How to Make a Sheep Easter Egg
This super cute sheep Easter egg is made using simple craft supplies. Display your Easter egg lamb on the mantel or as part of an Easter centerpiece!
Yield: 1 sheep Easter egg
Cost: $2
Materials
- Black pipe cleaner(s)
- Hard boiled brown egg
- White pom pom(s) (1 inch)
- Black cardstock (or construction paper)
- Black marker
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Make the sheep's legs
- Place a 12 inch black pipe cleaner beside a ruler. Fold it at the 1-1/2 inch mark so that the pipe cleaner is doubled up.
- Bend the double layer of pipe cleaner down, creating a tall "L" shape. Line up the base of the "L" with the start of the ruler.
- Bend the single pipe cleaner down at the 1 inch mark. Fold it back up again, creating another 1-1/2 inch long leg.
- Cut off the excess pipe cleaner at the top.Repeat to make a second set of legs.
Step 3: Attach the legs to a hard boiled egg
- Add a line of hot glue towards one end of a cooled hard boiled egg or a fake plastic egg.
- Place the flat 1 inch part of the legs into the glue, with the legs pointing away from the egg.
- Repeat, adding the second set of legs closer to the other end of the egg.
- Set the egg down with the legs towards you and the smaller top facing up. This will be the sheep's face and should be left uncovered.You can place the egg on a bottle cap or small roll of tape to keep it from rolling away.
Step 4: Glue pom poms to the egg
- Add a line of glue just in front of the top (front) pipe cleaner legs.
- Begin adding pom poms into the glue, one by one.
- Continue adding glue and pom poms around the egg, leaving the face uncovered.Be sure to place the pom poms as close together as you can.
- Add a second row of pom poms behind the first.Place them so that they go between the pom poms of the previous row. This will help prevent any gaps.
- Work towards the back of the sheep, adding the pom poms into the glue.As you get closer to the back, and work around the back legs, the rows won't be as neat. Try to fill the space as best you can.
- Finally, continue to push the pom poms close together as you fill in the bottom of the sheep.
Step 5: Add ears and a face
- Fold a small piece of black cardstock in half.
- Draw a tall, curved "U" shape, about 1 inch long, onto the paper.
- Cut out the shape through both layers of paper to create the sheep's ears.
- Add a small dot of glue to the straight edge of the ear.
- Place the ear under a pom pom at the side of the sheep's face. Press the pom pom back down to keep the ear in place.Then bend the ear so it sticks out to the side.Repeat for the second ear on the other side.
- Use a fine tipped black marker to draw a "Y" shaped mouth and dot eyes on the sheep.You can also add little eyelashes, if you'd like.
- Your sheep Easter egg is complete!
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Notes
Looking for more sheep crafts? Here's a few of our favourites:
Cotton Ball Sheep Craft
Pom Pom Sheep
Paper Roll Sheep