"Like so many other holidays, celebrating Easter gets a little bit more fun once you have kids, whether the Easter bunny delivers baskets of goodies to your house or your family enjoys a festive Sunday brunch. Plus, the arrival of Easter often feels like the formal transition to spring—bring on the sunshine, flowers, and baby animals! To help celebrate, we’ve rounded up a bunch of Easter activities for kids and crafts to do with your littles. Even better news? Many of these don’t require a trip to the craft store and can be made with items you probably already have around the house like toilet paper rolls, cotton balls, or egg cartons. Read on for over 40 Easter activities for kids.
1. Toothbrush Easter Eggs
Toothbrushes aren’t just for teeth! Skip the paintbrush and use a toothbrush for this adorable Easter egg craft.
2. Easter Peeps Edible Play Dough
An Easter staple, turn your marshmallow Peeps into a fun craft that your kids can also eat. Playing with your food is definitely encouraged here.
3. Easter Sponge Painting
Our favorite crafts are the ones that are simple but fun! These sponge painting techniques are easy and exciting to do with little ones.
4. At-Home Scavenger Hunt Printable
Easter activities for kids can be as simple as a family scavenger hunt. This fun printable makes it easy to put together a fun treasure hunt that both little and big kids will love.
5. Fizzy Rainbow Eggs
For an activity overflowing with color and some oohs and ahhs, dive into this entertaining fizzy science experiment. Even if your child is already familiar with the effect of mixing baking soda with vinegar, surely they’ll enjoy the chance to set it to the tune of rainbows and Easter!
6. Easter Egg Paper Weaving
This fun Easter activity is great for having your little one work on their motor skills. Have them pick out their favorite colors to weave their own egg.
7. Easter Bunny Corner Bookmark (DIY Origami)
Transform ordinary sheets of construction paper into these playful Easter bunny bookmarks. This project also teaches your kiddos about the special art form of origami.
8. Egg Garland
Elevate Easter decor around your home with this mixed media garland-making project. From watercolor paints, to Washi Tape, to glue-on decorations, beads, and more, littles will have a blast choosing their creative direction for this one.
9. Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt
Not all Easter egg hunts have to unfold in the light of day. Grab some glow sticks and plastic eggs (which you can easily purchase on Amazon or at your local party store), and voila! The night just took on whole new Easter celebration possibilities.
10. Cardboard Tube Bunny Rabbit Family
Before you take out the recycling, hang onto the toilet paper and paper towel rolls to make this adorable craft with your littles.
11. Spring Coloring Page Printables
Coloring is always a good idea, especially when it’s festive for the season! These printables are perfect to get your kiddos excited about the arrival of spring and the Easter Bunny.
12. Handprint Easter Lamb
Mary had a little lamb—and your little ones can, too! In fact, they can make them at home and display their hard work proudly on the fridge for weeks to come.
13. DIY Pineapple Easter Eggs
Fruity fun meets Easter eggs in these happy-looking pineapple cuties! With a handful of supplies, you’ll have a little collection of uniquely-decorated eggs in no time.
14. Easter Egg Sensory Bag
Full of bright Easter colors and with a look that says come squeeze me, these sensory bags are the best creation for little ones who adore any tactile inspiration they can get their hands on.
15. Silk Dyed Eggs
If you have a big kid or tween, this beautiful craft is perfect to do together. Take some scraps of fabric and watch as they transfer on to the egg.
16. Eggsperiments Activity Kit
Your little scientists will love these experiment kits that can be purchased on KiwiCo’s site. Plus, they’ll learn about physics, biology, and chemistry along the way!
17. Easter Egg Slime
As slime is taking over the world, we may as well embrace it and make it festive. Be sure to make an extra one of these Easter egg slimes for yourself (you know you want to!). Editor’s Note: Need to get slime out of clothes? Click here for our go-to hack!
18. Easter Treat Calendar Countdown
Calendar countdowns don’t need to be reserved for the winter holidays! Countdown to Easter and get excited for spring with this fun calendar countdown.
19. Pop Up Easter Egg & Bunny Card
These days, it feels like purchasing a store-bought card costs a pretty penny. Instead, craft one of these clever and colorful pop-up bunny cards with your little one for a priceless result!
20. DIY Ornament Carrot
Ornaments aren’t just for Christmas trees! Give your kiddo a chance to design a personalized Easter ornament—and munch on some of their favorite candy along the way. Orange M&Ms are one option for filling, as are other small and orange sweet treats like Skittles, gummy bears, etc. Editor’s Note: A parent’s assistance will likely be needed for the glue gun step.
21. Easter STEM Activity
What do you get when you cross some jelly beans and marshmallow Peeps with toothpicks, besides a sugar rush? A cool Easter learning project! This one challenges little ones to construct sturdy structures in as many creative shapes as possible to house their Peeps.
22. Paper Plate Bunny Purse for Easter
Look out Coach and Prada, there’s a new bunny bag hitting the racks. With a couple of paper plates and markers, some pretty ribbon, and a bit of paint, your little one can make their very own!
23. Handprint Easter Chick
Handprint crafts are some of our favorites to make here at The Everymom because they’re both cute and mark a moment in time. It’s one of those crafts you’ll want to hold onto forever.
24. Easter Word Scramble Printable
These fun brain teasers will get their gears turning as they get excited for the upcoming holiday.
25. Marbled Easter Egg Banner
Your kiddos will have so much fun crafting this banner and will be so excited to wake up every day and see it displayed throughout the season.
26. Cool Whip Easter Eggs
Consider using this cool whip technique for dying eggs this year for a fun marble effect on the eggs.
27. Paper Plate Easter Bunny
If simple Easter activities for kids are more your speed, try this one. These paper plate Easter bunnies are everything we could want in a craft.
28. Easter Wreath DIY
Decorate your own Easter wreath this year with extra eggs you aren’t using for an Easter hunt.
29. Easter Bingo Printable
As far as Easter activities for kids go, this one is easy and fun. It doesn’t get much more fun than a family bingo night, and these printables are perfect for the season!
30. Egg Carton Easter Bunnies
How cute are these egg carton Easter bunnies? The best part is that you probably have most of the supplies lying around the house.
31. Pretty Paper Easter Eggs
We can’t think of anything better than decorating for the holiday with beautiful crafts made by your little ones. These pretty paper Easter eggs are simply perfect for just that.
32. Easter Egg Sun Catcher
The best crafts are the ones you want to keep up all year round to show off. These sun catchers are beautiful enough for year-long admiration!
33. Felt Easter Eggs
Your kiddos will have so much fun designing tons of their own Easter eggs with this affordable and easy craft.
34. Decorate Easter Cookies with Edible Paint
A three-in-one activity: bake these cookies together, decorate them, and then eat them. Save a few or make more for Easter brunch for everyone to enjoy.
35. Roll & Cover Printable Easter Game
For an engaging activity alternative to an arts and crafts project, this Easter printable is a great little dice game. And hey, if you’re hoping for a future Yahtzee competitor, this definitely plants a seed of introduction too.
36. Fleece Bunny
Bring the magic of the Easter bunny right into your home by helping your little ones make these fleece bunnies they’ll cherish for years. Pro-tip: be sure to make a couple for the grandparents, too!
37. Paper Easter Egg Tree Decoration
Depending on where you live, you might start to notice fuzzy buds beginning to make their appearance along the trees during springtime. And even if you don’t, any branches will do for creating these crafty and nature-inspired Easter egg trees.
38. Cardboard Easter Sculptures
Invite in the abstract by piecing together one (or both!) of these whimsical Easter bunnies or chicks. Not only will your little one be left with a memorable-looking ‘pet,’ but now they can add sculptor to their list of talents as well!
39. LEGO Easter Eggs
If your kiddos can’t get enough LEGOs, they’ll love this craft. Help them get into the spring spirit by building these LEGO Easter eggs.
40. Bunny Craft
“Hop” on this craft to make with your kids this Easter. Use pom poms, cotton balls, or my favorite—marshmallows for the fur.
41. Egg Carton Bunny Portraits
Repurpose egg cartons for an adorable Easter-themed craft you’ll want to display. To make these bunny portraits, gather cardboard (Amazon boxes work well!), an egg carton, paint, markers, or Posca pens, and glue to attach these cute little guys to your customized cardboard frame. Kids can get creative with decorating their cardboard frames and choosing what the bunnies will wear (glasses are a fun addition).
Jaclyn Voran, Contributing Writer
Jaclyn joined The Everymom team as a Contributing Writer in 2020. She brings a strong editorial background as a freelance writer, including being published in The Atlantic. She holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Kansas.
Patty Schepel, Editorial Assistant
As the editorial assistant, Patty works with The Everymom’s team on pitches, creating original articles, updating existing content, photo sourcing, writing shopping product descriptions, inputting freelance articles, and more. When she’s not working, you can find her spending time with her family, training for half marathons—she ran one 16 weeks pregnant—traveling, cooking, reading a rom-com, and keeping her sourdough starter, Rose, alive.