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Easter Crafts and Activities

You can dye eggs and hide them, you can make egg trees, cut out rabbits and bunny ear hats from construction paper and many other activities. Dyeing eggs and hiding them, obviously, is the most well known Easter activity at home, and it's the most fun. If you look at the picture below and see some of the eggs that look a bit tie dyed, it's done by adding a teaspoon or so of vegetable oil into your colors. Be sure you've gotten all the normal eggs you want prior to adding the oil! There's no going back.

Dyeing Eggs

While you’re dying your eggs to hide, add some tie-dyed eggs to your collection. Simply combine a teaspoon of vegetable oil with any of your colors. Then dip your eggs in like normal, and they’ll come out tie-dyed. Flashing back to the '60s has never been easier! A word of caution: Be sure you've gotten all the regular colored eggs you want before adding the oil!  Once you mix it in, there's no going back.

Bunny Cakes

Take 2 round cake pan cakes.  1 round cake = the bunny's face. Cut an ear off the left and right side of the 2nd cake, leaving a bowtie shape down the center of that 2nd cake.  Puzzle your pieces together, and you have a bunny cake!

Hiding Eggs

Hiding eggs can get super competitive.  We like to hid a big fake egg each round with a prize in it, maybe even a couple bucks!

Plastic Egg Animals

These are fun and cute activities to make. You always have a ton of those plastic eggs left over each Easter.  Why not turn them into something else?  It’s an activity that doubles as a decoration.  You can draw faces on them or use glue to attach googly eyes.  For the pipe cleaner attachments, I cut a small hole in the right spot and let my kids stick the pipe cleaner into the eggs to make ears, wings, carrot greenery, whatever the egg you’re decorating calls for.

Idea from http://www.ssww.com/blog/top-10-diy-easter-crafts-for-kids/ 

Decorated Foam Eggs

Colorful foam sheets are the perfect material for artistic Easter egg projects. Cut out an egg shape from your favorite colored foam sheet. Then use beads, construction paper, or other material of your choosing to decorate your egg. The more outlandish the decorations, the more they will get noticed. Coins? You have the most valuable egg in town. Colored cereal? Now you're really winning! 

Tissue Paper Eggs

Cut out an egg shape along with multiple bright colored strips of tissue paper. Have the kids help crinkle up the tissue paper. This is usually their favorite part. Now carefully bunch up the tissue paper in lines across your egg and then glue them down. The effect makes a beautiful textured Easter egg…or Faberge egg, depending on your goal.

"Stained Glass" cross

Cut out crosses from different colored construction paper. Use pastel colored chalk, makers, or crayons to color the cross, using geometric shaped if possible. (This will vary based on the ability of your little artists). You can also add things like colored cellophane to really punch home that stained glass window effect!

T-P Roll Easter Buddies

For this craft, you’ll need some used toilet paper rolls and accessories. At first, I cut my rolls in half…but I didn’t quite like that the bunny and chick heads were the same size as their bodies.  So, I trimmed a little off each side, turning the trimmings into the chick wings and bunny ears. With the bunny, I didn’t quite cut the ears all the way off, creating floppy ears.  You could just as easily cut them all the way off and attach them as straight ears at the top of the bunny.  Then, your kids can add googly eyes and whatever other face accessories they’d like.  I chose to recycle a couple more plastic eggs, cutting them to form the chick’s beak and feet.  The bunny uses the rounder bottom part of the eggs as its legs.

Paper Plate Bunny

Get two paper plates, cut your ears out of the first plate.  The second plate acts as your bunny’s face.  Color in the pink of the ears, and use glue eyes and nose and cheeks to the plate.  Draw in your mouth and whiskers.  We used a pink pompom for the nose, cotton balls for the cheeks and craft, or “googly”, eyes. My boys chose to have our bunny “look weird and crazy” by having two different sized eyes.

 

This one is from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9288742954005042/

Easter Egg Craft

Use a clothes pin to hold a small pompom. We chose to decorate our clothes pin like a rabbit. Now dip the rabbit's head (I mean the clothes pin secured pompom) into the paint. Now you can "bounce" the rabbit painter around a construction paper egg to form a pattern, making sure to change pompoms if you don't want your colors to mix. Let it dry and your finished! (cleanup for this one is a breeze! 

 

From https://www.craftymorning.com/pom-pom-easter-egg-painting-craft-kids/

Bunny Ears

Straw-Blown Painted Cross

Cut out a cross shape and hold it down on a piece of construction paper. Put paint in small globs at each corner or end of the cross. Blow the globs using a straw, spreading the paint outwards from the cross. The more you can get it to “splatter,” the better. Be careful to not let your blown paint get under your cross onto the paper itself. Once done blowing the paint around, making an outline of your cross, lift your cross off of the paper below it. You’ll be left with a cool outlined cross. If you choose some oranges, reds, and yellows, it’ll make your cross seem a bit fiery like the sunrise is behind it.

You have to be careful or the paint will get under your cross and mess your "outlined cross" after you're finished. 

Thumbprint Easter Art

Have your kids make a thumb print in pink, then use their other fingers to make three yellow prints. A black marker to add eyes, beaks, wings, and stick legs to the yellow finger prints, turning them into chicks.  Then add eyes, curved legs, bunny nose, whiskers, and a cottontail to your pink thumbprint to make a bunny.  Then you have a neat Easter piece of art that your little ones helped make.  Since fingerprints are involved, this doubles as a keepsake that you’ll likely horde forever with the ton of other things the kids have made!

 

This one is from https://www.blog.brightstarkids.com.au/decorating/easter-crafts/

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