Easter
Easter is one of my favorite holidays and one I gather ideas for all year round. Here are my own favorite books, recipes, projects
and ideas for celebrating this holiday.
I own
Want to buy
All Year Round by Ann Druitt, Christine Fynes-Clinton, and Marije Rowling
is one of the best Waldorf books for celebrations throughout the year. Here are the Easter projects included in this book:
HOLY WEEK
Palm Sunday
- Lenten garden
- Magic tufty cones
- A Palm Sunday and Easter decoration
- Bread cockerels
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Easter
- The Easter garden
- Easter candles
- Hare (knitting pattern)
- Cockered, hen and chick (knitting patterns)
- Butterflies
- Cut-out butterfly
- Tissue paper butterfly
- Dress-net butterfly
- Easter eggs
- Onion skin dye
- Batik eggs
- Scratched eggs
- Pace-egging (game)
- How to blow an egg
- How to hang an egg
- Crepe and tissue paper decorations
- Batik eggs for children
- Painted eggs
- More things to do with eggs
- Miniature garden in an egg
- Surprise-egg-box
- Egg with seeds
- Pop-up Easter egg card
- Easter card
- Simple Easter egg cut-outs
The Easter Craft Book by Thomas and Petra Berger
is a little harder to find but well worth the trouble. It includes an amazing variety of projects. Here is the table of contents:
- Spring
- Mother Earth and the flower-children in coloured wool
- Flower-children made from felt
- A picture made of fairy-tale wool
- Transparency made of modelling wax
- Palm Sunday branches
- A paper Palm Sunday cock
- Dough figures
- Figures made with dough
- A cock for the Palm Sunday branch
- An Easter hare
- An Easter nest with an egg
- Little bread men
- Easter wreath made of dough
- Filled chickens
- A fruit-cake Easter hare or lamb
- A Whitsun bird made of dough
- Easter figures with salt-dough
- Making salt-dough figures with children
- A plaited wreath of salt-dough
- Salt-dough for intricate figures
- An Easter hare
- An Easter medallion
- An Easter tree
- A festive table
- An Easter tree
- Easter branches with eggs
- A box or eggshell with cress
- A little lamb made of butter
- Home-made egg cups
- Folding an egg-cup
- Cutting out doilies
- A plaited Easter basket or box
- Decorating candles
- Working with wood and textiles
- A knotted cloth hare
- Woollen chickens (pom-poms)
- Woollen rabbits (pom-poms)
- A knitted hare -- 2006
- A knitted chicken
- A knitted Easter hare as an egg-cosy
- A felt egg-cosy
- A felt hen as an egg-cosy
- An Easter hare as a finger-puppet
- An Easter hare as a glove-puppet
- A knitted Easter hare as a glove-puppet
- Decorating Easter eggs
- Before beginning to decorate
- Blowing out eggs
- Hanging up the eggs
- Eggs to be decorated by children
- Colouring eggs with plant dyes
- Painting eggs with water-colours
- Decorating eggs with wax
- Decorating eggs by scratching away the colour
- Using a stamp on eggs
- Decorating eggs with trimmings and wool (fabric notions)
- Decorating eggs with dried flowers and leaves
- Decorating eggs with quilling
- Decorating eggs with paper flowers
- Decorating eggs with straw and wood-shavings
- Making bakik eggs with flowers and plants
- Crech and Ukranian batik eggs
- Working with paper
- Cutting out concertina paper
- Easter transparencies
- An origami hen
- An origami hare
- An origami swan
- Little doves of cardboard and tissue-paper
- Tissue-paper butterflies
- Flowers made of tissue-paper
- Elves made of tissue-paper
Fun things to buy:
Fun things to make:
Projects and directions you can find online:
knitted Easter egg pattern (worked in the round)
egg decorating ideas from Family Fun magazine
dyeing Easter eggs with tissue paper from the Spring Bloomfest
felted wool chick finger puppet from the Spring Bloomfest
So you'd like to... felt an Easter egg directions and list of wet felting resource books
Italian Easter Cookies recipe from King Arthur Flour
Easter stories from For the Children's Hour by Carolyn S. Bailey
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