Easter basket drawing with rectangles, and circles or ovals

When kids discover how easy it is to create drawings with shapes, they may start inventing their own designs. Here's a kid designed drawing of an Easter basket complete with directions starting with a rectangle, and ending with a simple basket filled with eggs.

Little fall basket for Halloween

This is a delicate little basket, and may be used to hold your paper pumpkin or paper ghoasty. Or perhaps just admire the process that went into creating it.

I used coffee filters, tore them into strips and dipped them in about an once of water with two or three drops of food coloring. In three small empty and clean yogurt cups, I put the water. In one cup, I put 2 drops of yellow, in another 2 drops of red, and in the third, 2 drops or red and 2 drops of yellow to make orange.

Then I dipped the strips of coffee filters into the water with food coloring and let each strip soak up the liquid. I put the wet strips over a glass bread pan, and let them dry for a day.

Using red, orange, and yellow paper torn into strips would be easier and quicker. It would also make the basket a little stronger to glue the autumn leaves onto.

I was thinking of how children enjoy the process and learning to mix colors. But your children may want it finished sooner. The colored paper doesn't rip as easily too.

After the strips are dry, weave them into a plastic berry basket. Weave in and out only 2 or three times on each side, so the process isn't too tedious.

Collect some freshly fallen Autumn leaves, and carefully weave the stems in, and loop the top of the leaf through the top of the basket to hold them up. Glue the leaves to the paper and basket, and let dry.

The freshly fallen leaves don't crumble as easy as dry ones, and are easier to work with.

Dip strips

Dry strips

Weave strips

Add fall leaves

Recycled Paper Easter Egg Basket

Here's a tedious but rewarding little craft. This Easter egg basket was made from leftover wrapping paper and scotch tape, so it is not sturdy enough to hold real eggs. It's great for paper eggs in a bed of shredded paper though.

Older tweens who like crafting, and are patient may find this basket both challenging and rewarding to get to the finished product. Especially if made for an eagerly waiting younger brother, sister, or cousin.

The basket here was made by first cutting 8 strips of paper about 1/2 inch wide, and a foot long. Weave these together at the middle to form the bottom of the basket. Put little pieces of tape as needed to hold it together. Long ends of the strips should be ready for weaving the sides up.

Use another strip of paper of similar size to start the sides of the basket. Weave the strip one full circle around the bottom. Then tape the meeting ends together to secure, and clip off the remainder. Continue on in this manner until the sides are as high as you'd like.

At this point remaining strips from the original 8 strips will be hanging over the edges. Fold each over to end each weave, cut off extra, and tape.

Use two strips of the same size as the rest twisted together to form the handle. Attach with tape.

Happy Easter!