In this project, make Easter egg holders to display your decorated eggs or to liven up plain plastic eggs. The holders are made from doubled computer paper, formed into rings. There are three different egg holders on each printable pattern, along with ten bonus stickers. There are also plain patterns for you to decorate as you like. Express your creativity with any of the 9 free printables, including one that is a full sheet of Easter Stickers!
Related crafts: See the Marbled Eggs craft project for how to decorate eggs with swirled patterns and the Sticker Seal Gum recipe for a lickable solution to apply to the back of the Easter stickers.
Choose the Easter Egg Holder pattern you want to use. Print the color patterns on white paper and the black & white patterns on white or pastel paper. For the most creative options, select one of the Create Your Own patterns to decorate any way you want. The patterns with dots coordinate with Aunt Annie's Easter Dots digital papers and the stripes coordinate with Spring Simple Stripes digital papers.
Patterns are Adobe PDF files. The Adobe Reader is available for free.
All of Aunt Annie's project patterns are designed to be printed on standard letter-size paper (8.5"x11" or A4). When printing from Adobe Reader, you may need to select Auto-Rotate and Center or Choose paper source by PDF page size to ensure the best fit.
Easter Digital Papers to Download
Combine the stickers with the
Spring Simple
Stripes digital papers,
or any of
Aunt
Annie's Digital Papers for Easter and Spring, to make even more egg holders—checkout the
Tips section to see how to make
egg holders using stickers.
Or use any of these digital papers to make Easter versions of
Bookmark Greeting Cards.
If you printed the black & white Easter Egg Holder pattern, use crayons, colored pencils or markers to color in the Easter designs. If you choose the Create Your Own or Dots patterns, draw designs of your own creation, or stamp the egg holders with rubberstamp images. Let your creativity flow. Try to make egg holder designs that enhance the Easter eggs that you plan to display.
Tip: Use pastel Easter colors. Color in the background also if you like. Do not color the bottom half of each pattern—it will be folded to the inside.
The Easter Egg Holder pattern has three
egg holders and ten stickers. Cut out each egg
holder and sticker around its outside edge.
Fold each egg holder pattern lengthwise along the long center line with the design on the outside. Use your thumbnail to make a sharp, flat crease.
Open up the fold and apply glue all over one side of the holder. Press the sides together and smooth with your hand.
Form a ring and overlap the ends about ½" (1 cm) or more. Tape the ends together at the top and bottom edges with small pieces of tape. For the best fit, check the holder on an egg before taping the ends.
Tip: The Easter stickers may be used to cover the tape on the back of the egg holder.
That's it! You're done!
Tip: See the Marbled Eggs craft project for how to decorate eggs with swirled patterns.
Tip: The egg holders store flat for use year-after-year. All you have to do is cut the taped seam and flatten them out.
Tip: An Easter Sticker can be used to cover the taped seam on the back of the egg holder.
Tip: The Easter Stickers can be used to make egg holders from any decorative paper, like Spring Polka Dots digital papers. Cut a 2" by 6" rectangle from the decorative paper, and assemble following the instructions in this project. Glue a sticker to the center front of the egg holder ring.
Tip: The egg holders dress up plain plastic eggs.
Tip: Wrap an egg holder around the middle of a plain egg.
