Make your own props for an Easter portrait.
Many parents purchase colorful dresses and pastel suits for their children to wear on Easter Sunday. Easter morning offers a prime opportunity to take a family photo while the children are already dressed up. Taking the family to a professional photographer can be expensive. Instead of spending money to have an Easter family portrait taken, manufacture some Easter props, set the stage and take your own Easter portraits this year.
Instructions
Carrot and Easter Egg Tree
1. Purchase several plastic miniature carrots and miniature plastic Easter eggs. These can generally be found at a craft store or chain department store.
2. Cut several pieces of wire into 4-inch sections.
3. Attach the end of each piece of wire to the top of a miniature carrot or a miniature plastic egg with a piece of clear tape. You can also use glue that dries clear.
4. Paint a medium-sized terracotta pot any pastel color, such as pink, blue or yellow. Place a piece of craft foam into the bottom of the pot.
5. Place a long stick with several small twigs into the medium-sized terracotta pot. Center the stick into the middle of the pot and make sure that it stays upright by shoving it into the craft foam. Fill the pot with decorative glass stones.
6. Hang the miniature carrots and eggs from the twigs on the branch by tying the other end of the wire around a twig.
4 Little Chicks in a Basket
7. Cut the bottom out of a medium-sized wicker basket. Make sure that the hole is large enough to stick your hand or a child's hand through. Place a yellow work glove onto your or a child's hand and stick it through the hole in the basket. Glue the bottom of the glove to the edges on the hole of the basket to keep it secure.
8. Shove newspaper into the glove and all of the fingers except the thumb to give it a fuller appearance. Push the thumb out of sight into the basket and glue it down.
9. Cut four small triangles out of orange felt. These should be small enough to fit onto each finger on the glove. These triangles will be the chick's beaks. Glue the beaks to the gloves.
10. Glue two small googly eyes above each triangle.
11. Fill the basket with multicolored Easter grass.
Tags: child hand, craft foam, hole basket, medium-sized terracotta, miniature carrots, miniature plastic
