How to Make Easter Buckets

Making the Basic Bucket

1). Draw around a large dinner plate or use a compass to create a circle about 12 inches in diameter on your thick card. This will be the base of your bucket. Cut out the circle.
2). Bend a piece of card to measure all the way around the circle; cut it to size. The card should be at least 8 inches in height; you can make it bigger if you wish.
3). Measure an inch from the bottom of this piece of card and draw a line all the way across with your pencil. Now make a cut with your scissors up to the line from the bottom of the card every 1/2 inch.
4). Stick or staple the two ends of your card together. With the cuts that you made at the bottom, place the tube on top of the circle. Bend all the strips of card inward, so they will effectively be inside the bucket.
5). Use a glue spreader to put glue on the underside of each strip and attach them to the base of you bucket.
6). Cut a strip of card about 12 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide. Staple the ends to each side of your bucket. You now have a basic bucket.

1). Cut out 12 circles of about 2 inches in diameter from your crepe paper. Do these all in one color; for instance, all pink.
2). Cut out another 12 circles of 1 3/4 inches in diameter from the crepe paper, all in another color; blue, for instance.
3). Cut out another 12 circles of 1 1/2 inches in diameter from the crepe paper in pink again (or whichever color you originally chose). Cut out another 12 circles of 1 1/4 inches in diameter from the crepe paper in blue again. These circles will make layered flowers. You can make more layers going down in size if you wish.
4). Place the largest circles in a row on a table, then the second largest directly on top of these, then the third largest on top of those, and so on. Carefully staple together each flower in the center.
5). Place these flowers around the top edge of your bucket using either glue or staples. You can cover the entire bucket with flowers like this if you wish, or you can cover your bucket with colored crepe paper in other ways, perhaps in stripes to make a pretty pattern. Be as creative as you'd like.