Easter Party Crafts & Activities

I love organising Easter activities, there’s so many Springtime ideas that are easy and fun for kids!

My daughter has a lovely group of friends from a toddler group we used to attend. They are spread out over different schools now but we still meet up regularly and have parties throughout the year. Corrina always hosts the Easter party as she has a lovely big garden for an egg hunt and I organise some activities.

Easter Flower Decoration

We had 11 children at this year’s party aged 5 to 8. As there was a large number of kids I kept the crafts simple. First up they made stand up Easter decorations. I bought some foam tulip shapes from the pound shop - £1 for a pack of 25 so enough for 12 children - and stuck two tulips together along the edges, leaving the middle bit unstuck. I did this in advance as it needed to be done with superglue, a nice easy job in front of the tv with a Friday night prosecco! 

The kids chose what colour tulip they wanted and decorated both sides of the tulip plus the bottom half of a cardboard tube (the top half won’t be visible). They had stickers, feathers & glue sticks, Easter stamps and felt tip pens to decorate them, basically anything I could find lying around in our craft box! 

Once they’d decorated them they inserted the cardboard tube as the stalk of the flower which meant they would stand up too. You could always give them green paint to make their stalks more realistic but I didn’t fancy letting 11 children loose with paint in my friend’s kitchen!!

Group Project - Easter Picture

 

I picked up a big pack of Easter stickers from Home Bargains for £1 and liked the idea of the children all working on a project together. I made a large Springtime scene in advance by sellotaping 6 A3 sheets of blue paper together for the sky, turning it over then sticking on green hills with a glue stick (you could draw or paint them on of course if you didn’t have green paper). The children spent a good half hour using the stickers and felt tip pens to make an Easter picture together. It was lovely to see their imaginations interpreting a directed activity into their own ideas. Some of them made an egg hunt with lots of ‘x’s marking the hiding places, egg baskets became hot air balloons, parachutes and space rockets whilst others made nests for the chickens and flying bunnies!

Avoiding a Tearful Egg Hunt!

With a few years experience of egg hunts we’ve found that there is less arguing, competitiveness and upset if the children are hunting for non-chocolate eggs with a chocolate reward at the end, plus they love hiding them again for the mummies to find after they’ve finished hunting, it’s become somewhat of a tradition! And we can then also use the same eggs every year of course. We had a selection of eggs that were all the same 6 colours. To avoid the bigger kids grabbing all the eggs before the younger kids had chance, we made a rule that they had to find just one of each colour and then empty them into a big basket before going off to hunt for their next 6. They really enjoyed this extra challenge and were all shouting out to help each other when they found a colour they didn’t need themselves, it was great fun!

Extra Touches

My daughter had her best friend over the day before the Easter party and they were really keen to do some baking so we made some chocolate nests which they really enjoyed handing around to their friends at the party. This is such a simple baking activity to do with kids. My mum always used to make them with crumbled up shredded wheat when I was a child which made more convincing nests but I find the children enjoy eating them more when made with rice krispies. Stir in the rice krispies to melted chocolate, spoon into a cake case, add some mini eggs into the ‘nest’ and you’re done! I picked up some jelly chicks this year and added them to the nests too.

I had these bunny plates from a couple of years ago that I hadn’t used and couldn’t resist these carrot napkins to go with them - 59p from Home Bargains!

Other Easter Activities

I always have a pack of paper plates in my craft resources, they’re so versatile and so cheap! Here’s a couple of paper plate Easter crafts my children have enjoyed…

Bunny Faces

It’s all about the glueing! Glue on some paper ears, googly eyes, pipe cleaner whiskers topped with a pom pom nose then draw on a mouth and teeth. You might need double sided tape or a glue gun to get the nose to stick.

Rocking Chicks

Fold the plate in half and paint both sides yellow. For the beak, fold a square of paper into two triangles and sellotape it inside the plate so the fold line in the paper lines up with the fold line in the plate. 

Add some eyes - you could use googly eyes but we glued on some white pom poms with a black pen dot on them. 

We then sellotaped a few feathers at the other end to the beak for a tail and then glued a single feather on each side of the plate for a wing. Give it’s tail a little tap and your chick will be rocking! You can use these as Easter cards too as you can write inside the plate!

See my Easter play dough Tuff tray post for another easy Easter activity!