March 10, 2015 Do It Together S.L.

easter basket

Today our friend Olaya, from the Tacones con gracia s blog, teaches us how to make a simple basket for our children to collect their sweets at Easter.

easter basket

Easter is just around the corner!! So we will have to start preparing to collect as many sweets and chocolates as possible in the Easter gymkhana.

And to facilitate the search work for our little ones, what better than preparing a basket where they can carry all their "treasures". In addition, once the gymkhana is over, it can always be used to store inside a mini with the photos of that special day.

For our Easter basket we will need the following materials: Guillotine and/or scissors, ruler, pencil and eraser, Crop-a-dile, 4 eyelets, folder, stapler, 1.5” circle die, Glossy Accent type glue, 1 30x30 brown textured cardstock and Easter papers and decorations.

To start we will take the textured cardboard in a brown tone (you can also take double-sided patterned paper that you like) and we must cut two strips of 2cm wide by 30cm.

Once cut, we will pierce the strips, at both ends, with the help of the Crop-a-dile and reserve them (these pieces will be the handles of our basket).

Next, with the help of the pencil and the ruler, we will mark all the necessary lines on our textured cardboard. We will start with the side that measures 26cm, in which we will make a line at 10cm and another line at 16cm, obtaining three stripes (a first strip of 10cm, a second strip of 6cm and a third strip of 10cm).

We continue making the following marks/lines on the part of the textured cardboard that measures 30cm: at 2cm, at 4cm, at 6cm, at 15cm, at 22cm, at 24cm, at 26cm and finally at 28cm. Once all our lines have been drawn we will obtain something similar to this:

Now it's time to grab the scissors and start cutting all the lines. Once this process is finished, we will have 4 triangles left that we will save and use later.

With the help of the folding machine we will fold all the strips and triangles, and from that moment, and with great care, we can erase all the pencil marks.

At this point we need the help of the stapler to start shaping our basket. We will be stapling the 4 groups of strips together, taking into account that the upper strip will always go first.

With all four sets of straps stapled together, it's time to join the front and back of the basket. We start at the front, joining the two groups of strips with the triangle. To do this, we will fold the triangle approximately 1.5 cm and staple it together with the strips.

We will repeat the same process on the back of the basket.

We will recover the triangles that we had separated and we will punch 2 circles with the 1.5” punch. These circles will serve to cover the staples so that the basket fits perfectly. For that, we will fold the circumference in half and glue it on the staples with a generous layer of Glossy Accent type glue.

With the base on one side and the handles on the other, it's time to assemble our Easter basket. We drill 4 holes and with the help of the Crop-a-dile we fix the 4 eyelets.

Our basket is finished!!!