These small hanging Easter egg decorations are perfect for decorating Easter trees and are simple to make. We made them in four different designs and you can find our template for the different shapes we used here.
‘Stained glass’ cross Easter egg
You will need:
- Small pieces of craft foam in assorted colours (black, yellow, orange, red, purple and white)
- Pieces 1-6 from the template sheet
- Glue
- String
- Hole punch
1) Cut out craft foam shapes using the templates and the following colours for each piece:
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- 1 – black
- 2 – yellow
- 3 – orange
- 4 – red
- 5 – purple
- 6 – white
2) Use the hole punch to punch a hole at the top of the black egg shape and the yellow craft foam shape.
3) Glue the coloured pieces of craft foam to the black egg shape, starting with yellow at the top and ensuring the hole on the yellow is lined up with the hole at the top of the black egg shape. Continue with the orange below the yellow, then the red shape, and finishing with the purple cut-out shape at the bottom.
4) Glue the white cross on top of the colours, keeping the top of the cross below the hole at the top of the egg.
5) Loop string through the hole and tie a knot to secure.
Jewelled cross Easter egg
You will need:
- Small pieces of craft foam in green and glittery gold
- Pieces 1 and 6 from the template sheet
- Small jewels
- Glue
- String
- Hole punch
1) Cut out craft foam shapes using the templates and the following colours for each piece:
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- 1 – green
- 6 – glittery gold
2) Use a hole punch to punch a hole at the top of the green egg shape.
3) Glue the glittery gold cross to the green egg shape, keeping the top of the cross below the hole at the top of the egg.
4) Glue the jewel shapes around the bottom of the cross.
5) Loop string through the hole and tie a knot to secure.
Hatching chick Easter egg
You will need:
- Small pieces of craft foam in cream, yellow and orange
- Pieces 1, 7, 8 and 9 from the template sheet
- Glue
- String
- Hole punch
- Black marker pen
1) Cut out craft foam shapes using the templates and the following colours for each piece:
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- 1, 7 and 8 – cream
- 9 – yellow
2) Use a hole punch to punch a hole at the top of the cream egg shape and the small shape cut from piece 7 of the template.
3) Glue the yellow shape to the middle of the cream egg shape.
4) Cut a small triangle from orange craft foam to make the chick’s beak and glue into place.
5) Glue the larger of the two cream pieces to the bottom of the egg covering the bottom half of the chick.
6) Glue the other cream shape to the top of the egg ensuring that the holes are lined up.
7) Add eyes to your chick using a black marker pen.
8) Loop string through the hole and tie a knot to secure.
Easter bunny Easter egg
You will need:
- Small pieces of craft foam in blue, white and yellow
- Pieces 1, 10 and 11 from the template sheet
- A small pink jewel or pompom
- Glue
- String
- Hole punch
- Marker pens in assorted colours
1) Cut out craft foam shapes using the templates and the following colours for each piece:
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- 1 – blue
- 10 – white
- 11 – yellow
2) Use a hole punch to punch a hole at the top of the blue egg shape.
3) Glue the yellow shape to the bottom of the blue egg. Use a marker pen to draw hatched lines for the basket.
4) Glue the white bunny shape above the yellow basket, ensuring the top of it is below the hole punched in the blue egg.
5) Add ears, eyes and nose details with a marker pen.
6) Glue a pink jewel or pompom to one side for the bunny’s tail.
7) Use a marker pen to draw Easter egg shapes around the bunny.
8) Loop string through the hole and tie a knot to secure.
We had lots of fun making our Easter egg decorations. There are lots of other ways to decorate the craft foam to make different types of Easter egg though. You could try adding different colours using finger painting, or stick small jewels all over the egg or try cutting some different shapes from craft foam.
Aww! These are so cute. What a great craft to do in the run up to Easter x
Thank you Kim, we had fun making them x
These are so lovely. The stained glass cross Easter egg is my favourite. We did our Easter tree just the other day. We are a little early but it made us happy. x
Thank you Jayne. That one was my favourite too. How lovely that you have your Easter tree out.
These are so cute – love them! #MMBC
Thank you, they were fun to make.
What a cute idea. Great practise cutting out the foam and all those fiddly little bits to jigsaw together. I love the idea of the stained glass. Sophie did a fabulous job! #mmbc
The stained glass one was definitely our favourite 🙂
These look fabulous. I especially like the stained glass one. They would be perfect to hang on an Easter Tree. #MMBC
Thank you. The stained glass one is our favourite too.
Some fantastic ideas here, thanks for the inspo! #KidsandKreativity
Thank you, they were fun to make.
These are so cute! I love our Easter tree and these would make fab additions to it. Thanks for sharing at #KidsandKreativity, hope to see you back next time.
Thanks Kerry. They were a lovely addition to ours.