Easter Craft Ideas

Egg Decorating

Supplies: hard boiled eggs (cooled), small stickers, white crayon, egg dye, paper towel

Steps:

1. Apply stickers to cooled eggs (or) decorate egg with unique design by coloring with white crayon (or) create your own egg-sized stencil, place it over the egg, color inside stencil with white crayon
2. Dye eggs, then let them dry completely, about 5 minutes

Tip: when hiding Easter eggs, you may want to keep a list of where you placed each one

Egg Carton Caterpillar

After you’ve decorated your Easter eggs, don’t throw out those egg cartons: they are a craft in the making. Here’s what you can do to create an artsy creature from those leftover egg cartons. Use this activity to talk to your children about how seasons, people and animals change.

Supplies: white craft glue, egg carton, cardboard, pipe cleaners, safety scissors, poster paint, paint brush, old t-shirt or smock

Steps:

1. Cut off egg carton lid
2. Cut cardboard into six thin strips, long enough to stick out from underneath both sides of the egg carton (these will be the caterpillar’s legs)
3. Turn carton over and glue the cardboard strips across the underside of each compartment for caterpillar’s legs
4. Paint the caterpillar and add antennae by poking pipe cleaners through top of caterpillar’s “head”

Easter Nests

Spring has sprung and birds’ songs fill the sky. Try this activity and as you gather supplies to fill your Easter nest, explain to your children how birds gather materials to build their nests.

Supplies: salt clay (see recipe below), thick piece of cardboard, dried plant materials or thin strips of colorful paper

Steps:

1. Shape a large ball of clay to resemble a nest
2. Place nest onto thick piece of cardboard and let it dry completely
3. Once nest is dry, fill with dried plant materials or thin strips of colorful paper
4. Fill with candy or Easter eggs

Clay recipe:

1.5 cups salt

4 cups flour

1.5 cups water

1 tsp. alum

Mix dry ingredients in plastic bowl, add water gradually. When dough forms a ball around the spoon, knead the dough well, adding water if it is too crumbly.

Easter Tree

If you want to take your Easter basket to the next level, turn the basket you’ve made (above) into a decorative topiary. This is a great way to recycle those colorful chocolate eggs and create a decorative piece of art.

Supplies: 6-inch styrofoam ball, thick straight stick or foot-long wooden dowel, white craft glue, 6-inch pot or Easter nest that you’ve already created (above), plaster, Easter grass, round toothpicks, foil-wrapped chocolate eggs

Steps:

1. Poke a 6-inch styrofoam ball into a foot-long wooden dowel or straight, thick stick and glue the ball into place
2. Fill your Easter nest (above) or 6-inch pot with plaster. Push your dowel (or thick stick) into the still-wet plaster. After the plaster sets, place Easter grass (or colorful strips of recycled paper) on the surface.
3. Paint the styrofoam ball, let dry
4. Poke one end of chocolate with toothpick and attach to the styrofoam ball by poking other end of toothpick into the ball. Cover the ball with chocolate eggs until completely covered, or until satisfied.

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