Easter eBook 2026

Easter eBook 2026 Double Edition

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8 egg-citing craft ideas for Easter!

Contents

Clay Bunny Egg Cup................................................................................. 3 Chicken Egg Canister............................................................................... 4 Felt Carrot Pocket..................................................................................... 5 Bunny Figurine............................................................................................ 6 Faith-based Ideas Cross Yarn Art............................................................................................. 7 Palm Sunday Diorama.............................................................................. 8 Empty Tomb of Jesus............................................................................... 9 Lenten Journey.................................................................................... 10–11 Templates............................................................................................... 12–17 We’ve supplied FREE templates just for you! Print as many times as you like.

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Clay Bunny Egg Cup

Display your Easter eggs with this cute handmade cup!

Materials: • CleverPatch™ Super Light Air Dry Clay 100g – Set of 10 Colours – 21213 • Optional: Plastic Eggs – White Pack of 10 – 21037

1. Roll 8g of super light air dry clay into a ball.

2. Lightly flatten the ball of clay.

3. Push the egg you want to display into the top of the ball of clay.

4. Create some bunny ears with more clay. Attach to the front of the clay base and mould against the easter egg. Softly push the clay together to join. Gently remove the egg and smooth out the clay.

5. Roll a small ball of clay and attach between the bunny’s ears to create a nose.

6. Roll another two small balls of clay and lightly flatten one side to create arms. Attach to each side of the base towards the front.

7. Repeat Step 6 to create legs and attach towards the back of the base.

Roll a ball of clay to create the tail and attach between the legs.

8. Roll two smaller balls of a different coloured clay. Press softly on each side of the nose to create your bunny’s eyes. Allow your clay to dry.

9. Your Clay Bunny Egg Cup is now ready to display your egg!

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Chicken Egg Canister Materials:

GLUE GUN

• Papier Mache Egg Canister – 12144 • CleverPatch™ Junior PVA Glue – 250ml – 10364 • CleverPatch™ Acrylic Paint Tube – White – 100ml – 16886 • Tissue Paper – Assorted – Pack of 100 – 10933 • Felt Squares – Pack of 100 – 10785 • Wiggle Eyes Black – 2cm – Pack of 100 – 10817 • Chenille Stems – Bright – Pack of 100 – 10825 • CleverPatch™ Glue Gun Starter Set – 12505 • Other materials required: Scissors, paint brushes, pencil and templates (page 12).

1. Give the two halves of your egg canister a coat of white paint. Allow to dry.

A cute and cheeky way to hide your eggs!

2. Cut a coloured sheet of tissue paper into small squares approximately 5 x 5cm. Cover a small section of the egg with PVA glue and carefully stick tissue paper squares onto the glue.

3. Continue gluing tissue paper onto the two egg halves until they are covered and allow to dry.

4. Print and cut out the templates provided on page 12. Trace onto coloured felt of your choice and cut out.

5. Use a glue gun to attach the beak, wings and the comb to the egg canister as shown. Make sure you don’t glue the canister halves together! Glue on two wiggle eyes and allow to dry.

6. Cut two 4cm lengths of chenille stem. Use a glue gun to attach one length to each of the felt feet, standing upright. Allow to dry.

7. Use a glue gun to attach the legs to the bottom of the egg canister as shown and allow to dry. Your Chicken Egg Canister is now ready to display and hold your eggs!

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Felt Carrot Pocket Materials:

• Felt Squares – Pack of 100 – 10785 • Wiggle Eyes Black – 1cm – Pack of 100 – 10815 • Embroidery Thread – Orange – Pack of 6 – 12377 • Sewing Needles – Sharp – Pack of 6 – 17870 • Pom Poms – Assorted – Pack of 400 – 12297 • CleverPatch™ Tacky Glue – 250ml – 16494 • Other materials required: Scissors, pencil and templates (page 12).

1. Print and cut out the templates provided on page 12. Trace onto coloured felt of your choice. Cut out the felt shapes.

A sweet pocket to fill with Easter eggs or little trinkets!

2. Lay the front carrot piece on top of the back carrot piece, making sure the edges are aligned. Cut a length of embroidery thread at least 70cm long.

Thread onto a needle and tie a knot at the end. Use a blanket stitch around the edges to begin sewing the pieces together.

3. Continue stitching around the carrot until you reach the top edge.

4. Hold the leaf piece in place behind the back carrot felt piece and continue to stitch through the leaf to secure it to the back piece.

5. Continue stitching around the edge until you reach your first stitch. Tie a knot to secure. Remove the needle and trim any excess thread.

6. Glue a small pom pom and two wiggle eyes to create a face for your carrot. Allow to dry.

7. Your Felt Carrot Pocket is now ready to gift! Fill your pocket with eggs or trinkets.

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Bunny Figurine Materials:

GLUE GUN • CleverPatch™ Acrylic Paint Tubes – 100ml Set of 12 Colours – 20811

• Decofoam Balls – 3cm – Pack of 50 12265 • Chenille Stems – Bright – Pack of 100 10825 • Mini Patty Pans – Bright – Pack of 1,000 17960 • Felt Squares – Pack of 100 – 10785 • Wooden Wheels & Axles – Pack of 30 18643 • Satin Ribbon – Pack of 16 Spools – 19601

• Wiggle Eyes Black – 1cm Pack of 100 – 10815 • Self-Adhesive Rhinestones Assorted Colours – Pack of 540 20193 • Other materials required: Scissors, red pencil, paint brushes and templates (page 13).

• CleverPatch™ Glue Gun Starter Set – 12505

1. Using the templates provided on page 13, trace and cut out bunny ears from white felt. Colour the middle of the ears with a red pencil.

2. Glue two wiggle eyes to a decofoam ball and add face details with paint. Allow to dry.

3. Apply glue to the bottom edge of the felt ears and hold against the decofoam ball. Allow to dry.

4. Glue the head decofoam ball on top of another decofoam ball. Allow to dry.

5. Cut four 3cm lengths of white chenille stem. Push into the decofoam body as shown. Bend the legs at the end to create feet.

6. Cut into a mini patty pan and cut out the circle in the middle. Wrap it around the bunny under the arms to create a skirt or above the arms to create a poncho. Glue in place. Allow to dry.

7. Cut a 20cm length of satin ribbon.

Tie it in a bow around the join between the two decofoam balls.

8. Paint a wooden wheel green and allow to dry. Glue the feet of the bunny to the wheel. Allow to dry.

9. Add some sparkle to the wooden base with adhesive rhinestones.

Your Bunny Figurine is now ready to display!

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Cross Yarn Art Materials: • Giant Popsticks – Natural – Pack of 100 – 17931 • CleverPatch™ Acrylic Paint Tubes – 100ml Set of 12 Colours – 20811 • Soft Yarn – 100g – Set of 10 Colours – 12257 • CleverPatch™ Tacky Glue – 250ml – 16494 • EverZart Permanent Pens – Black – Pack of 20 – 19810 • Craft Buttons – 454g Pack – 10833 • Other materials required: Scissors and paint brushes.

1. Paint four giant popsticks the colour of your choice. Allow to dry.

Cut two popsticks to be 12.5cm long.

2. Create a rectangle frame with the popsticks, making sure the shortened ones are at the back. Glue the corners in place and allow to dry.

3. Glue one end of the yarn to the popstick frame and allow to dry.

Wrap the yarn vertically around the frame until you are happy with the thickness.

4. Cross over and wrap the yarn horizontally until you are happy with the thickness. Tie a knot at the back of the ornament and trim the excess.

5. Glue an assortment of buttons to the centre of your cross. Allow to dry.

6. Use a permanent pen to add some details or a bible verse to your frame.

Cut a 15cm piece of yarn. Glue each end to the back of the frame at the top. This will be the hanger. Allow to dry.

7. Your Cross Yarn Art is now ready to hang and display!

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Palm Sunday Diorama Materials: • Cardboard Diorama Boxes – Rectangle Pack of 10 – 13069 • CleverPatch™ Cardboard – Assorted Colours A4 – Pack of 100 – 14932 • CleverPatch™ Acrylic Paint Tubes – 100ml Set of 12 Colours – 20811 • CleverPatch™ Watercolour Palette 12 Well – 17274 • CleverPatch™ Poster Paint Sticks – Coloured 10g – Pack of 12 – 18493 • CleverPatch™ Tacky Glue – 250ml – 16494 • Other materials required: Scissors, paint brushes and templates (pages 13 to 16).

1. Assemble and decorate the diorama box however you wish. Allow to dry.

Recreate the joy and celebration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday!

2. Print and cut out the templates provided onto white cardboard.

Decorate however you wish using watercolour, paint and paint sticks.

Allow to dry.

3. Trace the back rectangle of the diorama onto a piece of blue cardboard. Cut out and attach to the inside of the diorama box using glue.

Allow to dry.

4. Use the dotted lines on the template as a guide to fold the tabs on the tall grass piece. Glue the tabs to each side of the inside of the diorama box at the back. Allow to dry.

5. Repeat Step 4 with the short grass piece, placing it in front of the previous piece. Allow to dry.

6. Fold the bottom tab on the Jesus and donkey piece. Glue to the bottom of the diorama box in front of the grass. Allow to dry.

7. Glue the leaves to the back of the front frame. Glue the frame to the front edges of the diorama box. Your Palm Sunday Diorama is now ready to display!

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Empty Tomb of Jesus Materials: • Sugarcane Eco Plates – Large – Pack of 50 – 21716 • Paper Fasteners – Pack of 100 – 11243 • CleverPatch™ Acrylic Paint Tube – Silver – 100ml – 16887 • CleverPatch™ Acrylic Paint Tube – Brown – 100ml – 16884 • CleverPatch™ Cardboard – Assorted Colours – A4 Pack of 100 – 14932 • Popsticks – Natural – Pack of 1,000 – 10864 • CleverPatch™ Tacky Glue – 250ml – 16494 • Other materials required: Scissors and paint brushes.

1. Cut a plate in half.

2. Paint both sides of the two plate halves silver. Allow to dry.

3. Cut out a hole in the middle of one of the semi circles as shown.

4. Use a piece of grey cardboard to cut out a shape slightly bigger than the hole you just cut into the plate.

5. Push a paper fastener through the cardboard piece then into the raised side of the plate with the hole, making sure to cover the hole.

6. Paint six popsticks brown and allow to dry. Glue two popsticks together in a cross shape. Repeat until you have three cross shapes. Allow to dry.

7. Glue the three crosses to the inside of the other semi circle plate piece.

Make sure the one in the middle is the tallest. Allow to dry.

8. Glue the two plate halves together with the raised sides facing outwards to cover the bottoms of the crosses.

Allow to dry.

9. Your Empty Tomb of Jesus is now ready to display! Roll the stone away to find the tomb empty, for Jesus has risen!

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Lenten Journey Materials: • Corrugated Board Sheets – Assorted Patterns – A4 Pack of 20 – 22531 • Canvas Panel Art Board – Natural Linen – Square 20 x 20cm – 14600 • CleverPatch™ Acrylic Paint Tubes – 100ml Set of 12 Colours – 20811 • Recyclable Paper Straws – Pack of 250 – 17671 • Wooden People – Pack of 8 – 18255 • Chenille Stems – Bright – Pack of 100 – 10825 • Pom Poms – Assorted – Pack of 400 – 12297 • CleverPatch™ Tacky Glue – 250ml – 16494 • Hole Punch – 18765 • Other materials required: Scissors, paint brushes and template (page 17).

“Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Saviour, and my hope is in you all day long.”

Psalm 25:5

1. Print and cut along the outer edge of the template on page 17. Position it over the top of a corrugated cardboard sheet and cut along all the solid black lines. Remove the template to reveal a spiral.

2. Use a hole punch to punch 40 holes around the spiral, using the grey circles on the template as a guide.

These will represent the 40 days of Lent.

3. Cut two straws into multiple pieces of varying lengths from 3.5cm to 0.5cm.

4. Glue the straw pieces to the bottom of the spiral, starting with the tallest piece in the middle and the smaller pieces as you continue around. Allow to dry.

5. Flip the spiral over and glue the other end of the straws onto a linen canvas board. Allow to dry.

6. Cut a chenille stem in half and fold both pieces in half. Hold the two pieces in a cross shape and twist together to secure in place.

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7. Glue the chenille stem cross into the centre of the spiral with glue.

Hold in place until the glue begins to set. Allow to dry.

8. Glue an assortment of pom poms around the spiral and the canvas to create bushes. Allow to dry.

9. Decorate a wooden person to look like Jesus using paint. Allow to dry.

Follow Jesus through the 40 days of Lent!

10. Cut a 0.5cm piece of straw and glue to the bottom of the wooden Jesus figure. This will allow you to move Jesus along the spiral. Allow to dry.

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11. Your Lenten Journey is now ready to display! Place Jesus at the first hole on Ash Wednesday and move him along the spiral to count down the 40 days of Lent.

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Palm Sunday Diorama Use these templates to help you complete the activity on page 8.

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Use this template to help you complete the activity on page 8.

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Palm Sunday Diorama

Tall Grass

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Use this template to help you complete the activity on page 8.

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Palm Sunday Diorama

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Use this template to help you complete the activity on page 8.

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Lenten Journey Use this template to help you complete the activity on pages 10 and 11.

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