How to make an Easter Egg mini piñata with Cricut

Create this cute Easter Egg mini piñata with the help of your Cricut. Perfect for Easter parties and Easter basket stuffers.

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Easter Egg mini Piñata doubles as party favors and basket stuffers.

Hello magical crafters, we will be crafting up this cute Easter Egg mini piñata just in time for Easter. Fill it with some goodies and add to the baskets or have it as the grand prize for finding the golden egg during the egg hunt.

Best part about these Easter mini piñatas are the fact you can add the name to each one and decorate as you wish. You could even pre cut these out and pack them up as an Easter crafting project.

Supplies needed to create these eggs are…

• Cricut cutting machine ( I use the Explore Air 2)
• Light grip cutting mat
• Cardstock (65-80lb)
• Knife tool
• Self healing mat
• Crepe paper
• Glue (I use 3 in 1 Beacon)
• Scissors
• Easter Egg SVG file

Click on the button above to purchase the Easter Egg Mini Piñata SVG file through our shop or you can head on over to our Etsy shop to purchase and download the SVG file. You can use another type of electronic cutting machine that uses SVG files, but for this tutorial, it will be demonstrated using the Cricut Explore Air 2 machine.

Once the file has downloaded, let’s head over to Cricut Design Space.

Uploading in Cricut Design Space

Click on “new project” then head down the left side of your screen and click on “upload”. Click on the “insert image” option and you can either drag and drop or browse for the Easter mini piñata file.

It will now take you to the save option screen. You can rename this file and add a few tags to help find it in the future. Click on save as a “cut file”. Now you should have the SVG file template in Design Space. But there’s some work we need to do before we press that “make it” button.

Changing cut lines into score lines

We need to first, head to the right side of the screen and click on “ungroup”. This will give you multiple groups that I kept together to make it easier for you. Unfortunately, Design Space does not keep each section labeled separately, but it does allow you to rename them, so you can rename them as you go.

Next we need to go over to our side panels and click on the inner rectangle. Head to the top of the screen and click on the drop down menu, then select the “score line” option. It should now change all the inside lines on the panels into score lines. ( Will appear as dash lines.) You can rename each one as score lines, then click on “ungroup”.

Select the outside part of the panels to select all of them. Rename each one and then click on “ungroup”. Now we need to attach each score line to it’s own panel so the machine will know who goes with who. Select both the score line and panel together, then head down the right side menu and click on the “attach” button (looks like a paperclip). This will tell the machine that the score lines go with that cut shape. Repeat the others until done.

Once everything is attached together, click on “select all” at the top of the screen and resize it to the size you’d like the mini piñata to be. Since this one does have one long panel, keep in mind this can only get so big. Save your project. Now it’s time to click that “make it” button at the top.

Cutting our Easter Egg Piñata out

Double check your settings in the cut preview screen. Arrange your cardstock colors in the order it gives you and make sure you have the right size paper selected. You can choose white as the piñata base color or you can match the cardstock color with the crepe paper color. The cardstock weight I used is the the 65lb, after adding Crepe paper, it’s definitely sturdy enough to hold goodies. You can use the 80lb if you wish. Then click on “continue”.

Align your cardstock on the mat and smooth it over, making sure it’s adhere to the mat. Insert the mat into the machine by pressing the blinking “arrow” button. Make sure you insert the score pen and check your cut settings, it should be on cardstock. Then press the blinking “C” button to start the cut.

Once it’s finish, unload the mat by pressing the “arrow” button again, flip the mat over and peel it away from the cardstock. This helps the cardstock to not curl up on you. Repeat this process until everything is scored and cut.

Prep and Assemble

Refer back to the canvas screen and lay out each piece accordingly, for easy assembly. I’ve also included a picture below for the set up as well. This will help keep the guess work to a minimum when trying to figure out where each panel belongs.

Now take each side panel and fold along the scored lines. Once that is done, it’s time to glue everything together.

Start with the base of the egg on the table. Grab each side panel and add a few tiny drops of glue to each tab. Depending on which glue you use will determine how long you’ll need to hold it in place until it doesn’t move. Repeat with the other panels until all sides are glued downed.

Add glue to the top tabs and align the top layer on to it. Now this style piñata has the door on the back. So grab the door flap and add a bit of glue to the side tab and attach it on the inside of the piñata.

We now have a 3D Easter Egg.

Transforming our Easter Egg into a Piñata

To finish our Easter Egg, we need to add Crepe paper to make it a piñata. Grab your Crepe paper and let’s start cutting some fringes. You can just take your scissors and cut a lot of lines down the Crepe paper on both sides and then cut down the middle, or save your hands a bit of a workout and follow this easier step below.

Grab your knife tool and self healing mat. Fold a few layers of the Crepe paper onto the mat.

Take your knife tool and cut a little less then half way down. Making slices to the end. Repeat on the top part as well.

Grab your scissors and cut in the middle creating two fringe pieces.

Because this is kind of a round shape, you could really have some fun with applying the fringe. I just did the sides first, starting at the bottom from the middle and going up one side. Then repeated the other side. Next you can apply the fringe like normal, staring from the bottom and going up. Then repeat on the back side. Or you can make the fringe go in circle, ending it in the middle. Just a cool thought idea for you.

Once the Egg is covered in Crepe paper, we need to cut out door out from the fringe. Next add your choice of string or ribbon to the back holes of the piñata and to the door for easy access to the goodies.

If you don’t want to hang this one, simply leave the string out from the backside. Nobody is going to see the holes because the fringe will be covering it.

Now to add some detail touches. You can add some cardstock details to make it more like a decorative egg, a name and rolled flowers, or let the kiddos decorate with some stickers and pom poms.

Congrats Crafter, you have now complete your first Easter Egg mini Piñata using your Cricut.

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Want to make some more Mini Piñatas? Check out these below

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