Spring is going to be on us before we know it and we all know that means Easter is on its way. Kids love Easter! The candy, coloured eggs, Easter egg hunts – most kids are very familiar with the Easter Bunny who secretly drops off their Easter Basket each year.

Easter Craft Ideas:

Some of the best Easter craft ideas use eggs. There are so many ways to decorate eggs for Easter and with a little imagination, you can make all kinds of creatures and fun characters.

Mouse egg

Here are some great ideas that you can use this Easter to make your holiday more fun for the entire family:
This little guy is one of the cutest of all egg creatures that you can make for fun with your kids. You can turn any egg into a mouse in just a few minutes. All you need is some pipe cleaners and paper.

Simply dye your egg any colour you want and let it dry. Once that is done you can make a little pipe cleaner stand with legs for the egg to stand-in. This makes the lower body of the mouse.

Then add a long pipe cleaner tail, a puffball nose and some cute little paper ears and voila! A mouse egg is born.

Having fun colouring Easter eggs

It is fun to colour Easter eggs. Pink and yellow and lavender eggs are part of the Easter tradition. And of course, kids love colours.

Learn the proper way to colour eggs:

Choose fresh eggs free from cracks.

Commercial egg producers coat their eggs with oil to help seal them. Wash the eggs in a mild detergent to remove the oil and to let the colour adhere more readily to the eggs.

Boil the eggs to the hard boil stage.

To one cup of hot water, add 2 tablespoons of white vinegar, and the desired food colouring or dye. Be sure to get enough food colouring in the water to make it a darker shade than the desired shade for the eggs.

Dip the eggs in the coloured solution until the desired shade is reached. For darker shades, leave the eggs sit in the dye for up to two hours.

If the eggs are to be eaten, keep them refrigerated.

Note for Easter crafts makers: If you are going to use blown eggs for Easter (those with the egg blown out through a hole at the end of the shell), colour the eggs before blowing. If you blow the egg from the shell before dying, the empty, fragile shells will be difficult to immerse and handle in the dying water.

Easter wreath

These Easter crafts are gorgeous and fun. You can make new ones each year new or you can simply keep them from year to year. Keeping the wreaths from year to year is fun because kids love to see their past art projects. It is thoroughly thrilling to them.

Just get some paper plates and cut out the centre. Then paste the two leftover rings together. It does not even matter which way you paste them.

Then make some paper flowers or bunnies or some cute little pipe cleaner flowers and stick them on.

If you can get some of the artificial grass that is used in Easter baskets it makes a great base for the wreath. If you attach this grass to the entire wreath it makes for the perfect background for the flowers and bunnies.

Making Easter crafts is a blast and you will find that you are having as much fun as the kids! If you are looking for the perfect way to make this Easter holiday special then you have found it with Easter crafts.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin

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