Paper Easter eggs—easy, cheerful decorations from recycled materials
These paper Easter eggs will brighten your Easter branches for a festive spring celebration. Make use of materials you already have at home: all you need are various kinds of paper, a piece of cardboard, and leftover string.
Paper Easter eggs—supplies:
- various types of paper (e.g., magazine or book pages, leftover wrapping paper)
- a piece of cardboard for the template
- pencil
- scissors
- glue
- yarn or string.
Paper Easter eggs—instructions:
1. Cut an egg-shaped template from cardboard. You can draw the shape freehand or use a printed egg template. Then fold the template in half vertically.
2. Fold a strip of paper as wide as half the egg, the patterned sides facing each other. Cut out the strip.
3. Line up the fold of the template with the fold of the paper. Use the template to trace half an egg onto the paper.
4. If the strip is tall enough, trace multiple shapes stacked vertically.
5. Cut out the shapes.
6. You need nine pieces for one paper egg.
7. Glue the halves together one by one. The patterned side of the paper remains on the inside. If you use multiple colors or patterns, alternate them as you go.
8. Glue the hanging string in a fold on the back side of the egg.
9. Glue the ends together to form a sphere.
