5 Easter Craft Ideas to do with Kids
Leaf & Flower Prints
This is one we made recently for Easter at a Suffolk Wildlife Trust event. I let Leo have a go at the hammering and he loved it. - just watch those fingers of course!
This is one of my favourite activities all year round. It’s so simple but you can create so many beautiful things and I have to say, the hammering is pretty satisfying, especially if you’re feeling at all stressed 😆
We do this one a lot in forest school sessions and it’s one of the crafts in training, as you can split and then join a piece of wood using a knife and mallet and then use it to hold the fabric which create a lovely wall hanging.
For this activity you’ll need:
A piece of fabric - I always think plain white or natural canvas works best
A hammer or mallet
Some fresh leaves, flower heads or petals - hunting for some juicy leaves or colourful flowers makes a fun activity in itself. Even better if you can find leaves or petals that have recently fallen. The juicier the leaves and fresher the flowers, the bolder and prettier the printing potential!
Simply lay out your leaves or flowers onto half of the fabric to create your design. Then fold the other half of the fabric on top and bash using your hammer or mallet until you start to see the colour appear.
Decorate Wooden Eggs
Last Easter I got some wooden eggs and some acrylic pens - ideal for rock painting and wood painting - and decorated these for Leo’s 1st Easter basket. He absolutely loved them and I put them in his Easter basket again this year. He’s also old enough to decorate them too now!
What you’ll need:
🥚 Wooden Eggs or egg shaped rocks would work too
🖊 Colourful acrylic pens
Air Dry Clay Eggs
Air dried clay is so much fun to work with and perfect for crafting with kids. This activity was one we did at a Suffolk Wildlife Trust Easter fun day recently and it was so simple but so much fun.
To make:
Mix the clay, then roll out your clay using a rolling pin and use a cookie cutter to make the shape you’d like. We went for eggs but you could do bunnies, chicks, lambs.
Find some colourful flowers and petals - preferably already on the ground - use them to decorate your clay by pressing them in. You can also add a hole at the top of your design to add string if you’re planning on hanging it.
Leave to dry for 24-48 hours.
Easter Sensory Bottles
Easter sensory bottles are great to make. Simply add some food dye to some rice in a bag, shake it up then leave it to dry. Once dry add it to a sensory botle - this is a great way to reuse bottles or jars. Add some flowers or eggs or anything that makes you think of Spring and Easter. You can use a strong glue to seal the lid if you’re worried your baby will open it and try to eat the contents. This is one I made for Leo last year and he loved shaking it. This year he picked it up while I was looking through our craft box and said “mummy, flowers. They’re pretty 😭 '“ which absolutely melted my heart. (I’ve since heard this phrase a lot when we go around the park or anywhere we see flowers! 🥰 )
What you’ll need:
A bottle
Some sensory rice or other fillings
Flowers, little chicks, etc.
(Optional) Glue
Easter Drawings and Cards
We also added fluffy material to this one.
The perfect Easter treat for the relatives and a fun activity in one. Get some crayons out and have a doodle. You can draw eggs, bunnies, chicks, flowers or why not do some handprint animals like handprint bunnies, handprint lambs and handprint chicks? I think we’ve made just about every animal with a handprint now 😂 but they can look really cool once they’re done!
I usually add some calligraphic-ish handwriting if we’re making a card for someone which finishes these cards perfectly.
What you’ll need:
Card or paper
Crayons, paints or colouring pens
These are just some of the activities we like to do. Finally, if you have any old loo rolls these are also great for making sheep using glue and wool and stick on googley eyes or trees by painting them as tree trunks and sticking on the trees. I added these to Leo’s Easter tuff tray last year.
