Get creative with the little ones: Easter crafting with children
Easter is the perfect time to get creative. You can create beautiful decorations, especially with children. If you want to upgrade your children's room, kitchen &. Co. with Easter decorations, there are no limits to your creativity. Whether it's Easter baskets, Easter bunnies, Easter pendants or egg cups – the Easter holidays offer a whole variety of creative ideas.
The craft materials are just as varied: with Easter grass, toilet rolls or clay paper you can create individual Easter decoratons, just as much as with FIMO, tracing paper or egg cartons. You need inspiration? Discover amazing ideas for your next Easter crafting session with the kids.
What can you craft with small children for Easter?
Especially those who have small children love to make their home a colourful place and to decorate it according to the current season. For both young and old, Easter is the perfect time of the year to add some splash of colour. Depending on their age, you can give free reigns to your creative ideas and create different elements.
- For example, it is a smart idea to make an Easter nest or Easter basket together with your children, where the Easter bunny can secretly put its gifts for them.
- Pendants for the Easter bush are another popular idea: these can be blown-out and painted eggs, but also other crafted objects made with clay paper, cardboard or tracing paper.
- Do the kids want to craft Easter presents for their grandmother, uncle or their friends? How about a pretty greeting card – for example with finger, hand or foot prints?
- Perfect for the windowsill or as decorations on the dining table: animal decorations like Easter bunnies or chicks that you can craft using egg cartons or toilet rolls.
► Find suitable tutorials including step-by-step instructions down below.
What do you need?
When you think of Easter, you usually think of eggs. Blown out as well as boiled eggs are ideal crafting utensils. Furthermore, there is a wide range of other materials for perfect Easter crafting with children:
- Coloured pencils, felt-tip pens, finger paint, watercolours and brushes: when colouring Easter eggs and decorations, they add the splash of colour that is typical for Easter.
- Paper and cardboard in all colours and thicknesses: they are ideal for Easter cards, Easter baskets and decorations.
- Paper plates: the ideal material for easy crafting projects such as bunny faces.
- Toilet rolls and egg cartons: they are perfect for upcycling crafting projects such as Easter bunnies and chicks.
- Wiggly eyes: they lend tinkered animals a funny touch.
- Cotton balls: perfect for creating fluffy details.
- Natural materials: leaves, twigs and flowers lend your crafting projects a very natural and sustainable look.
- Other materials for colourful crafting projects are: pipe cleaners, feathers, glitter, stickers.
- Other indispensable little helpers for the next crafting session with your kids: glue and glue sticks as well as child-safe scissors for cutting paper and carton.
These and further materials of your choice enable children to express their creativity freely, to have fun creating and crafting different Easter decorations and gifts.
Almost nothing is impossible – with the right painting and crafting equipment
In our high-quality kids’ assortment, you will find the right painting and crafting materials for all ages that have been adapted to their respective needs:
- Coloured pencils
- Wax crayons
- Felt-tip pens
- Finger paint
- Crafting sets
- And so much more.
Ideas for Easter decorations and Easter gifts
FIMO, ready, set, go!
Does your child like to play with modelling clay? With our FIMO kids creative tips, you can create amazing Easter decorations with children, quickly and playfully! Get inspired by our instructions!
Colourful eyecatchers: crafting Easter pendants
In addition to hollow, colourfully decorated eggs, creativity knows no limits when it comes to easter pendants. Even for the little ones there are innumerable ideas that are easy to realize and that will build up the anticipation for the Easter holidays.
All you need is some paper, scissors, glue, a string and paint to create a colourful Easter pendant decorated with patterns, colours and shapes that make your child’s heart beat faster.
Further crafting templates:
Crafting for Easter – easy and decorative: flower garland
In addition to typical Easter motifs such as eggs or bunnies, a flower garland is an Easter decoration that can be just as beautiful and colourful.
Crafting Easter bunnies with your children
What is something that should not be missing at Easter? The answer is clear: the Easter bunny! It is available as chocolate or as a cuddly toy. But not only that! It is so quick to make and can serve as an easter decoration, for example on the windowsill or next to the Easter bush: all you need is a toilet roll, coloured pencils, scissors and a template that is available for download.
Super easy: make your own Easter presents
However, if your child not only receives a present but would also like to send a greeting for Easter, then we offer you plenty of inspiration to create cute cards.
How about sending Easter greetings by mail? Folding cards made of thick cardboard can be easily decorated with coloured pencils or with finger paint with one’s handprint. Add a few nice words from mum or dad – your Easter greetings are ready!
The best ideas only require pens, scissors and colourful clay and crepe paper to transform creative carrot feet into a cute Easter greeting. Friends and relatives will be delighted by these enchanting Easter presents.
If you have a wooden clothes peg, you can craft cute clothes peg Easter eggs – and use them as Easter decorations for your living room or as a gift. Crafting for Easter can be so incredibly easy!
Good to know:
You can find many exciting craft templates, printable colouring templates and templates for games on our page “Creative activities for kids – colouring, crafting, playing”:
