Kids Craft – Easter Bunny Handprints

This Easter kids craft project is the perfect activity for children. It is fast to make and can be made in a classroom or lesson plan setting. The Easter project is so much fun and the kids will love it. You can create these little Easter paintings as Easter gifts for the children to take home to parents. Laminate their artwork for durability or turn them into an Easter Card or Easter picnic invite.

Easter Bunny Handprint Craft

Foam or paint brush

white washable paint

pink washable paint

construction paper

black sharpie marker

Directions:

Paint 4 fingers (not the thumb) and palm of the hand white. Put first and second fingers together and spread the ring and pinky finger out, forming a “V” shape.

Place palm flat down on construction paper.

Let dry. Use foam or paint brush to paint a pink nose and inside of the ears pink.

Follow up with eyes, mouth, and whiskers with a marker pen.

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Stitch dictionaries are a fun way to learn new-to-you knitting stitch patterns or to take a deep dive into a particular technique. Debbie Tomkies offers 100 cable stitch designs and thoughts on how to incorporate them into projects in her Cable Knitting Stitch Dictionary.

Each stitch pattern is shown in a large swatch photo and with written and charted instructions. Any special stitches are included on the page. The stitches are rated on a difficulty scale of 1 to 3, and the pattern notes also indicate how many extra stitches you should add to a project if you’re going to work this cable (since cables pull the fabric closer together you need to compensate for that) as well as how many stitches and rows are in the repeat if you want to design a project yourself.

The cables are arranged into sections: classic cables, combinations, all-over panels, creative cables, motifs and panels and cabled edges and borders.

It’s fun to flip through the designs to think about projects you can add a single cable or two to or make with an allover cabled design. Or you could make swatches of different cables and sew them together into a pillow cover or a throw.

At the back of the book there’s a section on general cable knitting techniques, reading charts, working swatches and avoiding errors (though it mentions working the wrong number of rows between cable turns, it doesn’t share how to count rows between cables to avoid this mistake).

It also talks about how to design your own cables, combine cables in a project, choose the right yarn and needles and determine how many more stitches you need to cast on when working cables instead of stockinette stitch. There’s also a glossary of symbols and abbreviations you may find in cable knitting and other patterns.

The book provides a good overview of things you can do with cables, as well as some fun things you might not have tried like infinity cables and horizontal cables. It’s a great book for a designer who likes to work with cables or a knitter who wants to play with different stitches in their projects.

About the book: 176 pages, paperback, 100 stitch patterns. Published 2024 by David & Charles. Suggested retail price $26.99.

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