Happy Easter!

Birds's house

Easter is usually around Spring time and decoration's are related to one another, the egg symbolizing new lifes coming, small birds in the nest waiting to learn how to fly, bunnies... everything blooming in colors and green from the new leaves.

So I made a bird's house with carton to decorate the living room:

This is what I used, looks like a lot but it really isn't:

1. I put a small card box together but I could also have used one that wasn't dissembled yet, mine was around 15 x 15 x 15 cm. 
2. I've cut the box (scissors) in half so it's not too deep.
3. I've cut the top off and made the roof with another piece of card. This piece has to be longer than the top so you can make a gabled roof. I fixed the roof with glue and staples (stampler)
4. I've cut stripes of colored paper with a zig-zag scissors to decorate the house. I used colored paper from envelopes (letters from the tax office come in envelopes that are pink inside and letters from the city hall come in envelopes that are grey inside, how about that?) 
5. I drew a little bird on a card, I picked a yellow cereal box, and cut it off.
6. I've glued the bird on the straw and the straw on the sides of the bird's house at mid height.
7. I've made a bow with a ribbon on top so I can also hang it if I want.
8. I've covered a table with brown paper as a base and used green sand on it (like if it was grass on the fields), with my finger I drew a road  on the sand. I had made the flowers in September already and reused them here.

And that was it. It takes around 20 minutes tops to make this project, it took me long to select the materials and draw the bird, but execution is easy and fast. 

Easter bunny!

So how about doing a Easter bunny for Easter decoration?

It´s a little last minute but this project is quickly done, I just took a long time to come up with it and deciding which materials to use!

(Materials used)

I had two oval butter packaging that were great to make a big egg: I cut one in zig-zag to make a broken egg effect and glued it to the other packaging.
I found a rabbit shape in the internet that would be appropriate to embrace the egg and resized it, printed it and made a card one to glue on the egg.

I've put some strips (that I kept from a surprise gift box) as hay and placed the small eggs in the big one.

Here is a view of how I made the smallest eggs:

I used two baby powder milk spoons that were round shaped, cut the round part off and glued them together.

I cut some strip of paper with a curved scissors to decorate the eggs.

You can also use real small chocolate eggs to put inside the big egg as decoration.

I will do at least another one to take to work on Easter Friday! Yes, we will work on Friday and at the office even, but at least we will have a Easter bunny and some chocolates!!! It will be another Happy Friday as we usually call it! 

You can also do it for your little ones in the family as a Easter gift! If I have still the time, I will make one for my neighbours (my little one is still too little for chocolates but she already finds the bunny funny)!


....I had the time to do it, after all, it doesn't take too much time to repeat it once you have everything - 15/20 minutes!

Book with cards and plastic box

A while ago the supermarket we went to was giving animal cards for every 5 or 10 euros of shopping, I kept them to learn the animals in Dutch! 

Now that I see that my daughter just loves them as well as books I combined the 2 things together (just in time for international children's book day :p):

I took the label out with steam (although I used another packaging that was smaller and fitted better in the end).

I used the hole puncher do make holes in the cards.

I passed the thread into the cards and box's holes and firmly tied a knot, so my daughter doesn't take it out, but with enough space to be able to open the box and turn the cards.

That's all folks! ;) Very simple project, you know how kids love the simplest things!