Easter is just around the corner and it's time for Easter crafts with children again! Whether dyeing Easter eggs, making cute Easter bunnies or designing Easter baskets – the craft ideas for the most popular spring festival are numerous. In this article we have collected many wonderful ideas for Easter crafts with children that are really fun. Let this inspire you and prepare the apartment for Easter with a beautiful DIY decoration!
Making Easter eggs with children at Easter
The most well-known symbol of Easter are without a doubt the Easter eggs. And not just those that we color at home, but also those that you can make with children. Easter eggs can be made and made from many different materialsalways for Easter decorations. You can use this to create a beautiful Easter basket or make pretty garlands yourself. The only thing required is some imagination.
You can make a colorful garland with the children and brighten up the children's room with an atmospheric decoration. To do this, cut out a lot of egg templates from paper or white foam rubber and decorate them with colored pencils, paint and colored craft beads. Then take a string and hang the Easter eggs you made using colorful clothespins. The garland is now ready to hang.
You can make Easter eggs from paper, papier-mâché, felt, foam rubber and many other materials. To make these pretty felt eggs with the children, you will need craft felt in many beautiful colors, motif punches with spring motifs and borders, and a glue gun. First, cut out simple egg templates from the felt and punch suitable motifs with the motif hole punch. Then the children can decorate the Easter eggs and create an atmospheric decoration for the wall.
You can make a beautiful door wreath for the front door with the children from sample paper cut into the shape of an egg. The following applies: the more colorful the paper, the more beautiful the wreath will be. You can use the middle of one as a basePapptellerscut out and use the resulting ring. Glue the paper Easter eggs onto it, add a bow and you're done.
blown eggs as decoration
Whether for the Easter bouquet or for fun craft projects, the blown eggs are an important part of the Easter decoration. They can be colored, painted and decorated as desired. White chicken eggs are best suited for this because you can paint on them with any color. This allows you to make these cute Easter bunnies and chicks for Easter with children. With a little craft felt and paint, a blown-out egg can be quickly and easily transformed into a beautiful Easter motif.
And what's the easiest way to blow out eggs?Use a needle to make a small hole at the pointed end and a larger hole at the blunt end of the egg. Then blow over a bowl through the smaller hole until the entire contents of the egg end up in the bowl.
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Blowing out eggs can also be dangerous, so you need to keep some important things and hygiene tips in mind. First of all, the eggs used must always be fresh and clean. Before blowing out, you should wash each egg with water and dish soap. You should also clean the needle in advance. Because of the risk of salmonella, it is recommended not to touch the eggs with your mouth. Use alternative means to blow it out, such as a straw or a disposable syringe. After blowing out, rinse the blown eggs thoroughly with water and clean the work surface.
You can paint the finished blown eggs with the children and decorate them colorfully. Since they are very light, they can be used to create a colorful hanging decoration. If you make hangers for the eggs, you can hang them on the Easter tree or use them as part of window decorations.
If you have already collected the branches for the Easter bouquet, you can make the decorations with the children. In addition to the blown out eggs, you can also make 3D Easter eggs out of paper and hang them on the Easter bouquet. To do this, colorful pattern paper is cut out into egg shapes, each shape is folded in half and the backs are glued together. This is another simple technique for making Easter eggs with children at Easter.
Colorful Easter baskets
The wide variety of Easter eggs requires the use of Easter baskets and Easter baskets in which the eggs are collected. In addition to the Easter eggs, you can also make baskets for Easter with children. The easiest way to do this is to use a ready-made basket and decorate it with colorful decorations. Bring out the craft beads, rhinestones and of course creativity!
If you would like to make beautiful Easter nests for Easter with children, then the old cardboard berry bowls can be used for this purpose. They can be colored any color you like, or even designed as beautiful Easter motifs like the Easter bunny. To do this you still need to make the bunny ears out of plush and felt and the bunny tail out of yarn. Be inspired by the idea and make a creative Easter basket with your child.
Easter nests and baskets can also be made out of paper. Using craft paper in any color, children can make cute bunnies and use them to beautifully display the painted Easter eggs. Instead of cutting out the paper with scissors, you can use the motif punch and use simple shapes for the bunny. For example, you can make a head and paws out of a heart and rabbit ears out of leaves.
Craft ideas with an Easter bunny motif
While still in kindergarten, the children begin making various Easter motifs for the popular festival. The Easter bunny is without a doubt one of the most popular motifs for Easter crafts with children. Both common materials such as paper and felt, as well as inexpensive household items such as pipe cleaners, coffee filters and toilet paper rolls can be used. You can also easily make the popular Easter bunny yourself using natural materials.
In recent years it has become a big trend to decorate Easter eggs with smiling faces and cute animals. Styrofoam or plastic eggs are mainly used and painted with paint and felt-tip pens. The decorated eggs can then be spiced up with noses made from pompoms and rabbit ears made from pipe cleaners and turned into funny Easter bunnies.
Here you will find a craft project that is suitable for both large and very small children. The result is a beautiful mural with an Easter bunny that is perfect for Easter decorations. To recreate the picture, you need a green canvas, green construction paper, white tracing paper, and three pompoms for the nose, eye and tail.
First, a rabbit template is cut out of the green paper and covered with glue. Then the children can tear up the tracing paper, crumple it up and stick it on the template until it is completely covered. Then you should attach the template to the green canvas, stick the pompoms in the appropriate places and the picture is ready to hang!
Materials from nature are just as suitable for bunny crafts at Easter with children. You can create beautiful Easter bunnies with collected pine cones. You can leave the cones brown or paint them another color of your choice. Then bunny ears are made from felt and glued between the cone scales. You will also need a nose, which can be made from a wooden bead and some jute for whiskers. With two finished googly eyes, the pretty Easter bunnies made of pine cones are ready.
Make chicks
Chicks and chickens are another great idea for Easter crafts. They can be made with many different materials and always look lovely. Here you will find a cute chick in an egg idea that is perfect for children. Egg carton is needed for the egg shell and the little chick can be made from a pompom for Easter with children. With googly eyes and some Basel paper for the beak, the chicks are ready.
Materials such as toilet paper rolls are perfect for Easter crafts with children. This allows you to design and decorate small Easter baskets like popular Easter motifs. For example, this yellow chick uses yellow construction paper, orange foam rubber and feathers. Simply wrap the empty toilet paper roll with the yellow paper and create a face, feet and wings.
You can also create a simple chick using a yellow balloon. Inflate the balloon and tie the opening. Then draw the child's handprint on yellow paper and then cut it out to make the wings. Then cut out the beak and feet from orange paper and glue them to the balloon.
Craft ideas with toddlers
Since children under 3 years of age are not very good at making things themselves, they need your help. You can conjure up beautiful window pictures with suitable templates and colorful tracing paper. They can then be stuck or hung on the window and create beautiful lighting effects in the room.
Toddlers love to tear and crumple the paper. They can then use colorful paper balls to stick on various templates and conjure up colorful Easter decorations. So you can also use 2 or3 year old childrenMake colorful Easter motifs.
This idea uses simple plastic cups that, with a little creativity, are transformed into funny Easter bunnies. For this you can give the toddler black onesPaper stripsfor the whiskers, blue and pink for the ears and googly eyes, which they should then attach to the cup.
We hope you found our ideas and tips for Easter crafts with kids interesting and helpful and use them in your craft projects.
