Easter egg basket templates to print and make: step by step guide

We've got 3 different Easter basket template designs to choose from: a bunny, a hatching chick or a bunny-and-chick double act with a Happy Easter message

For each design, we have a full-colour option and black-and-white option — great if you don't have coloured ink in your printer and/or your child would like to colour it in themselves.

To guide you through making the basket, we have a step-by-step video (above) and pictures (below). All you need is card, scissors and glue.

How to make an Easter egg basket with our free downloadable templates: choose one, then follow our step-by-step video and picture guides

FIRST, CHOOSE YOUR BASKET TEMPLATE FROM THE FOLLOWING 3 DESIGNS...

1: Cute bunny basket (black and white option)

• Download the colour-in-yourself bunny Easter basket template

Cute bunny basket (full colour option)

• Download the colour bunny Easter basket template

2: Hatching chick basket (black and white option)

• Download the colour-in-yourself hatching chick Easter basket template

Hatching chick basket (full colour option)

• Download the colour hatching chick Easter basket template

3: Happy Easter basket (black and white option)

• Download the colour-in-yourself Happy Easter basket template

Happy Easter basket (full colour option)

• Download the colour Happy Easter basket template

NOW, FOLLOW OUR STEP-BY-STEP VIDEO GUIDE (ABOVE) OR PICTURE GUIDE (BELOW) TO MAKE YOUR EASTER BASKET...

You will need:

• 1 Easter basket template (from the selection above), printed out
• scissors
• card
• glue

Step 1: Cut out the template pieces

Print out your chosen Easter basket template, and cut around it. There will be 2 parts: the basket and the handle. If you're using the black and white template, it's probably easier to get your child to colour it in now before you do anything else.

Step 2: Glue the basket pieces onto card

To reinforce your basket, glue the 2 parts, with a fair space in between them, onto good-quality card.

Step 3. Cut out the reinforced basket pieces

Turn the card over so you can see the basket design. Cut around the basket and handle, following the solid black lines.

Step 4. Fold and score the flap edges

Set the handle aside. Turn the basket over again, and make folds (as neatly and as straight as possible) along the dotted lines to make the little flaps.

Step 5. Fold and score the basket edges

Turn the basket back over, so the design is face up, and fold along the dotted lines to score the edges of the basket itself.

Step 6. Add glue to the flaps

Turn the basket back over and put glue on the patterned side of the flaps.

Step 7. Glue the flaps together

Bringing up the sides of the basket, line up 1 flap with its adjacent edge and press firmly to make sure the glued bit stays in place. Repeat with the other 3 sides until you have your basket shape.

Step 8. Attach the handle

Make an inward fold of about 5cm from each edge of the handle. Then put glue on the folded piece on the patterned side. Stick one of the folded flaps inside the basket, making sure the handle stands at a right-angle with the edge of the basket. Then bend the handle round (the patterned side should be on the outside) and glue the second flap (again, put the glue on the patterned side) firmly inside the other side of the basket.

And then you're done!

Once the handle is in place, your basket construction is finished! You can line it with a little tissue paper, then pop in chocolate eggs, Easter bunny treats or anything else Easter-y you have to hand. Or hand the empty basket to an eager child and send them off on an Easter egg treasure hunt.

Pics and video: Emily Longman Wall. Illustrations: Jordan Edmonds-Moore.

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• The best Easter egg hunt clues – for toddlers, preschooler and older children
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• How to make traditional painted Easter eggs