Traditional Easter Souvenirsare painted or otherwise made eggs, decorated with images of saints, churches, flowers or a variety of patterns. Easily performed and Easter hares do it yourself. They are no less popular gifts. You can choose any material and method of manufacture. Everyone will find an option to your taste and experience.
Souvenir ideas
With children at home or in an organized group, you can do the following Easter crafts yourself:
- hares;
- chickens;
- trees;
- baskets;
- postcards;
- traditional decorated eggs in different ways.
Do-it-yourself Easter bunnies: manufacturing options
If you like needlework and prefer a variety in techniques of performance, then you can make a festive souvenir in completely different ways.
- Baked from dough or souvenir (from salty dough).
- Sewn from shreds.
- Crochet knit
- Made of paper according to the method of application (including with quilling elements).
- Folded in the technique of "origami".
In each case, you can come up with many different options: crafts for working with children, souvenirs created by adults, and joint work.
Easter bunnies with their own hands: a master class
Very nice and attractive are gifts made from fabric. To make these items, you need the following:
- Pattern
- Pencil.
- Scissors.
- Material of various shades.
- Chalk tailor.
- Pins.
- A needle and thread (for difficult options it is better to use a sewing machine).
- Filler (holofiber, sintepon, trimming patches).
- Additional decor (beads, bows, ribbons, lace, eyes, noses).
If you are engaged in needlework, then all this isyou at home, maybe with the exception of the pattern. It is easiest to draw it yourself. This option is suitable if you know how to draw well. By the way, the finished template can also be modified at will (simplify or add).
Choose the option that matches yourlevel of training. If this is the first work of such a plan, it is better to use the simplest pattern when the product is sewn from two identical halves, which represent a contour image of a bunny. In this case, you only need one seam around the perimeter of the form.
If you feel confident enough inareas of needlework and sewing, perform complex volumetric soft toys in the form of realistic or stylized decorative bunnies. These Easter gifts will be a wonderful souvenir and decoration of the interior of any home.
In both cases, the work will go as follows:
- Take a pattern (draw or print a pattern on the printer) and cut along the contour.
- Pin the paper blanks of parts with pins to the fabric.
- Circle the elements with tailor’s chalk or some remnant, cut out.
- Fold the parts face down and sew around the perimeter of the mold, leaving a small hole for inversion.
- Turn out the product, fill it with holofiber, padding polyester or other available material.
- Sew a hole.
- Decorate the figure with additional decor.
If the hare consists of several parts, each of them is made using the same technology, and then all are joined together.
Use fleece and felt
Of these materials can be made verySimple, but beautiful Easter bunny made of cloth with his own hands. To do this, it is enough to find a suitable pattern of the appropriate form and make a souvenir on it. Felt and fleece do not require processing of edges, since they do not fall off, therefore the details of the object are often sewn manually on the front side, and the small decor (ears, legs, muzzle) is even glued to the base.
In this way, it can be made as flatSouvenirs, such as magnets, and ordinary bulk soft toys. The color scheme allows you to perform as a realistic little animals, and decorative (pink, yellow, blue). The main thing is that even a beginning needlewoman can easily and quickly cope with the sewing of felt and fleece.
Paper Souvenirs
From this material also made beautifulEaster hares do it yourself. You will need scissors, glue and, of course, colored sheets. In the technique of "origami" they make volumetric souvenirs in the form of figures, baskets in the form of bunnies, and also combine different parts. For the manufacture of such gifts will require special schemes for which the products are folded.
The simplest is the appliqué technique whenCarved figures or individual parts of bunnies are stuck on a solid base, for example, cardboard or plastic. In this way, even a small child can make a souvenir if items are cut out by adults in advance.
A more complex option - a panel, postcard orjust a souvenir made in the technique of quilling, when from strips of colored beautiful paper elements are twisted, from which then a bunny figure is assembled. In this case, the work will require a stick, a toothpick or a special tool for the manufacture of parts.
So, you saw how the Easter hares are madedo it yourself Any of the presented methods can be chosen even by a beginner, as it does not require much experience. Any complex idea can be simplified to a level accessible to a specific person.
