These coffee filter Easter baskets are SO PRETTY! Celebrate spring with an adorable flower shaped basket. These coffee filter baskets are bright and cheerful, perfect for spring and Easter.
We love making coffee filter crafts around here. They’re simple, inexpensive, and they always look surprisingly beautiful! This coffee filter Easter basket would look amazing on the dinner table filled with candy or a battery operated tea light.
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How to Make a Coffee Filter Easter Basket
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Instructions:
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Make the Easter basket shape
- Make a stack of 4 coffee filters. Fold them in half, in half again, and in half for a third time.
- Cut the end of the coffee filters so they're rounded, like a flower petal.
- Unfold the coffee filters and re-shape them into their original basket shape.
Step 3: Paint the coffee filters
- Pour about 1 cup of water into a medium size bowl. Add 20 - 30 drops of liquid watercolour paint (purple, or another flower colour) to the water and stir.
- Hold the coffee filters in your hand with the flat bottom in your palm, with the petals scrunched together.Dip the petals into the paint coloured water. Don't dip them too deeply (the water and colour will spread up), but make sure that all the petals get coloured. Try to leave the center of the coffee filter uncoloured.
- Carefully push the coloured coffee filters into a glass or narrow bowl with the petals going upwards.
- Use a skewer (or a utensil, like a fork) to push the stack of coffee filters down into the glass, arranging them so the petals are open against the glass and you can see the bottom of the coffee filter.
- Add about 1/2 cup water and 20 - 30 drops of yellow liquid watercolour paint to a second bowl.Stir well and use an eyedropper (or a teaspoon) to grab some paint.
- Drop the yellow paint into the bottom center of the coffee filters.Allow the coffee filters to dry in the glass overnight.
Step 4: Glue the Easter basket together
- Once the coffee filters are dry, remove them from the glass and open them up. Separate the coffee filters.
- Add a thin line of hot glue to the center of one of the coffee filters.
- Press a second coffee filter onto the glue, connecting the two together in the center.
- Repeat with the other two coffee filters, trying to offset the petals slightly each time.
Step 5: Attach a handle to the flower basket
- Bend a 12 inch green pipe cleaner into a curve and fold about 1/2 inch into an "L" shape on each end.
- Add a dot of hot glue to the inside of the basket, near the edge on the bottom. Repeat on the opposite side.
- Place the bent pipe cleaner ends into the glue, creating a handle for the basket.Hold in the pipe cleaner in place until the glue dries and it stays by itself.
- Then add a bit of hot glue to the top inside of the basket, right beside the pipe cleaner.
- Press the pipe cleaner into the glue, and then repeat with the other side of the handle.This will prevent the basket from tipping when you carry it after it's been filled.
- Your coffee filter Easter basket is complete!
Helpful Tips:
- A narrow container like a glass is best to dry the coffee filters in for an upright basket look. If you want a more open flower look, use a wider bowl.
- You can also make a multi-coloured basket! Colour several different stacks of coffee filters and then mix and match them together.
What type of paint do I need to make coffee filter Easter baskets?
We used liquid watercolour paint to dye our coffee filters. These paints are really bright and colourful, allowing you to use just a little bit in the water to create beautiful spring colours.
Drops of food colouring will also work to dye the coffee filters. Or you can draw on a stack of 2 coffee filters with washable markers and then spray them with water before placing them in the glass to dry.
How do I make the basket more sturdy?
If you need your basket to be more sturdy, cut out a small cardboard circle, a little smaller than the base of the coffee filter and glue it between the first 2 coffee filter layers.
How can I display coffee filter Easter baskets?
We think these flower baskets look adorable with Easter grass and chocolate eggs in them. They also look really pretty with a battery operated tealight candle!
These coffee filter baskets also make a great holder for other Easter crafts like watercolor Easter eggs or yarn carrots!
What other crafts can I make with coffee filters?
If you want to make more flower themed coffee filter crafts, we’ve got you covered! Try making coffee filter flowers, coffee filter hydrangeas, or even coffee filter poppies!
There’s also a lot of fun seasonal crafts you can make with coffee filters. Coffee filter leaves are awesome for fall (stick them in the window like a suncatcher!), while coffee filter snowflakes are beautiful for Christmas and winter.
These coffee filter Easter baskets are the perfect reminder of blooming flowers in spring. Make this easy and fun Easter craft with the kids and then display their chocolate eggs in these cute flower baskets!
Here’s even more Easter craft ideas:
Our book Low-Mess Crafts for Kids is loaded with 72 fun and simple craft ideas for kids! The projects are fun, easy and most importantly low-mess, so the clean up is simple!
Where to buy:
You can purchase Low-Mess Crafts for Kids from Amazon, or wherever books are sold:
Amazon |  Barnes and Noble | Books-A-Million | Indiebound |  Amazon Canada
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