Fun Kids Easter Crafts

 My Kids LOVE love Love Crafts... So I'm always on the lookout for new fun and exciting craft.. oh and did I mention easy and inexpensive..

Check out these cute Kids ideas i found we will be making in the next few week!! ( if all my ideas make it through spring break.. ;)

#1 - Beady Babies

 

Materials

• 2 round wooden beads (we used one 16-millimeter and one 25-millimeter bead) with holes large enough for a doubled Pipe cleaner to fit through
• 6-inch pipe cleaners
• Acrylic paint
• Craft feather
• Fine-point marker

Instructions

1. First, paint the beads with acrylic paint. When they have dried, bend a 6-inch pipe cleaner in half, sandwiching the end of a tiny craft feather in the fold.
2. Thread the smaller bead onto the opposite end of the pipe cleaner and slide the bead up to hide the bottom of the feather.
3. Thread the larger bead onto the pipe cleaner, then bend the ends of the pipe cleaner into feet.
4. Finally, use a fine-point marker to give your little chick eyes and a tiny beak

 #2 Barn Yard Cuties

This barnyard trio makes a great project for Easter,

 but the roly-poly pals are fun to play with any time of year.

              Materials

• 3 Styrofoam eggs
• Tacky glue
• Fluffy, curly, and smooth yarn

• Scissors Felt
• Black ball-head straight pins
• Extra-fine permanent marker

            Instructions

1. Flatten the rounded end of each egg by pressing it on a hard surface. Hold this end and drizzle glue on the opposite half. Press the end of the yarn into the glue at the egg's tip and spiral it around the egg. When you reach the midpoint, cut the yarn.

2.Apply glue to the egg's uncovered half and wrap as before,

 again working toward the middle.

3. Cut ears, a pig nose, and faces from felt. To make ear creases, dab glue on the ear's bottom edge and pinch from the back. Pin the creases in place until the glue sets

Glue the ears and pig nose to the faces and attach the faces to the eggs' flat ends.

 Use ball-head pins for eyes, then draw on noses and mouths with a marker.

#3 - Sock Hop

Until we figure out where missing socks actually go when they vanish from our laundry baskets, here's a way to get some use from the singleton left behind.

Materials

• Spoon or funnel
• Dried lentils
• Child's sock
• Rubber band
• Ribbon
• Scissors
• Felt
• White pom-pom or cotton ball
• Tacky glue

Instructions

1. To make your own bunny beanbag, use a spoon or a funnel to add dried lentils to a child's sock, filling it up just past the heel. Close the sock with a tightly looped rubber band.
2. To create the head and neck, tie a ribbon around the sock just below the heel.
3. Use scissors to cut the sock's cuff into two ears, rounding the edges to give them the right shape.
4. Cut a nose, teeth, and eyes from felt. Attach the facial features and a white pom-pom or cotton ball tail with tacky glue