Color eggs, create your Easter bouquet and decorate your apartment – it’s Easter time again! If you want to make the most of the free time before Easter and have a lot of fun with the family, then you can make creative decorations together. Since colorful eggs are an Easter tradition, we have put together many beautiful ideas for making Easter eggs with children that you can use as inspiration for beautiful Easter decorations. Different materials can be used and creative Easter crafts can be conjured up from salt dough, paper, wool, felt or papier-mâché.
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Easter is one of the most popular festivals for both children and adults and offers manyDIY ideas. Whether you want to make a creative decoration yourself or just have fun, you can make beautiful Easter eggs with children. A few colorful eggs are perfect for decorating your home because they create a happy atmosphere at home.
3D Easter eggs made of paper
Children in kindergarten enjoy crafting with paper and can use their imagination to create beautiful Easter crafts. Here you will find a nice idea for 3D eggs with which you can make Easter pendants for the Easter bush or a pretty garland. For this DIY project you will need patterned paper with many different patterns, glue, needle and thread.
Instructions
First you should make an egg template and use it to cut out many small eggs from the patterned paper. For each 3D Easter egg you need five such paper eggs. To create the design, fold the five paper eggs in half and glue the back sides together. You can then use the needle and thread to shape the finished Easter eggs into a beautiful garland.
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The children still do crafts in kindergarten with cardboard and construction paper. To do this, cut out some colorful sheets of paper in an egg shape and prepare glue and decorative elements.
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Pompoms are small fluffy balls and the little ones can use them to creatively decorate the paper Easter eggs. For this purpose, get colored pompoms in different sizes to create playful Easter egg designs with the children.
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The DIY eggs made of construction paper are perfect as an atmospheric decoration for the apartment. You can use it to decorate the walls in the living room, children's room or in the stairwell. The children can also make the Easter eggs made by children as a gift for their grandparents.
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However, other materials can also be used as decoration, such as colorful buttons, pipe cleaners, colorful cotton wool or pieces of paper. The only important thing is that the chosen materials can be glued to the paper.
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Children will certainly have a lot of fun gluing small details onto larger surfaces. That's why you can cut colored paper in different colors into small pieces and use them as decoration for cardboard Easter eggs. This means the little ones can create any patterns themselves and make colorful Easter eggs.
Make Easter pendants yourself
You can pierce the best designs with a hole punch and design them as Easter pendants. Thread another thread or string through the hole and you will have a beautiful decoration to hang up.
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You can make lots of pretty Easter crafts with the children out of paper. For this idea, you should first give the child a sheet of colored paper and crayons, glitter and paint. Have the child paint the paper with any patterns they like and then cut the sheet into equal stripes.
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Now punch a hole in each end of each strip with the hole punch. Next, stack all the strips together so that the holes line up. Use pattern clips to secure the paper strips at the top and bottom. Now simply fan the strips to create an egg shape and the Easter egg is ready.
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Foam rubber is a good alternative to colored paper when crafting. You can use this to conjure up and decorate beautiful Easter crafts with the children. A fun craft idea for Easter is these Easter eggs with chicks, which can be opened using a pattern clip.
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To make Easter eggs with children, you can use simple plastic eggs and decorate them using various techniques. The napkin technique is a suitable idea in this case. With water-based glue and colorful napkins, you can make colorful Easter eggs with children and use them to create a decorative Easter egg basket.
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For this DIY project, use beautiful napkins with different patterns to make the eggs as creative and colorful as possible. You can also use blown eggs instead of plastic eggs. They are easier to decorate and are perfect as decoration for the Easter bouquet.
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Another popular method for crafting with children at Easter is paper mache. This makes it easy to make Easter eggs and decorate them however you like. You will need small balloons or water balloons, wallpaper paste and tissue paper.
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When you inflate the small water balloons, they get a good egg shape. It can then be covered with paper mache and decorated as desired after it has dried. Don't forget to pop the balloon and then remove it.
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Another popular material is wool. Both large and small eggs can be made from a little yarn and used as Easter decorations. To make these pretty Easter eggs with the little ones, you need balloons in the desired sizes, colorful balls of yarn and paste.
Instructions
First, you or the children should inflate as many balloons as you need for decoration or gifts. Then the paste is prepared in a bowl. With a little flour and water you can also make the paste yourself instead of buying it. Now dip the wool into the paste, squeeze it out and wrap it around the balloon. The more string you apply, the tighter the Easter egg will be. Allow the balloons to dry for about 4 hours or overnight before popping them. What remains are your crafted Easter eggs.
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Children love surprises, so you can hide small figures or sweets in the wool Easter eggs. Put the little things in the balloons before inflating them and the children will only find them after they burst.
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You can make easy Easter eggs with the children using an egg-shaped box and colorful wool. Simply apply glue to the cardboard and wrap the wool around it. This DIY project is also suitable for smaller children.
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Instead of making whole Easter eggs with children, you can spice up simple plastic eggs with a creative technique. You also need a good glue and yarn in different colors, for example baker's twine.
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You should simply coat the plastic egg with glue and wrap it with yarn. With several decorated eggs you can create beautiful Easter egg baskets and use them as table decorations for Easter.
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Instead of plastic eggs, you can also use eggs made from Styrofoam. They are light and easy to usein different waysand decorate in a way. For example, you can use the wool technique again, but in this case you will have to wrap the eggs more tightly to hide the Styrofoam.
Integrate into the Easter decorations
You can integrate the Easter eggs made by the children into your Easter decorations by creating an Easter egg basket.
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The little ones can decorate the Styrofoam egg with colorful buttons and pins. Finally, tie a nice bow at the top and you're done.
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You can decorate a large Styrofoam egg really creatively with older children using colorful fabric ribbons. The tapes are simply stuck onto the Styrofoam so that it is completely covered. The creative design is rounded off with a bow at the top.
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Plastic or Styrofoam Easter eggs can be elegantly decorated with a beautiful pearl ribbon. You can first paint the eggs in any color and then stick the beaded ribbon on them with the hot glue gun.
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Beautiful Easter eggs can also be made from felt as decoration for Easter. Since the figures should be sewn from felt, in this project the children can help cut out the shapes.
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If you dip sheep's wool in a bowl with lukewarm water and soap for crafting, you can make a beautiful egg shape out of it. You can use wool in different colors to make colorful Easter eggs with children.
