Easter Hen

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Easter Hen  Easter project: how to make an Easter hen

In need of Easter decorations?  Try this Easter hen, perfect for the lunch table, an Easter egg hunt or a gift for a child! You'll have fun adding your own touch to holiday traditions.

Supplies
Tools
  • Sewing accessories
  • Sewing machine
  • Drawing pencil
  • Optional : printer
Materials
  • Cloth for the body and wings
  • White cloth for the eyes
  • Orange, black and red felt
  • Assorted sewing threads
  • Cotton stuffing as for stuffed animals
Directions
  • Print out the pattern of the hen and cut out the different sections (see diagram and traslation below).
  1. The body (corps): Cut out 2 sillhouettes to eventually be sewn together.
  2. The wings (ailes): Cut out 4 times, two for one side, two for the other.
  3. The beak (bec): Cut out once
  4. The crest (crete): Cut out once
  5. The eyes (oeil): Cut out 2 white circles, 2 smaller black ones
  6. The feet (pattes): Cut out 2 longer white strips, 4 very short ones

  • Place them on the cloth of the body/wings and the pieces of felt for the crest/ feet/ eyes/ beak.
  • Sew the white part of the eye onto the cloth by hand.
  • Fix the black part of the eye onto the white by sewing a cross.

  • Sew the each of the wings together at their borders making sure to leave space at the bottom for stuffing.

  • Turn inside out and fill with stuffing.
  • Sew the wings shut with left over cloth at the bottom.
  • Sew directly onto the body of the hen.

  • Place the beak, the crest and the feet on the parts of the hen where they belong and stitch a frame around the body, stitching the beak, crest and feet to the body down at their bases as shown below.

  • For the feet, stitch on the little pieces of the feet at the bottom of the long strips of felt with a sewing needle.
  • Sew the other half of the body onto the first, lined up so the two halves mirror each other and leave space for the stuffing on the hen's back.
  • Turn it inside out and stuff.
  • Sew it shut by hand making a pretty border on the back where the opening was for the stuffing.

 
Isastuce

Isastuce ( Amateur crafter, Grade school teacher )

Isastuce

Pioupiouville

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annadeb2

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Boston/ Paris

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