Easy Easter crafts that kids can make with stuff around the house

For older kids, origami is a fun challenge. As long as you have paper and patience, there are tons of video tutorials out there to make everything from chickens to rabbits to carrots. Some even hop! Kids will love seeing their folding accomplishments decorating the Easter dinner table.

These adorable felt eggs are perfect for an Easter centrepiece, or for gluing inside Easter cards. With felt cut into a base egg shape, these cute eggs can be decorated with glitter, sequins, ribbons, buttons, or whatever your imagination can come up with!

This is a really adorable way to package Easter treats for everyone in the household (and the neighbours too!) or to include in a creative Easter basket. All you need is some orange tissue paper, some green paper, ribbon, tape and scissors. Pour Easter goodies into the tissue, roll it up into a carrot shape, and tape. Shred the green paper to look like carrot tops and tie it to the carrot with some ribbon.

A fun Easter craft for kids who love getting their hands dirty are these funny little hand-print Easter bun buns. Two fingers make up each ear (think of the Vulcan salute from Star Trek), but if your child’s fingers can’t do that, then a peace sign with two fingers will work equally well for ears! Once the paint is dry, simply add some eyes (or glasses), a nose and whiskers.

Children will love to set and decorate a special Easter table for dinner or lunch, and these adorable bunny paper napkin holders will be the stars! A cute bunny cut out of construction paper, a little artistic flair from pens or markers, and a couple of slits cut into his tummy to hold the napkin are all you need. Bonus: your kids will have to practise folding to get those napkins pointy enough to sit in the bunny’s tummy. Try them out on your laundry pile.

A leftover egg carton, some decorated eggs and a cardboard cut-out and painted mother hen make this a beautiful Easter scene perfect for a table centrepiece or decoration. Kids will love making cute baby chicks!

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