Easy, Colorful DIY Easter Projects the Whole Family Can Do
Here are four quick DIY Easter projects the entire family can enjoy.
— -- With less than one week until Easter Sunday, “Good Morning America” and Yahoo are teamed up to share creative ideas for DIY crafts that involve the entire family.
Yahoo's Katie Brown appeared on “GMA” today as part of Yahoo Your Day, a collaborative series between “GMA” and Yahoo’s experts.
Brown, Yahoo Makers' editor-in-chief, showed viewers how to make specially-designed Easter eggs, rabbit-shaped napkin holders and gloves, and how to decorate a store-bought cake to reflect the holiday theme.
The projects were affordable and used items that could be easily had from a craft or grocery store, or from around the house.
Three Ways to Decorate Eggs
Here are three ways to take egg decorating to the next level.
CRYSTAL EGGS
Materials
Plastic eggs
Epsom salt
Mod Podge
Food coloring
Tools
Small bowls
Fork
Instructions
1. Fill each bowl half way with Epsom salt.
2. Add a drop of food coloring to each bowl as desired and mix with a fork.
3. Pour Mod Podge into small bowl, dip egg in glue.
4. Dip egg into colored crystals.
GLOW EGGS
Materials
Eggs
Glow-in-the-dark paint
Neon paint
White vinegar
Tools
Small bowls
Spoon
Drying towel
Warm water
Instructions
1. Hard boil eggs and let cool.
2. In small bowls mix a dollop of glow paint, a dollop of neon paint and a bit of warm water.
3. Add two tablespoons of vinegar to each bowl.
4. Dip the eggs into the dye mixtures and roll them around in exchanging colors.
Hint: The more you dip into the different dyes, the more variations you will have.
DRIED FLOWER EASTER EGGS
Materials
Plastic Easter eggs (the bigger the better)
Assortment of dried and paper flowers
Gold spray paint
Tools
Hot glue gun
Instructions
1. Spray gold paint in a patch on the middle of the egg, let dry.
2. In the center of the gold patch on the egg, hot glue dried and paper flowers.
3. Begin in the center and let the flowers mushroom out.
GLOVE BUNNY
Want to build an Easter bunny? All you need is a glove!
Materials
Glove
Cotton or polyester stuffing
Copper wire
Googly eyes
2 tiny pom-poms
2 larger pom-poms
Ribbon
#2 pencil eraser
Rubber band
4” Styrofoam egg
Straight pin
Tools
Hot glue gun
Scissors
Instructions
1. Turn the glove inside out, except for two center fingers, then turn the glove back to the right side.
2. Hot glue all the fingers closed (except for the two center fingers), and let dry.
3. Cut off the glued fingers from inside.
4. With the glove right side out, stuff the finger ‘ears’ with the stuffing.
5. Insert a Styrofoam egg into the glove so that it is a snug fit and attach it with a rubber band at the bottom.
6. Roll up the cuff of the glove and glue large pom-poms on as feet.
7. Hot glue the eyes, two pom-poms for cheeks, and the pencil eraser for a nose and a tiny pink pom-pom for the mouth.
8. Make a bow with ribbon and pin it to the collar of the bunny.
BUNNY NAPKIN FOLD
This classic bunny napkin fold is easy and a lot of fun.
Materials
Square napkin
Pink pom-pom
Pins
Instructions
1. Lay your napkin out flat in front of you.
2. Fold it in half towards you.
3. Fold it in half towards you again.
4. Grab the top left and right corners bring them towards each other, forming a point at the top in the center.
5. Fold the bottom left and right corners together in the middle.
6. Pull the right corner to the center line of the napkin.
7. Repeat with the left corner.
8. Flip the whole thing over.
9. Fold the bottom corner up.
10. Flip the napkin over again.
11. Tuck the right corner into the left corner.
12. Stand your bunny napkin up and pin the pom-pom on as the nose.
EASTER CAKE
If you want a beautiful, custom Easter cake but you don’t want to spend a fortune on it, you can dress up an inexpensive store-bought cake to make it look like it cost way more than you paid. Here's how:
Materials
Store bought frosted cake
Chocolate, candy coated Easter eggs (such as Robin’s Eggs)
Kit Kat bars
Tube of decorator’s icing
Ribbon
Armature wire
Instructions
1. Break your Kit Kat bars into sets of two sticks, and using a little decorator’s icing to secure them, line them up all around the outside of your store bought cake.
2. Secure the Kit Kat ‘basket’ with a ribbon and tie a nice big bow.
3. Top the cake with a mound of chocolate eggs.
4. Twist your Armature wire to form a handle and press either end into the cake, just between the chocolate basket and the actual cake.