Easter Crafts Fun for Kids and Adults

Whether you celebrate Easter as a religious holiday or a fun one. There are lots of craft ideas that can be much fun for children and adults alike.

GIFT CRAFT IDEAS

You can make your own Easter cards. They can be religious or not depending on your preference. Ideas to put on them include a cross, a white Lilly, eggs, ducks, chicks and bunnies.

A fun craft that might be a good gift for a teacher or family member is making a tin can into an Easter related animal, such as a lamb, chick, or rabbit. Using pompoms or cotton balls, cover the tin can with the color related to the animal you chose. Using craft foam or felt add ears, feet, beaks and ears. Use googly eyes for fun, or you can use black pompoms. Ribbon can embellish your rabbits ears, or make a bow tie around the can. The project can become a pencil holder or coin collector.

FUN FOR EVERYONE CRAFT IDEAS

Make your own Easter Baskets. Many if not most people have an egg hunt as part of their Easter traditions. Rather then buying a pre decorated basket. Buy some plain ones and some craft supplies like felt, pipe cleaners, pompoms and ribbons. Have children cut out egg shapes and decorate or bunny and chick shapes to hot glue to their baskets. Allow them the creativity to come up with their own designs. Decorating their own baskets is a fun way to make something that will be used several times over.

If your looking for Easter Egg decorating ideas, I have a few of those too. You can marble them. This is very easy to do, no matter if you make your own egg dyes or buy a store made package. Simply add a teaspoon of cooking oil to the dye. Stir and as the mixture is swirling, dip your egg in and quickly remove. You can do this with several different colors if you like. Dry and repeat. Another fun idea for Eggs is sponge painting them. In order to sponge paint your eggs, you should use Acrylic paint rather then food dyes. Cut a sponge into relatively small pieces and dip in the paint, dabbing at the eggs. You should do half an egg at a time, let it dry then roll it over to do the other side. You can also paint eggs a solid color, either by paint or more traditional dying processes and sponge with white paint.

You can always make Easter eggs out of paper to decorate the house. Simply cut out large ovals out of pastel paper and let children decorate. You can use these eggs to create many things. You can use a brad to hook each together and make garland. Gluing them onto a large sheet of paper and laminating can make lasting place mats. Or simply hanging them on windows and walls.

A fun Idea is to make chickens and bunnies out of pompoms. You can buy solid colored pompoms for relatively cheap at craft stores and some one stop shopping centers. Use 2 large Pompoms to create the animals body, and craft foam for beaks, legs, ears. Get some googly eyes to add to your animals or use tiny black pompoms for eyes. Make sure an adult or responsible older child is in charge of the hot glue gun. For a fun idea. You can glue the animal inside a plastic easter egg, close it and hide it for your hunt. Making it a fun treat when found.

Another easy idea is to make flowers out of tissue paper. You can buy brightly colored tissue paper in the wrapping paper sections of stores. Simply take the tissue paper and cut a square or circle out of it. One sheet can be made into several flowers. You can even group together different colors of paper. Gather the center into a point and twist until a flower forms. Then use a pipe cleaner to twist around the point of the flower. You can use a second pipe cleaner to make leaves. Just make a round circle and twist the ends around the main stem.

You can make a Easter Pin easily. There are two ways you can go about this. One you can make one from a clothes pin. Paint the clothes pin the color you want. White for a rabbit, yellow for a chick etc. Add on eyes, ears, and beaks to make it your animal of choice. You can add a pin back to it. Or use it as a clothespin and pin it to your shirt. The other method is using wooden shapes you can buy at craft stores. Use a round one for the animals head. For a rabbit include 2 tear drop shaped ones for the ears. Paint them the color of the animal you are making. Glue on some googly eyes, and a pompom for a nose. Pen in a mouth, or beak. You can even glue some ribbon for a bow tie. Attach a jewelry pin to the back of your animal creation with strong glue and enjoy!

Another idea is making a wreath of your children's hand prints. Trace children's hand prints and glue them into a wreath. Then decorate your wreath with paper eggs, and Easter related animals.

You can make Easter Eggs out of Styrofoam eggs. You can buy Styrofoam egg shapes in craft stores. Using glue decorate with sequence, ribbons, buttons, pompoms, anything that you can find. Use a bit of ribbon in a loop at the top if you would like to hang the eggs. Otherwise using them for decoration and hunts is a fun idea.

RELIGIOUS CRAFT IDEAS

For a religious family, there are other fun craft ideas you can do. Making a jeweled cross would be fun for children of all ages. Buy some large Popsicle sticks and paint them white. Use them to form your cross. Buy sequence, craft jewels and beads. Use glue to apply sequence and jewels. Make a hanger for your cross out of yarn. String on some pretty beads to decorate the hanger and your all done. Quick but fun. You can also apply glitter and stencils rather then jewels if you like.

A fun craft for smaller children is making a cross necklace. Again, make this out of Popsicle sticks, only the smaller ones. Glue two together to make your cross. Coat your cross in strong glue and allow children to decorate their crosses with various items, such as glitter, sequence, jewels and even aquarium rocks. Punch a hole in the top of the cross and string onto yarn for a necklace. For smaller children you can trim their Popsicle sticks in half so that their cross isn't quite as large.

Hand Print Easter Lilly's. This is a fun idea to make for the season. Using white craft foam, trace your child's hand print and cut it out. Out of Green craft foam make a stem and leaves. For the center of the Lilly twist together two yellow pipe cleaners. Use glue to assemble your flower. Add a purple ribbon to tie your bouquet together.

Easter is a time for celebrating life. A fun craft for this theme is making a plant stake that says He Lives. Buy some plant stakes in a garden center, and attack a white craft foam shape. The shape can be any of your choosing. Allow children to decorate the plant stakes and use them in your garden. Don't forget to write on the back what the plant is.

No matter how you celebrate the Holiday there are fun craft ideas for you and your children. With a little imagination you can create beautiful crafts, some that will last for years to come.