(upbeat electronic music)
Well, you can't have Easter without an Easter basket.
That's true, and if you don't have one, don't worry.
You can make one out of rope and hot glue.
All you need is a little pot.
You're gonna take your rope and start coiling it,
wrap it in a circle around itself.
Yeah, and then you're just gonna glue the rope to itself.
You don't want to adhere it to the pot.
A little glue goes a long way.
Yes. When you're finished with your bottom row,
you're gonna wanna hold it and flip it upside down
and start to glue up the side of the pot.
Yes! Oh my gosh!
Wow, that looks great. I love it.
Now to finish it off, we're just gonna cut the rope
at a diagonal so it lays nice and flat.
You could throw some Easter goodies in there
or you could even use this all season long.
Gnomes are everywhere these days,
and you probably have a lot of plastic Easter eggs
lying around your house that you don't know what to do with.
So we thought, why not combine the two
and make some Easter gnomes.
Yes, we're gonna start with our beard.
We're using some scrap yarn here.
It's similar to making a pom-pom.
You're gonna wrap the yarn around your fingers.
You can use two fingers, three fingers,
depending on the size of your egg,
and you just wanna wrap that until you get to the end
of your piece of yarn.
Once you have that tied off, you can take your scissors
and you wanna cut through the loop here,
so you have some loose hanging beard strands.
Now that we have our beard,
we're gonna create a hat and some bunny ears
out of some scrap pieces of felt.
Now for the pointed hat,
all we're going to do is cut out a triangle with a swoop.
The hat is basically a cone.
There you go.
So that's what it needs to look like,
and then it'll give a nice pointed look.
Now for the ears, I'm just using some
white felt and some pink felt.
I'm just gonna fold it over
and cut out two ears.
You can use paper, cardboard, whatever you have at home,
just get crafty.
All right, now we're just gonna glue everything together.
Yeah, we're gonna start with the beard here
using our hot glue gun,
and gluing it above the area where the eggs connect.
He's so adorable already. So cute.
Now it's time to glue on the hat.
So we want the swoop to be the brim of the hat,
so we just want it like that, and then,
we're just going to glue the ends to the back.
Now your hat can fall over.
It can be pointed. It is up to you.
Now we're gonna add our ears.
Now this is a little tricky,
but we're just gonna cut two slits to fit the ears right in.
We're just gonna add a little bit of glue to the bottom,
and we're gonna pinch the ears together.
This is gonna give a nice 3D look.
Pretty cute.
So cute.
To complete our gnome, we wanna give him a little nose,
and we're gonna use a little wooden bead for that,
and we're just gonna glue it right underneath the hat here.
So cute. So cute.
Rollin' with the gnomies. So cute.
Since we're the crafty lumberjacks,
of course we have a lot of wood slices,
so we thought, why not make a wooden Easter bunny?
Yes, we're gonna keep this super minimal, super cute.
We're always looking for ways to bring the outside in,
and we're gonna use some craft sticks here for the ears,
and we're just gonna glue that to the back
of our first wood slice.
You want two wood slices that are about the same size.
Then we're just gonna layer that right on there.
So cute. It already looks so cute.
I love it. Oh my Gosh.
And if you don't have wood slices,
don't worry about it.
Get creative.
You could use paper plates, paper--
Cardboard. Cardboard.
Yup, we're just giving you the basics here.
(laughs) Absolutely.
And then we're gonna use two smaller wood slices
to create little, little feet for our little bunny friend.
Awe!
What a great way to greet your neighbors
from far, far, far away.
(air whooshes)
A great way to freshen up your space
is by changing out your artwork seasonally.
Yes, we found some clip art online,
printed it out to fit our frame,
and now we're just gonna turn it over and start layering it
with washing tape.
Yeah, everybody has washing tape.
Yes. Come on,
especially if you're a crafter.
This is another great craft to do with kids.
It takes up a lot of time and it uses all that washing tape.
Yes, and you don't even have to do this for Easter.
You can do it for any holiday.
Once we have it fully layered,
we're gonna cut it out and pop it in a frame.
Instant art.
(audience applauses)
(bells chime)