You will need:

• Paper plate
• Card
• Scissors
• Paints
• Paintbrush
• Glue

Step 1: Cut out your basket

Cut out the top half of the centre of your paper plate, as shown.

This makes a nice basket shape, with a handle.

Step 2: Paint your basket

Paint the paper plate brown.

We used acrylic paint and put on two coats to get a nice covering. Leave it to dry.

Step 3: Add some detailing

Use yellow or light brown paint to add criss-crossing stripes to the bottom of your basket, to make it look like basket weaving.

Step 4: Cut out some Easter eggs

Cut some egg shaped ovals out of card.

We chose pretty pastel coloured card but you can use whatever colour you like.

Cut out different sizes of eggs.

Step 5: Decorate your eggs

Use paint (or felt pens) to decorate your Easter eggs.

We added dots, stripes, zig zags and want lines to ours but you can decorate your eggs however you like.

Step 6: Pop the eggs in your basket

Arrange the eggs so that the larger eggs are at the back and the smaller ones are at the front.

Then glue them in place to the back of the paper plate so that they peep out of the basket.

Step 7: Add the ribbon as a final flourish

Finally, to finish off your Easter basket, tie a pretty ribbon around the handle.

Tie it in a pretty bow.