Easter fun

This variation on a bird's nest provides the perfect way to present chocolate eggs to your family on Easter Sunday

What you need:

• Plastic food containers, 8 and 15cm diameter
• Elastic bands
• Twigs and grasses
• Unbleached greaseproof paper or tissue paper
• Scissors
• Ribbon
• For large nest: 2m of narrow brown ribbon (4 colours each 2.5mm wide)
• For small nest: 1m of 4x2.5mm ribbon in orange green, yellow and red
• Easter chicks

What to do:

1. Place two strong elastic bands around a 15cm diameter circular plastic food container (the container needs to have flattish sides, otherwise the elastic bands won't grip)
2. For the smaller nest, use an 8cm diameter container and only one elastic band
3. Cut twigs of differing thickness and dried grasses into varying lengths (these need to be longer than the height of the container)
4. One by one, carefully place the twigs side by side underneath the elastic bands. Ensure that the twigs are close together so that the plastic underneath is hidden, but do not squeeze in too many or else the elastic band may snap or slip, sending the twigs flying!
5. Place grass or bamboo leaves between the twigs to create a feathery effect
6. Tie ribbon (approx 1m) around the middle of the nest to hide the elastic bands
7. Scrunch unbleached greaseproof paper or brown tissue paper, and put into nest
8. Fill with a variety of small Easter eggs, sweets or biscuits and some Easter chicks