Easter Basket - Making and Wrapping

Making an Easter Basket for the Habitat for Humanity Charity Auction

  

   

Here are the supplies/items I bought to make the Easter Basket.

I had a smaller flatter basket that I inverted in the bottom of the larger basket.  Then I started building the structure of gifts, taller, thinner gifts go in the back, smaller items will later be leaned against the backdrop.

Pre-assemble the carrot shaped eggs with smaller candy.  They will be taped in place to keep them from shifting in the final place in the basket.

I attempted to stack tall in the back and shorter more interesting items in the front.  Zoom in and you will notice that the carrot-eggs are taped into place, as well as the chocolate Easter Rabbit and handle to the blue "pincher-grabber-thingie".

Time to wrap.  It takes a lot of wrap for a big basket (2-3 rolls, depending).  I lay it out in a large cross, one layer going in one direction and the other layer of the wrap going in the other direction.

I placed the basket in the middle and draw the edges up into one hand held high over the basket.  Keep an eight inch piece of wire to hold the wrap in place at the top.  Ribbon will be tied over to hid the wire at a later date.  There are "wings" of wrap that need to be gentle pulled to the back of the basket and taped with clear tape.  Tape is the secret weapon in this task.

 

Notice the small piece of ribbon tied over the wire.

This basket is off to Habitat for Humanities Charity Auction.