Make a cute DIY tote bag with the kids following our easy step by step instructions. The bunny and chick design on the bag makes this a great Easter or Spring craft. You could even fill your canvas bag with Easter eggs and use it as an Easter basket. The bag is decorated using a simple painting technique which means that with a little help even toddlers and preschoolers can decorate their own homemade bag.
With Easter coming early this year we are already starting to think about Easter activities. We loved making bunny cards and Easter baskets from plastic containers last year and you can't beat Easter handprint art!
These DIY tote bags would make great gifts for either Easter or Mothers Day. Take a look at all our other DIY gift ideas that kids can make to see what you could make to go inside the bag.
You will need:
- Tote bag
- Fabric paint
- Clothes peg
- Pom pom
- Bunny and chick foam shapes
- Glu Dots
- Buttons
DIY Easter Tote Bag
Step 1: Stick foam Easter shapes onto the tote bag using glu dots. We used a chick and a bunny but you could use any shapes.
Step 2: Clip a pom pom to the end of a clothes peg. Dip it into fabric paint.
Step 3: Use the clothes peg to stamp fabric paint over the foam shapes and onto the tote bag. Ensure the edges of the foam shapes are covered well.
Step 4: Once the fabric paint has dried remove the foam shapes. You will be left with a white space where the shapes have been. Daisy (aged 3) loved revealing the chick and bunny as she pulled off the foam shapes.
Step 5: Add detail to the bag using buttons, pom poms etc.
I thought it would be nice to use brightly coloured buttons to add flowers to the grass and to use a white pom pom as a bunnies tail, but Daisy had her own ideas. She used the pom pom as a cloud and wanted the buttons to be rain. She also used buttons for the animals eyes and as a wing and tail. I love her creativity!
We also found a heart in our craft box which Daisy wanted to add between the bunny and the chick.
Daisy was really proud of her completed tote bag and it was really easy to make. It would be fun to try different animal shapes and colour combinations.
Artwork created by Daisy (aged 3)
Have fun creating your tote bag and filling it with a cute homemade gift or lots of Easter treats!
Disclosure - We were sent a box full of craft materials from bostik including the glu dots that we used to hold the foam shapes in place.
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