With Easter on the horizon, it’s a perfect time to start thinking about fun Easter craft ideas for kids to create a little bit of magic in your classroom. No matter what year level you’re teaching, kids love crafty activities to wind down before the Easter break.
That’s why the Teach Starter teacher team has rounded up a list of quick and easy Easter crafts that need minimal prep but will bring a heap of fun to your lessons. From egg baskets to DIY stamps to creative greeting cards, read on to get inspired by craft ideas.
Egg-cellent Easter Craft Ideas for Kids
Make Easy Clay Easter Eggs
If you’ve ever used air-dry clay, you’ll know how versatile and easy it is to use with primary students, which makes it perfect for creating Easter eggs students can decorate this school year. No boiling eggs required — and no worries that you will walk into the classroom after term break only to smell a very stinky egg that a student left behind!
You might already have some air-dray clay in your craft drawer, or you can grab a packet from most discount variety stores. To get started, divide the clay and challenge your students to roll it into Easter egg shapes using their hands. Bonus: This craft is great for building fine motor skills for younger year levels!
Once finished, leave the clay eggs to dry for a few days. You will need to consult the package instructions for the exact amount of time as it will depend on the clay thickness. Once dry, students can use acrylic paint and craft materials to decorate their eggs to gift to loved ones or to add to your classroom Easter display.
Get Funky!
We realise we can’t put together a list of Easter craft ideas without including the famous Teach Starter Funky Easter bunny and his friends! The cuteness factor is undeniable. The best thing about this craft is you don’t really need much to get started, and when your students start, they will be fully immersed for ages trying to get all of those patterns just right. You’re welcome!
You can get started with the Funky Easter Bunny template — which is free right now on the Teach Starter site! Your students can use the template to practise making Zentangle patterns and getting creative, and there are plenty of ways you can display their funky artwork — from a wall or window display to creating DIY Easter cards with students.
Aussie primary school teacher @magic_in_the_multiage popped her class’ completed Funky Bunny templates on coloured cardstock and added them to brighten her Easter window display.
Do you want to give your students other options? Why not try the funky character that is every bunny’s friend (see what we did there?) — the Funky Easter Egg template. Teacher Paige of @teaching6 tells us she rounded up her Year 5 students to close out the term with an afternoon of puzzles and our Funky Easter Egg craft — you can see their handiwork below!
Use Egg Cartons to Make Easter Chicks
Do you have real eggs at home? Teach your students a lesson in sustainability this year by recycling the cartons they came in to make Easter chicks! You can even ask students to bring cartons from home. Here’s how to get started:
- Cut out the egg slots of the cartons to create small cups.
- Paint each cup with yellow paint and glue on a pair of googly eyes.
- Cut small triangles from card stock and stick on each cup to make the beak.
- Glue yellow feathers on the cups to finish creating the chicks.
You can use the chicks as decorations in the classroom, or students can fill them with something fun to take home.
Make Easy Easter Egg Paintings
Looking for a simple craft for your class with minimal supplies needed? This one is perfect!
Master of engaging and easy kids’ crafts @cintaandco has created this awesome Easter craft perfect for cutting out and pasting on coloured cardstock to make a display or greeting card.
Start by drawing or outlining oval shapes on white sheets of paper. Distribute to the class, and give each student a white crayon to draw patterns inside the Easter egg. Get students to paint over the crayon drawing with watercolour paints and watch as the pattern magically appears!
Keep It Simple
You can never go wrong with an Easter basket paper craft, and having your students make their own baskets will save you time at the end of term. NSW primary school teacher Sarah of @heyy_mrscarter says she uses our Easter Egg Basket Template with her Year 1 class and fills them with a choccy egg, a fluffy chicken and an eraser for her class to take home with them.
This template is super easy for little hands to construct, and you’ll need minimal materials — coloured pencils or crayons, scissors, glue and sticky tape.
Make Easter Egg Baskets With First Nations Designs
If traditional Easter patterns aren’t your thing, check out our Wingaru Easter Egg Baskets with First Nations designs.
Australian Prep teacher Deborah of @learnwithplayathome loves this craft and uses it as a prompt to discuss First Nations history and culture with her students. As she says, ‘I love using these @wingaru_education paper baskets from Teach Starter each Easter with my students, as they are inclusive of all students, whether they celebrate Easter or not, whilst also providing an opportunity to naturally embed an Aboriginal perspective.’
Deborah says she uses this Easter craft as a chance to look at traditional basket weaving with her students, ‘along with learning about ochre and how Aboriginal people used eggs.’
‘Stamp’ Easter Eggs
Who would have thought a trusty kitchen utensil used for mashing up potatoes would be the perfect size and pattern to create some stupendous Easter egg stamping fun? This is such a super cute and fun art activity for your little bunnies. The materials required are very minimal for this Easter craft — thick card, paints, scissors and your masher are all you need.
How you use this Easter egg stamp idea is up to you and your students. It may be set up as an arts and crafts station, and your students can experiment with different colours.
We decided to create a lovely Easter card that the students can take home to give to someone special.
Want to keep the cards simple this year? These printable Easter cards are easy peasy!
DIY Potato Stamps for Card Creation
Speaking of potatoes … these humble vegetables also make perfect DIY stamps for kids!
Simply cut a potato in half and then carve an Easter egg shape on the flat surfaces. We recommend doing this step yourself to be on the safe side.
Dip the potato stamp into some paint and press into don’t paper to create egg-shaped prints to turn into an Easter card or display. Students can go wild with different colours and patterns.
Make Easter Agamographs
Did you know that an agamograph is a series of images that change at different angles? Use the Easter holiday to explore agamographs and explain how a person’s view changes from different perspectives. Your students will have lots of fun creating this cool Easter craft and getting familiar with optical illusions.
Download the Easter Agamograph Colouring In Template, and get your students colouring.
Talk to them about how the two different images are separated in the template. Focus on one image at a time to get the colours consistent. Then, fold the picture like a fan, and move from right to left to see the different images.
Do you want to connect your visual arts activity back to literacy? Why not have students write short stories or poems inspired by their agamographs?
Go ‘Mad’ With Easter Bonnets
Are you stuck for time? Perhaps the last week of term has crept up, and you’ve realised you haven’t even got any Easter craft sorted! Don’t stress! You have your own artists and inventors in your very own classroom; all they need is the supplies.
Fill a table with whatever you can find in your arts and crafts cupboard. Give your students the task of creating their very own Easter hat for the Easter hat parade. The littles may need a bit of help with the main construction of the hat, but the decorating is all up to them!
Pop on some fun Easter music, and you’ll all be smiling from bunny ear to bunny ear!
Get Ready for Planting With an Easter Character Terracotta Pot Craft
This Easter craft is slightly more fiddly than those we’ve shared so far, but you can’t deny the cuteness factor of these gorgeous Easter-inspired character pots. We picked up these cute little terracotta pots from Bunnings. Most other materials you may find in your classroom craft supplies.
- Acrylic paint
- Terracotta pots
- Googly eyes
- Coloured paper (pink, white and orange)
- Large pompoms (white and yellow)
- Feathers
Get painting. You can use white for an Easter rabbit, yellow for a chick or just a cute blue bird for those who may not necessarily celebrate the Easter tradition.
Get decorating. We used cute googly eyes and some feathers, paper or pipe cleaners to create these cute little characters. The best-sticking utensil is a hot glue gun, but you may need to step in to help with this part.
Your students could leave these pots on their desks for when the Easter bunny visits their classroom. Alternatively, this could open up a lesson about plants as these pots look great with little succulents in them.
Make an Easter Egg and Chick Peek-a-Boo Craft
This super fun Easter craft template is the perfect mix of colouring in, cutting out and assembling, and the materials needed for this craft are minimal too!
Download and print the Easter Egg and Chick Craft Template. We then used paper straws, but you can also use two pop sticks stuck together to give it the right length for the chick to pop up in between the cracked egg.
How to use this resource:
- Decorate the Easter egg and cut it out (including the zigzag section in the middle to create a cracked egg).
- Colour the chick, and cut it out.
- Glue the top of the chick to the cracked end of the top piece of the egg.
- Glue a paper straw or two large wooden craft sticks to the back of the chick template.
- Cut out the strip of paper, and glue each end of the strip of paper to the back of the bottom piece of the egg, just below the cracked edge.
- Slip your chick and stick between the strip and the back of the bottom of the egg.
- Slide the chick up and down as it peeks between the cracked pieces of the Easter egg.
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