I cannot believe it is almost Easter. It was just Christmas, right? But it is already TIME to make fun Easter Crafts. Below you’ll find 5 amazing Easter Crafts for kids to get your and their creativity flowing!
In the Netherlands we celebrate Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. Here in the USA unfortunately there is only 1 day we can celebrate Easter. So sad, there is so much we can do!
We LOVE Easter Brunches…and Bunnies. In fact, we have a family brunch every Sunday morning. Just the way we used to do it in the Netherlands. We also like to get out for a hike or bike ride and don’t forget the fun Easter Egg Hunts. If it rains, we like to celebrate Easter, not only with coloring Easter Eggs, but also with these amazing crafts.
We are going to have some friends and family over for Easter Sunday Brunch. Normally our friends come with their kids for the past 3 or 4 years on Easter Sunday, but this year they were out of town. Their kids are about the same age as ours, so we always have some fun Egg Hunts planned. If you are out of ideas, I have some amazing Easter Egg Hunt Ideas.
1. Hand Print Easter Cards
Anyway, back to our brunch. To make our brunch fun and a little more special than our usual Sunday brunches, we’ll make these cute little cards and use them as name cards on the table. Here is how you make these fun Hand Print Easter Cards.
2. Salt Dough Eggs
I always loved salt dough. When I was in elementary school, we made salt dough sculptures and used tools like tooth picks and a garlic press to make hair for dolls. Luckily these eggs are simple enough to make for Easter and hang them on some branches….even though our forsythia will not be blooming for Easter this year 🙁
Salt Dough Recipe
- 1 cup salt
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups flour
Preheat the oven for 250 F. Mix all the ingredients together. Roll the dough out and use an egg cookie cutter to cut out the eggs. Poke a hole on the top of the eggs. Put the eggs on a piece of parchment paper or silicon mat. Bake the ornaments for 1.5-2 hrs. Let cool before decorating. We just used acrylic paint, but there are a lot of other things you can use, like stick on gems or glitter.
3. Toilet Paper Roll Bunnies
I think these are super cute! For toddlers they might be a little difficult to make. But if you pre-cut all bunny parts, like the ears, and paper to use for the body, they can assemble it with you. Or they can look at an example and then try to remake them. This craft would be fun for 5-7 year old kids to do by themselves. It’s a good bilateral activity, concentration, hand-eye coordination and sensory integration.
This website is not in English, but it won’t be that hard to figure out. Use fun scrapbook paper and the nose can be a little pompom.
4. Baskets, Baskets and more Baskets.
This is a fun challenge to do with more kids at once. Just throw all kinds of (mostly) recyclable materials on a table in addition to all kinds of tools like scissors, glue, tape….and some paint and glitter, of course.
Egg cartons, newspaper, brown grocery bags, cereal boxes, chenille sticks, popsicle sticks, yogurt cups. Just to name a few. See who comes up with a beautiful basket to use for Easter!!!
Here you can find some great recycle basket ideas!!!
5. Handwriting EGGcercise
This is kinda mean, but hey…I will always try to sneak in some handwriting eggcersize, I mean exercise. And it can always be done in a fun way.
And of course M didn’t do her exercises, but her egg looked pretty colorful…then without me making a picture of her end result, she took the aluminum foil off and made a new one.
6. Potato Stamp Easter egg Placemats
We used to stamp a lot with potatoes. My mom cut the potatoes into heart, flower and diamond shapes for example. Then we made all kinds of cool landscapes or abstract paintings, mixing paint and overlapping shapes.
For the paint you can use all kinds of pastel colors for Easter. Or use a different color background to make fun placemats for your Easter brunch.
Materials:
Ask an adult to cut the potatoes in half and design different shapes, like eggs with lines, flowers, leaves, etc. Mix the paint in the desired colors and brush the paint on the potato designs. Stamp on the paper. When finished, let the creation dry. Use self-adhesive laminating sheets or maybe you have a machine (I got mine at Walmart, to laminate the placemats and re-use them.
7. Egg weaving Easter craft
I always try to find crafts where the kids learn new techniques, like this weaving this technique. Kids can use their hands to weaving the strips of paper through the egg, or tape them onto a popsicle stick for easier weaving.
Materials:
- Card stock, any color
- X-acto knife
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Popsicle stick and tape (optional)
You can draw an egg and let the kids cut out the egg (about 10 inches or bigger). Use a ruler to cut vertical slits into the egg with an X-acto knife. Stay away from the edge by about an inch or more. Cut strips of the colorful paper (about 1/2 inch). Kids can learn how to cut a straight line. Now the kids can weave the Easter egg. Taping a paper strip onto a popsicle strip might be easier to weave the strip through the slits in the egg.
8. Pom Pom chicks and Easter bunny
Aren’t these adorable? For some quick decorations on your brunch table or in a wreath, the kids can make these Easter bunnies and chicks.
Materials:
- Pompom maker
- yarn
- Googly eyes
- Felt
- Scissors
- Pen or pencil
- Glue
At Doodle and Stitch you’ll find a tutorial how to make these little pompom animals. Enjoy!
9. Easter embroidery card
It’s always fun to make creative cards. You can use these cards also for name tags on your Easter brunch table.
Materials:
- Card stock
- Pointy needle
- Sponge
- Yarn or embroidery yarn.
- Embroidery needle
- Egg/bird/tulip/bunny template (optional)
Fold the card stock paper in half. Lightly trace the template onto the front of the card. You can either cut the shape out or leave it as is. Carefully poke holes (about 1/4 inch apart) around the shape. Put a sponge underneath. Your child can learn how to make a knot at the end of a piece of yarn and pull the yarn through a needle. Use different colors of yarn for fun. Make criss-cross stitches across the shape to make a fun pattern.
10. Easter Sun catchers
I love this idea to use “black” glue. After you drew your egg/ butterfly, flower, bunny, the glue will dry up and you can color! You’re actually making your own coloring page.
Materials:
- Glue
- Black acrylic paint
- Plastic sheet
- Scissors
- Permanent markers
Use a glue bottle (like Elmers school glue) which has about 1/2 of glue still in it. Add black paint to the glue, screw the lid back on and shake the bottle until the glue has mixed well with the paint. Use the glue nozzle to draw a shape on the plastic sheet. After the glue dried, you can cut out the shape. Color the shape in with permanent markers. Hang them on the windows!
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