These easy Easter crafts for toddlers are all designed to be simple, achievable and fun, making them perfect for trying at home or in preschools.
We love sharing crafts for toddlers and we know you love them too, it’s such a lovely age to enjoy doing activities together!
In this post you’ll find lots of inspiration including Easter bunny crafts, lambs, chicks and of course some egg crafts with loads of ideas to help you and your children have the best Easter ever.
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Easter Crafts for Toddlers
In this post you’ll find lots of Easter crafts for one, two and three year olds with easy Easter crafts suitable for different ages and abilities and lots of activities suitable for preschoolers too.
As I’m sure you know there’s a lot of difference between what a child who is one can do and what a child who is three can do (and a lot of difference between children the same age too) so take a look through and see which ones are the best suited to your child’s age, abilities and most importantly to their interests and what you think will be the most fun for them.
Some are suitable for kids of all ages and are things I know my older kids would enjoy creating too while some require a bit more set up than others and it’s always worth a think about how much time you want to spend doing that!
As with all crafts for toddlers and preschoolers an adult will need to supervise any activities throughout, especially where scissors or small parts are included.
As well as the crafts I’m sharing today you’ll also find some ideas for Easter books to share with your child, our favourite Easter templates that are perfect for coloring or painting and some more of our favourite crafts for toddlers.
This is a post that I update every year as I find more fun Easter crafts for kids so if you like the ideas in this post make sure that you bookmark this page or pin an image so that you’ve got them all to hand when you need them.
Free Easter Templates
We’ve shared tons of free templates for kids crafts, they’re great if you want to do something creative with your kids without spending lots of money.
You can use them for coloring, painting or with each template you’ll also find loads of ideas for crafts or activities you can use them for.
You can find all of our free templates here but these are a few of my favourite Easter themed templates.
Easter Egg Crafts
These Easter egg crafts use basic materials and simple techniques that are perfect for little hands.
Foil Printed Egg
Making a stamp to paint with is really easy and means you can be sure its the right size for your child’s hands.
This Easter egg art is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers plus you can use the free printable with it to make it super quick and easy to set up.
Milk Jug Eggs
Recycle and reuse old milk cartons to make this simple Easter egg craft for toddlers.
Washi Tape Eggs
My son enjoyed decorating these Easter eggs with washi tape and we thought the finished result was really pretty too.
Easter Egg Craft
Toddlers can color and glue the parts together of these cut and paste Easter eggs while an adult will need to cut the pieces out for them.
Q-Tip Easter Egg
This q-tip printed Easter egg craft from Messy Little Monster is a great craft idea for toddlers to make.
Easter Egg Wreath
My kids decided how they wanted to decorate this Easter Egg wreath and their ideas worked really well – tissue paper is a great material for toddlers to use!
Fingerprint Egg Card
Fun Handprint Art Blog has a really nice and simple Easter egg card that toddlers can make using fingerprints.
This would be a lovely one to send to Grandparents or other family members.
Printable Easter Cards To Color
This printable Easter cards are really easy for toddlers and preschoolers to create, all they need to do is color and fold the card to make them.
Salt Dough Easter Eggs
My toddler had great fun making these Easter tree decorations and it was nice to be able to hang them up and display them afterwards too for some kid made Easter decor.
Just make sure that you leave a small hole in the top and then you can add some yarn or ribbon once the salt dough is dry.
Aluminium Foil Eggs
I love these aluminium foil eggs from the Joy of Sharing and think they’d look great on a card too.
They’re also a great way to use up any stickers or buttons that you may have lurking in your craft box and you could grab cardboard from the recycling box too.
Easter Egg Potato Stamping
We made Easter egg prints using potatoes – adding ‘grass’ for our eggs to be hidden in was a good way to practice scissor skills too.
Paper Strips Egg Card
Twitchetts have a great Easter egg card that’s a good way for kids to practice using scissors.
Plastic Egg Painting
Fun With Mama shares a cool plastic egg painting idea.
Marbled Egg Craft
Grab the shaving cream and follow Hands On As We Grow’s tutorial for making marble printed eggs.
Easter Bunny Crafts
Bunny crafts are always super popular for Easter and with ideas including keepsakes, painting and using natural materials there’s loads to inspire you and your toddler.
Easter Bunny Nature Craft
This simple craft is a great excuse to get kids outdoors, just use our free printable template and then search for natural materials that you can add to your bunny’s Easter egg.
Footprint Bunny
We love crafts that make good keepsakes, after all it’s very true that your kids are only little once!
This footprint craft is designed to look like an Easter bunny and would be perfect for making with your kids.
Paper Plate Bunny Twirler
Older children can help practice their scissor skills by cutting into the paper plate to make this Easter craft while younger kids will be able to help decorate it and play with the finished craft too.
Peter Rabbit Crafts
We made some Peter Rabbit crafts which would work really well as Easter bunny crafts as well.
Try making our paper headband bunny ears as a simple DIY dressing up idea or the handprint carrots.
Peeking Bunny Craft
If your child likes hand painting then this rabbit craft from Fun Handprint Art would be great and would look lovely on the front of a card too with its fun googly eyes that peek out from the grass.
Bunny Painting
We love bunny crafts and My Bored Toddler has a bunny painting activity that even very young kids can do.
The cotton ball tail on this looks super cute!
Doily Easter Bunny
Toddlers can enjoy gluing on different shapes to make this cute doily paper bunny craft and older toddlers can help cut them out too.
Paper Plate Rabbit
The Best Ideas for Kids has a few paper plate crafts that are perfect for this time of year. Why not try making a rabbit like this one.
Cotton Ball Bunnies
Make a cute Easter card with these cotton wool rabbits from Red Ted Art.
Thumbprint Art
This thumbprint rabbit art from A Dab Of Glue Will Do would be perfect Easter crafts for preschoolers or toddlers to make as it’s so simple but still really effective.
Handprint Bunny
This handprint bunny from Crafty Morning is a really fun Easter activity that would make a great keepsake too.
Chick and Lamb Crafts
Chicks and lambs are the perfect topics for Easter crafts and these ideas are ideal for toddlers to make.
Cotton Wool Lamb
This easy sheep craft is perfect for little hands who can grab hold of the cotton balls.
An adult will need to cut out the sheep’s face from paper or cardstock but older toddlers may be able to help cut out the sheep’s legs.
Easter Chick
My Bored Toddler has a simple paper plate chick craft with feathers that’s perfect for little hands to make.
Cotton Ball Sheep
Make a simple cotton ball lamb or sheep using our free printable template.
Easter Lamb Craft
This lamb craft was designed for toddlers to make and uses pom poms to paint the lamb’s body.
It’s the perfect Easter craft for kids that don’t like finger painting and it would look great on the front of an Easter card too.
Easy Chick Craft
I love Easter chick craft, these little chicks are one of our most popular crafts for kids and it’s easy to see why.
In the article you can see the version that my daughter make and I’ve also had loads of parents and teachers share the chick crafts that their kids made with me too.
This is a really simple craft and pretty fool-proof, it would look really good on the front of an Easter card too.
Doily Chick
Grab the paints and make this cute doily Easter chick.
Recycled Chick Craft
Make an easy chick craft from recycled CDs or DVDs.
Sponge Printed Sheep
Painting using a sponge is great for toddlers and preschoolers due to their larger shape and you can cut sponges smaller if needs be too.
This sponge printed sheep craft is perfect for Easter and looks really cute.
Paper Plate Easter Crafts
With paper plates both being cheap to buy and easy to get hold of they’re the perfect starting place for kids crafts.
Paper Plate Easter Wreath
This paper plate craft is so easy to make, so it’s absolutely perfect for toddlers and preschoolers.
Resist Art Easter Bunny
This paper plate Easter bunny from Non-Toy Gifts uses resist art and is a great idea for younger kids to make.
They’ve used pom poms for painting but you could also try finger-painting if you don’t have any pom poms available.
Paper Plate Basket
You can also follow The Best Ideas for Kids tutorial to make a paper plate basket for Easter eggs.
Rocking Bunnies
Red Ted Art shares a super cute rocking bunny craft made using paper plates.
Religious Easter Crafts
These simple religious Easter crafts focus on the meaning of Easter and are easy enough for young children to create.
Cross Craft
Make a tape resist watercolour cross following this tutorial from Wunder Mom.
Cross Template
Our blank Easter cross template is perfect for little hands to decorate. You could use crayons, scrunched tissue paper or mosaics.
Easter Books For Toddlers
I love sharing stories with my kids and I think Easter is a great excuse to snuggle up together with your children and read a book together. These books might make lovely additions to an Easter basket too!
- Llama Llama Easter Egg by Anna Dewdney
- God Gave Us Easter by Lisa Tawn Bergren
- Peppa’s Easter Egg Hunt by Scholastic
More Crafts for Toddlers
Looking for something to do once the excitement of Easter is over? Why not grab our free tree template and try out some of our ideas for easy spring tree crafts.
These fun scissor skills activities are the perfect introduction to the skill.
Finally why not try out some of these easy weather crafts for toddlers – perfect for cheering up a rainy afternoon.
