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What souvenir to give to a loved one for Easter? Of course, one that is made by hand. There are many ideas for Easter decorations and souvenirs. Consider one of them - a basket of eggs.
To make such a souvenir you will need materials:
1. Cardboard in orange and white.
2. Napkins for decoupage (red to white peas and with small chickens).
3. Colored paper in red.
4. PVA glue.
5. Threads are white.
6. Scissors.
7. Double-sided paper in green and yellow.
8. The pencil is green.
9. Double-sided tape.
10. Shell from 2 eggs.
11. Acrylic colors of white, pink and green.
12. Sponge.
13. Skewers.
14. Synthetic brushes.
15. Acrylic varnish.
16. Sawdust.

The process of making a souvenir.


1. The first step is to make a basket. For the basis we take the scheme number 1.
Easter basket with eggs

2. According to the scheme, we cut out the blank of the main part of the basket from orange cardboard.
Easter basket with eggs

3. Cut a red polka dot napkin so large that it is slightly smaller than the main basket blank.
Easter basket with eggs

4. Fasten the napkin to the cardboard blank, and, stepping back from the edge of the napkin 0.5 mm, make stitches with a sewing machine.
Easter basket with eggs

5. To make the front plate of the basket, cut out a strip of white paper 5 cm high and white according to the size of the bottom of the basket. On one side of the strip we make triangular cutouts for further fastening. We also cut out 2 strips of red paper that will fit the prepared strip in size.
Easter basket with eggs

6. We apply red strips to the cardboard blank on both sides and make the stitches with the machine.
Easter basket with eggs

7. On the main orange cardboard blank we bend the bottom. Next, we bend the cardboard triangles on the strip and glue them to the bottom of the main basket blank.
Easter basket with eggs

8. We get the finished base for the basket.
Easter basket with eggs

9. To hide all traces of fastening on the basket, cut out patterns of red paper to fit the back wall and bottom of the basket.
Easter basket with eggs

10. Glue the patterns to the basket.
Easter basket with eggs

Easter basket with eggs

11. Decorate the bottom of the basket. To do this, cut 3 chicken from a napkin and glue them to red paper.
Easter basket with eggs

12. On the reverse side of each of the chickens we fix a double-sided tape.
Easter basket with eggs

13. Glue the chickens symmetrically on the front wall of the basket.
Easter basket with eggs

14. Proceed to decorate the upper part of the basket. To do this, cut out a circle with rounded edges from yellow paper, and cut a chicken out of a decoupage napkin.
Easter basket with eggs

15. In the center of the yellow circle we glue the chicken.
Easter basket with eggs

16. The prepared element must be glued to the upper left corner of the basket.
Easter basket with eggs

17. Next, we make a rose from yellow paper and cut 6 leaves from green paper. We draw veins on the leaves.
Easter basket with eggs

18. Fasten a rose with leaves near a decorative element with a chicken.
Easter basket with eggs

19. Finally, glue a congratulatory inscription. The basket is ready!
Easter basket with eggs

20. Also, for decorating baskets, it is necessary to make festive eggs. To do this, you need a whole shell of eggs. Wash my shell, dry and put on skewers. Then we paint the shell with white paint with a sponge.
Easter basket with eggs

21. Leave the shell to dry.
Easter basket with eggs

22. Then we paint the shell in green and pink.
Easter basket with eggs

23. Next, you must perform decoupage on the shell. To do this, select the desired motif with a chicken on a napkin and cut it out. Then we separate 2 layers from the napkin.
Easter basket with eggs

24. Using glue and a fan brush, glue the motif to the shell.
Easter basket with eggs

25. We do the same with the second shell. As a result, we get eggs with pictures in the form of chickens. The shell is varnished.Thus, the painting and paint will look brighter and will not be damaged over time.
Easter basket with eggs

27. At the final stage, it is necessary to pour the sawdust into the basket and lay the eggs in them.
Easter basket with eggs

28. Easter souvenir is ready!
The resulting craft, although it is easy to manufacture, but it looks very impressive. Such a souvenir will certainly bring joy and admiration.
Easter basket with eggs

Easter basket with eggs

Easter basket with eggs
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