The Easter season is a fantastic time to make crafts that you can use to decorate your home and to enhance your and your children’s experience this Easter season. When people think about crafts and holidays, they tend just to think about the really obvious holiday—Christmas. But there are so many other possibilities for you to make crafts to decorate your home, and Easter is one of those fantastic and fun holidays that can be made even better by making crafts, either by yourself or with your children and/or your friends.
This particular Easter craft is a nice and easy one that you can make on your own or that you can make with children. If you are making this craft with younger children, then you should cut the basket out yourself and handle all of the glue and/or tape. However, this craft is more than appropriate for older kids (5 and older) to do completely on their own, since it does not include any really difficult or complicated steps.
How to make a carrot Easter basket
Materials needed for a carrot Easter basket
1. orange construction paper
2. green construction paper
3. scissors
4. glue or tape
5. a ribbon to use as the handle
6. optional: thin cardboard to reinforce the basket with
How to make a carrot Easter basket
1. For the first step of making this carrot Easter basket, you need to take your piece of orange construction paper. Using a ruler to measure, you need to cut the piece of orange construction paper into a square. You can decide the size of square that you want to cut, as the size of square will determine the size of basket that you make.
2. Now, cut a strip of the green construction paper that is as long as the orange construction paper square. You can make the green strip as tall as you want, depending on how many “leaves” you want on top of your carrot. After you cut the strip of paper, you can decide how you want to cut your leaves. You can either cut vertical cuts into the construction paper, so that you have more like a “fringe” type of leaf, or you can cut a wavy leaf. Either way, you need to make sure that you have enough un-cut green construction paper to glue onto the orange construction paper. To make it easier, it is a good idea to glue the green construction paper onto the orange construction paper before you cut your leaves.
3. Now that you have glued your green construction paper onto the orange, and after the glue has dried, then roll the paper together so that you form a cone. Glue the edges of the construction paper together. Wait for the lgue to dry.
4. After the lgue has dried, staple the ribbon onto the basket to form a handle for your basket. If you want to reinforce the basket, then you can line it with thin cardboard, such as cardboard that you cut from a cereal box.
5. If you are going to put small things in your basket, like Easter grass, then you will want to make sure that the bottom of the cone is completely covered (by, perhaps, some more paper or cardboard) so that the grass does not fall out.
