Easter Crafts for Kids
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Glowing "He Lives" Easter Cross Craft

What you will need: Bright yellow computer paper, oil (such as canola oil or olive oil), paint brush, and paper towels.

What to do:

1. Print out the cross pattern onto bright yellow computer paper and cut it out.

(The pattern for this cross is available to members only.)

* If you have a printer that has water soluble ink, print out the pattern onto white computer paper and then use a copy machine to copy the pattern onto yellow paper. (*Inkjet printers are water soluble.)

2. Place a small amount of oil (1 teaspoon) into a cup. Use a paint brush to brush the oil over the back of the cross. When you have covered the entire cross with oil use paper towels to soak up any left over oil by pressing the cross pattern between to sheets of paper towels. The oil on the paper will make the paper translucent.

3. Tape the cross on a window. The images in the cross will seem to glow.

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Hoppy Easter Bunny Activity Sheet

What you will need: Paper, crayons, cotton, tape, and scissors.

What to do:

1. Draw a picture of a bunny without the ears and tail. (A pattern for this craft is available to members.)

2. Draw the ears on another sheet of paper, color and cut them out.

3. Cut slits on the bunny's head where the ears should attach about 1/2" smaller than the end of the bunny's where the ears. Fold the end of the ears and stick them in the slits and tape them to the back of the picture where they come through the slits.

4. Glue on a cotton ball for the tail.

Jelly Bean Bunny Easter
Craft for Kids

What you will need: Small plastic bags, 3" x 5" (You can get these at craft stores), jelly beans, card stock (heavy paper), scissors, tape, stapler, and colored pencils.

What to do:

1. Print out the patterns (Large file or small file), color them, and cut them out.

2. Fill your bag with jelly beans leaving about 1 1/2" inches at the top empty. Fold in the top sides of the bag to make it skinner at the top about one inch wide. Staple the top closed.

3. Tape the bag with the jelly beans inside to the top of the leg pattern as shown in the picture above. Tape the arms and head onto the bag as shown. To finish tape the "Hoppy Easter" sign to on of the bunny's arms.

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Felted Easter Crafts

(Click on the links above to go to the Felted Crafts Page for Directions)

Paper Plate Easter Bunny Candy Dish Craft

What you will need: Dinner-sized heavy duty paper plates, regular paper plates, pink paper, white card stock (heavy paper), cotton balls, and jelly beans.

What to do:

1. Cut the center out of a heavy duty paper plate and glue it to another heavy duty paper plate, top to top, to make the dish.

2. To make the bunny face, fold a regular paper plate in half. Mark off 3 1/4" from the sides of the plate at the fold as shown in the picture on the right.

3. Cut 3 1/4" slits on each side of the folded paper plate as shown in the picture on the left.

4. Open up the plate and draw lines at right angles to the slits from the 3 1/4" marks on the folded edge of the paper plate about 3" long as shown in the picture at the right.

5. Place glue near the edge of the drawn lines as shown in the picture. Bring the cut edges over to line up with the drawn lines and press down to secure as shown in the picture on the left.

6. The back of the bunny's head should look like the picture on the right when you are done.

7. Cut a nose and tongue from pink paper and glue to the front of the head. Cut ears from white card stock and inner ears from pink paper, or color the inner ears pink. Glue them to the back of the head as shown in the picture.

8. Cut arms and legs from extra paper plates or white card stock. Glue them to the bottom of the candy dish paper plate as shown in the picture at the top.

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Paper Plate Easter Bunny Craft and Learning Activity

What you will need: Dinner-sized heavy duty paper plates, regular paper plate, orange paper, white card stock (heavy paper), cotton ball, scissors, and glue.

What to do:

1. Follow the directions above for the candy dish except do not cut out the center of the dish. (A pattern for the ears, feet, nose, eyes, and teeth is available to members.)

1. Cut out carrot shapes about 5" long from orange paper. (A pattern for the carrots is available to members.)

2. Go to the Preschool Educational Crafts and Activities for a list of educational activities that go along with this craft.

Folded Paper Easter Bunny - All you need is paper, scissors, tape, and cotton balls. Just print out the patterns, color, cut out, and fold. To finish glue on a cotton ball for a tail. This pattern is available to members only. Go to Folded Paper Easter Bunny Craft.

Go to the Educational Craft Page to find teaching ideas that use this craft.

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Easter Learning Fun Craft and Activity

What you will need: Colorful paper, pipe cleaners, hole punch, and tiny spring stickers.

What to do:

1. Go to the Wisconsin Paper Council web site to get directions on how to fold the Easter basket.

2. After you have folded the basket use a hole punch to punch holes on each side of the basket.

3. Braid three pipe cleaners together and then attach them to the basket using the holes. (If you don't want to use pipe cleaners, you can just staple a strip of paper to the basket for the handle.

4. Decorate the basket with tiny spring stickers.

5. Print out the egg patterns onto different colors of paper and cut them out.

This craft and activity can be used to reinforce many learning concepts: (Click here to go to Preschool learning Activity Ideas)

1. Vocabulary Words - Write your child's vocabulary words on the eggs, one per egg. Place the finished eggs on a table, face up. Have your child pick an egg and read the word written on the egg. If he can read the word, he gets to place it in the basket. If he can't read the word, tell him what the word is and then place it in a separate pile. When he has gone through all the words, place the eggs from the pile face up on the table and have him pick words he knows, and place them in the basket. Keep playing this way until all the words are in the basket.

2. Vocabulary Word Match - Write your child's vocabulary words on the paper eggs making matching sets. Place all the eggs on the table face down. Play match game trying to turn over two matching eggs. If a match is found, the player places the eggs in his basket. The player with the most eggs wins.

3. Spelling Eggs - Write your child's spelling words on the eggs and place them all face down on a table. Have him point to one of the eggs. Turn over the egg and read the word to your child. If he can spell the word, he gets to place it in his basket, if not, the egg goes back down on the table and is mixed in with the rest. Keep playing until all the eggs are in the basket.

4. Reading/Writing Game - Each player thinks of a sentence and then writes it, one word per egg, on the eggs, and then mixes up all the eggs and gives them to another player. Players then have to put the eggs in order to make a sentence. When a player is done, he should ask the person he got the eggs from if he is correct. If he is correct, he should trade his eggs for another set of eggs.

5. Review Math Facts - Write your child's math facts on the eggs. Write the problem on one side and the solution on the other. Turn all the cards over so that the problem side is up. Have your child pick an egg and tell the answer. If he is right, he gets to place the egg in the basket. If he is wrong, tell him the answer and place the egg in a pile. When he has tried all the eggs, place the eggs that he missed on the table and keep playing until all the eggs are in the basket.

7. Creativity - Cut out one egg shape from card stock or card board. Have your child use the egg shape as a template and trace around it onto another sheet of paper, cut it out, and color the egg. Place the finished eggs in the Easter basket, and then have an Easter egg hunt. (If this is too hard, cut out the egg shape from a center of a piece of card board and use the card board with the egg-shaped hole in it as the template.)

Easter Egg Bunny Easter Craft for Kids - These cute little bunnies can be made from real eggs or you can use plastic eggs and fill them with treats. They can also be used as place setting for your Easter Feast.

What you will need: Facial tissue (a good, strong brand) I used Puffs with lotions, card stock (heavy paper), scissors, crayons and markers, glue, plastic or real eggs that have been colored.

What to do:

1. Prepare your eggs ahead of time. Color them if you are using real eggs, or fill them with treats if you are using plastic eggs.

2. Draw a rectangle 3/4" x 7 1/2" long onto card stock. Draw legs on the bottom part of the rectangle. Cut the rectangle and legs out so that they are attached. Color them and then glue the ends of the rectangle together to fit snugly around your egg to form a holder for the egg. (Don't glue it to the egg.) Fold the legs up. Draw hands and torso onto the card stock. Cut them out and color them. Glue the hands and torso pattern to the back, inside part of the legs pattern around the ring.

A pattern for this craft is available to members only. Click here to go to the members only section and print out the pattern.

3. To make the bunny heads you will need two facial tissues for each head. Crinkle up one facial tissue into a tight ball. Unfold the other one and place the crinkled up ball in the center. Bring one corner down and over the crinkled up ball. Roll the opposite corner around the crinkled up tissue. Now scrunch up the two corners you haven't used yet into ear shapes. Bring them together over the crinkled up ball that has been rolled inside the tissue. Carefully tie the two ends together over the ball. Pull the ends out and form them into ear shapes.

4. Draw eyes and ears on the face and glue it onto the smaller end of the egg. Place the egg and head in the feet holder.

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Palm Sunday Hosanna Wreath Easter Craft for Kids

What you will need: Two different shades of green construction paper, white paper, fun foam flowers, glue, and scissors.

What to do:

1. Use a large 8" plate to cut a circle from construction paper for the wreath base. Cut a smaller circle out of the inside.

2. Cut palm branch shapes from 2 different shades of green construction paper as shown. (A pattern for the leaves are available to members on The Resource Room.) Glue the palm branches all around the circle base.

3. Draw coat shapes on white paper, color them and cut them out. (A pattern for the coats are available to members on The Resource Room.) Glue the coats on top of the palm branches.

4. Write "Hosanna!" on another sheet of paper and cut it out and glue it to the top of the wreath. A pattern is available to members on The Resource Room.)

5. Two finish glue fun foam flower shapes to the wreath.(You can buy fun foam flowers from Oriental Trading Company. Just type in 48/13380 in the search box.)

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Egg Carton Sheep and Bunny Easter Craft for Kids

Don't throw away those old egg cartons this Easter. Use them to make these cute Easter Characters. The directions for the egg carton sheep and bunny can be found on The Resource Room and the Members Only section section of Danielle's Place. Click here to find out more about the members only section.

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Donkey Paper Bag Puppet Easter Craft for Kids

What you will need: Brown construction paper, brown lunch bag, glue sticks, scissors, and crayons.

What to do:

1. Draw a donkey's head, ears, and legs on brown construction paper. Make the head large enough to cover the bottom of the brown lunch bag. Cut them out and glue the legs onto the back of the bag and the head onto the bottom of the bag. Cut a tongue from pink construction paper and glue it to the inside fold of the bottom part of the bag. A pattern for this craft is available to members of Danielle's Place and The Resource Room. Go to Crafts Page 6 on The Resource.

Comments from subscribers:

The donkey paper bag puppet was an especially big hit, very easy to make, and looked really good. I used it in conjunction with the "Jesus' family escapes to Egypt" story.

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Styrofoam Easter Egg Decorations

What you will need: Styrofoam eggs, lace, beads, sequins, short straight pins, silk flowers, Rick Rack etc.

What to do:

1. Use straight pins to stick lace, beads, sequins, or anything else that would look pretty onto the eggs. You may need to buy straight pins with the round heads to stick some beads on that have large holes.

2. To hang the egg, cut a length of ribbon use a straight pin to secure it to the top of the egg.

Easter Bunny Paper Doll Easter Craft for Kids

What you will need: card stock, paper, crayons or markers, scissors

What to do:

1. Print out the bunny paper doll onto card stock, color the bunny, and cut it out.
2. Print out the clothes pattern 1, and clothes pattern 2 onto computer paper, color them, and cut them out.

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Easter Bunny Bookmark Easter Craft for Kids - Easter craft for kids of all ages.

What you will need:  Legal size envelope, scissors, and markers.

What to do:

Print out the pattern and cut it out.

Lay the pointy part of the head of the bunny pattern at one corner of the envelope and trace the pattern.  Cut out the bunny from both layers of the envelope. Cut out the ears from the left over part of the envelope.  Color the bunny.

To use the bookmark just slide the bunny over the corner of a page in your book so that just the ears stick out.

Bunny and Egg Refrigerator Magnets or Pins Easter Craft for Kids - Easter craft for kids of all ages.

What you will need: Plastic spoons, small round magnets or jewelry clasps, fun foam, ribbon, markers, paint, Plaster of Paris, and glue.

What to do: 

Set up the plastic spoons on newspaper so that the scoop side of the spoons are facing up. Prop the handle end of the spoons up on something to make the scoop side of the spoon level.

Mix the Plaster of Paris according to the directions.  Use another plastic spoon to spoon in the mixed plaster into each cup of the plastic spoons.

Let the plaster set for a little bit until the plaster is set enough to hold the magnets or jewelry clasps upright.

When the plaster is set enough press the clasps or magnets into the plaster. Let the plaster dry completely and remove the molds from the spoons.

To finish use markers or paint to decorate the molds.  For the rabbit cut out ears from fun foam and glue to the back of the mold. Glue a bow to the front of the rabbit.

Bunny Kisses Easter Craft for Kids - This little bunny comes from Oriental Trading Company. Just glue on the nose, bow, ears, and tail, and place a chocolate treat in his mouth. They make great Easter treats. They cost $9.95 for 24 kits, or about 40 cents each. The candy is included. To order this craft go to Oriental Trading Company's web site. Type in 48/3618 in the search box on the left hand side of the page.

Easter Surprise Packages Easter Craft - When talking about the surprise Jesus' friends must have felt about the empty tomb have the kids make surprise packages.  You can also use this as an outreach tool.  Hand out these gifts and in the inside put candy and a message explaining that Jesus gave us the greatest gift off all, eternal life, by dying on the cross for our sins.

What you will need: Toilet paper tubes, wrapping or tissue paper, tape, chenille wires, index cards, markers stickers, small candies, gum or toys.

What to do: Have each child print a bible verse (Easter related) on an index card and then decorate the card.  Fold or roll it to fit in the tube; then fill with candy and wrap with paper and tie ends with the chenille wires (like the English cracker style). Have them give it to someone to surprise them. Then you surprise your students with one for them that you made the night before!   This idea was sent in by Debbie from our Bulletin Board. Thanks, Debbie

Here is a pattern for a small picture the children can color or paint and place in the Easter surprise package. 

Easter Butterfly Craft for Kids - This craft idea and the following recipe were sent in from Nance in Reno. Thank you so much for sharing these ideas with us.

What you will need:
Ziplock sandwich bags (cheap ones are  fine)
Tissue paper scraps, various colors
Pipe cleaner (chenille stem)
What to do:
Have the children tear the tissue paper into small pieces and put a couple of tablespoons of the torn paper in a Ziplock bag.  Spread out the paper so it looks like stained glass.  Fan fold the bag (like an accordion).  In the middle of the bag, twist a pipe cleaner to form the butterfly's body.  Curl the ends to look like an antennae.

Palm Sunday Donkey Colt Easter Craft for Kids

 What you need:  Poster board, tea from tea bags (about 1 per donkey), jute string, wiggly eyes, piece of material,  craft spray glue, fake animal fur material.

What to do:  

1. Before class print out the pattern onto card stock or use clip art. Click here for a pattern. The pattern for this craft is available to members only. 
2. In class have the children color in the donkey's hooves with a black marker or crayon.
3. Have the children paint white glue all over the donkey.
4. Let them sprinkle tea leaves from a tea bag onto the donkey covering the whole thing but his hooves.
5. Tie on the jute string to look like a halter.
6. Glue on wiggly eye, some fake fur for its mane, and a piece of material for a blanket.

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HE IS RISEN Laced Paper Plate Easter Craft - This Easter craft for young children was posted by Michelle on the crafts for kids message board.  I  hope she won't mind me passing it on:

What you will need:  Paper plate, scissors, markers, crayons, or stickers, hole punch, yarn, tape, (Optional) construction paper and paper fastener

 What to do:

1. Cut a paper plate in half.
2. Cut a half circle out of the bottom of one of the plate halves.
3. Use markers or crayons or stickers to decorate the plate halves with bright flowers.
4. Hold the two halves of the plates together and punch holes 1" apart along the curved sides.
5. Tape one end of a piece of yarn to make a needle and knot the other end. Holding the halves together, lace around the curved sides. Attach the yarn end to the back with tape.
6. Write "He is risen" on the inside behind the cutout half circle.
7. Hang up your project with a loop of yarn.

Other ideas: Cut a construction paper circle for the stone and glue it to one side of the entrance.

Draw an angel inside the tomb and the two Marys on the outside.

I made up a sample of this craft and the other teachers love it too (Yeah!!). We will do the lettering ahead of time, and also glue the two paper plates together before punching the holes to make it easier for the kids when lacing. The children will lace the plates and decorate them with markers and stickers (we found small birds, butterfly and flower stickers) on Easter Sunday. One of our teachers also came up with the idea of making the stone out of construction paper and attaching it to the plate with a split-pin so that the children can "roll away the stone" to see the empty tomb. (Haven't tried that part yet).

We think this is a great craft for our children and we are very grateful to Michelle! We also love the "He is risen snack" using glazed doughnuts and doughnut holes listed under VBS snack recipes from one of your links. Thanks, Elizabeth, for passing this craft on to us.

Plant an Easter Garden Easter Craft -  This idea comes from Elizabeth off of our bulletin board.

What you will need:  Dome-shaped plastic containers,  (found at your local bakery) potting soil, empty film canister, small rock, grass seed, artificial flowers, and small wooden cross.

What to do:

Help the children spoon potting soil into the bottom half of the plastic container (You could do this ahead of time if you are worried about the mess!).

For Jesus' empty tomb have the children half-bury an empty film canister (a toilet roll cut to fit could also be used) and put more dirt on top of it to make it look like it is in the side of a hill. Then they can place a small round rock beside the opening.

The children can then sprinkle grass seed over the dirt, and stick small artificial flowers in the earth to decorate their garden.

To finish have each child place a small wooden cross in their garden.  The crosses can be made ahead of time by wiring twigs together.

Before sealing the container have the children sprinkle water all over the seeds.

 "We had very positive feed back from parents on this activity. I don't know where the original idea came from, but we have enjoyed doing this activity.  It is also nice to keep a sample one in the classroom." Elizabeth .

 Cindi VanWingerden who teaches 4-year olds  did this project with her class.  She says, "I let each child decorate a small white pot (about $1 each) with stickers, then put in the dirt, seeds, film canister (cut in half to allow more room for the flowers) and the rock. I think it really will help them remember the story of Jesus. The parents loved in. I gave the parents a note explaining  the symbolism (along with explaining what we are currently studying)."

I used the Easter garden craft with my 3-5 year olds on Easter Sunday.   It went over pretty well - we did a short crayon and paper craft before we made the garden so they would understand what the tomb looked like, and read a book with some great illustrations.  I think if anyone is going to use this with preschoolers they need to already have discussed the tomb and what  it looks like before they actually do the craft.  We had a few visitors  that week, none of whom had ever heard the Easter story, and they were a bit confused by the concept of the tomb itself. The craft itself turned out to be pretty messy.  They were forbidden to touch the dirt, but of course that lasted about five minutes!  My aid entertained the crew with  decorating the pots, choosing the day's attendance stickers and preparing for  snack while one at a time they "helped' me fill the pot with dirt.  That  helped a lot, and kept little fingers out of the dirt and glitter pens.  We  used paint shirts, a necessity because we were all in our Easter finest, and  dirty white dresses would not have impressed my parents!  I think it  would have been better overall if I had prepared one well in advance to be already covered in grass so they would have better realized what we were doing.  That was my "oops" of course, and next year I'll have one ready.  I'll also use larger pots - we tried those little 4" flower pots and they  just weren't large enough for everything.  We ended up leaving out the flowers so we'd have room for the cross and rock.  Also, a toilet paper tube cut in half was a little large for the pot.  After we finished I realized that watering, even gently, will eventually soften and break down the toilet paper tube, so it won't stay a true tomb garden for long if you go that route.  I did cheat on the crosses and instead of making them out of twigs  and sticks I bought some glow in the dark plastic crosses from a  local bookstore. The whole craft section only took 20 minutes ( I was set up ahead of time) to complete with 6 students.  Bethany Davis

 Easter Egg Hunt Craft

What you will need: Construction paper, glue,  scissors, markers or crayons.

What to do:

1. Cut out Easter egg shapes from different colors of construction paper and decorate them.
2. Draw a bunny and cut him out.
3. Fold two pieces of green construction paper in half the short  way. Fold in half again. Unfold the paper and cut along the fold lines. Cut slits in the paper strips to look like grass. Starting at the bottom of the paper, glue the strips onto another piece of construction paper overlapping them as go up. Hide the eggs and bunny in the grass.

Easter Basket Craft for Kids - Here is a craft idea sent in from Debra Hyre using the bottom of plastic soda bottles. Thanks for your ideas. (a picture will be coming soon)

What you need: 1 or 2 liter soda bottles, scissors, paper punch or staple, glue,  tissue paper or anything you want to decorate the basket with,  pinking shears (optional)

What to do:

Cut off the bottom of a soda bottle. This will be your basket. Trim the edge cleanly, or use pinking shears or other decorative scissors to make a fancy edge.

Cut a 1/2 to 1 inch ring from the soda bottle, cut it in half and use one half as the handle.

To attach the handle use a paper punch to put a hole in the basket where the handle  should be attached. Punch a hole at each end of the handle. Use yarn or ribbon to attach the handle to the basket. Or you can use the brass colored paper brads to attach the handle, but this isn't recommended if young children will be using them. You could also use a stapler to attach the handle,  but it is less flexible when finished.

You can leave the basket plain or use glue and tissue paper to decorate the outside.

Easter Wind Sock Craft for Kids

What you will need: Card Stock, red and pink crepe paper streamers, yarn, hole punch, stapler, tape.

What to do:

1. Draw an Easter picture on a piece of card stock or print out the pattern (This pattern is available to Members Only).

2. Tape or staple red and pink crepe paper streamers onto the bottom back of the pattern. Roll the pattern up and staple the ends together.

3. Punch a hole at the top of the roll on opposite sides and tie yarn to make a loop to hang the wind socks.

*  If you are in a really wet climate laminate the paper before stapling it together or put clear contact paper over it and use plastic instead of the streamers.

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Christian Symbol Easter Eggs Easter Craft for Kids

What you will need: Paper, scissors, glitter glue or glitter sticks, and crayons and yarn (optional). These patterns go with the lessons "Remember Me"

What to do:

Draw Egg shapes and cut them out. Decorate the eggs using Christian symbols such as butterflies, cross, dove, fish, crown, candle, star and bread or print out the patterns. (These patterns are available to Member Only).

Color the eggs with crayons or markers; accent with glitter glue or glitter sticks.

Hang on a tree with yarn or decorate a bulletin board for Easter.

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Stick Donkey Easter Craft for Kids - Made from a gift wrap roll, yarn, and brown paper. Younger children will love riding their donkey just like Jesus did on Palm Sunday. The pattern for this craft is available to Members only. Go to Donkey Pattern and directions. You can also use old socks dyed brown to make a donkey. Go to Danielle's Pick Page for directions.

Paper Plate Donkey Craft

You will find the directions for this cute little donkey on the Paper Plate Crafts page.

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Palm Branch Easter Craft - Very easy to make.  You can use these to put on a Palm Sunday play. 

What you will need:  Green construction paper, Green Pipe cleaner, glue

What to do:  Cut out a leaf shape from green construction paper.  Glue a green pipe cleaner to the middle of the leaf.  Let the children cut slits in the branch to make leaves. 

See The Easter Bible Themes Page for More Easter Crafts

Links to other Easter Crafts

Childfun - Easter cookies, Jesus Jelly Bean Bag, Action Story of the Resurrection, Count Down to Easter, and Finger Play.