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| Easter Egg Nest, made from paper plate pocket. |
Young students can make these easy paper plate, egg pockets a day or even a week, if they are in Sunday school, ahead of time. Then teachers can fill them with a chocolate treat or two for the Easter egg hunt later. Once children have participated in egg hunts, Sunday breakfast and service etc... they may take the extra surprise home!
Supplies Needed:
- two paper plates
- one brass fasteners
- colored markers or pencils
- green construction paper or tissue paper
- Easter grass
- Easter eggs or chocolate candies
- white school glue
- scissors
- white construction paper
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| Left, see how the brass fastener is positioned. Right, see how the pocket looks when closed. |
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Cut a large egg shape from the white construction paper. This egg shape should be smaller than the diameter of the paper plates, but very large, leaving approximately one inch from each end of the paper plates showing.
- Draw repeating patterns across the egg shape. Then coloring the patterns in using either markers or colored pencils.
- Cut strips from the green tissue or construction paper. Using scissors cut ruffles or 'blades of grass' along one long length of the stripes.
- Glue the paper grass behind and around the large patterned Easter egg. Let dry.
- Mount the egg and grass onto the center of one of the paper plates using school glue. The plate should be inverted, because you want it to form a hollow pocket when attached to the second plate.
- Use a green marker to color the background edge of this paper plate if you wish.
- Now turn the paper plate over and use a pencil to draw a 'cracked' jagged edge down the center of the egg and plate lengthwise. This will be the opening of the egg to find treasures stored inside of the Easter egg pocket.
- Attach only one side of the egg decorated plate half to the edge of the back paper plate half. Use glue squeezed along the rim to do this. let it dry completely before proceeding to the next step.
- Poke a small hole using the tip of your scissors or a hole punch, right at the edge of the back paper plate where you want the upper part of the egg pocket to attach and move open and shut to reveal the contents of the pocket.
- Insert the brass fastener.
- Now fill the paper plate pocket with Easter grass and treats for each student when they come back to class to show off their crafts to parents, brothers and sisters. This is the teacher's surprise for a party...
