Easter crafts with children
The best ideas for Easter
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Easter is just around the corner and so that the Easter bunny can definitely be seen, the apartment is being spruced up. The best ideas for Easter crafts with children can be found here!
Easter crafts with children: Easter bunnies, Easter eggs, chicks & Co.
Spring is approaching and the tension for Easter is increasing: Everything is being decorated, Easter eggs are being colored and then finally the children can look for lots of sweets for the festival. The preparations are a lot of fun, especially for children: Make Easter cards, make small pendants for the Easter bush yourself, blow out and paint Easter eggs, attach window pictures … and of course the Easter table has to be nicely decorated. It is high time to get out the handicraft materials soon and start many beautiful projects around Easter bunnies, chicks, lambs and Co. Have a fun afternoon and let your imagination run wild while doing handicrafts! We have put together simple yet exciting ideas that will brighten up Easter for you – and grandma and grandpa are just as happy about them!
Easter crafts with puff pictures
Puff pictures are fun and your children will be very excited while doing handicrafts!
You need:
- White craft paper for the Easter bunny stencil
- White paper for the picture
- scissors
- Adhesive tape or masking tape
- Ink box
- Brush and water container
- drinking straw
- Glue
That's how it's done:
- For every blown picture that you want to make, you need two templates: To do this, cut out the same Easter bunny twice.
- Glue the first Easter bunny in the middle of the stomach and head on the sheet of paper, so that it can be removed again.
- Now mix many bright colors with plenty of water and apply them next to the stencil. Note: If the paint runs a little in the other direction to the Easter Bunny, it doesn't matter, the stencil will be removed later anyway. Immediately afterwards, blow away the paint with a straw so that it runs nicely to the side. Attention: Small children find it difficult to blow – it is better to just take a small blow picture or take long breaks in between!
- Once you have circled the rabbit, loosen the stencil and stick the second (clean) stencil on – the little work of art is ready!
Easter crafts for little gardeners
Sure, you could blow out Easter eggs and then paint and hang them up in the traditional way … but you can also do them as small ones Cress pots use – and the children can try their hand at gardening. An Easter basket from what grows! Here the Easter eggs are even as Very Hungry Caterpillar on the go … a nice idea for handicrafts that will catch the eye on the kitchen window sill.
You need:
- White eggs
- Brush, water pot
- Craft paints
- Cotton wool or paper towels
- Cress seeds
That's how it's done:
- Eggs in upper third fold in and remove the shell. Collect the egg yolks and whites (tip: you can use them to make delicious scrambled eggs right afterwards).
- Eggshell wash thoroughly and pat dry with a paper towel.
- Then add the Easter eggs Color in craft paints and brushes in bright colors. tip: If you want to imitate the Very Hungry Caterpillar, all eggs get the same color except for the first egg, which is decorated with a face.
- As soon as the eggs are dry, you can put them in egg cups or an egg carton or (if you want it more decorative) bed them on a piece of wood with moss. For the latter, it is best to glue the Easter eggs with hot glue – the parents take care of that).
Note:Cress not only grows in the ground, but also on cotton wool and kitchen paper. Fill one of the three options into the Easter eggs, then sow the cress seeds and keep your small growing station permanently moist. Then off to the windowsill (as sunny as possible) and now you just need a little patience …
Tip: Also works with chives!
Easter crafts with children: "little carrot feet"
All kids who like to mash with colors can show their full commitment here:
You need:
- White paper
- Orange construction paper
- Solid ribbon in green
- Finger color in orange
- sponge
- Scissors, craft glue
- Perforator
- A pad for the floor, e.g. B. an old blanket or newspaper
Note: It's best to have a damp washcloth, a bowl of water, and a towel ready to remove the paint.
That's how it's done:
- Apply orange finger paint to one of your children's feet with a sponge. Then the kids stamp their foot once on a sheet of white paper. Then clean the foot thoroughly …
- The stamped foot is now cut out (make sure that a slightly triangular shape is visible).
- Now stick the paper to the orange colored cardboard, so that an edge remains.
- Punch a hole at the top and attach ribbons to the small carrots and cut to size. Tip: On the back you can send wonderful greetings for Easter!
Tinker chick parade for Easter
Do you still need a funny cover sheet for a nice Easter card? Then here we have a quick DIY that is ready in no time:
You need:
- Empty toilet paper or kitchen roll
- Craft paint in yellow
- Paper plate
- Cardboard or craft paper
- brush
- If necessary, fine linen or colored pencils
- At will: googly eyes
That's how it's done:
- Gently squeezes the empty toilet roll or kitchen roll so that a oval shape arises.
- Put some yellow craft paint on a paper plate or similar surface.
- Dip the roll in and stamp the little chicks on paper or cardboard as you wish.
- Then you can decorate the little figures with legs, beak, red cheeks, eyes and head feathers.
Crafts for Easter with colored paper
The little roosters and chickens can be tinkered in a few minutes and announce Easter with a big cackle:
You need:
- Colored paper in yellow, orange, beige
- White paper
- Circle
- pencil
- ruler
- scissors
- Glue
- Fineliner, felt pen or colored pencil
That's how it's done:
- Use a pair of compasses or an upside-down glass to draw several circles on colored paper and cut them out.
- Draw a line with that Ruler to the center of the circle and cut this ruler. Fold the paper over at this point and trace the edge well with your fingernail.
- Glue on the circles and design the chicken as you like with legs, beak, eyes and a cock's comb.
Easter crafts with wool
Your children should be a bit taller for this DIY, because winding the wool tightly requires a little patience and practice.
You need:
- carton
- Colored paper in orange
- Different colors of wool
- pencil
- scissors
- Glue
- duct tape
- Googly eyes
That's how it's done:
- Draw an egg on the box and cut it out.
- Tape the beginning of the wool in the middle of the cardboard with tape.
- Wrap the wool tightly around the egguntil the area is well covered. Cut off the wool and secure the end with tape as well.
- Draw yourselves one diamond per egg (this will later become the beak) and two feet on orange craft paper and cut them out.
- Fold the diamond in half and glue on the beak, feet and googly eyes. Finished!
If you haven't had enough of handicrafts yet, there are other great ideas for Easter here: There are more handicraft instructions for Easter handicrafts here, here you can find out how you can make Easter decorations yourself and here we show how Easter eggs can be naturally colored.
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