Cartoon tulips and patterned Easter eggs in a woven basket with tall leaves and grass

Tulips Around a Woven Easter Basket

Tall tulips lean around a braided basket filled with striped, dotted, and starry eggs tucked among grass and leaves.

🎨 How to color it

Color the tulip petals cherry pink and sunny yellow, the woven basket honey brown, and the decorated eggs robin’s-egg blue, lavender, and mint green. Use chunky crayons or washable markers for the big tulip petals and basket bands, then switch to a sharper crayon tip for the egg stars, dots, and wavy stripes. Try making the tall basket handle two alternating browns so its twisted sections look like real braided vines.

The story behind this coloring page

The First Braided Basket Handle — Behind the tallest tulips, Junie pinched three soft willow strings between her knees. She wanted to carry painted eggs to the ladybug choir without dropping a single one. Read the full story →

Behind the tallest tulips, Junie pinched three soft willow strings between her knees. She wanted to carry painted eggs to the ladybug choir without dropping a single one. The strings were only scraps from her old sun hat, but listen closely: to Junie, they were a promise. Twist, tuck, pull—her fingers smelled like green bark and warm mud. “Hold still, little basket,” she whispered as the tulip leaves brushed shush-shush over her elbows.

Then a sneaky spring gust bounced over the grass and rolled the eggs together—clack, clack, clack! Junie grabbed her handmade cord and looped it over the basket just in time. The three strings tightened into a strong, twisty arch. The eggs stayed safe, the ladybugs cheered, and every basket maker in the tulip yard copied Junie’s cord. Ever since, basket handles wear braided stripes; next time you spot that twist above the eggs, you’ll know Junie’s secret.