17 Fun Easter Crafts and Activities for Kids

Easter is a wonderful time to get creative and crafty with your little ones. It’s also great for quiet-time activities that feed their minds while they build literacy and maths skills. Our collection of Easter crafts and activities for kids is bound to delight and ‘eggs-cite’ children of all ages.

There are eggs aplenty to colour and paint, vibrant flowers and critters to cut out and decorate, baby birds and funny sheep to assemble, and lots of opportunities to practise their fine motor skills.

To help their reading and literacy skills bloom there are alphabet and sight word games, as well as creative writing ideas.

And what's Easter without an egg hunt? We share ideas on how to turn up the fun on the traditional Easter egg hunt. Kids can also put their counting skills to the test as they find the hidden eggs in our downloadable Egg Hunt activity.

We’ve included lots of free printables, as well as video demonstrations for the crafts.

Let’s hop to it!

10 Easy Easter Crafts for Kids

Our Easter crafts are designed to develop fine motor skills in young children, while teaching them about colours, shapes and nature.

Even though the crafts are simple enough for preschoolers to make, adult supervision is needed.

Some of the crafts call for items that you might not want to use around toddlers and children under 3. Feel free to substitute those materials. For example, you might want to replace plastic googly eyes and buttons with circles of felt or paper.

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1. Chalky Egg

This is a simple and fun craft that will get your child exploring shapes and colours while improving their fine motor skills in a creative way.

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • Printable template (see link below)

  • Coloured chalk

  • Removable tape

  • Craft paper (A3 or similar)

  • Child-friendly scissors

  • Glue

  • Water

Download the printable instructions and template

Watch the demonstration video:

2. Pom Pom Eggs

This pom pom eggs craft is a perfect Easter activity. Using pom poms to paint is a fun way to help young children develop the motor skills they’ll need to grasp pencils and paintbrushes. It also helps develop shape recognition.

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • Printable template (see link below)

  • Craft paper (A3 or similar)

  • Pom poms

  • Wooden pegs

  • Acrylic or washable paints

  • Child-friendly scissors

  • Glue

Download the printable instructions and template

Watch the demonstration video (account required)

3. Rainbow Clouds

The rainbow clouds craft is a tactile activity where little ones create a rainbow using simple household items. Not only will they discover the colours of the rainbow, you can use this craft to explore the weather with your child while they improve their fine motor skills.

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • A paper plate

  • Cotton balls

  • Glue

  • Child-friendly scissors

  • Streamers or tissue paper in different colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple

  • Ribbon or string to hang

Download the printable instructions

Watch the demonstration video (account required)

4. Flower Bunch

The flower bunch craft is a delightful way to introduce a plant or seasonal theme to little ones (and your home). The cutting and pasting tasks in this craft improve fine motor skills.

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • Craft paper (A3 or similar)

  • Wooden craft sticks

  • Cupcake liners in different sizes (small, medium and large) – you’ll need 3 per flower

  • A paper plate

  • Glue

  • Child-friendly scissors

  • Glitter

Download the printable instructions

Watch the demonstration video (account required)

5. Bubble Wrap Sheep

This is a fun craft that helps to improve fine motor skills using paint brushes and scissors. Kids can make a variety of sheep by mixing the white and black paints to make shades of grey or any colours they choose!

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • Printable template (see link below)

  • Bubble wrap

  • Glue

  • White and black paints

  • Paint brushes

  • Plastic googly eyes (or substitute)

  • Child-friendly scissors

Download the printable instructions and template

Watch the demonstration video:

6. Pom Pom Caterpillars

The pom pom caterpillars craft is a fun way of introducing colours, patterns and improving fine motor skills.

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • A selection of colourful mini pom poms

  • Small plastic googly eyes – you’ll need 2 per caterpillar

  • A clothes peg for each caterpillar

  • PVA glue

Download the printable instructions

Watch the demonstration video (account required)

7. Cupcake Bugs

Turn colourful cupcake cases into a caterpillar or butterfly! This simple activity is a fun introduction to all things bug related – explore the lifecycle of caterpillars and butterflies with your child. Additionally, this craft improves counting and fine motor skills in a fun way.

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • Colourful cupcake liners (5 per caterpillar and 4 per butterfly)

  • Coloured craft paper

  • Wooden craft sticks

  • Plastic googly eyes (or substitute)

  • Glue

  • Pom poms

  • Crayons

  • Stickers

Download the printable instructions

Watch the demonstration video (account required)

8. Baby Birds

The baby birds craft incorporates little handprints and makes for a wonderful keepsake to add to a craft wall. This craft encourages shape recognition and fine motor skills.

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • Jumbo craft sticks – you’ll need 3 per bird

  • Yellow and orange craft paper

  • Decorative paper

  • Glue

  • Child-friendly scissors

  • Marker pen

Download the printable instructions

Watch the demonstration video:

9. Felt Flowers

This craft is a great addition to any nature or flower theme. With lots of cutting and threading, it's a fun and colourful way to improve children's fine motor skills.

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • Printable template (see link below)

  • Coloured felt sheets

  • Pipe cleaners

  • Buttons or beads with holes large enough to thread the pipe cleaners through

  • Cardboard tube (to use as a vase to hold the flowers)

  • Glue

  • Child-friendly scissors

  • Marker pen

Download the printable instructions and template

Watch the demonstration video (account required)

10. Paper Hedgehog

This fun hedgehog craft activity is perfect for keeping little ones busy. You can make this simple craft using everyday household items. It's good for scissor practice and to develop a child's fine motor skills.

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  Materials You’ll Need:

  • A paper plate

  • Light and dark brown paints

  • Paintbrush

  • A stapler or glue

  • Child-friendly scissors

  • Marker pen

Download the printable instructions

Watch the demonstration video (account required)

Easter Activities for Kids

1. The Easter Hunt With Clues

The classic Easter egg hunt provides an ‘eggs-cellent’ opportunity to practise reading and comprehension skills. Hide your Easter eggs around the house or in the garden and then write some fun clues on pieces of paper. For example, “I'm bound to get wet in the place I'm hiding” could mean the eggs are near the garden hose, in the shower, or in a sink; “You might find me admiring my reflection” (by the mirror); or “Flowery and green is where I can be seen” (hiding in a plant).

Hand out the written clues to your egg hunters and encourage them to help each other read and decipher each clue.

2. Egg Hunt Counting Activity

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  Download the Egg Hunt Counting Activity and have your child count how many eggs they can find hidden around Sam’s home.

3. Fun with Easter Puns

Experiment with words that begin with the 'ex' letter combination that sound like 'eggs' in words, such as 'eggs-cited', 'eggs-plode' and 'eggs-perts'.

Provide a large, egg-shaped sheet of paper (you can use the template from the Chalky Egg craft above).

Have your child turn it into a character based on their preferred 'ex' word (e.g. ‘Mr Eggs-pensive’ or ‘Ms Eggs-pert’) by using crayons and other craft materials to create a face, hairstyle and outfit that matches their 'ex' word.

For example, ‘Ms Eggs-pert’ might be wearing glasses, holding a book and sporting an academic dress. ‘Mr Eggs-pensive’ might be wearing fancy clothes and expensive jewellery. Let your child create their egg puns and use their imagination to invent quirky new characters.

If they need some help, here are some ‘eggs-tra’ ideas: Mr Eggs-citable, Ms Eggs-plosive, Mr Eggs-tra and Ms Eggs-travagant.

4. ‘When I Think of Easter’ Poem

Encourage your child to sit down and think about all the things they associate with Easter, such as eggs, the Easter Bunny and hot cross buns. Write a poem titled “When I think of Easter”, made up of three stanzas that include six lines each. Write the beginning of each line for your child and have them fill in the end by inserting specific words.

Begin the first line for your child with 'When I think of Easter, I think of' and have them write two special features of Easter. Then begin the following lines with prompts such as 'I see', 'I feel', 'I pretend', 'I wonder', 'I try' and so on. Close the poem by repeating the first line.

For younger children, try writing an acrostic poem by putting the letters in 'Easter' down the side of the page. Then go back to each letter and have your child write a word, phrase or sentence that begins with that letter to describe Easter.

5. Hatch and Match Games

Draw several medium-sized egg-shaped ovals on a large sheet of paper. In each oval, draw a zigzagged horizontal line in the middle to create a crack. You can use the template for the Chalky Egg craft activity as your egg or use some of the printables below.

Alphabet Hatch and Match Game

On one side of each egg, write an uppercase letter and on the other side, write the corresponding lowercase letter. Cut each egg half out and scramble your eggs. Have your child pair each uppercase and lowercase letter. To save you time, we have a pre-prepared printable for this game:

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  Download the Hatch and Match Alphabet Printable

Sight Words Hatch and Match Game

For preschoolers learning sight words, each egg half can be used to pair sight words that go together. For example, ‘hop’ and ‘top’, ‘see’ and ‘bee’. Our printable includes 16 pairs (see link below).

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  Download the Hatch and Match Sight Words Printable

Hatch and Match Games for Older Children

For older children, you can mix and match compound words such as 'armchair', 'barnyard', 'nothing', 'racehorse', 'milestone', 'toothbrush' and 'wheelchair'.

6. DIY Easter Wreath

Take some sheets of construction paper and create eggs by folding the paper then cutting out an egg shape (you can use the Chalky Egg craft template above). Make sure to keep one side folded so that the eggs can open like a greeting card. Then cut out a sizeable 'wreath' using a sheet of green construction paper.

Inside each egg, have your child write an Easter wish, such as “Help a friend”, “Talk to grandma” or “Make hot cross buns”. Decorate the front of each egg using crayons, magazine clippings or glitter. Attach the eggs to your wreath and hang it up on the wall.

7. Decorate Reggie Colouring Page

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  Download the Decorate Reggie Colouring Page and have your child add some colour and bling to everyone’s favourite egg.