DIY Easter Bunny Piñata

By Kelly on Mar 21, 2013

We’ve gotten our egg decorating on (twice!) and there is still one more to come. But first, we piñata. I’m definitely petitioning to make piñata a verb, by the way. While I work on that, take a look at the easiest piñata I’ve ever made! No cardboard cutting, no fringing. Just some crepe paper gathered up and BAM! It turns into an Easter bunny. This Easter piñata is pull-style. Fill it up, hang it up, pull, enjoy.

DIY Easter Bunny Pinata

Bunny Pinata DIY

White Fine Crepe Paper (This is what I used. It’s the thickness of crepe streamers, and you can purchase it at many party stores. You could probably make tissue paper work as well.)
Pink and White Cardstock
Pink Pom Pom
Ribbon
Glue
Tape
Scissors
Awl (Optional, you can use scissors too!)
Piñata Fillings! (I love using Easter grass and even mini Easter eggs in these!)

First, cut a 4.5″ (About! Just find a bowl to trace.) circle out of white cardstock. For each piñata you’ll also need two 20″ by 20″ squares of crepe paper. Lay those down one atop the other and then lay your circle on top, right in the center. Using an awl or sharp scissor point, poke a hole through all three layers.

Easy DIY Pinata How To Make a Pinata

Cut your ribbons to your desired length (These will be used to pull the piñata apart, so make sure they are long enough for the piñata-puller to reach once it’s hung up!) and slip them through the hole. Tie a large knot and then tape the end to your circle for extra security.

DIY Easter Pinata How To Make an Easter Pinata

Now pile those piñata filling goodness atop your crepe + circle. Now you’ll want to bring both sides up, as if you are folding the paper in half horizontally.

Easter Pinata Bunny Pinata Tutorial

Pinch together both ends to form “ears” and tie them together with a piece of ribbon, knotting in the back. Leave a lot of extra length at the end of your ribbon because this is how you’ll hang the piñata.

Easter Pinata DIY Bunny Pinata DIY for Easter

Now to fanci-fy those ears! Cut out two “ear” shapes from your pink cardstock, slightly smaller than the ears you just formed with the crepe paper. Glue one onto each ear.

Easter Pinata DIY Tutorial DIY Bunny Pinata

Finally, add that cute little pink nose, and any other embellishments you may want. I happened to think it was too darn cute with just the nose, so I left it at that! Guess what? You’re done!

DIY Easter Bunny Pinatas Tutorial How To Make an Easter Bunny Pinata

Easiest piñata ever, no? Now just hang, and pull!

DIY Easter Bunny Pinata

All Photos by Studio DIY

No real Easter bunnies were harmed in the making of this piñata.

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DIY Sprinkle Easter Eggs

By Kelly on Mar 20, 2013

I was perusing the seasonal section of Target as I far too often do, and came across the prettiest Easter nonpareil sprinkles. Obviously, I bought them. And then I proceeded to cover eggs in them. Because isn’t that the logical thing to do!? Sprinkles are the new glitter, after all! These sprinkle Easter eggs are quite delicate but man are they pretty! Now make your own. You know you want to.

DIY Sprinkle Easter Eggs

How To Cover Eggs in Sprinkles

Pastel Nonpareils (I found these at Target!)
Eggs, Hard-Boiled (Update: If you are concerned about wasting eggs, you can use this same concept on styrofoam eggs or other faux eggs you can find at a craft store!)
Tacky Glue
Paintbrush
Spoon

First you need to get everything set up. Pour your sprinkles into a medium size bowl. Squeeze some tacky glue out of the bottle onto freezer paper or wax paper. Using your paintbrush, cover your egg in a good, even layer of the glue. Now dip your egg in the sprinkles and press down firmly, covering about half your egg in sprinkles.

Sprinkle Covered Easter Eggs Pastel Sprinkled Easter Eggs

Let go of your egg in the bowl, and using a spoon, cover the other half of the egg with the sprinkles. Now for the most important part! After your egg is fully covered in sprinkles, firmly press the arc of the spoon against and around your egg, “sealing” the sprinkles on. If you don’t do this step, your sprinkles will fall off very easily. So do it!

Sprinkle Easter Egg Tutorial Sprinkle Easter Egg

Let your egg dry partially right there in the bowl of sprinkles (You can use a large bowl so you can do multiple at once). Once the sprinkles are mostly set, if you want, you can carefully lift it out and allow it to dry completely on a wire rack.

Sprinkle Covered Easter Eggs DIY

Sprinkle Easter Egg DIY

DIY Sprinkle Covered Easter Eggs

All Photos by Studio DIY

A little note.. These eggs are delicate and meant for decoration only. Make sure you do the spoon “sealing” step to secure the sprinkles and try not to toss these around. Please do not eat them! Obviously the glue renders the sprinkles inedible, and be sure to throw away your excess sprinkles since they will have come in contact with the glue as well.

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DIY Tassel Ice Cream Spoons

By Kelly on Mar 19, 2013

I get far too excited when a DIY project involves fringe! When Brooke of Sucre Shop reached out to me and asked if I was interesting in creating a tutorial for a new product, tassel ice cream spoons, I obviously said yes! I love Sucre Shop’s colorful cutlery, and adding some fringey tassels? Well I don’t mind if I do! The best part is that they sell pre-drilled spoons now, so all you have to do is fringe up some tissue and attach! Can these be any more festive!? I mean, really? Let’s require all future utensils to be tasseled. You in?

DIY Tassel Ice Cream Spoons

DIY Tasseled Ice Cream Spoon Tutorial

It’s a color frenzy up in here!

DIY Tasseled Ice Cream Spoons Tutorial

Tassel Spoon Supplies

Drilled Ice Cream Spoons from Sucre Shop
Tissue Paper
Baker’s Twine
Jump Rings (Two per spoon)
Rotary Cutter or Scissors
Cutting Board

For each tassel, you’ll need a piece of tissue paper that is 9″ long by 4.5″ wide. Cut your tissue paper to size, then fold in half lengthwise. Lay your folded tissue on top of your cutting board and, using the lines on the board as a guideline (if possible), cut 1/4″ wide fringe strips all the way down the length of the folded tissue (leaving the folded edge uncut).

DIY Tasseled Ice Cream Spoons How To Make Tasseled Ice Cream Spoons

Unfold your fringed tissue and starting at one end, tightly roll it up.

DIY Mini Tassels How To Make Mini Tassels

Now fold this in half so all the fringe comes together and you have the beginnings of a loop at the top. If you think your tassel is too wide to fit the jump ring, you can fold the center in half again to narrow it. Open a jump ring (with your fingers, or jewelry pliers) and slip it through the loop you’ve formed. Close the jump ring. Now take a piece of baker’s twine and wrap it tightly around the top of your tassel, just under the jump ring. Tie in a small knot and trim excess twine off.

Tassel Ice Cream Spoons DIY Mini Tassels for Spoons

To attach your tassel to your spoon, slip a second jump ring through the drilled hole on each spoon. Then connect the two jump rings and voila! Tasseled ice cream spoons!

DIY Tasseled Ice Cream Spoons with Sucre Shop

DIY Tassel Ice Cream Spoon

All Photos by Studio DIY

Time to par-tay! And if you can’t get enough of these mini tassels, make a mini tassel garland to match! (psst.. that tassel tutorial is slightly different. Both are equally easy, just depends on your preference!)

*This post was done in partnership with Sucre Shop. I was provided with product to create this project. All opinions are that of my own.

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DIY Sequin Easter Eggs

By Kelly on Mar 18, 2013

As promised earlier, my first Easter DIY of the season is ready and waiting for you! And boy, is it sparkly! I’ve had a thing for gold sequins lately (read: always), so why not decorate Easter eggs with them!? Not your traditional egg, but definitely one for the non-traditional Easter-er (that’s a word, yes?). Spell a word, make some hearts for the love of your life or just cover the whole darn egg in sequins! Let’s do this.

DIY Sequin Easter Eggs

DIY Sequin Heart Easter Eggs

Sequin Easter Egg Supplies

Jumbo Eggs, Hard-Boiled
Sequin Trim
Hot Glue Gun
Pencil

Lightly draw the letter, heart or other shape you want on your egg with a pencil. Working in small sections, go over your pencil line with hot glue and quickly press your sequin trim on top.

DIY Sequin Letter Easter Eggs Sequin Letter Easter Eggs

Keep going until your entire letter or shape is formed. Trim any excess thread or sequins off and if for any reason you need to touch up your letter, carefully glue on individual sequins (you can just pull these off the strand of trim).

How To Make Sequin Easter Eggs

DIY Sequin Easter Egg Tutorial

To make the egg fully covered in sequins. Start at the very top of your egg and hot glue your sequin trim on, going round and round until you reach the bottom!

Sequin Easter Eggs Sequin Heart Easter Eggs DIY

DIY Sequin Heart Eggs for Easter

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Easter Tool Kit

By Kelly on Mar 18, 2013

Gooood morning ladies and gentleman! Now that St. Patrick’s Day is wrapped up (What did you guys end up doing!? I was consumed with a photo shoot for an upcoming project, but I did don my green!), it’s time to get started on Easter. Man, is March a holiday whirlwind or what!? I actually have a DIY coming up in just a bit (YAY!), but first we need to get you ready to get your DIY on for the next two weeks with an Easter Tool Kit! Here’s a few things you’ll need for the projects I have planned.

Easter Craft Tool Kit

1. Eggs: Clearly you are going to need to build yourself a stash of eggs! I have three Easter egg DIYs coming at you so stock up. I’d also recommend picking up some plastic eggs

Easter Eggs

Buy It: I like using jumbo eggs for decorating. Try to pick a pack with the smoothest, prettiest eggs you can find. We won’t necessarily be dying our eggs. For plastic eggs, Target’s multi-pack has some seriously glorious colors.

2. Honeycombs + Honeycomb Paper: We’re continuing the trend with one of my favorite party items, honeycombs! I recommend getting both pre-made honeycomb balls, in the size of your choice, and some honeycomb paper pads if you have a thing for mini-sized awesomeness.

Honeycomb Paper Decorations

Buy It: You can buy regular honeycomb balls at your local party store (I typically get 10″ ones). Honeycomb paper pads can be found here at Devra Party, along with a great selection of honeycomb balls too if you don’t have a store nearby!

3. Easter Grass: Do you have a love hate relationship with Easter Grass? I totally do. It can be a pain, but at the same time it looks so wonderfully festive. We may not be crafting with this itself, but it makes the perfect accessory for all the fun eggs we’ll be decorating! Because you are going to want to display these, people.

Eco Friendly Easter Grass

Buy It: As you very well know, you can buy this stuff just about anywhere, but the Easter grass pictured above is actually an eco-friendly version I picked up at Rite Aid! Woohoo!

4. Pom Poms + Cotton Balls: Bunny noses and bunny tails, that’s what these are! But what will they be used on!? You’ll have to wait and see!

Pom Poms and Cotton Balls

Buy It: You can go ahead and get cotton balls straight from the drugstore! Nothing fancy there. For pom poms, any craft supply store should have them. I’d recommend the 1/2″ size for bunny noses, and some itty bitty 1/4″ sized ones for another fun project coming up!

5. Pastel Non-Pareils: I am OBSESSED with these Easter-y non-pareils and I’m so excited about how we’ll be using them! Of course, they’re perfect for just about any other Easter goodie too.

Pastel Easter Sprinkles

Buy It: I picked these up at Target. Go, go, go!

6. Sequin Trim: Yeah, yeah, this one isn’t pastel but you know I can’t get through a holiday without a little gold! You better place your order for some sequin trim quick, this DIY is coming up later today!

Sequin Trim

Buy It: You’ve seen this same roll of sequin trim many a time now on this here blog, because it just never ends! Awesome! I purchased mine at Paper Mart. And if you aren’t feeling gold for Easter, they have a ton of fun colors, too!

Easter is just a short two weeks away (Seriously Easter, I can’t wait until you get back in your proper place next year… APRIL!) so stock your arsenal and get ready to craft!

If you can’t wait until next week to get started, check out a few of last year’s Easter DIY projects!

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