Easter Projects

Easter eggs, bunnies, chickens, baskets. Fun seasonal projects that take up big time to create.

Most of the small photos below link to larger ones, just click the photos.

2023 Ms. Rabbit		For details, see my framed pictures.
Easter 2021 (more photos later)	This was a year for lots more eggs. I made a dozen or more, trying to figure out the easiest way to cover eggs with paper. Here are the five eggs which I sent to the grandchildren:
		I like using real eggs. I blow them out and rinse the inside well. The paper mache ones are ok but the paper must be thick enough to not let the brown color show through. Warning: I have not tried to drop a paper-covered real egg to see how durable it is.
Easter 2020	my giant egg project~~~ click on the photo for a look at this project
Other than my giant egg, I made just 3 new eggs ins 2020. One before Easter and two late in the year.	The two later eggs were trials using thin paper to cover paper mache eggs.
a paper mache egg covered in Origami paper	the stand is an upside down dome with 3 feet for stability	S-scrolls, shaped Marquise quills, tight rolls and loose coils
	I sent the egg in the photos above to a friend in Minnesota. Question:  How do I get it there safely? Answer:  Recycle a jewelry store watch box.
a paper mache egg covered in thin gift wrap paper	the stand is two domes and a tight coil base	top coil is a vortex and other shapes include diamonds and tight rolls
a painted paper mache egg (bottom)	springtime flowers adorn the egg	another view
Eastertime finds eggs all over the living room. Origami eggs, quilled eggs, Ukranian eggs, dyed eggs made by my sons as gradeschoolers, even some dyed using silk ties. This is one display.		(2020 is the Chinese Year of the Rat. That is why the plastic rat admiring the eggs!)
Easter 2018		This photo frame has painted butterflies and the little pink flowers on the glass. I added the blue bird singing on a branch, the bunnies and some tiny flowers. Happy Spring!
		A bunny!
I made 2 ribbon covered quilled eggs. One pink, one yellow. My only issue with this was the bulk of the ribbon at the ends of the eggs.	Here is the pink one... around the whole egg.
Easter 2017
Easter 2016 Foot NOT in a cast and only 2 projects done. I love walking!!! The blue egg is hollow, done in two parts and later joined together. The second egg has quilled flowers glued to a real chicken egg. Blow them out, rinse internally and let them dry completely. They are very strong.
Easter 2015 projects were more numerous than I would have guessed. My foot was in a cast and quilling certainly passed away a lot of hours!
My first project was the purple egg- bunny. The egg-bunny is not my original idea. There are quite a few different egg bunnies and chickens on the Internet. Some are made by Danuta, a quiller from Naleczow, Poland.	I saw a reference to finger quilling and no hole centers, Googled it and gave finger quilling a try after watching a video (look on my links page). Well, after a million tight coils, I had a very sore index finger and the ability to usually get a tight coil without the center hole when I want one. I also ended up with a super cute Easter Egg bunny. The egg-bunny actually has 239 tight coils of varying sizes using 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/12, 1/18, 1/24, 1/32 strip lengths. The full strip length is 24" long.	There is a blown-out egg as the base.  Next time I dye the egg first. You can see his size above. The ears are pretty secure as each Marquis open coil  has a "tail" on it which I glued to the egg.
	The fire cracker Easter egg is from Elena Evstigneeva. I did not try to be exact in positioning my stripes, used lots of them and curled the tops. The tiny dots are what is made with Bob's hole screw. They are just 1.5mm. Sweet!
Above is another quilled egg. The photo above links to a composite picture showing several sides of it.	I used a blown-out brown chicken egg. The quilling adds a great deal of sturdiness to the egg shell.	My little stand for the egg. I used the same pale pink paper which is in-between the flowers.
	I saw a photo of these funny chickens on-line* which are quilled with an empty chicken egg as the body. I had experimented with tissue paper and vinegar to dye the eggs as blown-out eggs are tricky to submerge without making a gloriously colored mess. OK, I still had colored fingers! These ladies are very fancy and funny. I thought my aunt would love to have one. Me, too!
*Footnote to these chickens... this morning I saw a YouTube video about Angels and discovered 3 videos for the chickens!	I think I will be making more funny chickens next year! The name of the channel is Kativilaga.	Here is a link to one of the 3 videos: Kativilaga Be sure to watch them all. I will add a link to her videos on my links page, too.
My hollow egg container is all pink. It did not seem as difficult as last year's hollow egg (below) since I have definitely learned patience, thanks to my cast and 6 -8 weeks of nothing but lots of time.		Open the container and you can see my "secret" to getting the top and bottom to stay together. After removing each finished half, I add a narrow strip to the inside of the top, and a wider strip to the inside of the bottom.
I even hand fringed the flower center! I just wanted a bit of short fringe around the center.	Plus a little stand for the container. I think of this as my bird bath stand. Easy to make and quite steady, too.
Below is my Easter Quilling done in 2014
After making the quilled hollow egg, I thought I'd try a basket. Not for the quilled egg as it is pretty large, but perhaps one of my colored blown-out Easter eggs. I found a tutorial on-line and started in. It turned out to be just 6 cm across! And quite symetrical, too, so I am pleased. The egg is a tiny wood one as my basket is too small for a normal sized chicken egg.
	Thank you to Laura Mavrodin's tutorial at "Quilling my passion" blog. Although my basket is quite different, I based mine on her dimensions and directions. A photo of her little pink basket is to the right...
Easter time means eggs, right? There are hundreds (at least) of beautiful quilled eggs to see on the Internet. Now there is also my first attempt. I used a LARGE child's plastic 2-part egg as my base as I wanted to get the egg out from underneath my quilling. This was the difficult way. I should have used a styrofoam egg. My problem was keeping the quilling in place. I could not pin the petals in place. I ended up with the bottom flower slightly off-center and spent many extra hours working on it. I am still re-inventing the wheel!	It is about 9 cm tall and sturdy enough for my (nearly) 4-year old granddaughter to hold.	Altogether I am happy with it as a first attempt. This photo is of the bottom of my egg.

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