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So this is a really simple little springtime craft to brighten up your home – No sewing or gluing required and very little cutting – yay! Just grab the few supplies listed below…
-scraps of fabric that make you think of sunshine and flowers
-ribbon (preferably green)
-plastic children's easter eggs
-the smallest dowel rods you can find
-pinking shears (or scissors)
-disappearing ink fabric marker
and ta da you're ready! So let's get started 🙂
First draw a circle that is big enough to completely cover your easter egg. One of my pot lids was the perfect size – just eyeball it.
Next cut the circle out with your pinking shears. You can use regular scissors – the ends will just fray a bit, but hey this isn't an heirloom quilt we're making! After you make sure that whatever you are tracing is the right size you can double up the cloth and cut out several of those bad boys at once – I love lazy short cuts 🙂
Now that you have all your (sunshiny, make me think of sweet little budding flowers) fabric circles all cut out it's time to get their stems ready… The plastic eggs I bought had little holes in the ends and I was able to stick my teeny tiny dowel rods (1/8 maybe?) right in the holes. If you have bigger dowels or no holes in your eggs then get an icepick, little screwdriver, metal shish kabob skewer, whatever you have that is metal and pointed and make a hole the right size in your egg. Just be careful – please.
Now comes the kinda tricky part – um I mean fun part, yeah 🙂 Cut a 2 or 3 inch piece of your ribbon off and have it handy. Then drape a fabric circle over the egg that you poked the dowel rod into. Pinch the fabric together at the bottom like sooo… and here is where you need a tiny bit of patience.
If you have little hands in the house now is a great time to have them help! While still pinching the fabric together at the bottom of the egg pull the ribbon as tight around the fabric as you can and tie in a knot – I had my son put his finger in the middle to keep the knot tight as I tied it. Then cut another piece of ribbon and tie in a bow around the dowel a few inches below the fabric. Cut the ends off near the bow to make it look like leaves. (you may want to put a dot of craft glue over the knots to make sure they don't come undone)
You can make as many little buds as you want! I was able to trim the dowels to varying lengths with kitchen shears and then I put several in a tall vase with some paper grass in the bottom. My kids love these fun flowers and took some crazy colored ones outside and "planted" them amidst our lilies that are sprouting around the mailbox.
My oldest son JAMMED his easter egg bud into the ground – it's not going anywhere! Then he was very intent on fluffing the poor smashed lily plant back up to it's original fluffy state:)
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