Celebrate the special holiday of Easter by making a bright and beautiful paper sunrise & cross craft with your kids! Get inspired by this step-by-step tutorial.
Calling all my crafty friends! Whether for Sunday school or an Easter morning event – today’s Paper Easter Sunrise and Cross kid craft idea is sure to be loved by many!
We are using our Cricut Maker Machine today, to make this mixed media art piece come to life within minutes!
Inspired by my own past experiences attending sunrise services on Easter Sunday, I thought this beautiful mix of colors and an iconic symbol would be PERFECT for anyone to recreate in honor of the season.
Just like a real sunrise, we are combining several different bright colors and showcasing them behind a simple paper cross you can make within minutes, using your Cricut machine.
Not only is this Sunrise and Cross tutorial super easy to recreate, it’s also inexpensive and fun for all ages {even adults can join in the fun!} Plus it can be turned into decorations within minutes. Just slip your finished piece in a simple frame and display.
So what are you waiting for? Check out the full tutorial below, grab those craft supplies and get the creative juices flowing with the help of us today! No two stained glass sunrise craft pieces will be alike {just like a real sunrise on Easter} so be sure to share pictures with us so we can admire your beautiful creations! You can tag us on Facebook or Instagram to share with us! #gluedtomycrafts
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Craft Supplies:
- Cricut Black Glitter Cardstock
- Cricut Maker Machine
- Cricut Design Space App
- Standard Grip Adhesive Cutting Mat
- Cricut Fine Point Blade
- White Cardstock
- Red, Yellow, Orange Tissue Paper
- Craft Scissors
- Glue Stick
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Directions:
- First things first – you are going to grab all your colors of tissue paper and scissors. Go ahead and cut a handful of tissue paper squares from EACH color. You want the squares to be around 1″ inch by 1″ inch but they don’t need to be perfect or all exact in size.
- When you have a good amount of tissue paper squares, you are going to grab a single sheet of white cardstock and your glue stick.
- Working in rows, make lines of glue on the paper and place your tissue paper squares on top, until your entire paper is covered and you have a beautiful mosaic design on it. I went with a sporadic design for mine but you can do a more ombre look if desired. If need be, layer more tissue paper squares on top of the others, until you have the look you like.
- Once done, you are going to set it aside for a bit. Discard extra tissue paper squares.
- Now turn on your Cricut Maker Machine and whatever device you are using the design space app on. I use an iPad when working with mine.
- In your app, you are going to go to the mat feature, hit add image and type in “cross” in the search bar. There are several different options to choose from in the app but I went with the Cross Tombstone #M8615BDD.
- Go ahead and hit insert to add it to the mat.
- Once the digital cross is in place, you are going to want to resize it a bit so it can be the star of the show in your craft. Since my white cardstock measured 8.5″ x 11″ inches, I went ahead and sized my cross to around 7.53″ x 8.99″ inches. You can of course go a little larger or smaller if you like.
- Now take a single sheet of black glitter cardstock and place it on your Cricut mat {the black facing you} and use your hand to make sure it’s nice and flat, as well as secure on there.
- Go ahead and load the mat into your machine.
- From there, you are going to hit cut, let the machine do it’s job and remove the mat & eventually your cross cutout from it.
- Finally – the last step for this sunrise and cross craft. Go ahead and use your glue stick to secure the newly made paper cross cutout {glitter side up} to the decorated tissue paper piece. I secured mine towards the bottom of the paper but feel free to glue it wherever you want!
- And that’s it! Let it all dry completely before your display it proudly for all to see.
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Now isn’t that super easy?! I know there are “a lot” of words in the Easter sunrise craft tutorial above but it’s nothing elaborate or crazy hair pulling out chaos. I just wanted to make sure you got EVERY little detail 🙂 Hopefully that came across!
On that note, I really do hope I inspired you to recreate this Easter themed craft with your child and maybe {just maybe} if you don’t have a machine just yet, I hope I gave you some thought to buying your own Cricut Maker today.
Like I mentioned in the beginning of this three post review series, I’m going to be sharing so many new ideas in the coming weeks and months, that I don’t want YOU to miss out on the fun! All the tutorials are going to be just as easy as today’s creative idea!
So come join me as we get crafty together with our new Cricut Maker Machines, all while making some impressive crafts with our children! Stay tuned my friends – this going to be an EPIC CRAFT ADVENTURE!
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