Easter Craft Ideas – Get Crafty This Easter. Children love arts and crafts and Easter is an ideal time to play! Unlike adults, children are happy to wade in, delightfully unselfconscious, happy to make a mess and always delighted with whatever it is they make. Watching children ‘making and doing’ is, quite simply, delightful. If you would like to get crafty this Easter, why not try some of the following Easter craft ideas? They are simple and effective and, best of all; you’ll have fun making them, regardless of your age or ability. - Eggshell Collage My mother used to present us with decorated boiled eggs for our breakfast on Easter Saturday morning. It became something of a ritual and as we got older, we got up earlier and joined in the fun by painting our own morning egg. What we hated was throwing the egg shells away once we had finished our breakfast until my brother came up with the bright idea of using the eggshells for collage. I’m sure we weren’t the only family who coloured our eggs at Easter but we may have been one of the few who then used the pile of coloured eggshell pieces for arts and crafts. We would use them for collages, we would decorate small items with them using craft adhesive to stick them in place, we made greetings cards and we decorated dolls houses. The ideas were limited only by our own imagination. Use your coloured egg shells to turn anything plain or drab into a riot of colour! - Make a cute little Easter bunny with paper plates. Take one paper plate, fold it in half then release. Along the fold, cut about 1/3 in toward the center from each side, leaving 1/3 in the middle uncut. Now you can fold about a quarter of the paper plate down on each side, so the model will stand up on its own. Paint a pink nose and black eyes onto the center of this portion. Glue the rim to another paper plate lying flat on the table. Use still another plate to cut out some bunny rabbit ear shapes. Color the interiors pink with crayon, colored marker or hobby paint. Leave the border white, like real rabbit's ears. Attach the ears to the standing section made earlier by sliding them into the slits made by your cuts and glue them into place.
Now you've got a bunny rabbit who is sticking his head up out of his little rabbit warren to take a look around! - Easter Bunny Doll Easter bunny dolls are fun and simple to make. A few strips of felt and some stuffing are all you need to make a great looking stuffed toy. Cut up some old rags and curl them into arms and legs. Or, curl them around cotton balls for extra fluffiness. You can tie the rags into place with small bits of colored thread. Tie the legs at the ankle, knee and upper thigh. Tie the arms at the wrist, elbow and just above and below the shoulder. That gives the limbs definition. Do the same to make a torso, neck and head, and those all-important ears. The limbs can easily be sewn onto the torso, or tied together by overlapping cloth parts and securing with thread. Then you can paint the face with hobby paint, or glue some colored eggshell bits on for the nose and eyes. I hope this will encourage you to try some Easter craft ideas with your family this year – have fun! About the Author: Jess Hartley works with children who have special educational needs and delights in finding new, safe, fun activities for her charges. She writes on a number of child development subjects and has recently contributed ideas to Easy Easter