The Easter season is a fantastic time to make crafts that you can use to decorate your home and to enhance your and your children\u2019s experience this Easter season. When people think about crafts and holidays, they tend just to think about the really obvious holiday\u2014Christmas.\u00a0 But there are so many other possibilities for you to make crafts to decorate your home, and Easter is one of those fantastic and fun holidays that can be made even better by making crafts, either by yourself or with your children and\/or your friends.<\/p>\n
This particular Easter craft is a nice and easy one that you can make on your own or that you can make with children.\u00a0 If you are making this craft with younger children, then you should cut the basket out yourself and handle all of the glue and\/or tape.\u00a0 However, this craft is more than appropriate for older kids (5 and older) to do completely on their own, since it does not include any really difficult or complicated steps. Materials needed for a carrot Easter basket<\/em> How to make a carrot Easter basket<\/em><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 For the first step of making this carrot Easter basket, you need to take your piece of orange construction paper.\u00a0 Using a ruler to measure, you need to cut the piece of orange construction paper into a square.\u00a0 You can decide the size of square that you want to cut, as the size of square will determine the size of basket that you make.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 Now, cut a strip of the green construction paper that is as long as the orange construction paper square.\u00a0 You can make the green strip as tall as you want, depending on how many \u201cleaves\u201d you want on top of your carrot.\u00a0 After you cut the strip of paper, you can decide how you want to cut your leaves.\u00a0 You can either cut vertical cuts into the construction paper, so that you have more like a \u201cfringe\u201d type of leaf, or you can cut a wavy leaf.\u00a0 Either way, you need to make sure that you have enough un-cut green construction paper to glue onto the orange construction paper.\u00a0 To make it easier, it is a good idea to glue the green construction paper onto the orange construction paper before you cut your leaves.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Now that you have glued your green construction paper onto the orange, and after the glue has dried, then roll the paper together so that you form a cone.\u00a0 Glue the edges of the construction paper together.\u00a0 Wait for the lgue to dry.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 After the lgue has dried, staple the ribbon onto the basket to form a handle for your basket.\u00a0 If you want to reinforce the basket, then you can line it with thin cardboard, such as cardboard that you cut from a cereal box.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 If you are going to put small things in your basket, like Easter grass, then you will want to make sure that the bottom of the cone is completely covered (by, perhaps, some more paper or cardboard) so that the grass does not fall out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nHow to make a carrot Easter basket<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1.\u00a0 orange construction paper
\n2.\u00a0 green construction paper
\n3.\u00a0 scissors
\n4.\u00a0 glue or tape
\n5.\u00a0 a ribbon to use as the handle
\n6.\u00a0 optional:\u00a0 thin cardboard to reinforce the basket with<\/p>\n