Camino crafts - Easter bunting

I've seen some Easter bunting in shops and thought that it would be cool to have some Camino-inspired bunting.

The supplies for this craft are fairly easy to get and are cheap: paint sample cards (from diy shops), string (I used butcher's twine but any will do although you don't want it to be very thick), a pencil or pen, sellotape, scissors and a small bit of cardboard (any thinish stuff will do - it's only to make a stencil so food packing eg a cereal box is fine).

I drew an egg shape on my cardboard and then cut this out before gathering my paint samples in blue and yellow.

Draw around your egg on the back of each sample so that your pencil/pen linyes won't be seen - I could fit two eggs on each card (I sized my egg to be able to do this)

Space your eggs out on your string at wattever interval you wish (I alternated between blue and yellow eggs) and attach using sellotape on the back of each egg.

My completed banner (or rather part of it!) - the eggs look really effective but take very little effort to do.

You can also make Easter cards using this method - cut out your eggs as above and then cut your cardboard to be slightly taller than your egg (in my case 9cm), then cut out your card and stick on your Easter egg

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