Fun Easter Crafts and Food Ideas for Kids

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Pastel colors and cotton balls, Easter grass and yellow peeps - all bring to mind baskets of eggs, bunnies and pretty little girl dresses. Ah Spring. After a long cold winter, it's fun to start planning spring-time and Easter projects with your kids. Here are a few fun ideas for Easter crafts and yummy snacks that your kids can help make and of course - eat!

Paper Bag Easter Bunny

1 lunch sack for 1 paper bag

Pink, white, and black construction paper

Scissors

Crayons

Paste

Cut a V notch at the top of each lunch sack. Start at the top center and bring your notch down. This will form the ears. Close the bag and lie flat. Then cut your notch with both sides of the bag together. This will be the bunny ears. Cut out ear shapes with the white construction paper and glue onto "ear" of the bag. Cut a smaller piece in pink for the inside of the ear, or reverse the colors. Cut out a small triangle of pink for the nose and paste it in the center where a nose would go. Draw in your eyes or you could cut them from paper or even add wiggle eyes. Cut out a rectangle piece of black paper - about mustache size. Then make cuts from each side of the short end towards the center of the paper without cutting all the way through. Do this several times on each side to create whiskers. Paste this above the nose. Now draw two circle cheeks and connect the mouth from the cheeks to the nose like a kitty mouth. Open up bag and it can now be a bag to collect eggs from your class egg hunt or to take crafts home in and then use for center piece at home!

Easter Jelly Bean Fudge

2 cups white chocolate chips

1 (16 ounce) container vanilla frosting

2 cups miniature jelly beans in pastel colors

Line a 9-inch square pan with foil and grease lightly. Melt the chips according to the package directions or in a heavy saucepan over very low heat, stirring constantly until the chocolate is melted and smooth. Add the frosting and stir until the mixture is smooth. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly. (Fudge mixture
should still be easy to stir, but not hot enough to melt the jelly beans.) Add the jelly beans and stir well. Spread the fudge mixture into the prepared pan and cool to room temperature. Cover tightly and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Remove the foil and fudge from the pan together and place on a cutting surface. Carefully remove the foil and cut the fudge into small pieces. Makes 3 dozen pieces.

Edible Easter Baskets

1 tablespoon butter or margarine

1 cup miniature marshmallows

3 Shredded Wheat biscuits, crushed

Jelly beans

Place butter in medium bowl. Microwave at 100% for 30 to 45 seconds or until melted. Add marshmallows, stirring to coat. Microwave at 100% for 30 to 60 seconds, or until marshmallows puff and mixture can be stirred smooth. Stir in crushed cereal. Shape into Easter baskets and when cool, fill with jelly beans. Makes 4 to 6.

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Decopatch Ideas: Intriguing Crafts For All Occasions

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Creating eye-catching crafts is something anyone can do, given the proper technique and supplies. This is also true with Decopatch. Just about any material can be covered in Decopatch, making it a very versatile crafting technique. The following Decopatch ideas can be used for a variety of holidays and occasions.

Picture Frames

A Decopatch frame can be used for a beloved family portrait and given as a gift any time of the year. These are also fun to help a child make for framing their favourite piece of artwork from school. Picture frames can be vibrant colors for accenting what it surrounds or made with muted colors so as to not detract from it. Either way, the pieces of paper can be added right onto any type of frame; wooden, metal, or even plastic.

Greeting Cards

It's always fun to create greeting cards that are more personal than the ones sold in stores. The store-bought cards that are hand crafted can be quite expensive. Homemade greeting cards can add a nice touch to the holiday salutations enclosed within them and help the card creator save a bit of money as well.

Easter Eggs

A basket filled with Decopatch Easter eggs catches a lot of attention. It's better if these eggs are emptied out first, by poking a hole in the top and bottom of the egg. After this is achieved, the contents can then be blown out. When the egg has been emptied and allowed to dry for a short while, the Decopatch can begin. This will make the eggs very sturdy and able to withstand lots of handling without becoming damaged.

Furniture

This is a great project for a child's room, sewing room, or anywhere there's a need for some flair. Tables and chairs are the most common forms of furniture that are covered in Decopatch, but any type of furnishing can be covered.

The process is fairly simple:

Step 1 - Tear paper into small pieces

Step 2 - Apply glue where the paper is going to be positioned.

Step 3 - Place paper onto the glued surface, one piece at a time.

Step 4 - Apply a coat of glue over the piece of paper that was just placed on the item.

Step 5 - Once all the paper is in place, make sure all pieces are coated with the clear glue.

Step 6 - Two or three coats of varnish can be added over the entire project for additional protection. Be sure to wait an hour between each application.

Do you like the ideas that are mentioned above? It's best to use clear glue that is designed specifically for Decopatch. We know that you are going to have a lot of fun doing this.

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3 Cute Easter Bunnies Crafts For Preschoolers

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These preschool Easter bunnies crafts light up the kids faces every time they make one of them. Celebrate Easter this year by making one of the three cute Easter bunny.

Easter Bunnies Crafts 1 - Fluffy The Easter Bunny

Materials:
A piece of hard cardboard
Pair of scissors
Pink paint
pom poms
Three chenille stems or pipe cleaners
Two Wiggly eyes
Loads of cotton balls
Glue stick
Paint Brush
HB pencil

Directions:
Draw a bunny shape using a pencil. Draw a bigger circle for the body and a smaller one on top of that for the head. Add two big ears and a round tail. Using pink paint, paint the bunny's ears pink and allow to dry. Stick cotton balls around the outer rim of the ears. Make sure you can still see the pink inner ear. Now using the glue stick, cover the rest of the rabbits body with glue. Cover the glue in cotton balls. Add a pom pom for the nose and stick on two wiggly eyes on the head. Using the pair of scissors, cut the chenille stems in half and place these on either side of the nose, as whiskers. You can add pom poms or buttons for the front of his body.

Easter Bunnies Crafts 2 - Rolly Polly Bunny

Materials:
Two clean toilet paper rolls
Any colored paint
Pair of scissors
Fibre tip Pens or markers
Two googly eyes
One ball of cotton wool
White paper
Glue Stick

Directions:
Using any color of paint you wish, paint the two toilet rolls the same. Allow time to dry. Draw and cut out two big rabbit ears on the white construction paper. Now draw an inner ear and color it in pink. Put a little glue on the front bottom part of the ears and attach to the back of the first toilet roll. The ears need to be in between the rolls before you glue the second roll to the back of the first one. Make sure the ears are facing you before you begin to draw the face onto the front toilet roll. Add two googly eyes and draw using fibre tip pens- whiskers, a mouth and a nose on the toilet roll. Now on the back toilet roll glue on the ball of cotton wool, this will be the bunnies tail.

Easter Bunnies Crafts 3 - Fluffy Rabbit Basket

Materials:
Empty plastic container such as a margarine tub
Loads of cotton wool balls
White construction paper - A4
Chenille stems or pipe cleaners
Wiggly eyes
Pair of scissors
Wood Glue
Pom pom

Directions:
Using a clean and dry plastic container, glue the outside of the container all the way round. Sick as many cotton balls on the glue so that the tub is completely covered. Weave together three chenille stems to form a handle. Glue the handle to the inside of the tub on either side. Draw big bunny ears onto the white construction paper and cut out. Glue these to the inside of the smaller side of the tub. the ears need to be next to each other. Add a pom pom for the nose and glue on the wiggly eyes, just under the ears. Use pipe cleaners or chenille stems to act as whiskers, glue these on either side of the nose. Now fill the tub with a soft material and add Easter eggs.

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Easter Kid's Crafts

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The Easter holiday is a fun one where kids get to enjoy the idea of a mythical creature bringing them hard plastic eggs filled with small treats, and marshmallow bunnies. Of course, one way to make the holiday even more exciting for these little ones, is to make Easter kid crafts with them. The following is a few fun ideas for Easter kid crafts:

Bunny sock puppets: Easter is all about the bunnies, and this Easter kid craft is the perfect way to get rid of all those mismatched socks, while still bring a smile to the face of your kids. For this craft, you need the following:

One sock for each Easter sock bunny puppet. White, black, pink, and brown socks work best, but really any old sock will work as long as it does not have holes in it.

Felt: Again you want natural looking colors, as these will be cut to make the bunny ears for your sock puppet.

Scissors.

A button for the bunny nose.

Hot glue gun and glue.

Google eyes, make them the right proportion for the size of sock you are using for the bunny sock puppet.

Felt tip markers to draw on extra facial features for the bunny.

To make this craft you are going to use felt to cut into bunny ears. You are going to want to glue eyes on, and a button as a nose, then draw on the mouth. You are going to glue the ears on, and there you have it, a fun little sock bunny puppet.

Egg decorating: Another great Easter craft is the traditional one of decorating eggs. One of the best ways to make this a craft any child can do is to avoid real eggs. Real eggs can result in big messes. So, instead of a big mess with broken yolks and the like, consider making paper eggs to decorate.

For this craft you will need some heavy card stock in white and other Easter colors. You will want to cut it into several different shapes and designs to use it to decorate the egg. You may also want to use things like gems, and glitter, ribbons, and paints. You can use any number of things to decorate your eggs. Let your little one's imagination run wild as he or she paints, glues, colors, and decorates his or her Easter eggs. You will want to let it dry completely between layers of decoration, and you will want to create a place where you can let them have fun without the worry of ruining carpet or something else.

There are all kinds of Easter crafts that can be made, you can stick with the more traditional figures of Easter, or you can branch out and create something more unique. The choice is yours, and depends entirely on your child, and what they think of as a fun Easter craft.

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Cute Easter Crafts For Kids

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Easter time! A time to celebrate new life and new beginnings. Here are some cute Easter craft ideas your kids will enjoy made from common items found around the house.

Pop bottle Easter Basket

Here is an Easter basket idea that uses the bottom of a plastic soda bottle.

Supplies Needed:

1 or 2 Litre soda bottle

Scissors

Paper punch or stapler

Glue

Tissue paper or other decorating material

Parent to cut off the bottom of a soda bottle. This will be your basket. Trim the edges cleanly. Parent to cut a ½ to 1 inch ring from the soda bottle, cut in half and use one half as the handle. To attach the handle, use a paper punch to put a hole in the basket where the handle should be attached. Punch a hole at each end of the handle. Use yarn or ribbon to attach the handle to the basket. Decorate as desired.

Easter Egg Collage

Give your child a large egg shape cut-out from construction paper. Have your child decorate with sequins, scrap fapric, foil, buttons crayons, markers, etc.

Easter Lambs

Have your child trace their hands on black construction paper. Cut handprints out. Place handprints upside down so that the four fingers are the legs and the thumb is the head. Have your child glue cotton balls to the body. Add wiggly eyes for the eyes.

Juice can Easter Bunny

Supplies Needed:

Frozen juice cans (glue white paper around)

Construction paper ears (white outer and pink inner)

Nose (pink)

Wiggly eyes

Feet (white)

Cotton balls for tails

Black construction paper strips for whiskers

Glue

Have your child assemble rabbits by gluing rabbit parts onto juice can.

Palm Branch Easter Craft

Supplies Needed:

Green construction paper

Green pipe cleaner

Glue
Cut out a leaf shape from green construction paper. Glue a green pipe cleaner to the middle of the leaf. Let your child cut slits in the leaf.

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Tasty Edible Easter Crafts For Kids

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Edible Easter crafts are a fun activity for kids of all ages. These Easter recipes are a great way to spend some quality family time together and satisfy everyone's sweet tooth. So get out the Easter candies, get ready to bake and let's make some edible Easter treats.
 
Easter Craft Idea #1
 
Edible Easter crafts are always a favorite in our house. Not only do we have a blast making these items but eating them is just as much fun. One of our favorites is an edible bird's nest. This is a finger licking good craft project for kids of all ages.
 
How to Make an Edible Birds Nest
 
Supplies
 
Chocolate Cake Mix
Paper cup cake holders
Cup Cake Pan
Crumbly Chocolate Bars (like Butterfingers)
Easter Candy Eggs
Marshmallow Peeps
Frosting
 
Bake the cupcakes as directed and let cool. Give each child a cupcake, candy bars, Easter candy eggs, frosting and peeps. Have the kids frost their cupcake and then add the crumbly chocolate bar (breaking into stick like pieces) around the outer edge to form the nest. Then add Easter egg candies and the marshmallow peeps. These cute nests are totally edible and will look great at your Easter dinner table.
 
Edible Easter Craft Idea #2
 
This Easter egg "treat" tree is easy, inexpensive and delicious.
 
How to Make an Egg Treat Tree
 
Supplies
 
Broken Tree Branch or Sticks
Empty Plastic Container (like from margarine)
Floral Foam or Styrofoam ball
Plastic Easter Eggs
Easter Candy
Ribbon
Hot Glue
Construction Paper
 
Decorate the outside of your plastic container by covering with colored construction paper. Place the floral foam in the container and stick your tree branch part way through the foam. Fill up several plastic eggs with Easter Candy. Hot glue a piece of ribbon to the top of the Easter egg. Hot glue a loop at the top of the ribbon and hang on the branch. Repeat adding eggs until you have a fun and tasty looking "treat" tree. Place this cute little tree out where everyone can grab an egg for their tasty treat.
 
 
Edible Easter Craft Idea #3
 
Have a wiggly, jiggly good time with jell-o mold Easter treats.
 
How to Make Jell-o Easter Treats
 
Supplies
 
Easter Shapes Jell-o Mold
Jell-o
Cool Whip
Easter Candies
 
Make up the jell-o and pour into the mold. Let this set up. Then remove from the mold and set them on the plates. Plop on some whip cream and get ready to decorate. Using the Easter candies, decorate your jell-o Easter shape. For Easter eggs use different colored candy to make them colorful. For Easter animal shapes, add candies for the ears, eyes, nose and mouth. Eat right away or refrigerate for later.
 
These tasty edible Easter crafts will have you and your kids "hopping" with tons of fun. Although edible crafts are fun and yummy, they won't last long. So don't forget to make some Easter crafts for kids using other craft supplies so you can decorate your house with these crafts your kids make. 

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Easter Crafts - Having Fun During Easter

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Spring is coming, time to think about eggs, bunnies, flowers, and chicken salad. It's all about Easter, of course. One of the favorite traditions in my family is the Easter crafts. After all, what kids do not like painting, decorating, hiding, and then eating Easter eggs? My youngest daughter - the one who dislikes eating eggs - still likes Easter eggs. Of course, it does not hurt matters that we hide a few chocolate eggs with all of the decorated ones.

Easter crafts - the different ways

The most favorite Easter craft is, of course, decorating Easter eggs. There must be a number of different ways to do this, and year after year we try to do something a little different. For the little kids, the easiest way to do is using food coloring and water in decorating the eggs. Even though this does not result in the most sophisticated Easter crafts, it does make the eggs look nice and even a bit pretty. Even better, it is something that your kids can do without making a huge mess. Who does not approve of that?

One of my best-loved Easter crafts is making Easter baskets. At home, every year we create baskets for the old folks in the retirement home down the road. They are always so excited to get our gifts. We use colorful ribbons, Easter lilies, decorated Easter eggs, and chocolates of all kind. We add some little cards, and wrap the whole thing in colored cellophane. It can bring a lot of joy to some otherwise lonely souls, and that is a wonderful thing to be able to do.

Easter Crafts - don't be traditional

When it comes to Easter crafts, you do not have to just simply go with the traditional ones. Creating Easter cards is as fun as decorating eggs. In our family, we collect a great deal of stencils, rubber stamps, and other things like that. When Easter comes around, we gather all of them together and dump them in the middle of the table. Then we just go at our stationary, decorating it in whatever way we want. The outcomes of our Easter crafts are not always that perfect, but we enjoyed making them. At the end of the day, we exchange cards and have a nice dinner. Can you think of a much better way to spend a family afternoon than that? Doing things together somehow really brings people together in a way that nothing else does.

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Preschool Easter Crafts For Kids Are a Great Way to Get Them Active This Easter

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Working with preschoolers is great as they are usually very enthusiastic when it comes to making stuff and creating lots of arts and crafts projects within the classroom. They are usually about 3 or 4 years old, which means they have been jaded by the harsh world around them and still have great optimism. They usually want to please and get praise from adults and teachers so they try hard at all that they do.

This enthusiasm extends to preschool Easter crafts for kids in the classroom too. No matter what activity you place in front of them, you can usually bet that they will give it a good go. Anyone that works with children will pretty much tell you the same thing.

This is why Easter is a popular time in the classroom when it comes to being creative with arts and crafts. The good thing about Easter is that there is a ton of things that can be made ranging from Easter baskets to decorating Easter eggs.

Some Cool Easter Craft Ideas for Preschoolers

You are really only limited by your imagination and the tools that you have in your classroom when it comes to devising preschool Easter crafts for kids this year. Of course, you have to make sure that these young ones are supervised if using scissors, and that they have the appropriate safety blades.

You can start your preschoolers off with a simple Easter arts and craft idea that is always popular at this time of year. Take some different colored card, reds, pinks, blues etc. and cut them into long strips. Then using sticky tape of safety glue, instruct your class to weave the card together to create a simple Easter basket shape. You can also bring in some tissue paper to line the bottom of their baskets. Another piece of different colored card can be bent into shape to form an ad hoc handle too.

If your preschoolers have access to computers then they can go online (with some help) and print off some Easter themed pictures like Easter bunnies, Easter Eggs, Easter chicks etc. that can be printed out and used as decoration for their Easter baskets.

An Excuse to Talk Easter

Whilst your little ones are busy crafting their Easter baskets, you can be telling them all about Easter and what it means to you so that they can understand a little of the background of why they are making their baskets.

Who'd have thought that preschool Easter crafts for kids was such a great way to get your pupils actively participating in a great activity that promotes group work and good communication skills.

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Preschool Easter Crafts

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Eggstra Special Activities

With Easter just around the corner, it's time to start thinking of a variety of preschool Easter crafts to help celebrate the season. Easter lends itself well to crafts, since one of the main ways it's celebrated contemporarily is by decorating eggs.

While these children may be a little too young for preschool Easter crafts with real Easter eggs, plastic or play dough eggs make a great, less breakable substitute. For the brave and the not so faint of heart, real eggs can be used however they must be hard-boiled first to avoid any broken eggs on the floor.

If the idea of bringing eggs and dye into the preschool classroom is a little too frightening, try making stained glass Easter eggs from contact paper or waxed paper. Once the egg shapes have been cut out, decorate the shape with tissue paper or construction paper, glitter, or whatever else is in the craft supply cupboard. If using waxed paper don't forget to use a little glue to get the tissue paper the stick.

Or try this craft which involves eggs made from coffee filters. Cut out a number of egg shapes from coffee filters and give a few to each child. The children are to decorate their eggs using spray bottles filled with watered-down paint for a nice tie-dyed effect. They can also decorate the eggs with markers and then spray the eggs with water from a spray bottle for a similar design result.

Natural Nest

For a more offbeat Easter craft, try this one where the kids make bird's nests from real mud, sticks, twigs, and other things found outside. If the weather permits, go on a nature walk to collect materials for the nest. Once the nests are assembled, they make a great place to store and display decorated Easter eggs.

Here Comes Peter Cottontail...

Another great subject for preschool Easter crafts is the Easter bunny, seeing as how the bunny has become the central image for the holiday, at least where children are concerned.

In this craft, children create their own bunny masks from paper plates. Give each child one paper plate with eye holes cut out. They can decorate their masks with yarn or string for whiskers, pom poms for teeth, and construction paper or another paper plate cut in half and painted pink for the ears. Once they've finished decorating their masks, punch a hole in each side and use an elastic or piece of string to hold the mask in place around the child's head.

Finally, here's a fun craft that helps to teach children about the way plants grow called "Bunny in the Grass". To begin, each child will need a small pot or cup filled with potting soil. Sprinkle a small amount of grass seeds into the pot and cover the seeds with a thin layer of soil.

For the next part of these presechool Easter crafts, children will create a bunny from a craft stick. They can decorate the bunny with felt ears, googly eyes, a pom pom note, and yarn whiskers. Place the craft stick in the pot and set the pots near a sunny window to allow the grass to grow. In a few weeks, the bunny's garden will be green with grass. Give a prize to the child who grows the most grass, and the tallest blade of grass.

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