Easter Crafts for Kids

Create cute bunnies, fluffy chicks, Easter baskets and colourful Easter eggs with these fun Easter crafts for kids. These Easter craft ideas are perfect for toddlers through to school-aged kids and are a wonderful way to celebrate the season while building creativity and fine motor skills.

Scrape Painted Bunny Craft {with Free Printable}

This fun scrape painted bunny craft is the perfect abstract art activity to make during Easter, spring, or while learning about animals. It combines different textures using process art with paint and once finished children can add a fluffy tail to their bunny. Use our free printable bunny template to make this craft even easier and don't worry every child's bunny will turn out unique {even when using the template}.

You can do scrape painting at home, or in the classroom as a group art activity. The finished bunnies will also make a great wall decoration for Easter.

Roll & Draw an Easter Bunny: Free Printable Easter Game

The Easter bunny can make an early appearance with this roll and draw an Easter bunny game. Perfect for Easter, kids need to roll the dice to decide their bunny's features. Will it's ears be floppy or straight?! What Easter egg will it be delivering? Every Easter bunny will be one-of-a-kind.

This printable game is a wonderful way to combine learning and creativity into a fun activity. Ideal for kids to play at home, in the classroom, or on Easter day, it helps kids practise number recognition, counting, and fine motor skills as they draw. Download the free printable roll and draw game template below and let your little ones start designing and decorating their own Easter bunny.

Easter Egg Hunt I Spy {Free Printable}

If you're looking for a fun and free Easter activity that involves virtually no set up, no clean up {and no chocolate}, you've found it! I've created a free printable Easter egg I spy game that you can download to use with the kids at home, or at school as a classroom activity. It's a great way for children to express their creativity while working on their fine motor and number skills.

Torn Paper Easter Egg Craft

Looking for a fun and easy Easter egg craft for kids? This torn paper Easter egg activity is perfect for little hands and packed with learning opportunities! Tearing paper helps strengthen fine motor skills, encourages creativity, and provides a wonderful sensory experience. Plus, it’s a mess-free, budget-friendly way to celebrate Easter.

Whether at home or in the classroom, this craft will keep children engaged while letting them explore different colours, textures, and patterns as they create their own unique egg. Use our free printable egg template to make this craft even easier.

DIY Easter I Spy Sensory Bottle

This Easter I Spy sensory bottle {also known as a discovery bottle} is a great tool for exploratory sensory play for children of all ages. The best part is you can assemble it in just a few minutes using Easter themed items you already have. Follow our easy instructions below to put together your own Easter themed I Spy bottle at home or in the classroom.

March Play Calendar: Daily Activity Ideas for Toddlers & Preschoolers {+ Free PDF}

Do you want to do activities with your kids each day but you have no idea where to start? Don't worry there's lots of parents in exactly the same position, which is why I'm putting together monthly kids play calendars to make it easy for you to create a month of fun for your kids at home or in the classroom.

The March activity calendar focuses on St Patrick's Day, rainbows and Easter themed ideas for toddlers, preschoolers and school kids. The activities include a mix of art and craft, sensory, science and play ideas as well as books to read aloud during the month. March also includes Read Across America Day where most schools have dress up days, if you need some costume inspiration check out our book character costume ideas.

Each activity is explained in detail below, including how you can extend or adjust the activity based on your child's age. You can also download our free interactive march activity calendar pdf with links to instructions for every activity to save for future reference.

Fizzy Eggs: Easter Science Experiment

If your kids love fun, interactive and easy science experiments then they'll love these fizzing Easter eggs. This experiment is a fun way to combine a recipe, chemical reaction, colour mixing and sensory play all into one activity, with a fun Easter theme.

We've made fizzing pumpkins before for Halloween so this time we decided to make fizzy eggs for Easter. My girls love fizzy science experiments so much we're planning on doing lots more in the future.

21 Easter Egg Paper Crafts for Kids {with Free Egg Templates}

Find an Easter egg craft that's perfect for your children or students from this list of easy Easter egg crafts for kids. This post includes lots of different process art and craft techniques including different ways to paint, paper craft and decorate easter egg templates, plus they all include free printable Easter egg templates. 

The finished Easter eggs can be hung on display on an art wall, or used to decorate the classroom as part of an Easter display. A lot of the artwork can also be upcycled into other items for family and friends once you've finished displaying it.

DIY Easter Egg Puzzles: Free Printable Scissor Cutting Templates

Your kids will have so much fun creating their own 2 piece egg puzzles with our free egg puzzle templates. Puzzles are a great way for children to work on their fine motor skills, hand/eye co-ordination and problem solving skills as they try and join the pieces together. An added bonus with our egg puzzles is children get to colour, design and assemble the puzzles as well as play with them.

These puzzles are a great Easter activity and can also be used to teach maths, literacy and other skills during rotations in the classroom. They're also portable once made so can easily be added to a busy bag to take to appointments or play dates to keep children occupied.

Scrape Painted Easter Eggs

Kids will have so much fun creating beautiful abstract Easter artwork while scrape painting our free printable egg template. These scrape painted Easter eggs are a great way for children to express their creativity, and a fun way for them to explore mark making, colour blending, textures and patterns. They'll also be building their fine motor skills while painting.

You can do scrape painting at home with preschoolers, or in the classroom as a group art activity. The finished artwork is also a great way to decorate for Easter.

Tape Resist Easter Egg Craft

If you don't want to decorate real eggs for Easter, don't worry, your kids can still get creative and decorate paper Easter eggs instead. This tape resist Easter egg is an easy Easter paper craft for toddlers, preschoolers and school kids. The finished colourful Easter eggs make a great art display at home or in the classroom.

2025 Non Chocolate Easter Gift Ideas for Kids

Whether you have kids with allergies, want to avoid the sugar high that comes with chocolate this Easter, or just want gifts that will last longer than 5 minutes, there's something in this post for you. 

I've put together a heap of non chocolate Easter gift ideas for kids of all ages so the Easter bunny can bring something other than chocolate for the kids this year. There's gift ideas for creative kids who love art and craft, toys, games, books and gifts for tweens.

DIY Easter Sensory Bottle

My girls love making sensory bottles, every week they ask if we can make a new bottle. We've recently made a snowflake sensory bottle and spring sensory bottle and they've been begging me to make an Easter sensory bottle. This week we finally got around to making our DIY Easter sensory bottle and I've written up the directions so you can make one too.

This sensory bottle is so easy to make my 4yr old helped out with most of the steps. You can make it alongside your kids, or if you're using it with young children make it yourself and then give it to them to play with. It's a great no mess way to introduce kids to sensory play, a great resource for a calm down corner and a fun Easter sensory play activity.

130+ Free Easter Colouring Pages for Kids

My girls love colouring sheets so I've put together a huge list of over 100 free Easter colouring pages kids will love that are sure to keep them busy in the lead up to Easter at home or in the classroom. They include Easter egg, bunny, basket, chick and colour by number templates. There's designs for toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school and older school kids, and they're all free!

Photo by Alan Rodriguez via Unsplash

These Easter coloring templates don't have to be used just for drawing, they can also be used for painting and process art activities like sponge painting, q-tip painting, cotton ball painting or scrape painting. They're also great as an outline for a collage with multiple mediums, or can be embellished with stickers or glitter. The templates can also be turned into suncatchers to decorate windows by using cardstock and contact paper or cellophane.

 

Finished pages can also be turned into garlands to decorate the house or classroom for Easter, or cut and pasted onto DIY Easter cards for family and friends. They can also be laminated and cut into pieces to make DIY puzzles.

Easy Spin Art Easter Eggs: How to Dye Eggs with a Salad Spinner

Do you use kitchen items for play or craft? We love it! I'm totally that weird mum scouring the kitchen aisles at stores for items that will never actually be used in my kitchen. Apart from our beloved cutlery tray, our second favourite kitchen item to use is a salad spinner.

We only own one salad spinner and I've never spun a salad in it. In fact I only bought it to use it for art. Fun process art activities to be exact, just like these salad spinner Easter eggs.

17 Creative Easter Egg Hunt Ideas For Kids + Free Printable Clues

If you want to mix things up a little this Easter then try one of these 17 creative and egg-citing Easter egg hunt ideas. There's hunt ideas to suit kids of all ages from toddlers to teenagers. You can use these hunt ideas to replace the traditional Easter egg hunt on Easter morning itself, or use them as additional activities to celebrate the lead up to Easter during April.

These Easter egg hunt ideas are great for indoor or outdoor hunts {or a mixture of both}, whether you're away on holidays or at home. There's also fun hunt ideas to do with the kids while home schooling or at school before the holidays start.

80 Non Candy Easter Egg Filler Ideas For Kids

As a kid the most exciting part of Easter was the Easter egg hunt. Going around the house or yard looking for eggs was so much fun, and we got an awesome basket full of eggs at the end! We mainly got chocolate or candy eggs, however in the last few years there's been a clear trend towards parents choosing non chocolate gift ideas instead {or a balance of 1/2 chocolate eggs and 1/2 other gifts}. 

You don't need to hide only chocolate eggs, there are so many other options if you use fillable eggs instead. I've put together a list of 80 Easter egg filler ideas for kids including toddlers, preschoolers, school kids and teens. The added bonus, along with the sugar reduction, is that the eggs can be kept and reused for the next year. There's also heaps of fun activities you can do with plastic eggs all throughout the year.

24 Ways to Dye & Decorate Eggs for Easter

One of my favourite Easter traditions as a kid was dyeing eggs for display. But how do you dye eggs for Easter? In this post I'll show you 24 different ways you can dye and decorate eggs for Easter. Whether you have white, brown, plastic, foam or wooden eggs doesn't really matter, there's easy Easter dyeing ideas for all types of eggs.

Free Printable Indoor Easter Egg Hunt Clues

I love doing an Easter egg hunt with the kids each year, but I'm always too scared critters will get to the eggs if we leave them outside, so each year we do an indoor hunt. This year I got creative and made my own Easter hunt clues and I'm sharing them here so you can download them too! 

If you don't have a backyard, or are too paranoid to leave treats in the backyard like me, these free printable Easter hunt clues will be the perfect way to set up a fun and easy indoor Easter egg hunt. Mix and match the clues in any order to create an indoor egg hunt to suit your family.