making “Hoppy Easter” cards
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Easter is going to be a little different for most of us this year. With everyone staying home and some family members cocooning, we will try to share a family meal or a coffee (and hot cross bun) over video call. I still want to mark the occasion and thought it would be nice to start creating traditions as a family of three.
As a family, we tend to send a lot of greeting cards, but I was not definitely not organised enough to have Easter cards organised before Covid-19 kicked off. So given that Osk is now old enough to enjoy making arts and crafts, I decided to make some Easter cards with him.
I usually have a rule that any activity must occupy him for longer than it takes to set up & clean up. Art activities with Osk are usually extremely messy and don’t meet this criteria, but these were unbelievably quick to make and he enjoyed the process too!
What you need to make Easter cards
Feet
2 paint brushes or sponge paint brushes
Pom poms/bobbles
Warm soapy water and cloth
How we made our Easter cards
Step 1 - Prepare
I gathered all the materials whilst Osk was napping so that we would be ready to go. I find that he really loses patience with an activity if he is sitting waiting whilst I scramble around looking for bits and pieces.
I also did other bits of preparation to speed up the process - I folded the card in half and filled a basin with warm soapy water ready for the clean up!
folded yellow card ready to go
Step 2 - Get those toes ready!
I popped Osk into his highchair, the Stokke Tripp Trapp is perfect for this as it has a big footrest - perfect for foot prints!
We needed bare feet to make the footprints on the cards, so as Osk loves taking off his socks at the moment, I asked him to do this bit himself. He was delighted and cackled as he pulled them off and threw them on the floor.
Step 3 - Paint the first foot green
I loaded up the paintbrush with some green kid friendly paint (like this one) and painted the sole of his right foot. This was a bit tickly, so we had fun giggling about that for a little while.
right foot ready to go with green paint
(you don’t need very much!)
Then I slid the card onto the highchair’s foot rest and guided his foot onto it. He was fascinated by what I was doing and held pretty still watching for the second or two that it took to get the footprint.
I then repeated this twice more with the same foot on each of the other cards (we made three).
green footprints (bunnies) waiting for their ears!
Step 4 - Clean toes & add bunny ears
As soon as we were done with the first foot, I wiped it clean with the warm soapy water.
Then, whilst I still had green paint on the paint brush I helped him to add bunny ears to the tops of the green footprint on each card.
Step 5 - Let’s go again with the other foot
I loaded up the paintbrush with some pink kid friendly paint (like this one) and painted the sole of his other foot.
Then, as before, I slid the card onto the foot rest and guided his foot onto it to add a pink footprint to each card.
pink painted toes ready to make a footprint
Step 6 - Clean up and let the paint dry
While the footprints were drying, we used the warm soapy water to clean the paint off his other foot and the highchair.
Then we added pink bunny ears to the tops of the pink footprint on each card and set aside the cards to dry just out of his reach.
lots of bunny ears waiting to dry
Step 7 - Add the bunny tails
As the paint was so thin, the footprints dried really quickly, so by the time we were done with cleaning and painting ears on the last card, the first bunnies were ready for their tails.
I just used a dab of glue and let him press the pom poms onto the cards.
pom pom bunny tails - reused from another craft
Step 8 - Add your greetings and message
We chose “Hoppy Easter” but you could also write “Some bunny loves you”.
Step 9 - Send it to someone or just stick it on your fridge!
I hope you all have an eggcellent easter! Have you considered putting together an outdoor egg hunt or lucky dip? Follow our family celebrations on instagram!
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