Kitchen Helper – Easy Easter crafts made from household things
Easter is a little over a week away and if you’d like to get festive at home, we have some ideas which won’t require a run to Spotlight or Bunnings.
With just a few items from the kitchen and the household, you can create some lovely Easter decorations which won’t add plastic to the landfill and are cheap and fun to make!
There’s a trend back to the handmade and the analogue. Craft falls into this and Easter is the perfect time to make some lovey decorations from things you can find around the house.
Here are a few projects we love.
Decorating eggs
There are lots of methods to decorate eggs. First, decide whether you want to be able to eat the egg inside the shell once decorated. If so, you’ll need to use food safe food colouring and refrigerate your eggs until the day of eating. Here’s how to make natural dyes using vegetables.
We love this method using old stockings, food colouring and leaves from the garden to make beautiful patterned eggs.
Read this guide for tips on how to make sure your eggs are perfectly boiled, not cracked and ready for decorating.
If you don’t want to eat your eggs after decorating them, this is an easy way to create a very professional marbled egg finish using nail polish.
Easter trees and other decorations
Venture into the garden and snip off a small branch from a tree or bush with pretty foliage. Place it in a vase and decorate it with Easter-themed cutouts of eggs and bunnies or even hang mini chocolate Easter eggs from it (willpower required here!)
For inspiration on this project and a few others, have a look at this guide.
Left over wrapping paper, cards, cotton wool and cardboard can all be upcycled into Easter cards, bunting and wreaths - see this guide for some very cute ideas.