While you and the kids enjoy your Easter egg hunt and all those delectable sweets, here are a few festive Easter crafts to keep everyone amused and make this holiday extra exciting.
From adorable pom-pom chicks that will march across your Easter table to colorful paper flowers that double as napkin rings, these crafts are sure to delight both kids and guests!
Crochet Chicks
Crochet chicks make an exciting Easter craft project for both children and adults, perfect for basket fillers or decorations. Amigurumi patterns come with easy instructions that include illustrations and photos for added ease.
Utilize this charming crochet chick pattern to craft a playful tote bag! Featuring an adorable three-dimensional amigurumi crochet chick and Easter eggs, it makes the perfect spring activity bag or school bag! Ideal for young members of your family as well as use during school/activities days throughout spring!
Add charm to this cute crochet chick by customizing its colors and embellishments to suit your tastes and needs. Make the chick your own by customizing its features such as beaks, eyebrows and eyelashes using embroidery floss or yarn.
Covered Paper Eggs
Create an Easter basket worthy of their egg hunt loot without using plastic! Plus, this DIY project helps reduce plastic usage!
Make use of white gel pens to add designs such as vines or flowers onto dark colored eggs for optimal results. White works particularly well.
Dependent upon their age and dexterity, this project could either be done as a group effort or individually. Simply cover an egg in strips of tissue paper. After drying fully, brush on some Mod Podge sealant for the final touch before leaving to set before displaying your masterpiece!
Easter Egg Wreaths
Once reserved for Christmas only, wreaths have quickly become an annual must-have. Bring joy this Easter with an exquisite wreath that makes an eye-catching statement whether hung on your door or sitting atop your table as a show-stopping centerpiece!
Start with a grapevine wreath and decorate it with flowers, greenery, and some colorful plastic eggs – the more the better! Finish it off with a large ribbon bow in chick-a-dee yellow for a festive Easter decoration!
Make an attractive Easter wreath out of used egg cartons with this easy DIY project! Use paint and hot glue to embellish each cup in bright hues before attaching them to a painted craft ring for display.
Paint Your Canvas Eggs
Children can paint an Easter Egg canvas using this easy and enjoyable painting activity! Just a few supplies such as rubbing alcohol, paint markers and taper candles will be needed.
Young kids will delight in launching eggs at canvas to create an eye-catching tie-dye effect. Since this craft can get messy quickly, it is best done outdoors or on a tarp where any mess can easily be cleaned away with water hose.
Create colorful Easter decorations using plastic eggs decorated with feathers. Use yellow felt triangles for beaks for an eye-catching finish! This process art can also look fantastic strung along a mantel for Easter celebrations!
Plastic Spoon Flowers
Design Mom offers this craft as an efficient way to utilize supplies you already have in your pantry. Dye or paint a cotton basket as a home for your spring flowers!
Young children cannot complete this project (it poses a choking hazard), but kids as old as 10 or 11 will enjoy doing this craft project using fine paint pens to make flower patterns on white eggs that resemble daffodils – perfect as table decorations at Easter brunch!
Makeover your kitchen with this simple DIY art project: glue yellow plastic spoons onto cardboard disks to create wall decor that doubles as an Anthropologie vase substitute!
Cardboard Chicks
Decorating for Easter doesn’t need to break the bank if you use this fun cardboard chicks craft! Depending on the dexterity of your children, this craft could be completed together or left for them to tackle alone and create their very own adorable addition to the family.
This delightful Easter craft for toddlers gives new meaning to “Easter egg hunt” by using plastic eggs as colorful creatures! With black and pink puff paint, add eyes and wings on top half of an egg carton, followed by felt bunny ears and beaks for each creature.
Give your kids something fun to fidget with with these paper pinwheels that also double as adorable Easter decorations! Hang them from the ceiling or strung along your table – they look lovely.