Easter is approaching and now is the right time to make cheerful decorations for the house and garden together with the children. Easter crafts with children are especially fun if youUse natural materials. Collect tree branches, bird feathers, stones and flowers while walking in the forest and decorate your home with them! We will show you numerous DIY ideas that are suitable for kindergarten-age children. They are the perfect pastime on rainy weekends.
Natural materials play the main role in the next craft ideas. Seasonal flowers from your own garden or field flowers, for example, bring a breath of fresh air into your own four walls and herald the beginning of spring. Pick several flowers and use them to create a stylish decoration. You still need 16 wooden eggs of the same size, natural dyes and hair ties. First, color the wooden eggs with the children - four in dark blue, four in yellow, four in red and four in lavender. Shorten the flower stems and tie themfresh flowers(crocuses, lilies of the valley or orchids work well, for example) on the Easter eggs. You can swap the old flowers with new ones every four days.
With large flowers such as peonies, carnations, hydrangeas, tulips or early blooming roses you canthe little ones' Easter basketspice up. First wrap the basket with flower petals and then glue the flowers on it. You can either use hot glue or glue. This craft idea is suitable for children in elementary school who have already practiced using glue and hot glue. It is the perfect Easter basket for the little princess, who goes on an Easter egg hunt at Easter with the other children from kindergarten.
Easter crafts with children: painting stones
Children love to paint. If you are at Easterflat pebblesCollect them, then you can paint them colorfully. For this purpose you will need acrylic paints, brushes, a bowl for the paints, special markers, letter stamps, black ink pad. Before you start painting, wash the stones, place them on a cloth and let them dry. First, paint all the stones with a brush and white acrylic paint and let them dry. Then you can paint the stones as you wish; the colors stand out particularly well thanks to the white primer. You can then stamp “Happy Easter” with the letter stamps.
Easter crafts with children: Easter wreath made from natural materials
Welcome your guests with onehomemade door wreathwelcome. Blow eggs together with the children, color them in pastel colors and let them dry. Then wrap a vine-moss wreath with wild branches and flowers from the surrounding nature. Then glue the blown out Easter eggs to the wreath and attach a colorful fabric bow as an accent. The finished Easter wreath shines in cheerful spring colors and puts you in a good mood. It is also suitable as a table, mantel or window decoration. The only disadvantage of the Easter wreath is that the flowers usually cannot last longer than a week. Most trees that bloom in early spring are sensitive to heat. As a rule, the flowers will stay fresh longer outside. Indoors they will wilt much faster.
Crafting with natural materials for Easter: Easter bunny made of wood and wool
The next craft idea is not only extremely durable, but also super easy to make. Even children of kindergarten age can easily master the task with a little support. And the best thing: You can paint this cute Easter bunny as you wish and arrange it together with other long-lasting decorations made from natural materials such as bird nests, flowers and animal figures and display it on the dining table, for example. Or you can tie several bunnies together and create a garland for the mantel.
This is how the Easter bunny is made: You need two wooden balls, the first with a diameter of at least 5 cm and the second with a diameter of at least 3 cm. Then you will need floral wire from the floristry shop, wool yarn, scissors and pliers. First, cut two pieces of wire of the same length and bend them to create two rabbit ears. Then wrap the wire ears with the wool yarn. Then glue the two balls together and then attach the rabbit ears. If desired, you can paint a bunny face.
Crafting with forest materials: owls made from wooden discs and buttons
A really cool Easter decoration that also looks good on the dining table in autumn. Collect branches with the children and use tree slices to make the cute owls shown above. This decoration is also ideal for the entrance to a house, as the wood can easily withstand wind, rain and frost. After the Easter celebration is over, you can simply store the tree in a box and then rearrange it in the fall.
This is how the owls are made: Make the eyes out of buttons, paint the feathers with a pen and cut out the beak from felt. You can make the bird legs out of pipe cleaners. Drill through the top of the tree discs and thread twine. Then hang the owls on the tree branch. The decoration with forest materials is ready. You can also decorate the branch with fresh flowers.
Crafting with forest materials: moss Easter egg
AMoss Easter egggives the Easter decorations a natural touch. The moss egg cuts a fine figure as a soloist, but looks just as cool together with other decorations made from natural materials. You can also spice up the moss egg with fresh seasonal flowers or bird feathers. All you need is glue, a blown out egg or wooden egg and moss. Glue the moss to the egg piece by piece and allow the glue to dry out. Then tie flowers or bird feathers to the egg.
Another idea is to cover white chicken eggs with moss. To make it quicker, you can first draw the contours with a pencil. Draw a rabbit silhouette, a heart, or letters. Then stick the moss on top. This decoration is super effective and fits particularly harmoniously into purist interiors. You can also decorate the moss eggs with a decorative ribbon. It gives the simple Scandinavian-style Easter decoration the finishing touches.
Easter crafts with children: cress eggs
Cress eggs are not only a cool craft idea, but also a nice souvenir for the grandparents. In less than a week, the herb seeds grow into sprouts. You need: kitchen paper, water, cress seeds from the garden supply store, blown eggs, googly eyes. First, blow out the eggs and wash them thoroughly with water. Then place a cotton swab in each egg and moisten the inside of the eggshell well. Place a pinch of seeds in each tray and moisten thoroughly again. Then watch with the children as the seeds sprout over the next few days. Water the cress every day and after less than a week the Easter decorations with cress eggs will be ready. To make the eggs look cool, you can also glue wiggly eyes on them.
Crafting with forest materials: Make your own Easter wreath from willow branches
Of course, you can also buy a wreath made of willow branches in garden centers and florist shops. But it looks much nicer if you tie it from fresh willow branches. This makes Easter crafts with the children twice as much fun. You can also spice up the finished Easter wreath with blow-out Easter eggs, paper carrots and different animal figures. This cute Easter wreath will create a happy atmosphere in the children's room.
Easter crafts with children: Easter eggs, ivy and feathers
Another cool idea is to dye the Easter eggs with natural dyes. Then arrange the eggs in a large bowl along with ivy and feathers. You can achieve a dark red nuance with beetroot juice, red cabbage colors the Easter eggs in a soft purple, chamomile and St. John's herb tea, as well as turmeric color them in bright yellow and onion peels color them in bronze. To make the colors stand out better, you can also rub the Easter eggs with sunflower oil. This gives the egg surface a slight shine.
Let the children experiment with the different natural dyes. Then write down the results together so that next year you'll know what worked well and what didn't. You can also blow out some of the eggs and set them aside. Then you'll have Easter eggs ready next year too, with which you can put together a colorful Easter decoration in March.
Optionally, you can collect interesting leaves with the children and attach them to the Easter eggs with hair ties. Then dye the Easter eggs red, let them dry out completely and then carefully remove the hair ties and leaves. It works best if you dye brown eggs. The transition between red and brown is much gentler, so slight color smearing remains invisible.
If you want to save yourself from dyeing eggs, you can blow out white eggs and stick them with the leaves you find. This way you become little works of art inspired by nature. These Easter eggs can be paired perfectly with the moss eggs, for example, and also look good with other puristic Easter decorations made from natural materials. But they are also well suited as soloists on the festive table, or as unique place cards, for example.
When it comes to Easter decorations, flowering branches are a welcome change from Easter bunnies, chicks, etc. If you're planning a trip to the countryside, take pliers with you. Bring home several larger cherry branches with flowers and hang the Easter eggs on them. This decoration looks especially charming in simple ceramic vases or teapots. The children can of course help with making the “Easter tree” and can then proudly display it on a side table.
Fresh flowering branches are also the perfect welcome greeting for all guests at Easter. The tree branches can easily survive outside and withstand cold and wind. However, to prevent the flowers from wilting too quickly, you should change the water every day. This will prevent algae and bacteria from forming in the water. The blown out and colored Easter eggs shine in all the colors of the rainbow and automatically attract attention.
Easter crafts with children: natural materials such as moss as decoration for the Easter baskets
Does the old Easter basket no longer look so pretty? Then you can cover it with moss and wrap it with willow branches. Place a flower pot indoors and plant it with spring flowers. Let the children help with this. This is a fun way to practice gardening.
Easter crafts with children are fun because they create colorful and creative designs. In the photo gallery below you can find more craft ideas with natural materials that you can easily make yourself with the children.
Easter basket made of moss and willow branches
Craft instructions for the Easter basket made from willow twigs and moss
Plant Easter baskets with cress and decorate with felt chicks
Make your own wall decorations out of feathers
