Plastic Bottle Basket for Easter

A very pretty yet easy plastic bottle basket making tutorial at home. These baskets are made using waste plastic soda or water bottles and some craft foam sheets, turning into beautiful Easter baskets for your Easter decorations or Easter egg hunting. Being few days away from celebrating Easter, a festival of joy and happiness, we have all the excitement and time staying at home to make this pretty plastic bottle basket easily at home with few steps to follow.

So, let’s get started.

Materials Required:

• Plastic Bottle
• Craft Foam Sheets
• Pen
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Glue

Instructions:

Watch the video tutorial for making plastic bottle basket at home.

1. Take a waste plastic soda or water bottle and cut out the base and upper half of the bottle, to get a cylindrical portion out of it.
2. Now for the base take a green foam sheet and make a circular cutout as of the diameter of the bottle.
3. With another green foam sheet cut out three strips along the length of the sheet as shown in picture below.
4. Now cut one of the strip in a zigzag pattern from one side to make it look like grass or bush cutout.
5. Stick the circle cutout on the base of the bottle with synthetic glue.
6. Stick the grass cutout on the bottom portion of the bottle as shown in the picture.
7. Similarly stick another strip on the upper edge of the bottle as shown in the picture.
8. Now stick the third strip along the diameter of the neck to make a basket hitch or handle as shown in the picture.
9.  Take pink and orange color foam sheets and cut medium sized flower patterns out of it.
10. With another yellow color foam sheet cut out small circular patterns to make the pistil of the flower and stick them on the center of each flower cutout.
11. Now stick these flowers in the middle portion of the basket in random or any particular pattern.
12. Also stick some flowers on top of the handle of the basket to make it look more colorful.

And we’re done with our beautiful Easter plastic bottle basket made easily at home with all the materials easily available to us. You can make it similar to ours or use different color foam sheets to make it look more vibrant. Also, you can create various patterns other than flower and use other colored plastic bottles as well. Similarly, you can create many other beautiful plastic bottle basket patterns easily through this idea. You can also check out more Easter Craft Ideas on the Little Crafties Youtube channel.