Craft Time: Cheshire Cat Easter Egg

Cheshire Cat Easter Egg Template PDF

Time: 1 Hour

What You’ll Need

• Hard-boiled eggs dyed purplish-red (using Easter egg dye or gel food coloring) or a plastic egg of a similar size and color
• Scissors
• Craft paper (lavender or purplish-pink paper for the grin and ears, purple striped paper for the body and tail) *
• Toilet tissue tubes or paper towel tube
• Glue stick
• Glue dots
• Fine-tipped black marker

How To Make It

1. Create a stand for the egg by wrapping purple striped paper around a section of a toilet tissue or paper towel tube and securing the overlapped edges with glue. Cut a bushy tail shape out of the same paper and glue it to the base of the holder (if you like, you can even accentuate the tip of the tail with lavender paper). Place the egg sideways atop the holder.
2. Print the template and cut out all the pieces. Use the specified pieces to cut out a lavender or purplish-pink grin and pair of ears.

3. Glue the teeth and nose cutouts onto the grin, as shown.

4. Then draw on whiskers.
5. Use glue dots to stick the upper edge of the assembled grin to the egg, but leave the lower edge unattached so that it remains flat and looks broad (like the Cheshire Cat’s). Glue the eyes in place just above the nose, and use the marker to draw on eyebrows.

6. Lastly, outline each ear with a black marker and then fold the lower edge back as shown. Glue the folded portion of each ear to the top of the egg.

Notes

Cutting should be done by an adult.

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Craft Time: Cheshire Cat Pumpkin Carving Template

Cheshire Cat Pumpkin Carving Template

What You'll Need

Cheshire Cat Template

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Pumpkin

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Pumpkin carving kit

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Regular paper

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Water-based marker (optional)

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Clear tape

Instructions:

• 1
  There are two ways to transfer your design onto the pumpkin. One is to copy it freehand onto a clean, dry pumpkin with a water-based marker (mistakes can be easily corrected with a paper towel). The other is to tape your template to the pumpkin, then score the design into the skin by poking holes through the template with a nail or plastic poking tool (available in some pumpkin-carving kits).
• 2
  Carve by starting at the center of your design and working outward (this avoids putting pressure on areas already carved). Begin with the innermost and smallest details. As each shape loosens up, gently push it out of the pumpkin with a finger or a dull pencil point (a good job for young kids).
• 3
  Lastly, put your jack-o'-lantern in a place of honor (away from flammables), and remember to blow out all candles before you go to sleep.

Additional Information

Tip: If you cut something you didn't intend to, perform an ad hoc pumpkin surgery by sticking a toothpick through the flesh side of the piece and fit it back into place.

Cutting should be done by an adult.

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