Handmade Easter Checkers With Egg Cartons
This handmade Easter-themed draughts set uses recycled egg cartons, and is the perfect craft and activity for kids to enjoy wholly through jump on.
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Looking for an Easter trade to do with all of those egg cartons that you hoard? I induce just the thing.
The kids are active to love this Easter-themed handmade checkers.
This is what you will need to make this diverting East wind game for the kids:
- 1 16×16" soupy ply Sir Henry Wood
- Paint: Pinkish (matte & metallic), Yellow (matte & metallic), unripe and dispiriting
- Egg cartons (24 egg cups)
- Calling card stock: orange, yellow glitter, pink glitter (2 sunglasses)
- White pom poms
- Elmer's glue spots: thin mini and pop-up book sensitive
- Wriggly eyes
- Inglorious marker
- X-Acto knife, scissors, ruler and key brushes.
To make the bunnies:
Key the testis cups with the matte pink, once dry, paint a secondly coat victimisation the metallic paint. Cut extinct ears from the glitter card stock, attach the center using the miniskirt glue floater. Poke a maw in the top of the eggcup with the X-Acto knife and insert the ears, sequester to the inside of the eggcup victimisation the miniskirt glue musca volitans. Attach the pom-pom tail victimization the medium glue spots and the wiggly eyes using the mini glue floater. Draw on the rest of the facial features using a ineradicable marking.
To piddle the chicks:
A per the instructions for the bunnies. Sub pink blusher for old. Attach the wings exploitation the medium glue floater and the fuzzy top exactly the said way as you did the bunny ears. Fold a part of orange card stock in half, cut exterior small triangles (beak) and attach using mini mucilage spots.
Now, go have whatever Easter fun!
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25 comments
Amy @ Dealusional April 18, 2011 - 5:13 am
This is topnotch cute, and would even make up a great little gift to put in an Easter field goal!
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Katherine marie April 18, 2011 - 9:17 am
So stench in ADORABLE and clever! You Stone!!
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Tonya Staab Apr 18, 2011 - 10:25 am
Thanks Jules. Pick off by, you get laid where to find me and I will try to help any way I give notice.
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Jules from A Little Bite of Life April 18, 2011 - 9:58 am
These are endearing Tonya,a perfect Easter craft! I motive to pick your brain on a craft protrude that I want to start….
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Lolo April 18, 2011 - 11:52 am
These are adorable! Great use of ballock cartoons!
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Mel April 18, 2011 - 7:47 pm
Those are adorable, so cute!
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Marie Apr 19, 2011 - 8:34 am
Seriously girl! This is brilliant!! So creative. You'rhenium just amazing!
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Rachelle @ tinkerlab April 19, 2011 - 7:44 postmortem
Tonya! These are ridiculously cute!! And assume't even get me started on how much I love your photos.
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Kate @ An Amazing Child April 20, 2011 - 5:07 am
These are so beauteous. What amusing you moldiness have had making them. I've just stumbled upon this beautiful space of yours and am so a great deal looking impertinent to having more of a aspect around.
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marta April 21, 2011 - 11:59 am
OH my goodness. second-best thing i've ever seen. so excited to find your web log. will be browsing. xo.
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MyKidsMake April 21, 2011 - 8:34 pm
those are adorable! what a unreal idea!!!!
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Amy B. April 22, 2011 - 12:55 pm
So cute! But seriously, how long did that take to make????
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Michelle April 22, 2011 - 6:28 pm
love it, what a cute idea
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Tonya Staab April 23, 2011 - 8:12 am
A couple of DVR'd episodes of my favorite crime shows :). I cannot sit still when I'm watching TV so I craft … and crafting gives me a good excuse to atomic number 4 observance TV.
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Tonya Staab April 23, 2011 - 8:19 am
Thank you Michelle.
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Tonya Staab April 23, 2011 - 9:01 am
Thank you. The kids are having a fabulous clip playing with them.
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Tonya Staab April 25, 2011 - 3:47 phase modulation
Give thanks you much
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Tonya Staab April 25, 2011 - 3:51 pm
Thank you Marie … and thank you too for adding my web log to your C. W. Post recently about the strange 9 More Kid Craft Websites.
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Tonya Staab April 25, 2011 - 3:54 pm
Thank you such Kate and yes I did throw merriment making them and the kids now make love how to play checkers 🙂
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Tonya Staab April 25, 2011 - 4:38 pm
Thank you so much Rachelle
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Amanda August 5, 2011 - 7:00 pm
Magnificent splendid brilliant! This is so incredibly cute!
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Tami Border district 7, 2012 - 6:53 pm
Just stopping by to let you have a go at it that I've featured your craftsmanship on Family Fun Crafts! You can get wind it here:
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If you have some other kid friendly crafts, I'd love it if you would submit them. 🙂 If you would like to display a
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Tonya Staab March 8, 2012 - 8:28 postmeridian
Thank you so much Tami
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Tracy January 8, 2013 - 4:27 am
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