Easy-to-make Easter basket for mini eggs or gift
• Download a printable pattern (large motif)
• Download a printable pattern (small motif)
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer
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Parents may want to supervise youngsters during the cutting and assembling phase.
So start thinking and begin creating.
Materials, tools needed
- Colored paper, card stock (vellum)
- Scissors
- Scoring instrument (a used up ball-point pen, without ink, works nicely)
- Ruler to use in scoring
- Paste or glue
- Hole puncher
- Raffia, cord or thin ribbon scraps
- Easter grass or crinkled paper for filler (optional)
Instructions
- Cut out pattern; cut the half-line on tabs.
- If duplicating, run off on colored paper with a copier.
- If making only one box, paste pattern securely on to card stock.
- Score on dotted lines.
- Color and add stickers, etc., before cutting on solid edges, including tab locks.
- Fold at score lines.
- Assemble by locking the tabs, bringing "basket" together, and punch hole at top.
- Secure with raffia, cord, or thin ribbon.
- Fill basket with some grass or crinkled paper, add sweet treat or mini gift.
Wayne Harada is a box-making hobbyist. Reach him at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com, phone 525-8067 or fax 525-8055.
