All your eggs in ONE BASKET

Create unique giftboxes for family and friends using papier-mâché eggs. Paint the outside with chalk, acrylic or even tester pots of emulsion in pastel shades. Once dry, decorate with rabbit, chick and basket silhouettes cut from wallpaper, giftwrap or decoupage paper. Fix the motifs with glue and fill the egg cases with paper straw and small chocolate treats.

Wicker shopping basket, from a selection, Norpar. Wood packing straw, £9.46/1kg, The Bag ‘N’ Box Man. Brown Kraft papier-mâché Easter eggs, £7.19 (three), The Little Crafty Bugs Company. Eggs painted in Lem Lem, Antoinette, Louis Blue and Cream chalk paints, £21.95/L each, Annie Sloan. Silhouettes cut from a selection of wallpaper from Osborne & Little and Mindthegap. Heritage jute twine spool in Marine, from £2.70, Nutscene