then use the black beads for the eyes, which you can also attach with the silicone glue.
- You can then make the whiskers from the fishing line by inserting them through the hole in the pink bead.
- Cut the ends with scissors and glue the pearl in the middle under the eyes.
