Fun and Easy Easter Crafts for Babies and Toddlers

watercolor easter egg craft - finished eggs with brushes and paint

I love crafting with my kids, and I’ve encouraged exploration and creativity through art from a super young age. Today, I’m sharing with you a roundup of some fun and easy Easter-themed crafts for babies and toddlers. They make great Easter decorations, but they’re also great for your babies’ development, so start crafting!

I’ve chosen these particular projects because they are easy and achievable. First, there’s no funky, hard-to-get supplies, and I promise only small, contained messes (so there’s a good chance you’ll actually do these crafts). Also, the projects are simple, fun, and totally doable for your little ones. In fact, these crafts are suitable for even the youngest artists! However, as with all art, even though they’re perfect for one, two, and three-year-olds, they can easily be adapted for older kids. You may even channel your inner Van Gogh and end up making a few yourself!

Below you’ll find some fun Easter inspiration, including chicks, sheep, and of course decorated Easter eggs. Get in the holiday spirit and have fun!

Like the ideas in this post? Make sure to bookmark this page or pin some images, so that you’ve got them all on hand when you need them. Just a little note on images: the craft photos are not mine, but rather belong to the talented, hard-working bloggers named with each craft. If you’d like to pin these images on Pinterest, please click through to each blog and pin directly from the author’s page.

Sticker Eggs from Live Well Play Together

Sticker Eggs from Live Well Play Together

It seriously does not get any easier than this Sticker Eggs craft from Live Well Play Together. All you need is a few sheets of construction paper cut in the shape of eggs. You can add some simple decorative outlines to the eggs, or just leave the paper blank and let your little one create. Pull out some stickers or other art supplies, and you’re looking at HOURS of fun. I guarantee your toddler will love the freedom of decorating at her own pace.

Pro tip: little ones have a really hard time pulling stickers up from the sheets. If you want some time for your own activities while your little one works on crafts, try this trick to make things easier for her. Take the sticker sheet, and pull up all the border paper, leaving only the stickers behind. Their little hands now have direct access to just the stickers, so they can do it themselves.

Fork Chick Craft from Crafty Morning

Fork Chick Craft from Crafty Morning

My kids love using everyday objects in unexpected ways, so this Fork Chick Craft from Crafty Morning is sure to be a fave. For this craft, you need white cardstock, yellow tempera paint, two googly eyes, a bit of orange construction paper, and a fork.

Pro tip to remove all anxiety: To make the chick shape, you need the fork paint marks to land in a circle shape. It’s nearly impossible for the smallest hands to make a circle, but you can make the task achievable by constraining their painting to a circle. Simply cut a circle shape out of white paper, which they can cover in fork paint marks. Then, when dry, glue this painted circle onto a clean white piece of paper along with the eyes, beak, and feet. No frustration needed.

Easter Egg Suncatcher from Sweet Frugal Life

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I absolutely love this Easter Egg Suncatcher Craft from Sweet Frugal Life because it’s fun for kids of all ages. My kids are such a wide range of ages (as I’m writing this, our kids are 22, 18, 11, 8, and 5), and I’m always drawn to crafts that will be loved by all. Honestly, I can totally see my 18 year old getting into this activity! All you really need is tissue paper in your favorite colors, contact paper, scissors, and a little bit of ribbon or string to hang up your egg suncatcher. Notice I did not say glue or paint, which means very little mess!

The youngest artists can just tear the tissue paper into pieces and throw it onto the contact paper. Meanwhile, the older kids can experiment with increasingly more complicated shapes, patterns, and color blending by overlay. The possibilities are endless!

Cotton Ball Sheep Craft from Crafts on Sea

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I remember making variations of this craft with all of my kids, and for good reason! It’s easy, you probably have all the supplies in your house right now, and it let the kids create art with a fun, new, squishy medium: cotton balls!

All you need for this Easy Sheep Craft from Crafts on Sea is construction paper, cotton balls, liquid school glue, and possibly a paintbrush to spread the glue around. Even a one-year-old can handle picking up and arranging the cotton balls onto the glue, though the youngest artists may need some assistance with cutting out the face and legs. At the end, you’ll have a friendly sheep to decorate your house in Spring.

Pro tip to reduce anxiety: for the littlest ones, who may have a hard time making a perfect circle sheep with glue, you can use the back of a small paper plate. Let the child glue the cotton balls to the backside of a paper plate. When dry, glue the plate to the construction paper.

Watercolor Surprise Easter Egg Art for Kids from Rhythms of Play

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I absolutely LOVE watercolor paints! I love using them myself, and I love sharing them with my kids. They’re just so incredibly EASY. All you need to do is pull out the watercolor set from a drawer, grab a paintbrush and a mug of water, and you have an artist’s studio.

This Watercolor Surprise Easter Egg Art Craft from Rhythms of Play makes great use of my favorite medium. Again, this craft is easily adaptable for kids of all ages and abilities, but it’s totally doable for even the youngest artist. All you need is watercolors, paintbrushes, and I always recommend using watercolor paper for all watercolor projects. It’s specifically formulated to work well with all that water, and just makes the whole project super pro. If you want to use the resist method (highly recommended), you’ll also need a white crayon or white oil pastel. And that’s it!

Because watercolors are awesome, the final project will be beautiful and fun, regardless of the artist’s age and ability. You may end up making one yourself… we sure did. Below is a photo of our watercolor eggs.

watercolor easter egg craft - finished eggs with brushes and paint

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading through this list as much as I enjoyed putting it together. Now that inspiration is fresh in your heart, get crafting! Make sure to tag us on Instagram when you share your projects. I always love to see your little artists at work, and I’m dying to see how your projects turned out! Happy Easter!

Easter Crafts for Babies and Toddlers Pinnable
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The Dad Book

The Dad Book on table

Since I first became a mom, I have celebrated 16 Mother’s Days, 16 birthdays, 16 Christmases, several other special days, and a multitude of “I love you so much, Mom” Days.  For each of these days I received a handmade card from at least one of my children.  Of course, I try to save them all, and I mostly succeed by putting them in a large cardboard box in the storage room in the basement.  When I am old and gray, when my kids have left the house and I have an over-abundance of free time, I will take them all out, slowly leaf through them, and look back on this period of my life.


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Our Favorite Spring + Easter Books for Kids

Kids reading springtime books on porch

You know that feeling you get as soon as the first rays of sunshine start breaking through the winter gloom? It’s that feeling of: I can’t sit at my desk anymore; I need to go outside RIGHT NOW! It’s cold and muddy and gross but somehow you don’t care. Spring is in the air. Animals and trees feel it too, and so do your littles! Introduce them to the changes of the season through reading.

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Simple and Easy Valentines

easy + simple valentines

I kind of hate Valentine’s Day.  Supposedly, Valentine’s Day is an annual celebration of love. Right? Well, I’m not so sure our children would agree. Valentine’s Day is all about red, white and pink decorations and heart-embellished handouts. If your kids are in school or daycare, you buy boxes of character-themed cards to share with friends (preferably with candy or stickers attached). However, these cards should have no names on them lest handing them out in class takes too long! The kids have class parties where they play heart-themed games and eat heart-themed foods. They receive red, white, and pink pencils, erasers, and of course more candy to take home. I mean, yes, our kids can clearly see Valentine’s Day is a love-themed holiday, because of all the red, white and pink hearts, but… hmmm… are you thinking love right now? Or are you thinking stuff? I am not a fan of all the stuff!

easy + simple valentines supplies: markers, crayons, stickers

However, the main message of Valentine’s Day is love: celebrating those we love, giving them little gifts to show we care. I can totally get behind this concept. The day is an opportunity to teach our kids that they can (and should) take a few minutes of their day to make someone happy. In this case, we can show our love by sending a personal note. Grandparents, cousins, friends: whoever the special people are in your life surely deserve a bit of happy in theirs. So, step away from the red, white and pink aisle at CVS, take out your arts and crafts supplies, because it’s time to make some valentines.

Little girl making valentine's day cards

Today I wanted to share a simple Valentine’s Day craft which we did last weekend. It is ridiculously easy and appropriate for every age group. We cut out simple hearts in various colors. Each child then picked a few and decorated them for loved ones. At the end, we packed them up and sent an envelope to each set of grandparents and a few other friends. Total time? I think we made it under an hour. Total smiles created: so many!

easy + simple valentines

You can cut out your own hearts, or use the pdf template below. We used letter-sized cardstock and pastel colors, but there are no rules. There is no need to buy special envelopes. We had leftovers from Christmas cards, but the hearts will fit in any envelope (just fold any hearts that are too large). Grab your crayons, markers, stickers, and stamps and have some fun!

Do you have any ideas for making Valentine’s day a bit less commercialized? Share below.

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