DIY Gorgeous Flowery One-Egg Easter Basket — Easy Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Make a charming, eco-friendly Easter accent with just a toilet paper roll, tissue paper and one egg. This quick DIY creates a small flowery basket that’s perfect for place settings, Easter displays, or a simple homemade gift.
Introducing the "Gorgeous Flowery One-Egg Easter Basket" - a whimsical and charming addition to your Easter celebrations! This delightful basket is adorned with vibrant tissue-paper flowers, perfect for adding a pop of color to your holiday decor. With its unique design and one special egg nestled inside, it is sure to bring joy to both kids and adults alike. Brighten up your Easter festivities with this lovely basket that is bound to make your celebrations even more special and memorable.
Finished flowery one-egg Easter basket made from tissue paper and a toilet paper roll.
Materials
One egg
A toilet paper roll
Tissue paper (two colors for petals and sepals)
Tools
Scissors
Hot glue and glue gun
Ruler
Scalpel or other precision cutting tool
Instructions
Measure and mark the toilet paper tube to about 4 cm high for a neat basket size.
The first step is to cut the toilet paper tube down to the proper size. While you can make it as tall or short as you wish, I found that 4 cm in height seems to work pretty well.
To make a nice clean cut, you are going to want to use a ruler to draw marks around the toilet paper tube at that 4 cm height. Then, you will want to connect those dots. Once you do that, you have a line to use to guide the cut.
A precision cutting tool such as a scalpel will make it much easier to get that clean cut you are after, but careful work with a pair of scissors may also do the trick.
Cut along the guide line using a scalpel or scissors to create the basket body.
Tube trimmed to the desired height (about 4 cm).
Next, you will need to make the flower petals. To do this, you will need to cut a very long strip of tissue paper in the color that you have chosen (this is what I used the red tissue paper for).You are going to end up wrapping this strip of tissue paper around and around the toilet paper tube, so it is going to need to be a little bit taller than the tube itself.
Cut a long strip of tissue paper taller than the tube; this will become the petals.
Once you have that strip cut out, you're going to need to cut a wavy pattern across the top edge. To be more precise, it should look like a series of petal shapes all connected together.
Cut a scalloped or wavy petal edge along the top of the strip.
If you want to save time doing this, you can fold up the strip of tissue paper over and over again and then cut a single petal shape. When you unfold it, you will have that shape duplicated over and over again along the length of the strip of paper. You can watch me do this in the video.Once you are done with this step, set this piece of tissue paper aside for now.
Fold the strip and cut a single petal shape to repeat the pattern quickly.
A completed petal strip ready to be wrapped around the tube.
Wrap a matching piece of tissue paper around the tube to conceal it completely.
You are now going to need to get another piece of tissue paper which is the same color as the petals you just created. You need to wrap this tissue paper around the outside of the toilet paper tube and over the top of it and down inside. Your goal is to cover up the toilet paper tube completely, concealing its true nature. You can use hot glue (or another type of glue) to secure it in place. Some of it may be sticking out along the bottom edge. If that is the case, use a pair of scissors to trim it off.
Trim any excess tissue at the bottom so the wrap looks neat.
Glue the petal strip around the tube, keeping glue near the bottom edge so petals can be fluffed.
Next, as discussed before, wrap the tissue paper petals that you made around and around the outside of the toilet paper tube, gluing them as you go. Keep the glue along the bottom edge. You do not want the petals to stick flush against the paper roll. You want to be able to fluff them out.
After the glue has dried, carefully pull the petals away from the tube, fanning them out so it looks like a blossom.
Fluff the petals to form a full flower around the basket opening.
The basket beginning to take shape with layered petals.
Once this step is complete, your basket should look like this:
Top view of the petal arrangement and central cavity for the egg.
You will create the sepals the same way you did the flower petals. Simply cut a strip of green tissue paper, and then cut a zigzag pattern along the top.
Cut a green zigzag strip to create the sepals at the base of the flower.
Glue the sepals around the base of the petals to complete the flower look.
Use hot glue to attach the sepals just as you did the petals, working your way around the toilet paper tube.
Twist two thin tissue-paper strips together to make a simple braided handle.
Finally, it is time to make the handle of the Easter basket. You can do this by cutting two small strips of tissue paper. I recommend using alternating colors (I used red and green to match the rest of the basket). Wrap them around and around each other to create the handle. Make sure that you make the handle long enough that you can push the egg under it to get it into the basket or remove it later.
Attach the braided handle to the basket with hot glue so the egg can be placed beneath it.
Place the egg under the handle into the finished basket.
Use the hot glue to attach the handle and complete your basket. Now all that is left to do is put the egg inside, and it is ready to display.
Display the delicate one-egg basket as part of your Easter table decor.
Side view highlighting the layered petals and sepals.
Optional: add a small cardboard base for extra stability or to hold other items.
Notes:
You will notice that I did not bother to create a bottom for this Easter basket. This is because an egg fits quite snugly inside a toilet paper tube. So long as it is going to be resting in one place most of the time, a bottom is probably not required.
Nonetheless, if you would like to add one, you can just cut a small piece of circular cardboard and glue it to the bottom. This also opens up the possibility of putting something other than an egg inside the basket.