Easter Basket with Real Grass and Spoon Bunnies: A Fun DIY Craft for Kids

I have so many friends that have small grandchildren and children I wanted to share my favorite Easter project with them. I know things that you do with the children are special to them and create special memories that you can enjoy for years to come.

Easter Basket with Real Grass

Start this Easter basket at least a week before Easter. It will last for several weeks if you “mow” it regularly with scissors.

Basket

Heavy clear plastic, 6″ larger than the inside of the basket

Indoor patting soil

Wheat seeds

Line the inside of your basket with plastic and leave at least 6″ of excess all the way around. Fill the basket to within an inch of the top with potting soil and pat the soil down firmly. Sprinkle the surface generously with see, and cover lightly (1/4″ to 1/2 ) with potting soil.   Water well, making sure all the seeds are moistened. Pull the excess plastic over the top of the soil to preserve moisture. Set the basket in a warm, sunny spot. In two to three days, the seed will start to sprout, and within a week to ten days, you will have grass.

Decorate the basket with a bow and colored eggs. Add a Spoon Bunny or Easter Veggies. That grass will grow rapidly. Trim with scissors. Use the trimmed grass in sandwiches or salads.

Spoon Bunnies

Tuck these delightful bunnies in to your children’s Easter basket.

6 pastel plastic spoons

Red and Black puff paints or permanent markers

1 yard heavy black thread

Glue

6 small pink pom-poms

1 (8-1/2′ x 11″) rectangle white fleet

1 (8-1/2′ x 11″) rectangle pastel felt (same color as spoons)

6 round suckers

3 yard pastel ribbon

6 1:0 white pom-poms or cotton balls

Paint eyes, mouth and cheeks on the back of each spoon. Let dry. Tie three 1-1/2″ strands of heavy black thread together in the middle and glue above the mouth for whiskers.   Glue pink pom-pom nose about the whiskers. Cut ears out of the pastel felt, and cut smaller inside ears out of white felt. Glue small white ears on larger pastel ears, and glue to back of head. Place a sucker in the spoon and tie ribbon around the neck. Glue a small white pom-pom or cotton-ball tail on the sucker stick.