Free Easter Craft Ideas!
Spend your
Easter (or Spring Break) making these adorable free Easter Craft Projects
for Kids and Adults!
Egg Carton Bunny
Materials Needed:
Egg Carton
Cotton Balls - regular size
Black thread
Scissors - with adult supervision
Ruler
Beads, small buttons, or pom-poms
Pink and white pipe cleaners
pink yarn
glue
1. With adult supervision, cut one cup from egg carton
2. Glue cotton ball on each of the cups' four corners to make feet
3. Turn cup over (open side down) and glue cotton ball on back for tail.
4. Use beads, small buttons or pom-poms and glue in place for eyes and nose
5. Cut black thread into 1-inch pieces. Glue thread under nose to create
whiskers.
6. Glue pink yarn below nose for the mouth.
7. Cut two three-inch sections of white pipe cleaner and two two-inch
sections of pink pipe cleaner.
8. Take one white and one pink pipe cleaner, place and gently bend. Be sure
the pink is on the inside of the ear. Poke holes on top of "bunny" and
insert pipe cleaners to form ears.
With a little imagination and ingenuity, you can create a whole bunny
family. Make one for each person and use as a decoration for each place
setting.
Crunch Easter
Baskets
2 cups butterscotch chips
1 (12 ounce) package chow mein noodles
Jelly Beans
Microwave the butterscotch chips in a microwave-safe bowl on High until
melted, stirring at 15-second intervals. put melted butterscotch chips over
the noodles in a large bowl, tossing with a wooden spoon until well coated.
Let cool slightly. Shape by hand into 1/4-cup stacks and place on a cookie
sheet or waxed paper. Make small indention in the middle of the stack. Let
cool completely. Fill stacks with jelly beans.
Yield 2 dozen crunchy baskets
May use chocolate chips for Wood Stacks or white chocolate chips for Birch
Stacks.
Make Rice Krispie Treats using Kellogg's Razzle Dazzle Rice Krispies. let
the mixture cool slightly and shape into 3-inch eggs. These make yummy
Easter eggs.
Bunny Face
Basic Materials:
3 six-inch white plastic plates
1 six-inch pink plastic plate
2 -two-inch
white pom poms
1 one-inch pink pom pom
2 white chenille stems
- 2- 40mm
wiggle eyes
White yarn 3 yards
pink & white checked ribbon, or ribbon of
your choice
Glue gun with glue sticks, or heavy craft glue for kids
Scissors and pencil
Directions:
1. Cut ear and teeth shapes from the plates, leaving one of the white plates
uncut.
2. Glue the pink ear pieces inside the white ear pieces, and glue them to
the top back side of the whole white plate.
3. Assemble and glue on the eyes and face, using the white pom poms for the
cheeks, and the pink pom pom for the nose.
4. Fold chenille stems in half and glue one on each side of the cheeks for
whiskers.
5. Make a bow with the ribbon, and glue it to the bottom of the plate.
6. For hair, cut several pieces of yarn to a length of about 3 inches, and
glue to the top of the plate so the "hair" falls between the ears.
Flower Crown
Make a pretty flowery crown from a paper plate and paper flowers. These are
fun to make for Spring or Easter.
Supplies:
A paper plate
Colored construction paper or tissue paper
Paint, markers, or crayons
Scissors
Glue
Optional - glitter, crepe paper or other ribbons
Cut a slit through the center of the paper plate, leaving about an inch at
the edges of the plate. Cut three more slits.
Bend the triangles formed by the cuts upwards, forming leaf-like shapes.
Paint the crown light green (or use markers or crayons to color it). Let the
paint dry.
Cut out some construction paper or tissue paper flowers for your hat. Any
shapes will do - let your imagination run wild and invent your own flowers.
Glue flowers to the crown.
Optional: Decorate it with glitter and/or staple two long ribbons of crepe
paper to your beautiful hat.
Variation: Instead of flowers, make paper eggs, decorate them, and put them
on your hat.
Growing Easter
Baskets
Supplies:
Empty 1/2 gal. Milk
Cartons
Potting Soil
Grass Seed (fast growing if you have it)
Stuff to Decorate Carton
Take empty milk cartons, cut down to 4-5" high. Can cover with contact paper
or construction paper and decorate. Fill 2/3 full with potting soil, the
generously cover with grass seed. Have children water daily; grass should
grow in about 4-7 days. With remaining carton, cut a handle to staple to the
basket. Fill with decorated eggs.
Easter Chicks
Supplies:
2 Cotton Balls
Orange and Black Construction Paper
Dry, Yellow tempera Paint
Glue
Empty, Clean Egg Shell
Put some of the paint in a Ziploc Bag, put in the 2 cotton balls and shake
until they are yellow. Feet, eyes, and beaks can be cut from orange & black
construction paper and glued on. Then you can glue the chick into half of
the egg shell.
Egg Decorating
Supplies:
Hard Boiled Eggs
Markers
Pass out hard boiled eggs to everyone at the table. Have each person draw a
feature on the egg with felt tip markers. Continue passing the eggs until
each egg has a face (eyes, cheeks, nose, mouth, ears, moles, eyelashes,
chin, freckles, etc.).
Rabbit Head Bands
Supplies:
Construction Paper
Glue
Cut out a strap long enough to fit around a child's head. Cut rabbit ears,
using white and pink construction paper. Glue or staple onto the strap, and
make it into a head band.
Activities:
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