A crafty way to transform egg designs into baskets...

Egg shaped baskets hang from a early blooming pink dogwood tree.

       To make eggs like these you will need the following supplies: a paper egg pattern, light weight cardboard, scrapbook papers, embroidery floss, white school glue or tacky craft glue, wire for hanging and straw flower embellishments.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Swipe a flat paper egg pattern to your desktop and then print it out from your home computer/ laptop.
2. Cut out the size you need and then transfer it to cardboard. 
3. Form the handle of the egg shaped basket by removing the top half of the egg shaped cardboard cut-out.
4. Repeat steps two and three, excluding the handle.
5. Glue together the two bottom halves to form an open shallow pocket for the egg shaped basket.
6. After the cardboard basket is completely dry, cut from plaid scrapbook papers and decoupage these images onto the lower sections of each basket.
7. Smear more glue onto each handle and then carefully wrap colorful embroidery floss around the handles of the baskets. 
8. Paste straw flower embellishments inside of the shallow basket cavities.
9. Wrap on a wire hook to hang these egg shaped baskets onto Easter egg trees.

Left, cut-out the cardboard pieces, Center, double up on the lower basket to paste two together.
 Right, decoupage plaid scrapbook paper onto the lower halves of each basket.