Instructions

1. The first step is to cut the toilet paper tube down to the proper size. While you can make it as tall or short as you wish, I found that 4 cm in height seems to work pretty well.
2. To make a nice clean cut, you are going to want to use a ruler to draw marks around the toilet paper tube at that 4 cm height. Then, you will want to connect those dots. Once you do that, you have a line to use to guide the cut.
3. A precision cutting tool such as a scalpel will make it much easier to get that clean cut you are after, but careful work with a pair of scissors may also do the trick.
4. Next, you will need to make the flower petals. To do this, you will need to cut a very long strip of tissue paper in the color that you have chosen (this is what I used the red tissue paper for).You are going to end up wrapping this strip of tissue paper around and around the toilet paper tube, so it is going to need to be a little bit taller than the tube itself.
5. Once you have that strip cut out, you're going to need to cut a wavy pattern across the top edge. To be more precise, it should look like a series of petal shapes all connected together.
6. If you want to save time doing this, you can fold up the strip of tissue paper over and over again and then cut a single petal shape. When you unfold it, you will have that shape duplicated over and over again along the length of the strip of paper. You can watch me do this in the video.Once you are done with this step, set this piece of tissue paper aside for now.
7. You are now going to need to get another piece of tissue paper which is the same color as the petals you just created.You need to wrap this tissue paper around the outside of the toilet paper tube and over the top of it and down inside. Your goal is to cover up the toilet paper tube completely, concealing its true nature. You can use hot glue (or another type of glue) to secure it in place.Some of it may be sticking out along the bottom edge. If that is the case, use a pair of scissors to trim it off.
8. Next, as discussed before, wrap the tissue paper petals that you made around and around the outside of the toilet paper tube, gluing them as you go. Keep the glue along the bottom edge. You do not want the petals to stick flush against the paper roll. You want to be able to fluff them out.
9. After the glue has dried, carefully pull the petals away from the tube, fanning them out so that it looks like a flower blossom.
10. Once this step is complete, your basket should look like this:
11. You will create the sepals the same way you did the flower petals. Simply cut a strip of green tissue paper, and then cut a zigzag pattern along the top.
12. Use hot glue to attach the sepals just as you did the petals, working your way around the toilet paper tube.
13. Finally, it is time to make the handle of the Easter basket. You can do this by cutting two small strips of tissue paper. I recommend using alternating colors (I used red and green to match the rest of the basket). Wrap them around and around each other to create the handle. Make sure that you make the handle long enough that you can push the egg under it to get it into the basket or remove it later.
14. Use the hot glue to attach the handle and complete your basket. Now all that is left to do is put the egg inside, and it is ready to display.