Easter Crafts and Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Springtime is so great for exploring and learning about the world around us. It is finally warming up. It is finally bright and beautiful. So we want to play with bright and fun colors in our toddler and preschooler activities. And of course, everything Easter is bright and fun. Here are some fun and easy Easter activities to do with your kids, and at the end, I’ve included a roundup of more ideas from my friends around the interwebz.

Chromatography Coffee Filter Easter Eggs

Supplies:

• Markers
• Coffee filters
• Scissors
• Water
• Small cups or containers

How to play:

Cut your coffee filters into ovals for the egg shape. Draw some marker lines on the bottoms of the eggs. Add water to your containers and stick the end with the marker writing into the cups. Leave it overnight or for a few hours, and watch the chromatography in action. What colorful decorations did your coffee filter Easter eggs turn into?

Paper Plate Easter Egg Fork Painting

Supplies:

• Paper plates
• Plastic forks
• Washable Paints
• Scissors
• Newspaper or packing paper for a mess-free workspace

How to play:

Set up the workspace with some newspaper or packing paper to avoid mess. Cut ovals out of your paper plates to make them “eggs.”

Put a little bit of each paint color around a paper plate “easel” and hand your little the paper plates and forks. Demonstrate how to dip the fork into the paint and how to dab around the eggs. (Or, if you’re like me and ended up buying more crayon-like paints, draw on the fork and then press down to make the paint marks.)

And enjoy the masterpieces made!

Spring Sensory Bin

Sensory bins are so wonderful for the littles (and it doesn’t hurt that it keeps them occupied for quite a while, amiright?). You can make sensory bins using a variety of objects.

Supplies:

• Plastic bin
• Rice (you can dye it with food coloring + white vinegar beforehand. Or just use white rice. Or sheesh any colorful cereal would be fun.)
• Confetti or plastic toys
• Plastic Easter Eggs

How to play: 

This one uses rainbow rice (dyed using food coloring – or you can use regular white rice, or cereal, or whatever you choose). I found a fun blog post that showed how to make the rainbow rice without having to bake it. I kind of adapted it for the lazy mom (me). I just poured some vinegar and squeezed some food coloring into baggies (who needs to measure?) and then dumped in some white rice and zipped and mashed it around until the color was even. Then I left the baggies outside overnight a few nights to dry and air out the vinegar smell.

I buried a bunch of confetti and things and gave him empty plastic Easter eggs to play with. He had a blast filling them up and digging around in the bin for treasures.

And now, a roundup of other egg-cellent ideas around the web 🙂

Easter Crafts and Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Fun storybook inspired Easter eggs.  Here’s a cute spring sensory bin. Here’s another lovely sensory basket for toddlers.

Make this Easter countdown craft or here’s another Easter egg countdown idea.

Here are 5 games you can play with easter eggs. And a fun peep puppet craft!

And here’s a new Easter egg hunt tradition you can start.

Educational Easter Learning Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Learn beginning sounds with eggs with this game. Try this Green Eggs and Ham inspired color word sort game. Here’s a great plastic egg spelling activity.

Make this fun Easter egg slime with your kiddos or do this fun science activity with baking soda and vinegar. And here’s some easter egg math. Ooh I forgot how much fun kinetic sand is, here’s a fun one with easter eggs and kinetic sand.

Oh, I love this color sorting bin. This printable for a color matching game is great too!

Easter Basket Ideas

Some of my lovely friends have some great suggestions for you for Easter Baskets. Here’s one that has 101 Easter Basket ideas for toddlers!

Try these 7 last minute gift ideas. And here are some non-candy treats for egg hunts.

Because books are amazing, here are 15 Easter books for toddlers and while you’re at it check out 21 Easter basket ideas for toddlers too.