This diy comes from www.auntpeaches.com . These would make a great decorative touch for your table with some really nice looking eggs that you've created for Easter.
Must give credit where credit is due, I got the idea for these baskets from these other baskets at World Market. Their baskets look sort of like large felt daisies. Very cute. Decided that instant I was going to make something similar, but, as much as I like them, something about felt feels very wintery to me, so I used coffee filters instead. Guess I use coffee filters for everything. Someone less lazy than me should try making these from fabric or junk mail or something. Post it and let me know how it works out.
Materials
* You can dye coffee filters many ways. If you can dye eggs, you can dye coffee filters the same way. You can also just dunk them in a bowl that is 1 part acrylic paint to 9 parts water. Or use markers. Decide fir yourself. Quantity will vary, depending on the size of the base container.
**You can swap hot glue for white glue and use clothespins to clamp in place as it dries, but hot glue is easier. I'll do a kid-friendly version of this without hot glue on Wednesday. Stay tuned.
Use two coffee filters to cover the edges of the bowl, then fold and snip jagged edges along the rim of any remaining filters, similar to cutting snowflakes. I like to cute 3-5 filters at a time.
Separate filters and pinch them them individually, forming loose fan shapes. Use hot glue to adhere to the inner rim of the bowl.
After completing the inner rim of the bowl, flip your bowl and repeat along the outer rim. Tip: avoid crushing the petals by flipping the bowl onto a large soup can
Use one of the green coffee filters to cover the bottom of the bowl, forming the base of the flower. Cut the remaining green filters into 1" strips and adhere to the telephone chord. Tuck in some leaves or just for fun.
Place one large yellow filter in the bottom and fill it with candy. Ta Da! You are ready to go!
You could also add a little accent flower if you like. Makes it seem slightly less Easter-ish. Like something you could keep out on your cadenza all year round to gather mail. Man, penny saver coupons never looked so good!
Or be traditional and fill it with eggs. Not as snazzy as chocolate and Jack Daniels but I give you props for being all traditional and stuff.
Come back on Wednesday and I'll show you an easy, kid-friendly way to make a little tiny Easter basket like this purple one here. It's so cute, you'll want to eat your hand
Coffee Filter Easter Baskets in Bloom
Buck teeth: Check.
Cotton tail: Check.
Easter basket: Check.
The Easter bunny has come to town. Woot! Woot!
OK, can we just agree that Easter is the best holiday?
Second only to National Root Beer Float Day, perhaps.
And Lola’s birthday, of course.
And the day the dollar store restocks.
That is, indeed, a truly a extraordinary day.
Cotton tail: Check.
Easter basket: Check.
The Easter bunny has come to town. Woot! Woot!
OK, can we just agree that Easter is the best holiday?
Second only to National Root Beer Float Day, perhaps.
And Lola’s birthday, of course.
And the day the dollar store restocks.
That is, indeed, a truly a extraordinary day.
The best part about Easter hoopla has got to be Easter baskets.
Chocolate. Chickens. Glittering Eggs. Toys. Socks.
Did your mother put socks in your Easter basket?
Mine sure did.
One time someone gave me a basket with teal blue press-on fingernails.
Obviously, it was awesome.
Another time I gave someone an Easter basket with a bottle of Jack Daniels dressed as a bunny.
Get it? It was a Jack Rabbit. Haha.
OK, OK, OK, it seemed funnier when I was 23. I guess everything seems funny when you’re 23. Then again, hard liquor dressed as a small furry animal is always going to be pretty friggin nifty.
Chocolate. Chickens. Glittering Eggs. Toys. Socks.
Did your mother put socks in your Easter basket?
Mine sure did.
One time someone gave me a basket with teal blue press-on fingernails.
Obviously, it was awesome.
Another time I gave someone an Easter basket with a bottle of Jack Daniels dressed as a bunny.
Get it? It was a Jack Rabbit. Haha.
OK, OK, OK, it seemed funnier when I was 23. I guess everything seems funny when you’re 23. Then again, hard liquor dressed as a small furry animal is always going to be pretty friggin nifty.
Must give credit where credit is due, I got the idea for these baskets from these other baskets at World Market. Their baskets look sort of like large felt daisies. Very cute. Decided that instant I was going to make something similar, but, as much as I like them, something about felt feels very wintery to me, so I used coffee filters instead. Guess I use coffee filters for everything. Someone less lazy than me should try making these from fabric or junk mail or something. Post it and let me know how it works out.
Materials
- 12 yellow coffee filters*
- 3 green coffee filters
- 1 disposable bowl. Paper cups and tupperware containers work great too.
- 10" plastic coated electronic chord (mine came from my old telephone....I'll bet you have something laying around the house that will get the job done!
- Hot glue**
**You can swap hot glue for white glue and use clothespins to clamp in place as it dries, but hot glue is easier. I'll do a kid-friendly version of this without hot glue on Wednesday. Stay tuned.
After completing the inner rim of the bowl, flip your bowl and repeat along the outer rim. Tip: avoid crushing the petals by flipping the bowl onto a large soup can
Use one of the green coffee filters to cover the bottom of the bowl, forming the base of the flower. Cut the remaining green filters into 1" strips and adhere to the telephone chord. Tuck in some leaves or just for fun.
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Place one large yellow filter in the bottom and fill it with candy. Ta Da! You are ready to go!
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You could also add a little accent flower if you like. Makes it seem slightly less Easter-ish. Like something you could keep out on your cadenza all year round to gather mail. Man, penny saver coupons never looked so good!
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Or be traditional and fill it with eggs. Not as snazzy as chocolate and Jack Daniels but I give you props for being all traditional and stuff.
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