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Busy Bag – Easter Eggs The Kids Can Decorate Over And Over Again

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This Easter Kids craft is the perfect addition to an Easter Themed busy bag.

The dry erase Easter egg can be decorated over and over again. It’s a great little gift to give small children too. Add some dry erase pens and a little carry bag to finish off this Non-candy DIY kids craft.

Materials:

Instructions:

  1. Print and cut out the egg shape template.
  2. Trace the egg template onto a piece of cardstock.
  3. Cut out the egg shape that you have traced onto the cardstock. Cut it slightly inside of the lines, so that it is smaller than the printed out template.
  4. Holding the egg shape template on top of a piece of transparency paper, cut around the outside of the template. This will give you a piece of transparency paper that has an egg shape, and is slightly larger than your template.
  5. Place a layer of glue on the cardstock shaped like an egg. Lay the printed out template on top, and smooth out all of the bubbles.
  6. Once the glue has dried completely, place the egg shape you cut out of the transparency paper over top of the cardstock-backed egg shape.
  7. Decorate your egg by using dry erase markers to color on the transparency paper. Wipe off with a paper towel and repeat.

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Book Review: 200 Japanese Cross Stitch Designs

If you like repeating cross stitch designs, borders you can use on other projects or as bookmarks, florals and Japanese-inspired designs, you’ll want to check out 200 Japanese Cross Stitch Designs by Saeko Endo. This collection of 200 cross stitch charts is low on instruction but big on inspiration for those who are comfortable taking a chart and running with it. 

The book includes a brief introduction to the needed supplies and basics of stitching, but mostly is just photographs of finished designs and the charts that go with them. The charts vary widely in size and there can be anywhere from one to six charts printed on a single page. 

Many of the designs are repeating patterns, but the chart shows a larger version so you can see how the repeats go together. Each chart has marked what portion is repeating and how many stitches and rows it includes. Other than that the charts are not numbered, but there are darker lines every five rows to help you count. 

The patterns all range from one to three colors, and some include half cross stitches or back stitching, but most are full stitches. 

The book is arranged into categories of motifs: geometric patterns, retro patterns, traditional Japanese patterns, floral and fauna and borders and pictorial motifs. 

My favorites are the Japanese designs, many of which are recognizable from woodcuts, kimono designs and traditional shashiko embroidery.  You’ll find cherry blossoms, suns, knots, and simple line designs that would be lots of fun to stitch. 

There are a few pages devoted to different ways to modify charts such as changing colors, changing the way to design is repeated, flipping and rotating designs.

Other than that you’re on your own for how you actually want to use these designs. Of course they can just be stitched and framed but it might have been nice to see some of the projects stitched and staged in a way you might use them in everyday life (repeating motifs as coasters, or a bigger design turned into a pillow, for example). 

Sometimes it helps to see designs used in different ways to get you thinking about how you might use them yourself. If you don’t need that creative push, this is a fine book full of patterns you’ll have fun playing with in different ways. 

About the book: 112 pages, paperback, 200 patterns. Published 2025 by David & Charles. Suggested retail price $24.99.