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On Easter, people not only cook various dishes, but also create various decorations.
There are many crafts that you can do with your own hands without spending a lot of resources.
In addition, there are crafts that children can make, or you can create with them.
See also: Easter crafts from different materials
Here are the most interesting and simple crafts you can do with your children:
Crafts in the garden for Easter: we use corrugated paper
You'll need:
– drawing or printing an Easter egg
– cardboard
– corrugated paper (cut into small squares) or plain colored paper
– glue.
1. Print or draw an Easter egg on a piece of cardboard.
2. Draw simple patterns on the egg.
3. Crush all the squares of corrugated paper and start gluing them carefully over the painted patterns.
See also: DIY Easter eggs
DIY chicken for Easter
You'll need:
– print the egg (HERE) or its drawing
– pencils
– watercolor paints
– yellow corrugated paper
– plastic eyes (can be replaced with buttons or plasticine)
– colored cardboard
– yellow feathers (if desired)
– scissors
– glue.
1. Draw or print 3 details of the craft: an egg, an oval (smaller than an egg) and the floor of the shell.
2. With pencils and/or paints, paint the part that depicts the floor of the shell.
3. We make chicken from an oval. Cut several small squares of yellow corrugated paper. Apply some glue to the oval, crush the paper squares and start gluing them to the oval.
4. Cut a small square out of orange paper and fold it in half to make a triangle – this will be the chicken's beak. Glue this beak to the craft.
5. Add the chicken eyes (plasticine or plastic) and feathers (if desired).
6. Apply some glue to the edges of the painted shell, and gently glue it to the paper egg to make a small pocket. You'll put your chicken in this pocket.
Read also: Interesting facts about Easter
Easter craft in kindergarten: a paper egg decorated with thread
You'll need:
– cardboard
– scissors
– thick multicolored thread
– scotch tape.
1. Cut an egg out of cardboard.
2. Tape one end of the thread and start wrapping the egg.
3. When the whole cardboard egg is wrapped in thread, reattach the end of the thread with tape.
4. Make a small hole in the top of the craft and thread a thread or ribbon into it so that the craft can be hung.
Children's crafts on the theme of Easter: an egg made from a colored shell
You'll need:
– paper
– pencil
– colored shell (from peeled eggs)
– PVA glue or hot glue
– cotton swab (if necessary).
1. Draw a big easter egg on paper.
2. Apply glue and start gluing small shell fragments. Instead of the shell, you can use small pieces of crumpled colored paper.
See also: DIY Easter crafts
DIY Easter crafts for kindergarten: simple patterns
You'll need:
– paper
– pencil
– scotch tape (masking tape or duct tape)
– paint or chalk with water.
1. Draw a large chicken egg on paper.
2. Glue a few strips of tape over the picture.
3. Start painting the picture with different colors. You can use paints or dip chalk into water and paint it with wet chalk.
4. When you are done painting, wait for the drawing to dry and carefully remove the tape – you will get a beautiful pattern.
Children's crafts for Easter in kindergarten: stickers
You'll need:
– sheet foam (foam paper)
– scissors
– a small container with water.
1. Cut several eggs and details from foam paper to decorate them.
2. Dip the foam eggs into the water and stick them to the window. To decorate them, dip different parts made of the same foam paper into the water and attach them over the eggs.
Easter crafts for children: decorating eggs with markers
1. Cook the eggs first.
2. Grab markers in several colors and start drawing different patterns or animals.
Read also: How to color eggs for Easter
DIY Easter crafts to school: balloon
You'll need:
– plastic eggs (chocolate egg packs are possible)
– cardboard
– line
– simple pencil
– scissors
– glue pencil
– thread or twine
– a small ring (can be bent from a short piece of wire)
– thin wire.
1. Cut a piece of thin wire about 30 cm long.
2. Thread the wire through the holes in the plastic egg. If there are no holes in the plastic egg, they can be made with a thin nail and a hammer or awl. Twist the ends of the wire inside.
3. Cut 8 pieces of 80 cm from a strong thread and fold each in half.
4. Start attaching the threads to the ring. Since they are folded in half, there will be a loop on one side – you need to thread the ends of the thread on one side into the loop on the other (see image). Repeat with the rest of the threads.
5. Start tying adjacent parts of the threads into the knot.
6. Make the second row of connections in a checkerboard pattern (see image). Continue to connect the threads until you achieve the result you want.
7. Put the resulting workpiece on a plastic egg. Thread a thin wire (which you first passed through the egg) through the ring so that the craft can be hung later.
We make a basket:
8. On the cardboard, draw a square measuring approximately 5.5 x 5.5 cm and divide it into 9 small squares.
9. Cut a strip of approximately 3 x 8 cm from another cardboard. You can use scotch tape instead of a paper strip.
10. Cut a cross out of the cardboard square and fold it to form a basket (see image).
11. Attach the basket to the threads with tape – just tape the basket along with the threads.
Children's crafts for Easter with their own hands: a garland of paper eggs
You'll need:
– colored or wrapping paper
– an old newspaper or pages of an old, unnecessary book (can be replaced with colored cardboard)
– strong thread (twine)
– PVA glue
– scissors
– a simple pencil.
1. Fold 2 sheets of paper of the same color. Draw a small egg on the upper colored paper and cut it out. You can first cut a template out of cardboard and use it.
2. Repeat with a few more sheets of other colors. Make sure that the eggs are approximately the same on all leaves.
3. To make a large egg, fold one part in half and glue it to the second part. Repeat with the other colors.
4. Cut out several “flags” of the same color from an old newspaper or colored cardboard (its color should contrast with the color of the egg).
5. Stick one egg at a time to the center of the flag.
6. Place the twine evenly on the table and stick the flags to it.
Now you can hang the decoration on the wall.
Easter crafts with children: eggs with confetti
You'll need:
– eggs
– food paint, vinegar and water
– confetti (you can buy it or make it yourself from colored paper)
– corrugated paper
– glue pencil.
1. Carefully make several small holes in the egg to then make one hole about 1 cm in diameter.
2. Remove all the contents of the egg and wash the egg inside with water and soap.
3. Paint the shell using food paint, 1 cup of water, 1 tablespoon of vinegar. Let the shell dry.
4. Fill the egg with confetti.
5. Cut a small piece of corrugated paper and stick it over the hole in the shell.
If you add some details, you can get these cute crafts:
DIY Easter crafts for children: we paint paper eggs
You'll need:
– paper or cardboard
– simple pencil
– gouache
– scissors
– cotton buds
– small plastic containers (if necessary).
1. Draw some eggs on the white cardboard and cut them out.
2. Start painting cardboard eggs. You can use plastic containers as a palette – to mix several colors.
DIY Easter with children: we decorate cardboard eggs with colored paper
You'll need:
– cardboard
– pencil
– scissors
– colored and/or wrapping paper (or an old glossy magazine)
– braid
– glue.
1. Tear off small colored pieces from colored paper or an old magazine.
2. Stick all these pieces onto the cardboard as you like.
3. Turn the cardboard over, draw one or more chicken eggs on it and cut them out.
4. Make a hole in each craft from above and thread the tape into it so that the jewelry can be hung.
Easter crafts for kindergarten: eggs decorated with melted wax crayons
You'll need:
– hot boiled eggs
– wax crayons
– towel
– egg packaging.
1. Boil the eggs. Put them in water and cook with the lid on for about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and let them soak in hot water for about 10 minutes.
2. Drain the hot water and use a towel to transfer the hot eggs into the cardboard box.
3. Be careful — eggs are hot. Children can color them under the guidance of adults. You just need to touch the eggs with wax crayons, and the crayons will begin to melt, leaving bright marks. Thus, it is possible to color Easter eggs.
The most difficult stage will be where you need to turn the eggs over to color them on the other side.
When the eggs are cold, you will have beautiful Easter crafts.
DIY Easter crafts with young children: we paint eggs and do not get dirty
You'll need:
– acrylic paint
– plastic bag with fastener
– a boiled egg.
1. Pour a couple of colors of acrylic paint into the bag, place the boiled egg in it and close it.
2. Give a bag of boiled egg to your child so he can “paint” it with his hands.
3. When the egg is colored, carefully remove it and place it on cardboard or wax paper to dry.
* You can also stick one or two small stickers to the egg before painting. After painting, remove the stickers and you will have a beautiful drawing.
Here is a more accurate version of colored boiled eggs, which used heart-shaped stickers:
Children's crafts for Easter: decorate eggs with colored scotch tape
You'll need:
– boiled eggs
– colored scotch tape (or washi tape)
– scissors.
1. Prepare several types of washi tape (tape of different colors) and start cutting out different shapes and patterns with scissors.
2. Glue pieces of scotch tape to the boiled eggs to decorate them.
* For convenience, you can use a shaped hole punch to cut beautiful and even shapes from scotch tape.
DIY Easter crafts for kindergarten: multicolored paper eggs
You'll need:
– colored cardboard
– colored paper
– scissors
– thread and needle
– a stapler.
1. Draw a chicken egg on the cardboard and cut it out.
2. Use an egg template to circle and draw a few more eggs on colored paper or colored cardboard.
3. Cut out all paper eggs.
4. Put 4-5 paper eggs in one stack and secure them with a stapler. Fold the eggs in half so they fan out.
5. Make a few more eggs like this.
6. Make a small hole in the upper part of the craft with a needle and insert a thread to hang a paper Easter egg.
Easter garden craft: piñata
You'll need:
– small balloons
– newspaper
– flour
– water
– bowl
– scissors
– tape
– PVA glue.
1. Inflate the balloon and tie a ribbon to it.
2. Tear the old newspaper into small pieces.
3. Mix water and flour in equal proportions in a bowl. If you use 1 cup of water and 1 cup of flour, then you just need to cover 5 small balls with the resulting mixture.
4. Start dipping the pieces of newspaper into the solution and sticking them to the ball. It is important to cover the entire ball around the tail.
5. Hang the ball to dry.
6. When everything is dry, glue another layer of newspaper for reliability and hang the ball back to dry.
7. When everything is dry, cut off the tail with scissors and gently release the air from the ball, then remove the ball itself.
8. Cut the corrugated paper into several wide strips. Cut the fringe on each strip.
9. Using PVA glue, glue the paper strips to the newspaper ball (see image).
10. Take a piece of tape, fold it in half and tie a knot at one end. Insert this knot into the opening of the newspaper ball, stick a strip of corrugated paper on top.
Easter craft for school: a wreath in the shape of an Easter egg
You'll need:
– cardboard
– thread
– buttons
– tulle
– tape.
Easter coloring pages for kids
