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Scrap Fabric Easter Basket

March 19, 2015 By Jennifer Leave a Comment

Hello! Jennifer from Satsuma Designs here and very excited to be back at Just Us Four blog – thank you Shannah! At Satsuma Designs, I create Seattle-made baby products and content that help make caring for kids as easy as child’s play. At my blog, you’ll find crafts, organizing tips, recipes, holiday and everyday treats to delight you and your kiddos. Come by for a visit!

Spring is upon us and so are all the festive holidays of the season. With Easter right around the corner, I wanted to share my scrap fabric Easter basket tutorial that’s easy, fast and fun for kids to try. Using a few scrap materials, you can whip up this scrap fabric Easter basket in no time. If the kids are interested, it’s a great craft to teach dexterity, pattern and patience!

Here’s what you need to make your own scrap fabric Easter basket:

Cotton material ripped into 1″ wide strips. Your strips can be as long or as short as you like. I used 4 yard long strips to make my little Easter basket shown here. You could double the strips to make a larger basket big enough for an Easter bunny, some candies and a book for Easter morning.
1-2 yards of jute rope or cotton cording. I had a bunch of this brown jute rope left over from a Valentine’s Day project that was the perfect gauge or diameter for this craft. A clothesline works great for this too.
Scissors

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Easter Ribbon Wreath

April 3, 2014 By Shannah Coe 6 Comments

Our front door is usually the first place you catch a glimpse of an upcoming holiday or new season. So far this year, I have been a little slow to get a new wreath up. My goal for Easter was to get a new wreath up before April 1st and I just barely made that goal. My Easter ribbon wreath was finished on March 31st and I put it out on the morning of the 1st. Score!

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Easter Crafts: Painted Paper Mache Eggs

April 1, 2014 By Shannah 3 Comments

Adding eggs around the house is a quick and easy way to bring a feeling of Easter into your home. With about a million different ways to personalize eggs, decorating the eggs is always one of the Easter crafts I add to my to do list each year. This year, I decided to make painted paper mache eggs in fun colors to match my kitchen.

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Pom Pom Napkin Rings

March 26, 2014 By Shannah Coe 6 Comments

For Easter, we usually go visit my in-laws and have Easter brunch in the dining room of their retirement community. Nobody cooks and there is no table to set. While it is nice to have zero work to do, I do miss getting my house and table all dressed up for the holiday. This year, we are actually going to have Easter at our house and I am super excited. But, Mathlete has put a major spending freeze on house stuff so I can’t run out and buy a bunch of new table decorations. So, I decided to make some instead and started with pom pom napkin rings.

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Ways to Reuse: Turn an Easter Basket into a Book Crate

April 1, 2013 By Shannah 3 Comments

I have an admission to make: I am terrible at keeping things. I’m rarely sentimental and I get on a cleaning/organizing streak and tend to do mass donations without really thinking about what might be a part of them. For that reason, my kids have never had the same Easter basket from year to year.

BUT, I started about two years ago making their Easter baskets work double duty. Gone are the adorable little woven baskets you get from Target that get one use before heading to Goodwill.
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Easy Easter Crafts – Peep and Jelly Bean Vase

March 25, 2013 By Shannah 2 Comments

March is always a whirlwind around here. I’m typically trying to do some Easter crafts and also working my way through about a dozen different birthdays for friends and kids of friends.

I wanted some fun but really easy Easter crafts to put on our table which is how this little baby was born:

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Easy Easter Crafts – Customized Easter Buckets

March 25, 2013 By Shannah 7 Comments

Each year, our neighborhood hosts an Easter Egg Hunt for all of the kids. Since it is the day before Easter, our Easter baskets are already filled with the Easter goodies so our kids need something else to put the eggs they find in. This year, as I was planning my Easter crafts, I decided to find something that they could use later on instead of a random bag or Easter specific item.
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Egg-i-licious Wreath for Easter

March 19, 2012 By Shannah 26 Comments

My wreath obsession is no secret around here. I can point you to several examples {like here, here, and here} where I have made multiple wreaths in a short time period. Mathlete actually complains that he always comes home to a new wreath. This one last went up yesterday after our St. Patrick’s Day wreath came down and I actually plan to leave it up for a few weeks until Easter comes. {Shocker, I know}
Take a look at my wreath for Easter:

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