Easter Crafts and Activities for Kids

Easter crafts and activities for kids are wonderful ways to begin the season of Easter. You might celebrate Easter with bunnies or the Christian tradition.

These activities use simple and fun Easter templates, bunnies, and spring themes to learn letters, Spanish sight words, and fine motor skills. You can also add reading materials like bilingual stories to deepen these skills. 

Easter Crafts and Activities for Kids

Easter is an amazing opportunity to talk about spring, the renewal season, and creating wonderful memories. Using simple Easter crafts and activities for kids does not have to be challenging.

You can easily practice fine motor skills by cutting pieces of paper or tissue paper. If you have different students or homeschoolers of various ages, use various crafts and activities.

For example, you can use the Spanish sight words or letter matching with one group. Or, you can use the Easter bunny plastic cups with a younger group.

In either case, you can accommodate your lessons and activities accordingly. 

Materials

• Construction paper: pink, purple, yellow, and other colors of your choice
• Tissue paper: green, light blue, yellow or other colors that you’d like
• Plastic transparent cups (3)
• Modge podge or white glue
• Brushes
• Shredded brown paper or construction paper
• Black markers
• Various pom-poms of different colors
• Safety scissors
• FREE fine motor skills templates and Spanish bilingual sight words template

Instructions

1. For the Easter crafts using the plastic cups, coat the inside of the cups with Modge Podge. 
2. Add green, yellow, or light blue pieces of tissue paper. Set the tissue papers with additional Modge Podge. 
3. Allow the containers to dry. 
4. Create a green grass effect by allowing extra green tissue paper to extend from the cup.
5. Cut back any excess tissue paper making small fringe cuts. 
6. Add brown shredded brown paper to represent the garden soil. 
7. Make the little yellow chick and bunny in a similar way. 
8. For the little yellow chick, add pieces of small yellow tissue paper on top and decorations. 
9. For the light blue bunny, add Easter bunny ears and a white pom-pom for the nose. 
10. Using small pieces of pink, purple, and yellow construction paper, create a patchwork. 
11. Paste the strips of paper onto a card-stock paper or sturdy piece of paper. 
12. Then, alternate each piece horizontally until you create a patchwork quilt of paper. 
13. Trace a bunny template onto the patchwork of paper. 
14. Cut and paste the small pieces together. Add decorations, if desired. 
15. Use the FREE Spanish bilingual sight words and fine motor skills worksheets. 
16. Cut and paste the words by matching the English and Spanish words. 
17. Also, practice scissors skills using the Easter fine motor skills worksheets. 

Enhance the learning experience by reading the fun FREE Easter Bilingual Story in the Spring Bilingual Stories section. Also, develop more reading practice as you read other fun bilingual stories there too. 

Videos

The videos show how to assemble each Easter craft using the plastic cups. These techniques are similar to the Easy Christmas Ornaments Crafts for Kids. The videos also show you using Spanish letters and sight words in fun games of matching. 

Conclusion

Easter crafts and activities for kids can help young learners with fine motor skills by using simple cut and paste activities. The plastic cup activities enhance using brushes and pasting different textures of paper. Similarly, the patchwork, the Spanish letter and sight word activities help students with cutting and pasting skills.