New-York tribune., 1915-03-14
Easter.time Fun
and Games.

surprise CdruS! IL you never
have. it is high time tha, yOu
do. They are fun to make, and eve,
so much fun to give away, and a
for getting one for a presen, On
Easter Day-why, Of course, tina, |,
fun, tool
Easter egg surprise cards an
something you can easily make YOU.
self from white pad paper and col
ored pin-wheel papers. You vii
need some paste and a pair d
scissors for tools. II you are no,
very good at cutting outlines. you
had better have a pencil besides
First, draw the shape OF an en-
on your white pad paper. Make til.
egg about FIVE inches long and abou.
three inches high. Cut a number o.
eggs like this, using the first mode.
10 make all others by. and cutting
each outline exactly the sam. Ia
size.
Next, from some yellow pin.wh.s
paper, cut out small yellow chickens
making each not more than two
inches high. Cut out also spring
hats, and trim these with eolor.d
paper strips. Let all dry well
Flower shapes may also be mad.
from the pin-wheel paper, daisies,
roses and tulips. These must b.
made as small as the chickens ws.
cut, two inches high.
Next, take one of the egg shapes
Carefully paste around its very edge
all the way around. Take a chicken,
or a hat, or a flower and place tht,
in the centre, where there is no
paste, and put another egg shap,
over it. This closes the Easter ess
surprise card nicely. II the paper IS
heavy, you cannot see what is insit.
Take your paints or crayons and
write on the outside of the Easter
egg surprise card:
open the egg and you will see
What Easter brings to you, maybeT
Fluffy Cotton Chickens.
Cotton chickens tha. are very
fluffy and cunning may be made with
a sheet of bristle board and 5-esa'
package Of absorbent cotton.
Draw the outline OF a chicken %
your cardboard. You may find u
outline on some old Easter cat
Follow this either by making o.
rect tracing or by copying free hand
When the chicken is finished, eol@
its legs brown or yellow and its oil
brown or yellow. Place paste az
over its body and then place a psSs
Of white cotton over the paste. lv'
the cotton the shape OF the chlcksn
Let all dry we'll, and when the cot
ton adheres firmly to the body 70.
will have a downy little chick u
you have a small black bead, sew u
where the chickens eye should o.
Glue a straight strip OF cardboard 70
the back of the chicken and bendh
Then the chicken VII
stand.
Easter Egg Bunnies.
Cooked eggs may be made u"
Easter bunnies. Did you ever "
to make an Easter bunnie out Oh
cooked Easter egg' When your esp
are cooked, take some heavy WIZ"
paper and cut from it some '0ns
white ears that ht the size Oh y"
egg. Cut also four little foun'~'
legs. They need not be shaped cav
fully, but each must be the 'AD
in shape as the other. Take soD
good glue and paste bunnIes -"
to the egg. Let them dry we'll ="
not touch them or lift the egg "
all is thoroughly dry. Then ~
bunnie's ears near the point OF v
egg. Make a crayon eye with a pD
crayon on each side OF the poin'
the egg. Cut a soft round OF Wn. &
cotton and stick this where OunnN
tail should go. Then-stana ".
ounnie on his feet. He VIII
splendid kind Of Easter toyI
that you can play with, too' anu
that you may eat, maybe. .,I,
With all these jolly Easter u'"
you can have an Easter egg hu", :,
the backyard. 1t will be az
more fun if you make the toy''.,
self and ask your own playmase'
he party. The toys may be p''
N any spot where they are not
Die to immediate sight. See who =
ind the most and divide evenly
terward.