It is already time for us to prepare for Easter this year. And the best part about it could be to craft with your little ones this year. There are plenty of ideas for Easter crafts for kids which you could try out to make memories and establish your family traditions.
Your kids would love DIY Easter crafts and fun activities. The different adorable ideas on crafts are brilliant ways to express and welcome spring. Whether or not you need decorations for your Easter brunch, all these ideas are amazing that you can look for an afternoon activity with kids of all age. If DIY with kids for Easter sounds like a big mess to you, there are also alternative options for an easy Easter craft that is much fun for you as well as for the kids and would last for the years to come. We also have tips for you to make it less messy. So, now are you ready for Easter? There are tons of awesome Easter craft ideas for kids, write from preschoolers and kindergartners to the elder ones who demand more of such projects.
For some, making crafts with kids is a big part of the Easter tradition. Many of them also indulge in a religious craft like Palm Sunday ideas or crosses. All of these are pretty easy and affordable, creative projects to involve your kids and make it fun Easter crafts.
Best Easter Crafts For Kids:
1. Easter Egg Cartoon Chicks:
Once you make the Easter Eggs this year, the fun doesn’t stop there. This one Easter egg cartoon chick project allows you to use the leftover egg cartoons and turn it into adorable little cute yellow chicks with beaks feet and wings. The containers that open and close could be converted to make chicks in which you can also store candies for the kids or anything else. If you look at the picture, the supplies are minimal and basic – which is the leftover of the egg carton. You could print them with different colors like yellow or Orange and using a black market make eyes with some orange card to make beak and feet. Using a scissor cut out the triangular beak and pointed feet and glues it to the body of the chick.
2. Easy Easter DIY Salt Dough Eggs:
Kids love these craft as they hand from my beautiful DIY stick figure or old fashioned backyard branches. Kids love to play with the salt dough as it is also easy to mold it to any shape or size. Also, the dough once baked is hard and stays in there with the same shape for years. You can simply paint on the dough and it adds the fun bit to your craft. With a rolling pin, flatten the door to make a one-fourth of an inch thickness. Cut out at shapes on it either with freehand or if you have a cutout shape cutter, it serves best.
You must make holes to one part of the egg if you wish to hang these eggs from a branch. You can either use a straw or any other instrument to make this circular small shaped hole on the talk so that you can hang it like an ornament. Once the shapes are adequately ready, bake them. Once they have dried and completely baked, cool them immediately. It is now time to paint the eggs. You can either use the Spray paint or acrylic, whichever is easy and available to work for you and your kid.
Make sure to take up the correct precautions in case your child is also sprayed paint. Let the paint dry completely before you turn around and paint the other side of the egg. Used a variety of colors such that you can have a bunch full of colorful Easter Eggs hanging as ornaments. Once the paint has completely dry, it is time to put the imagination hats on and personalized the DIY Easter eggs.
Add some polka dots or parallel lines with some zigzag lines to decorate the eggs. Further, if you wish to protect the color and the design for a longer duration, you might as an optional clear coat sealer to the eggs. This helps the ornaments to be protected for longer and remains stronger. To add an earthy edgy look, instead of using ribbons, you can add twine to the hole to hang the eggs from the dried branch shown in the picture.
3. The Popsicle Sticks Chick:
One of the simplicity yet the cutest art for kids to make this Easter is chicks out of the popsicle sticks. The simplest of the Easter craft ideas for kids where you need plenty of same size popsicle sticks which are very easily available and some wiggly eyes with orange and yellow craft paper, scissors and glue. Have enough supervision especially when they are handling scissors.
As shown in the picture, have them to paint the Popsicle sticks first from all the sides one by one with yellow color. Although spray painting could be the simplest and the easiest one to do, you can as well have your kid to do the acrylic paintings for more fun and safety. Once the sticks have been colored and dried completely, have them to place the five Popsicle sticks adjacent to each other in such a way that they can stick the 5 of them side to side as shown in the picture. Once the Popsicle sticks of firmly stuck, stick the wiggly eyes with glue.
Using the craft paper cut out a diamond shape or a rhombus and fold it half such that it acts like the beak of the chick sticking out. Blue it down below the eyes in the center. Next, cut out the branched feet of the check and paste it from the back side. Cut out a leaf shaped Wings of the check and with the same color of the paper, make some tiny hair sticking out of the head for the chick and glue them. Your cute little chick is ready to be put on display and decorated for Easter this year. Doesn’t that make one of the simplest Easter craft ideas for kids to make this year?
4. Bunny Carrots:
This could be a great decoration and a very different and unique one for the Easter that kids can make. You can also make a cute little garland with these Bunny carrots and hang it on the door or the windows. You cannot see utilize this as a classroom craft for students to make one each. You will need very minimalistic material here to make this fun Easter craft. You will need yarn preferably of orange color along with natural wooden clothespin. Some acrylic color, cardboard, scissors, and glue. This craft helps in improving the kid’s Motor skills and imagination power.
Draw a carrot shape on the cardboard and cut it out. Make multiple copies of it and have the kids to cut it out carefully. Next, paint the wooden clips with green color which acts as the leaves from the carrot. Keep it aside to dry. Meanwhile, to make the project easier for the kids, on the cut out from the cardboard, cut into the cardboard a few times so that kids can push inside the yarn easily. Apply a thin paste of glue on the cardboard such that once the kid wraps around the carrot shape of the cardboard completely, it and stays firm.
Your craft is almost ready with the only bit pending is to clip the green wooden cloth clips now to the top of the carrot to complete it. This type of Easter craft for kids is also very simple and easy to make. A very innovative yet easy craft for the kids to learn and do it all by themselves.
5. Paper Roll Chicks:
One of the simplest DIY easy crafts for kids to make is this paper roll cute chicken for Easter. You will need a yellow card stock along with wiggly eyes and some pipe cleaners of orange color. Glue and Scissors to complete your craft. With the help of scissors, cut 4-5 inches of the card stock and wrap it around a used toilet paper roll to cover it neatly. Now, you half body of the chick ready. Keep it aside to dry. With the help of pipe cleaners, cut small portions of it to make a loop and stick to the sides of the tissue paper roll which is the body of the chick.
Also, instead of sticking the pipe cleaners, you can also punch a hole to the side and insert a bit of pipe cleaner to affix it firmly. Stick the wiggly eyes of the chick. Next with the help of an orange color card stock, cut a rhombus shape such that you can fold in half and take it on the center of the body of the chick. With the help of an orange color pipe cleaner, folded in order to make little toes of the chick prominent and complete the feet. Stick it the bottom of the tissue paper roll. With a sketch pen, make the eyebrows of the chick above the wiggly eyes and some blush cheeks with colored pink pencils.
Lastly, with the pipe cleaner, make a v shape and inverted least take it to the head to make the hair. The kids are going to have fun with one of the cutest Easter chick crafts.
6. Easter Wreath:
One of the best Easter crafts for kids to make with the help of scissors and glue mainly and improvise the motor skills. Kindergarten kids can easily indulge in making this. You will need some printed paper plates, crayons, glue, scissors and paper for this craft. Help your kids to cut out some egg shaped oval circles from the paper plate. You can have two different types of paper plates or prints of it to keep the egg alternate and make it look like a pattern.
Next, arrange the alternate paper plates cut a circle in such a way that it forms a bigger circle one overlapping the other side to side. Paste them together or you can also use stapler depending on your kid’s age and safety. If you have some bunny stickers, have them stuck at the bottom of each egg which is the inner circle as shown in the picture. With the help of yarn, hang it as a beautiful decoration this Easter. You can also personalize this by having printed kids name instead of the Bunny stickers. One of the simplest and easiest craft is ready for your kid.
7. Paper Mache Easter Eggs:
The most innovative yet simple Easter Eggs that get could make and have fun learning. This is the eggs are a great alternative to the plastic Easter Eggs that you might buy and sell out the money in the stores. Instead, this Easter, personalize your decor and involve your kids to make this simple paper mache Easter egg. While these handmade eggs could be fragile and break open easily, they are durable in their own ways and very inexpensive. Also, these are one of the best ways to hold up a lot of candies and them. Just like real eggs, you can also break open these DIY eggs heavily loaded with candies and site for kids to have fun and surprise.
Wondering how? Follow the steps to make your own Easter Eggs this year full of candies inside. You will need small oval shaped balloons, thin printed paper, candies, glue, thread and paint brush. Start by blowing small size of balloons and fill in with candies in each of them before securing the balloon with a knot. Keep them aside in a bowl. Once you have achieved the number of balloons, this will serve as the number of eggs you will need. Next, put some clue in a container and teach the kids to use the brush to apply the glue on the balloon. Prefer to take smaller portions of the balloon and while you apply the glue, tear off small portions of the 10 printed papers and stick it on them.
Follow this process in order to completely cover the balloon with paper pieces. Once you are finished, keep it aside to dry. Repeat the same with different prints of paper and colors. You can always make a bigger egg for the center and fill it in with lots of candies for the kids to enjoy. All the steps can be performed by the kids to enjoy that DIY Easter craft making.
8. DIY Daffodils:
These Daffodils a perfect for Easter and welcoming the spring. It helps to brighten up your home decor and Easter celebration. Kids would enjoy making this craft. You will need Popsicle sticks, glue, scissors, yellow card, cupcake casing, and a pencil to draw. Help the kid to draw a sunflower outline with the help of a pencil on the yellow cardstock. Help them to cut it out with the help scissors. Next, with glue, stick the cupcakes casing on to the center of the flower. Next, paint one of the Popsicle stick green from all side and stick at the back of the flower from the center. Repeat the same process and make plenty of them decorate as a bunch of Daffodils. The fun Easter crafts for kids are ready to be decorated.
9. Pinecone Bunnies:
Winters are just about to get over, and you could use the pine cones from your backyard to make this lovely Easter craft. You will need 1 pine cone for each Bunny, wooden beads, twine, wiggly eyes and felt paper of brown and pink colors. While you give life to the pinecone from your backyard, give a thought about the ideas that kids might have had. Personalize it to have the kids ideas incorporated as well. Help your kids to make this pinecone bunnies with the simple steps explained.
On the bottom of the pinecone, as shown in the picture, stick wiggly eyes with glue. With the help of the wooden bead, pass through some unwound twine and cut them short and spread it in a way that it looks like it cute little nose and whiskers. Again, help your kid to a firm glue the bead write in the center as shown in the picture. Finally, cut out some Bunny ears from the brown felt paper. Similarly, have a cutout from the pink felt paper but make sure it is a centimeter smaller than the brown paper.
Stick the pink on the Brown paper such that it looks like a perfect Bunny ear. Now the last bit is to stick these ears to the pinecone perfectly placed. Isn’t this one of the best innovative Easter crafts for kids to make?
10. Easter Street With Peep Houses:
How about some great craft ideas that the gift can eat as well? Yes, we are talking about craft with food items. You will need Peeps, Graham crackers or any other brand that your kids like, frosting or Icing, parchment paper and is the decorators like grass, candy, etc. which are edible. You will have to make out the house first with the Graham crackers by taking them together with the help of icing or the frosting.
Make sure you have a parchment paper laid out before starting all of this. Break the Graham crackers into half. First, build up the base and three walls stuck together with icing. Separately, make the roof Triangle. Set it aside. As soon as you think the walls are trying and glued together, glued together fix the roof onto the walls again with the help of the icing and pour some icing on the top to act as snow dripping.
You can add the peeps inside the house along with some egg candies and craft to decorate it as you like. A brilliant edible craft and a fun Easter craft is ready for your kids and guests to enjoy this Easter.
These are the list of the top Easter crafts for kids this year. Please let us know if you have tried any of these by writing to us through the comment section. Have a brilliant, full of joy and love Easter this year and let us know how you celebrated.
