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 Easter
Basket Surprise
Designed
By: Edwin R. Smith
Typical
Project Completion Time:
1 day
(does not include drying time)
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MATERIALS
NEEDED:
STYROFOAM* Easter Eggs:
six
2-1/2" x 1-7/8",
four 3-1/16" x 2-15/16",
two 3-13/16" x 2-13/16"
STYROFOAM*
Brand Products:
12" x 2" x 2" wreath
9" x 1-1/4" disc
12" x 4" x 2" block
Other
Materials:
Pre-mixed latex spackling
Acrylic paints: orange; yellow
Craft foam, 2mm thick: yellow, 9" x 11"; orange scrap
Yellow down feathers
Black half-round beads, 6mm, two
Sheer wire-edged ribbon, color of choice, 1/2" x 1/2 yd.
Ribbon flower, color of choice, 1/2" across
Wooden dowel, 1/4", 12" length
Wooden skewers, three
Other
Supplies:
Acrylic paints: fuchsia; purple; hydrangea pink; mint green; spring
green; sunshine yellow
1" foam brush
Small natural sponge
Silk flowers and greenery: pansies; assorted small spring blossoms;
pussy willow stems, six; green ivy, one bunch
Artificial yellow chicks, four
1-1/4" pink plaid wire-edge ribbon, 4 yd.
3" wooden floral picks
22-gauge floral wire
Yellow shredded paper filler
Jellybeans or candies of your choice
Craft sticks
Drywall compound (available at home improvement centers)
Fine sandpaper
Paper towels
Disposable palette
Water basin
Pencil
Cardboard, 12" square
Scissors
Wire cutters
Jellybeans or candies of your choice
Low-temp glue gun and glue sticks or thick white craft glue
| INSTRUCTIONS
for Easter Basket: |
| 1.
Insert a wooden pick into the wreath and each egg to serve as
a temporary handle. Use a craft stick to apply a coat of drywall
compound, covering the wreath and eggs. Place wooden handles
from eggs into foam block while compound dries. When dry, sand
eggs until smooth, wiping with damp paper towel to remove excess
dust. Continue to apply drywall compound to eggs and then sand
until a smooth surface is achieved. Do not sand wreath to retain
its uneven texture. |
| 2.
Apply two coats of paint to foam shapes as follows, letting
dry after each coat: wreath, yellow; one goose egg and four
hen eggs, mint green; one goose egg and two hen eggs, pink;
four duck eggs, purple. |
| 3.
Use a damp sponge to sponge paint eggs as follows, letting some
of the basecoat color show through: one pink goose egg, one
pink hen egg, and four purple duck eggs with fuchsia; remaining
eggs with spring green. Let dry. |
| 4.Trace
outside of wreath onto cardboard and cut out circle. Glue cardboard
circle to bottom of wreath to form a basket. Glue a foam disc
to bottom of cardboard circle, elevating basket. Glue ribbon
to cover edges of disc. |
| 5.
Shape pussy willow stems into a semicircle, inserting and gluing
the ends into top of wreath for an Easter basket handle. Wire
ends of stems to wreath for added reinforcement. |
| 6.
Using photo as a guide, insert and glue a wooden pick in each
egg, then eggs to wreath. Position some Easter eggs around top
of wreath and others in clusters around front outside edge. |
| 7.
Tie an 18" length of ribbon to top of pussy willow handle slightly
off-center. Spot glue ribbon and trim Vs in ends. Cut 1 yd.
of ribbon and form into a 4-loop bow with 3" loops. Wire center
of bow to secure and attach to a wooden pick. Insert and glue
bow to left side of basket at base of pussy willow handle. |
| 8.
Using photo as a guide, arrange and glue flowers and ivy around
eggs and top of basket handle. |
| 9.Cut
remaining ribbon into short lengths, forming some into individual
loops. Insert ribbons tucked around eggs and flowers as desired.
Trim "V's" in any ribbon ends. |
| 10.
Insert and glue a wooden pick in each chick; glue Easter chicks
in and around eggs as desired. |
| 11.
Line bottom of your Easter basket with yellow shredded paper
and place candy on top. |
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