If your family has a tendency to waste Easter eggs, because they simply dont care for hard boiled eggs, dont make them miss out on the fun of coloring and decorating. No one wants to waste food so theres no need to decorate Easter eggs if you know theyll end up in the trash. That doesnt mean the kids cant have all the fun that egg-loving children can have. Simply put away the eggs, get out a bag of fruit, and let the Easter fun begin! Lemons, limes and even oranges work great for giving kids the fun of Easter decorating. Wash the fruits and dry well. Some grocers apply an oil to citrus so they shine and draw attention. The oils can cause paints and markers to smear, run, or just be difficult to apply.
A lemon makes a cute bunny and its so easy to do! Use a fine-tip black marker to draw on a face. Then embellish it with cheap craft supplies. Cut ears from flat craft foam and tape or glue them to the lemon. Since this particular bunny is yellow cut yellow ears. If you want, you can cut a second set of ears, a little bit smaller, from white foam. Glue the white foam ears onto the larger yellow ears to create an inner and outer ear. Position the finished ears onto the lemon and glue in place.
Its easy to make the fun citrus characters and set them out for Easter. Make several of them and place them in a basket as a centerpiece for your table. Create different characters by drawing different faces or by using other craft supplies to create unique looks. Use an orange to make an Easter chick. Glue on wiggly eyes then cut a beak from foam or felt. Cut a diamond shape from the felt, fold it in half, then glue the fold to the orange. You can glue on feathers or even secure the feathers by using tape rather than glue. Any adhesives you use for the fruits should be non-toxic. There are many different craft items that are inexpensive and will help you create the fun fruit characters for Easter. Try small pom-poms for noses, foam strips for whiskers or moustaches. Toothpicks make great whiskers, too. Fruit characters can have small fake jewels - or even decorative straight pins - for eyes. Youll find decorative pins at any store that sells sewing supplies. The pins often have a colored ball or stone on the end. Kids can even cut eyes and mouths out of magazine characters and use tape to attach them. There are many different things you can use to make the final design. Glue on small silk flowers and leaves to create a bonnet for the fruit characters. Tiny pearls, beads, sequin and buttons can all be used to create the look of a hat or bonnet. These items can be glued on or you can use small straight pins to secure them. Even toothpicks can be used to hold some embellishments in place. An old Mr. Potato Head game can help kids create even more looks for the fruit characters. The game consists of plastic arms, legs, hats and other embellishments meant for decorating a potato. These pieces easily push into the lemons, limes or oranges to create exciting characters. When youve had a fun day of making fruit characters you can display them on candle holders, or make a holder for them. Cover a 3 liter bottle cap with glitter, jewels, fabric or ribbon. The cap, when placed with the flat side down, will easily hold your fruit person. Easter is a lot of fun, but for kids that dont like eggs, it can be much less fun. Even if your kids love eggs, and love decorating them, they can still make the fruit characters. They can display them around the house, hand them out to friends, or just keep them and eat them later. You can make some of the silly characters yourself and place one in each of your childrens baskets. Itll be a big surprise to the child and he or she will be very surprised!
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