Spring is in the air, and Easter is the perfect time to gather the family, break out the craft supplies, and let your kids’ creativity run wild. Whether you’re decorating the house with handmade bunnies or diving into pastel-colored paints and paper, arts and crafts are a wonderful way to spend quality time together and spark your child’s imagination. No matter if you’re living in a cozy apartment in Chicago, settling into a new house in Colorado Springs, or renting a home in Indianapolis, this Redfin article has rounded up many Easter crafts for kids to make this season colorful, crafty, and full of joy.
Egg-cellent Easter crafts
What’s Easter without a little egg-inspired creativity? Whether you’re painting, gluing, or turning simple supplies into mini masterpieces, these egg-cellent ideas are fun, mess-friendly, and full of springtime charm.
The Montessori Room, a blog of three mothers and educators focused on creating a more accessible Montessori, shares two ideas for Easter egg crafts:
Tissue paper Easter egg craft
Purpose: Strengthens fine motor skills and builds patience and focus.
Materials: Construction paper, scissors, glue stick or white glue and tissue paper (cut or torn into small squares).
Instructions: Cut out an egg shape from the construction paper. Invite your child to crumple small pieces of tissue paper and glue them onto the egg to create a textured, colourful design. If they prefer, they can also glue the tissue paper flat – both ways work beautifully! This craft gives children a chance to practise gluing and placing small items, which builds hand strength and coordination.Marbled paper Easter eggs
Purpose: Explores colour mixing and texture, helping to develop the senses.
Materials: Shaving cream, food colouring, tray, paper, ruler or cardboard scraper, and scissors.
Instructions: Fill a shallow tray with shaving cream and drip a few drops of food colouring on top. Use a toothpick or stick to gently swirl the colours around to create a marbled effect. Press a sheet of paper into the shaving cream, then lift it up and scrape off the excess to reveal the marbled design. Let it dry completely, then cut out egg shapes from the colourful paper. Use the eggs to decorate windows, cards or a festive spring garland.
Lisa Bartels from Explore! Curriculum shares instructions for the Magical watercolor Easter eggs.
She explains that you’ll need white printer paper, cut into egg shapes, white crayons, and watercolor paints. Then follow the instructions below:
Grab a white crayon and get drawing — because this easy art project is all about hidden designs and colorful reveals!
Start by drawing Easter eggs on your paper with a white crayon. Press firmly — you won’t see much yet, but that’s part of the fun! Once your secret design is in place, break out the watercolors and paint right over the whole egg. Like magic, your crayon drawings will appear as the paint rolls right off the wax!
Kids will love creating their own secret doodles, or if you want to surprise them, draw the designs ahead of time and let them uncover the mystery as they paint. Either way, it’s a colorful and creative way to celebrate the season!
Sarah The Arty Teacher states, “Our website offers a range of creative Easter-themed art lessons that encourage students to develop their skills imaginatively. These engaging resources include detailed drawing activities, vibrant collage projects, and paper sculpture, all designed to inspire artistic expression.
Students can work with a variety of materials and techniques, from intricate pattern work to bold, expressive mark-making. One example is the Easter Egg Collage. Students will use strips of magazine paper to create a vibrant Easter egg. This engaging activity develops collage skills and fine motor skills, making it perfect for a seasonal lesson that is both fun and educational.”
Easter fun under the sun
Every spring, local farms and community spots open their doors (and orchards!) for Easter-themed fun, complete with egg hunts and crafts. As Rachel from Smolak Farms shares, “Each year Smolak Farms holds their Easter egg hunts in our antique barn and peach orchard. As a part of the Easter egg hunt, each child gets to create their very own Easter bunny bag craft. We supply all of the needed materials, and they get to decorate and create to their heart’s desire!”
These outdoor community events are great and support a healthy community. However, even if you can’t make it to one of these local events, you can still bring the magic home. When the weather warms up and the sun starts shining, there’s no better place to craft than right in your own backyard. Outdoor Easter crafts let kids get a little messy, creative, and fully immersed in the sights and sounds of spring.
“Easter often brings warmer weather, which is perfect for getting outside and finding materials to craft with. We love going on nature walks and filling a basket with sticks, leaves, flowers, rocks, and any other natural materials to create simple Easter egg crafts. Natural materials are my favorite because they are free, easy to return to nature once finished, and beautiful,” says Sprouting Wild Ones.
For their nature-themed Easter egg activity, they explain:
- Cut out your egg shapes from the cardboard. I just happened to have an egg cookie cutter that I traced to make my egg shapes, but you can also just draw them freehand if you don’t have something to trace. You then carefully cut them out. Sharp scissors are nice when cutting cardboard, if you have them. My son had fun watching me cut the eggs out, but I didn’t let him help with the scissors, just to be safe.
- Go out and collect your nature items! We just went in our backyard because we have lots of plants and rock to choose from, but you could also make it into a fun activity where you go for a little walk around the neighborhood and collect your items.
- Plug your hot glue gun in and start decorating! I had patterns in mind before I started each egg, but for little kids, it’s fun to just let them help you glue things on. Hot glue is really hot, so I just had my son point to where he wanted things to go and then I would operate the hot glue gun.
Kirsty Shadiac from ArtVenture suggests that kids take part in creating Easter-themed canvas paintings. Utilising the outdoors as inspiration, Kristy notes, “Set up a painting station with canvases, acrylic paints, brushes, and palette knives. Encourage children to paint scenes inspired by springtime, such as blooming flowers, baby animals, or Easter egg hunts. Kids can also experiment with abstract patterns or create their own interpretations of Easter symbols.”
Misty Hill, The Maternal Hobbyist, shares two alternative nature crafts to try this Easter. Misty shares, “Another fun and hands-on activity is crafting DIY nature crowns using paper strips, flower petals, and bits of leaves, or twigs collected from a backyard adventure.
For something a little different, try Easter story stones — paint small rocks with acrylic paint or paint pens using spring-inspired art like chicks, flowers, or even as an egg alternative, then seal them with Mod Podge Outdoor to protect them from the elements. Kids can hide them around the yard or neighborhood for an exciting scavenger hunt! These crafts are simple, and spark creativity while encouraging kids to explore and play.”
Bunny-themed Easter crafts for kids
What’s Easter without a few fluffy-tailed friends? Bunny crafts are a hit with kids thanks to their cuteness, simplicity, and endless creative possibilities. From paper plate bunnies to pom-pom tails and cotton ball-covered creations, these rabbit-inspired projects are fun, easy, and perfect for celebrating spring. Whether you’re decorating for the season or just looking for a cozy afternoon activity, these bunny crafts are sure to bring smiles all around.
Shelly Sitz, a second-grade teacher and writer of Smiling and Shining in Second Grade, shares a fun rabbit art project for your kids to try this Easter. Shelly writes, “This funky rabbit Easter art project is a creative and engaging activity that combines drawing, pattern-making, and springtime fun! Students begin with a bunny template and fill it in using Zentangle-inspired doodles — a mix of repeated lines, shapes, and patterns in black marker. Once their designs are complete, they cut out their bunny and glue it onto brightly colored construction paper. The final touch? Funky, colorful glasses bring each bunny to life with a fun, modern twist! This project is perfect for practicing fine motor skills, line variety, and creativity. It also makes a vibrant and eye-catching bulletin board that’s sure to get smiles during the spring season.”
Lerah Matsose of Our Happy Corner, a blog focused on creating a loving home, shares a favorite activity of hers. She explains, “One Easter craft that kids always enjoy is footprint bunny art. Simply paint the bottom of each child’s foot with washable paint and let them stamp their footprint onto paper, and then transform it into a bunny by adding ears, eyes, and whiskers with markers and cut-out shapes. Another favorite is the nature bunny craft, where children use leaves, twigs, pebbles or seeds, and flowers to build a bunny shape by gluing them onto a white sheet of paper. For a classic craft, paper bunny masks are always a hit. Kids can cut a bunny face from cardstock and decorate it with markers, stickers, or cutouts, then add a string to wear it proudly.”
Maria Galloway, Art Teacher in LA, has learned a lot throughout her 20 years teaching art. At this time, she has found a favorite activity for engaging kids’ creativity, her textured bunny craft. The materials needed for this craft are: Blue card stock or construction paper, Crayola construction paper crayons (white), Crayola oil pastels (white, pink, brown, black, green), pencil, and erasers. Then simply follow the instructions below to create your own piece:
- Draw the rabbit body at the bottom of the paper with a pencil. Add the head, the tail, the ear, and the eye. Be sure the bunny is at the bottom of the paper. Lightly shade in the bunny with a white crayon.
- Use the oil pastels to color the inner ear and nose pink. Give the bunny a big brown eye and a black pupil.
- Use the white oil pastel to make little lines of texture for the bunny fur, starting with the body, then the bunny face, tail, and ear.
- Make grass textures with green oil pastel from the bottom of the paper upward over the bottom of the rabbit’s body.
Kelly Crean from PJs and Paint also shared a fun Easter craft for kids, along with a free, printable guide: “If you’re looking for a fun, free, and easy craft to do with kids this Easter, then look no further! Simply print out the free template and follow the simple instructions, and learn how to make this paper craft that bounces like a bunny!. It only requires a few common supplies you most likely already have on hand. It is the perfect craft to do at home, in the classroom, or at an Easter party. Get the free printable here.”
Materials needed are: White cardstock (regular printer paper will work as well, but cardstock is highly recommended for the best results), crayons, markers, or colored pencils (optional), scissors, and glue.
How to assemble the hopping paper bunny:
- Color in the bunny and rectangular strips of paper if desired. Cut all of the pieces out along the solid black lines.
- Glue the left side of strip B to the right side of strip A to form one long rectangle. Repeat with strips of paper C and D to form another long rectangle. Glue strip A to strip C perpendicular to form a right angle.
- Fold the bottom strip of paper to the left and then fold the top strip of paper down. Fold to the right and then fold up. Repeat until all of the paper has been folded. Place a dab of glue underneath the top fold to secure the paper spring in place.
- Fold the tab on the bunny’s feet backwards along the dotted line and place a dab of glue on the back. Place the bottom of the paper spring on top to attach the feet.
- Fold the tab on the bunny’s head backwards along the dotted line. Place a dab of glue on the spot marked “glue” and attach to the top of the paper spring.
- Place your finger on top of the paper spring and let to to see your bunny hop!
Wrapping up: Easter crafts for kids and adults alike
As you craft with toddlers, big kids, or the whole family, these Easter projects are all about making memories, sparking creativity, and enjoying the simple joy of the season. From egg-cellent art to bunny-themed fun and sunshine-filled outdoor activities, there’s something here for every little maker. So gather your supplies, follow the giggles, and let your Easter celebration be filled with color, laughter, and hands-on happiness. Happy crafting and happy spring!
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